The Millenium Falcon (large images)

Chris ( ) posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 3:30 AM · edited Tue, 16 April 2024 at 5:43 AM

Hi all,

here is my latest project I'm doing for a friends fan project - "The Piece Of Junk"

The Millenium Falcon

Here are some progress images:

More soon :)

I hope you like it

Greets

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

turner ( ) posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 4:00 AM

Nice.

You should maybe post this in the gallery and just a heads up link here.

Pics are a bit big for some monitors.

turner

kromekat ( ) posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 4:24 AM

Looks like its going to be another great detailed SW model from you Chris! :)

Adam

Adam Benton | www.kromekat.com

wolf359 ( ) posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 11:26 AM

looking good

My website

YouTube Channel

FarawayPictures ( ) posted Wed, 26 May 2010 at 1:55 AM

Just joining in to watch this thread.
Looks very impressive.

PORTAL

unclebob ( ) posted Wed, 26 May 2010 at 8:33 PM

this is looking really good, nice details on the hatch

vinced ( ) posted Thu, 27 May 2010 at 1:06 AM

Woah!!

You`re really a master of greebles. Just copied some of your images to my harddrive for reference.

Waiting for more ...... :thumbupboth:

vinced

Chris ( ) posted Sat, 29 May 2010 at 3:18 PM

Hi all, here comes an update.

Quote - Nice.

You should maybe post this in the gallery and just a heads up link here.

Pics are a bit big for some monitors.

turner

I'm sorry but I will never post unfinished work in the gallery. My images are not that large .... will be displayed well on a standard 1280x1024 res Monitor.

I have finished the Pod / hatch or whatever it was called :)

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_013.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_014.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_015.jpg

(images are now linked to my server ... I hope its OK now for you, Turner? The browser should minimize it now to your monitor resolution)

I hope you like it ... more coming soon.

Greets

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Fri, 04 June 2010 at 5:40 PM

Wow Chris!!!

Chris, do you do any work on a drafting table first?

Chris ( ) posted Thu, 10 June 2010 at 6:12 AM

Quote - Wow Chris!!!

Chris, do you do any work on a drafting table first?

Hi,

at the beginning I'm doing some research for the exact messuremants of the model. Sometimes there are "blueprints" or shematics that I can use. These I put together in Photoshop and there I make my messurements. So to say its my digital drafting table to get my base mesh.

After that I'm modeling "on the fly" ... only with tricky parts I'm trying to messure them in Photoshop.

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Chris ( ) posted Sun, 13 June 2010 at 12:41 PM · edited Sun, 13 June 2010 at 12:45 PM

ok ... here comes a bit more greeble stuff :D I don't have much time to make 3D models last time cuz of real life issues ... but I'm working on it every free minute :)

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_016.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_017.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_018.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_019.jpg

Hope you like it

More soon.

Greets

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

FarawayPictures ( ) posted Mon, 14 June 2010 at 1:59 AM

Do you keep a big library of greebles or make these 'to order' for the model?

PORTAL

Chris ( ) posted Mon, 14 June 2010 at 2:54 AM

Quote - Do you keep a big library of greebles or make these 'to order' for the model?

hi,

I don't have a library for greebles. I'm modeling all the existing details of the model as accurate as possible.

here are some examples:

www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kg_m-falcon_-010.jpg

www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kg_m-falcon_-116.jpg

All parts are Kitbashed by ILM so they are using one part more then one time. I think I will start making a little greeble library. Its interesting, the falcon is made from Tanks and Cars LOL

I hope to have some more to show soon

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Chris ( ) posted Fri, 18 June 2010 at 3:08 AM

Update!

the left tunnel is almost done. I think I will have some more progress over the weekend.

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_020.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_021.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_022.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_023.jpg

I hope you like it

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

FarawayPictures ( ) posted Fri, 18 June 2010 at 4:30 AM

Quote -
I hope you like it

Chris

I do like it

Chris

PORTAL

MStrutt ( ) posted Sun, 20 June 2010 at 2:45 AM

Hi,

That looks really good. I had a crack at that recently and got diverted onto something else.

After seeing this I may go back to it!

Regards

Mark

Mark Strutt

Chris ( ) posted Sun, 27 June 2010 at 12:35 PM

Hi all, update time :)

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_025.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_026.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_027.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_028.jpg

Hope you like it.

More soon

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Sun, 27 June 2010 at 12:48 PM

That is looking fantastic!!

Just so you know Chris, page 019.jpg may have a problem. Not working for me.

Chris ( ) posted Sun, 27 June 2010 at 12:58 PM · edited Sun, 27 June 2010 at 12:59 PM

Quote - That is looking fantastic!!

Just so you know Chris, page 019.jpg may have a problem. Not working for me.

Thanks for the positive feedback ... I really appreciate it :)

I'm sorry for 19 ... here it is again:

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_019.jpg

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Sun, 27 June 2010 at 1:01 PM

Yep, that''s why I told you, as your documents are very very good.

FarawayPictures ( ) posted Sun, 27 June 2010 at 3:23 PM

Your setting a high standard.

PORTAL

Chris ( ) posted Thu, 01 July 2010 at 3:19 AM

Update!

Here is an update:

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_029.jpg

The right tunnel is done. There is no ref material for the buttom part of the right tunnel yet so I stert working on the top of the Falcon again.

More soon

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Thu, 01 July 2010 at 4:32 PM

It looks so simplistic when you lay it out Chris, and I know it's not! Bravo!!

Chris ( ) posted Mon, 05 July 2010 at 6:32 AM

next small update:

the left back armor plates are done. Details I add later

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_030.jpg

More to come soon :)

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

LostinSpaceman ( ) posted Tue, 06 July 2010 at 11:59 PM · edited Wed, 07 July 2010 at 12:02 AM

Quote - Hi all, here comes an update.

Quote - Nice.

You should maybe post this in the gallery and just a heads up link here.

Pics are a bit big for some monitors.

turner

I'm sorry but I will never post unfinished work in the gallery. My images are not that large .... will be displayed well on a standard 1280x1024 res Monitor.
(images are now linked to my server ... I hope its OK now for you, Turner? The browser should minimize it now to your monitor resolution)

While he said "Monitor" I'm pretty sure he meant just for the forum. Your images are so large the break the CSS formating for reading the forums. The WYSIWYG editor does allow you to resize how your images display for the forums. Either of the forum Mod's could resize them for you just using the forum editor and it won't affect the image sizes for downloads. I've just used it here:

Resized by the Forum

Chris ( ) posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 2:54 PM

hi all ... next update:

right back armor plates are done.

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_031.jpg

More soon

Chris :)

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Chris ( ) posted Sun, 22 August 2010 at 11:55 AM · edited Sun, 22 August 2010 at 12:01 PM

hmm ... looks like noone is interested in this thread anymore ... !?

anyway ... here is some progress. Hope you like it

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_032.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_033.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_034.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_035.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_036.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_037.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_038.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_039.jpg

http://www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_040.jpg

More soon :)

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Sun, 22 August 2010 at 11:59 AM

Your ass were not interested!! 9 pages, why'd you make me wait so long? ;)
I'll be studying them all afternoon!! Looking now.

Chris ( ) posted Sun, 22 August 2010 at 12:03 PM · edited Sun, 22 August 2010 at 12:04 PM

Quote - Your ass were not interested!! 9 pages, why'd you make me wait so long? ;)
I'll be studying them all afternoon!! Looking now.

sorry ... it was too quiet here :)

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Sun, 22 August 2010 at 10:20 PM

Looking down at 40, these plates look particulaly evil all in different direction, non-planar looking. Were they very hard, cause the look brutal to me. Top notch, and just incredible work!!

Incarnadine ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2010 at 11:20 AM

tagging on to follow this!

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

contrafibbularities ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2010 at 3:21 PM

Great work, Chris! Looks like another one of your master pieces. Stunning detail work and sense of scale. :-)

toads ( ) posted Tue, 24 August 2010 at 10:37 AM

People like this make me sick. How can they be allowed to post such blatant pornography like this on a family based site such as Renderosity. I mean, kids could see this and scar them mentaly for the rest of their lives.

Awesome work. I wouldnt even know where to begin with something like this, but I love these posts where we get to see the model evolving over time. Thanks for sharing your work with us ;)

MarkHirst ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2010 at 7:25 AM

I'm just working through some C4D modelling tutorials at the moment, but having a tutorial on how these models where made would be gold dust.

Like toads says, where do you start with something like this !

www.CambrianMoons.com

Chris ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2010 at 2:11 PM

Quote - People like this make me sick. How can they be allowed to post such blatant pornography like this on a family based site such as Renderosity. I mean, kids could see this and scar them mentaly for the rest of their lives.

Awesome work. I wouldnt even know where to begin with something like this, but I love these posts where we get to see the model evolving over time. Thanks for sharing your work with us ;)

I'll never ever post a nude Starship again ... I promise! ;)

Quote - I'm just working through some C4D modelling tutorials at the moment, but having a tutorial on how these models where made would be gold dust.

Like toads says, where do you start with something like this !

I can make some making ofs for this model and maybe I'll make some tutorials :) OK I'll do some but it will take a bit ...

Where do I start? Collecting all availabe reference material you can get (over 2 years for the falcon). Most of the work is to find pics or shematics for the model you want to make. Then you need to analyze the material, make mesurements in PS and so on. After that I do a low poly model on what I start working on with all the details ... I always try to be as accurate as possible :)

Next post will be an update and after that I will make a 'lil tutorial :)

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

contrafibbularities ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2010 at 2:23 PM

Quote -
I can make some making ofs for this model and maybe I'll make some tutorials :) OK I'll do some but it will take a bit ...

That would be way cool and much appreciated! :)

Looking forward to more WIP images, too, of course.

Cheers
contrafibbularities

MarkHirst ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2010 at 2:51 PM

Quote -
I can make some making ofs for this model and maybe I'll make some tutorials :) OK I'll do some but it will take a bit ...

Thank you!

I am interested in some of the modelling strategies / thought process involved. You see a particular shape or detail on the reference photo; what kind of technique best tackles one kind of detail, what tool helps deal with another.

The thing that makes these pictures so impressive to me is it's not clear how they were achieved, even when I am familiar with the raw functionality of the tools involved.

www.CambrianMoons.com

Chris ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2010 at 3:09 PM

you will laugh but mostly I started with primitives like cylinder or quads to make details. Most parts of the Falcon are made of this primitives. There is a lot of boolean too.

I will show an easy example how I made that armour plates ... and you will see how easy it is ;)

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Incarnadine ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2010 at 4:35 PM

Me too, me too! I want to see that!

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

Chris ( ) posted Sat, 04 September 2010 at 7:19 AM

Update:

here is a 'lil update:

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_041.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_042.jpg

more soon.

I hope you like it.

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

contrafibbularities ( ) posted Sat, 04 September 2010 at 7:53 AM

Beautiful! Just beautiful! Excellent detailing, this is looking really sweet.

Richy-Rich ( ) posted Sun, 12 September 2010 at 2:50 AM

Looks really great.
I would love to see the objectmanager. :)

Peace,
Rich_Art.

www.C4DLounge.eu Our new Dutch/Belgium C4D forum.

Chris ( ) posted Wed, 15 September 2010 at 2:13 PM

Heya, update time

Quote - Looks really great.
I would love to see the objectmanager. :)

Peace,
Rich_Art.

have fun
www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/!_object_manager.png

here are some new renders:

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_043.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_044.jpg

www.awakeningofthesith.com/2010/falcon/mf_045.jpg

I hope you like it

more soon

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Mandrake7062 ( ) posted Wed, 15 September 2010 at 6:24 PM

Very nice Chris!! When I saw your post on my Blackberry, I raced up the highway thinking it was a panel tut. I won't be doing that again. hehe ;)

unclebob ( ) posted Wed, 15 September 2010 at 7:47 PM

greeble envy. this is really looking great. if you don't mind my asking, how many polys are you up to?

umblefugly ( ) posted Wed, 15 September 2010 at 8:04 PM

Looking at Chris's stuff is like looking at polygon pr0n...can't get enough :P Excellent WIPs so far bro :)

Chris ( ) posted Thu, 16 September 2010 at 8:00 AM

Quote - Very nice Chris!! When I saw your post on my Blackberry, I raced up the highway thinking it was a panel tut. I won't be doing that again. hehe ;)

I'm sorry :) ... I will make the tut when I start with the front sourcer panels.