I've been cruising the web of late looking for inspiration for ship design. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing "I'm building a battleship" or "How about this for a gunboat?" or "We(insert faction name) NEED a capship design!" I know, I know, there's a lot of discussion about replacing the old capship designs from vanilla Freelancer and the non-FL designs with brand new custom Discovery designs. This is by no means a flame to all you capship designers - I rather like most of the designs you have come up with. Just a little dismayed at all the faction specific/capship/combat designs. Or rather, the lack of non-faction specific(ie. Civilian) utility(ie. freighter) designs. I'm no modeller, but I can sketch and draft up schematics, so as I said, I've been looking for inspiration.
Anyway.
With all the discussion about trying to keep designs Freelanceresque, I thought this site might be of interest to our shipwrights:
He's THE dude. Spent three years designing the Freelancer ships for Digital Anvil. There's a small gallery of the sketchs he made for Freelancer, plus a portfolio of his other works. Quite the resume. Even worked on Serenity(film).
Cheers,
Idaho
"There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense."
- Han Solo
Outstanding find! Thanks so much for bringing this to the table! Even if I'm a horrid modeler with little experience, this is still the sort of thing that's fantastic to look at!
Sensational stuff here. Take a few days to go through it all...really...there's a lot of stuff on both these sites. I knew this kind of artwork was out there, but it took me a while to find it. Another one to try would be DeviantArt. I don't know if any of our artists here have been to sites like Elfwood or Epilogue, but DeviantArt seems to be much, much better. Not that I mean to take away from any of the artists at Elfwood or Epilogue. There's good stuff there too - but ship designs are a rarity on those two.
Cheers,
Idaho
"There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense."
- Han Solo
first of - damn, he has a beautifully made webpage. fast and very aestheticly. - secondly... i will be damned, but all the mania about the ugly homeworld ships .... but HIS sketches look just like the homeworld sketches:laugh:.
hate to say it - his designs look utterly non freelancerish haha. /jk
its a great find. - gotto browse deepers into that mans work to take it all in...
@Jinx. I know what you mean. The black and white sketches at the start of the groovy scrolling gallery of FL ships look VERY Homeworldish. I agree that his website is damn stylish. Best I've seen in a long time.
Cheers,
Idaho
"There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense."
- Han Solo