Some cinematic renders of the Aether ship I helped production designer Jim Bissell design and build. While on set, I barely touched Photoshop and kept the entire design process pretty much in Blender. Once I handed the Aether over to vfx, I decided to create these renders as I didn’t get a chance to photograph the model with some nice space lighting. To take this one step further, I (very quickly!) created a few animated cameras and rendered out a sequence of shots to show the ship in movement. The sequence took about a day to render in Blender Cycles which I then comped in After Effects. I’m glad I got some “closure” and took the time to render these stills for the archive. Hope you enjoy!
Ha! Yup modifiers were used heavily for the ship, especially the more generative design elements. Al lot started with (roughly) remesh/decimate(Planar)/smooth/wireframe/bevel/subdivision/mirror. Often times I’ll apply everything before the wireframe and use the knife tool to manually edit the wireframe topology.
Need to check render and edit fps, your video is stuttering. Also scale is off, probably is smaller than a real one would be. But it’s a very cool scene. Congrats!
