Hey there,
I guess I should have drop this earlier, but didn’t have the time to make it clean.
I had the chance to work for Amplitude Studio - SEGA on the Endless Space franchise.
Here are the spaceships I’ve made using Blender.
Not all of them were made with the 2.80. Back then I was switching back and forth between 2.79 and 2.80.
Renders are made with EEVEE for the textured versions and Cycle for the Clay ones.
The following ones are from the Penumbra DLC, the faction is called “Umbral Choir”, for each faction there’s three spaceship sizes: Small, Medium, Large.
What’s interesting with the Umbral Choir is that the faction is visually “abstract”. To visually transcribe the concept arts into 3D, we had to free ourselves from everything we might think of when we think of a ship, and make sure we don’t integrate any elements that could potentially evoke “humanoid” technologies or processes. That is why we are particularly concentrated on finding a rhythm for the assembly of different geometric forms, but also on the materials, which don’t respect the standard usages.
I’ve been using HardOPS and BoxCutter, Retopoflow 2 to take care and clean up the 3D Sketches provided by the concept artist.
Medium
Here is a sneak peek of the process behind this one:
Small 01
Small 02
Large
Substance Designer Materials
In Game - Ship Design view
In Game - Battle view
In Game - Title Screen
DLC Trailer
This model is from the previous “Supremacy” DLC. There were more spaceship, but this one was the only one made in Blender from scratch.
This is the biggest spaceship of all the game: the Behemoth. I had to work it like an environment: modeling the textures atlas and then Unwrap and map the meshes into the Atlas generated texture.
For this one the render was made in Marmoset.
Behemoth
Obliterator
Battleship
Atlas modeling 01
Atlas modeling 02
In Game view - Obliterator
The concepts of all of this are from Sorane Mathieu, a very talented concept artist and also a Blender user, you can find his work here : https://www.artstation.com/soranemathieu
I hope you like it!