Entry #27

Filename: SlaveOne.jpg
Created by: Wilmer Lin
E-Mail: wilmer@earthlink.net

Artist's Comments
The model was built using a plastic kit from AMT. Zero points for originality but the effort was a good exercise (for me) to jump back into Lightwave. With the spline cage for the body and the occasional metaNURBed part, the model weighs in at a little over 60,000 polygons -- and it's still not complete.

The ship, of course, is the Slave One vessel which made a brief appearance during the second Star Wars film. The challenge was to recreate most of the detail from the plastic kit model. It's slightly off at a few places (and the hull needs more subdivisions) but it's pretty close. I had to take liberties with some of the "nernies" (to use a Ron Thorton word). The model had some empty surfaces that needed to be broken up.

Note that just about every surface has a bevel on it. Recently I sent my demo reel to some pro CG people and they reamed me for the lack of detail in the animation. Learned my lesson... but unfortunately I didn't get a chance to finish. On and off, modeling took a little over one week. Maybe next month I'll finish something.

Hardware: Pentium 200 with 32 megs (paing like crazy), Permedia 2 video card, LW 5.5

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