Space Adventure Personal Project
My goal with this project was to expand my portfolio with more sci-fi/space concepts. This project helped me understand and learn the process of starting with quick thumbnail sketches, to building spacecraft in 3D which eventually would lead to a final concept image.
Trying to figure out what makes something feel sci-fi to what can I do to make something feel massive were a few problems I had to figure out along the way. I hope I can continue developing this project as there are many more planets/places that could yet be explored.
For this piece, I wanted to do some sort of space hangar/space workshop.
Astroid Field
This was the initial image I did to kick off this project. I wanted to go for some sort of deep space anomaly that this has discovered.
Surfacing a Baren Planet
While space was the focus of this project, exploring planets beneath their atmosphere was another.
Initial Spaceship Thumbnails
First iteration of sketches for various spaceships. This was more of exploring shapes rather than deciding a type of ship I wanted to create.
360 view of the Vigor 1 space craft.
Space Carrier Dock
As I created a smaller ship for the previous images, I wanted to go the other direction and create some sort of carrier or larger spacecraft. This is a landing pad alongside a large cliff where this ship has docked at.
Space Carrier Orbiting Planet
The initial idea for the space carrier. I wanted this ship to feel like a central point.
Space Carrier Thumbnails
These were some quick thumbnails focusing on what the carrier ship could look like.
360 view of the space carrier.
Dogfight
Another scene I wanted to capture was some sort of space dogfight taking place. Here was a new space fighter attacking the Vigor 1.
Space Fighter Thumbnails
Thumbnails for the other space fighter. These thumbnails and creating this fighter were a ton of fun to work on.
360 view of the other space fighter.