Community Event / Creation Sidewinder Modeled in Maya

Pardus · Feb 25, 2015

Hi all,

I recently finished a project in which I modeled the Sidewinder in Maya. I did this project for my own enjoyment and to practice, and I thought I would share it with you. I am including one of the render images here and a link below to the photo album where you can check out several detail renders of different parts.

I welcome any comments or feedback, keeping in mind that I am aware of a few things:
- The reflectivity of the paint needs a little work as to how it is reflecting the star field. It looks a bit more like dust in some cases than reflected stars
- The ship is shown in space but the engine mount is empty
- I did take a few liberties with the model so it is not an exact representation of the ship in game

You can see more renders of it at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131516271@N07/sets/72157651024405081/

Thanks for checking it out!

hawkjon · Feb 26, 2015

Your model looks great! The only thing I would suggest is to work on the texturing a bit. Maybe add some dirty spec maps to give it a used look and also to make various areas have different specular levels. Maybe the blue paint could be shinier than the black areas. Also, some fine detail areas in the texturing would really make it more interesting... things like the text labels that you find on the Sidewinder in-game for example. The maneuvering thrusters could also use a self illuminating map to make them look like they are glowing. Again, great model!

Surly_Badger · Feb 26, 2015

Now we just need a really big 3D printer and I can have one for my yard!

jpaulwilson1982 · Feb 26, 2015

Like hawkjon said, it's great work it just needs a little more detail to it. Without a doubt its far better than I could do, and you really seemed to put some time in it. Nice work

Pardus · Feb 28, 2015

Thanks for the comments. I'm with you in regards to the texturing. So far I'm just using some built in shaders. Right now I'm working on sorting out the UV mapping and making some more interesting textures. I'll post some updated pictures when that's done.

Pardus · Mar 1, 2015

Starting to paint in some texture details. Still a long way to go and very much work in progress.

hawkjon · Mar 2, 2015

Looking nice!

Twinley · Mar 2, 2015

nice job : )

Pardus · Mar 21, 2015

Here is version 2.0 of this project complete, now with 300% more spacedirt! You can check out a complete album of this work that includes several more renders, the UV maps, and diffuse texture maps here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131516271@N07/sets/72157651024405081/

Thanks again for the comments and suggestions so far, they are always appreciated.

davidthehall · Mar 23, 2015

Really awesome stuff! I love Maya, so this makes me happy in a bunch of ways

Keep up the great work!