The Fighter of the Future

[Jaycephus]

WIP

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200404/user_image-1081375156hdf.jpg

I hope to do some detailing and texturing in ZBrush.

I just started doodling in Silo, but I made the desision to go for a 'craft' of some sort at the earliest shape, which was a sub-divided distorted cube, and added a ****pit that pretty much defined everything else for me. I fluctuated between attempting something along hard-sci-fi lines, or going with something more fantastic. It's certainly easier to do smooth flowing lines than hard angles with subdivision. So I ended up with what people in the late 40s and 50s thought the future would contain. Some of them had visions of atomic-powered flying cars, fighters, and commercial craft, gravity-control, force-fields, and death-rays.

I just wish we could go back to bold visions of the future, instead of the fearful, Chicken Little mentality that predominates today.

[TVeyes]

Neat little fighter :tu:. I particularly like the wings, seems like they might be able to expand?

Good to see you posting again Jay, you were gone for far too long :)

[Dan R]

cool models :) ... i like the whole 50's thing with them ... also the simplicity of the lines is refreshing.

cool sig btw.

[Frenchy Pilou]

I have yet seen this somewhere :D
Pilou :tu:

[Jaycephus]

Thanks, guys! :)

[Jaycephus]

There is a short-story by William Gibson (Neuromancer) called The Gernsback Continuum (http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/149/149syllabus2gerns.html). Follow the link to see a short explanation of the short story. It's sort of a cautionary tale about wishing for an alternate reality. I believe 'Gernsback' refers to Hugo Gernsback, the editor of a sci-fi magazine in the 1950's, and consequently one of the 50's biggest proponents of a 'glorious technological future'.

[marcel]

ah, lovely little "astounding stories" style space ship! I've bought silo, too, but did'nt begin to learn... I'm going to try on my holidays, next week, hope it's rather simple!...

[Jaycephus]

Astounding Stories, exactly. :)

Marcel, you'll love Silo. It IS simple, and quick, and it's interface is completely customizeable, even more than ZBrush. I recommend that you download the custom interface created by Digiwonk as a starter, which is found in the Customization section of the Silo forums. Also, be sure to download the extra plug-ins from the main website.

ZBrush is great, but still far from being a low-poly modeler. The ultimate modeling/texturing application would be ZBrush+Silo. So I recommend that everyone buy Silo.

Of course, for illustrators, ZSpheres are fine for many, many things. But not everything. Silo, besides being a great sub-division modeler, and great for character creation, is also targeted at Architecture concept design usage. That means that for buildings, Silo is pretty good. And it has booleans. I believe you will find it very useful in your illustrations, given that you often create architecture and mechanical-type things. I look at it as a great little side-kick to ZBrush, very strong in the areas where ZBrush has weaknesses.

In the picture above, for the sharp edges, I don't use Silo's edge-creasing functionality, since that would not transfer to ZBrush. I did something similar to ZBrushes edge 'crisping' feature, where two edge-loops are created very close together, or even in the same position.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Long life to Zbrush + Silo :cool:
pilou