Jam # 133 Spaceships

[jedideni]

After seeing Tim's Thunderfighter from Buck Rogers and Ant's work on the Thunderbirds, I've deciced it's time to boldly go where no Jam has gone before....Spaceships!

Wide open!

We're talking about your recreating your favorite starship or designing something new from a sketch on a napkin, concept art, mock ups, what have you. Any medium ie. pencil and paper/digital tablet/crayons/markers/balsa wood/plastic/clay/wax/foam board/tooling board/etc.

If you only want to post thumbnail sketches/concept art/blueprints/etc....that's perfectly fine.

If you want to go full 3D and make it out of any multi media material....that's perfectly fine as well.

If you want to go fully digital with a CGI creation...you get the picture!

Any scale, too.


Example: Below is a picture of some Micro Machine vehicles.


What's that, you say? They never released The Hammerhead fighter from Space: Above and Beyond. Well, you'd be correct! Those little fellas are under 2 inches wide from wing tip to wing tip. I got those little beauties from John Allard. That's right, he carved a mini Hammerhead, molded it and casts up copies when he has left over resin from other projects. My pictures suxxors, but those Hams have all the detail of a mass produced Micro Machine!

It can be done!



We'll let this one run until March 3rd, 2013.


Never give up, never surrender!

[Tim-Osullivan]

"PRE-FLIGHT CHECKS COMPLETE, LAUNCH WHEN READY..."

COOL JAM!

ATB --TIM

[scubasteve]

There is a guy here at work that has been wanting me to model a design he is trying to build for his nephew. He wants to build an old school spaceship that a 5 year old can play in. The ship will have a turret and wheels. The big fins has to be cut down to not take up too much room. I'll try modeling it in Blender and then at a later date using Pepakura to turn it into a card model.

[jedideni]

Woo-Hoo! This is going to be fun!!!

[grimaldi]

Hi Everyone.
This is a great one to follow on with Dennis. My partner Alison and I went to Birmingham ( UK ) NEC last week. It was the international gift trade fair. On display outside for some reason was the prototype of Richard Branson's spaceplane that he plans to launch commercially sometime. I have to admit that looking at it, I am not sure that I would want to pay all that money to experience space flight. It looks so flimsy.... I am sure its not. The beauty of this jam is that it is all fantasy and it doesn't matter what it looks like....as long as it can fly..and has conitations that are space like.
I have got to have a bodily camera examination on friday after 8 months living with a stomach ache...I might be able to join the journey with the jam...like the camera; going boldly where no camera has gone before. i will certainly enjoy watching it all from my armchair.....

I might plant a seed in the thoughts of you all trying to think of a design. It really stems from an ex-brother in law who is a Profeser of Architecture. He created a series of eco affordable housing modules in the 1990's. The houses were moveable...to the point that they could be disconneted from the mains supply and transported around the country. What if..and yes I know a ridiculous if...but what if the house could take itself to another destination ..maybe there is a colony set up on the moon and you could have your house take off like a rocket and become a spaceship as it leaves the earths atmosphere. Crazy, but it is all fantasy. There are some very futuristic looking buildings about around the world.

Good luck

Ant

[jedideni]

Kind of sounds like the Jumangi sequel, Zathura.

The beauty of this jam is that it is all fantasy and it doesn't matter what it looks like....as long as it can fly..and has conitations that are space like.

Precisely!

[grimaldi]

Hi Dennis.
I saw Jumangi and didn't realise there was a sequal. I will have to look for that. Thanks.

Like me, I am sure you are thrilled to be living in an age that is seeing the most exciting times with regards to technology and industrial growth. Sure its slowed down a little with the economic downturn we are experiencing in the world at the moment..but...nothing gets in the way of progress. We are on this planet for such a very short space of time and have really not even touched the surface so to speak....we may not be working in the technology sector as such, but as sculptors and artists and writers, we are priviledged... we can go wherever we want in the world, whenever we want..... in our fantasies. Right, see you all later, I am off to MARS.

Ant

[Tim-Osullivan]

Hi Everyone.
This is a great one to follow on with Dennis. My partner Alison and I went to Birmingham ( UK ) NEC last week. It was the international gift trade fair. On display outside for some reason was the prototype of Richard Branson's spaceplane that he plans to launch commercially sometime. I have to admit that looking at it, I am not sure that I would want to pay all that money to experience space flight. It looks so flimsy.... I am sure its not. The beauty of this jam is that it is all fantasy and it doesn't matter what it looks like....as long as it can fly..and has conitations that are space like.
I have got to have a bodily camera examination on friday after 8 months living with a stomach ache...I might be able to join the journey with the jam...like the camera; going boldly where no camera has gone before. i will certainly enjoy watching it all from my armchair.....

I might plant a seed in the thoughts of you all trying to think of a design. It really stems from an ex-brother in law who is a Profeser of Architecture. He created a series of eco affordable housing modules in the 1990's. The houses were moveable...to the point that they could be disconneted from the mains supply and transported around the country. What if..and yes I know a ridiculous if...but what if the house could take itself to another destination ..maybe there is a colony set up on the moon and you could have your house take off like a rocket and become a spaceship as it leaves the earths atmosphere. Crazy, but it is all fantasy. There are some very futuristic looking buildings about around the world.

Good luck

Ant

wish i could get off this Rock right now....

theres a gift fare Con?? guess you'd only know if you in the trade i suppose Ant. nioce to know though. i might join in but feel deflated today....


atb --tim

[grimaldi]

Hey Tim
The trade fair has been going for at least 30 years or so. Companies from around the world set up and try to sell their wares to the trade. Anything from Gifts, jewellery, kitchenware etc etc.. I only go to see what is new. Not a lot usually. 10 years ago a complete hall (there are 20 of them) would be taken with resin and porcelain based companies....today there are probably only 15 or so major companies left. It is sad to see. Anyone can go. You just have to register with them. It is worth the experience if you have never been before.

Now whats all this deflated talk....nonesense I say....that's not like you.... sure its tough out there but you have been grinding away recently so get back on the maya/zbrush and finish off that Starfighter you were working on and join me for a couple of beers..oh hang on a minute....that will be a coke or pepsi because I am tee-total....on Mars. Plenty of sun and sand over here.....not much other life though.

Ant

[jedideni]

Tim, I agree with Ant. Take the day, an hour or two or whatever and do something for yourself. Go to a show, watch a movie, take a nap, go for a walk or make prank phone calls to the bobby station ( o.k. well maybe not that last one! )

Much like a kidney stone; this too shall pass.

[Tim-Osullivan]

Hey Tim
The trade fair has been going for at least 30 years or so. Companies from around the world set up and try to sell their wares to the trade. Anything from Gifts, jewellery, kitchenware etc etc.. I only go to see what is new. Not a lot usually. 10 years ago a complete hall (there are 20 of them) would be taken with resin and porcelain based companies....today there are probably only 15 or so major companies left. It is sad to see. Anyone can go. You just have to register with them. It is worth the experience if you have never been before.

Now whats all this deflated talk....nonesense I say....that's not like you.... sure its tough out there but you have been grinding away recently so get back on the maya/zbrush and finish off that Starfighter you were working on and join me for a couple of beers..oh hang on a minute....that will be a coke or pepsi because I am tee-total....on Mars. Plenty of sun and sand over here.....not much other life though.

Ant

lol.. even the toughest can be brought down. the whole Uni thing is grinding my gears and no replies from regular Monkey see jobs too. I 'll see if i feel in to sculpting . i have some of the found objects for my ship and physical sculpt. but also working on stuff from last week. another Pro elsewhere told me to get stuff ground out and done so thats what i am trying to do.
i have too many 'wip's' lying about. some are worth finishing ........ need to finish my Elektra too. thats been dragging its arse thanks to me .

i hope to do a very famous ship in a week or so. working with sculpey this afternoon.. female..... and sure. 2 cokes it is. save me a deck chair...

Dennis; -- thankyou Buddy. a few soothing words from my Girl and some sculping later and i feel bettr. Sculpting is my Prozac and you cant keep me down fer long.

atb --tim

[jedideni]

Good to hear!

I also hear you about the "too many 'wip's' laying about" part. I've got 7!, count 'em, 7! wip sculpts sitting in the room with me (and that's just this room). Some would only take a bit o'work to finish 'em, but I just continue to let them stare at me with the ol' stink eye(s)!

[Tim-Osullivan]

Good to hear!

I also hear you about the "too many 'wip's' laying about" part. I've got 7!, count 'em, 7! wip sculpts sitting in the room with me (and that's just this room). Some would only take a bit o'work to finish 'em, but I just continue to let them stare at me with the ol' stink eye(s)!

pff! you and me both!! thats why i used to pull em apart in the old days of oil clay entries or eventually bin the sculpey ones.

mine are;
WIP's
Elektra en Pointe- needs hands and drapery 'n' possibly a few tweeks
Endsong sketch- only needs a sash and base...
finish painting that dark Phoenix! the onlysculpt i finished so far and that was chuffin epoxie!! lol.
Big Roger in sculpey- only got to decide a new pose
Sand my present for Nikki. she freaked when she saw him. didnt get much done after that.....
Sculpey Girl- working on her now. was going to be Wilma but decided to just see how she went. going well and learning to push sculpey further than before.
Portrait of Jolene as TPol; in silicone paste but needs more adding. might try a plaster jacket to speed that up......... save on silicone
Agent J- not much more done. have been wondering if i can do a plaster mold of the head and push fresh sculpey in and make a body ect. any advice guys?

plus an assortment of heads in oil clay need some thing doing. eith a wax cast and finish or add neck n shoulders to make busts. that 1/3 dancer got pulled apart but i kept the supporting leg. aim to wax cast it some day and rebuild her as a character like supergirl...

i can hear Ceramicus now...... ' quit typing and get busy...' lol.

one at a time. just breathe and sculpt, breathe and sculpt...!

atb --tim

[scubasteve]

A few months ago I bought a book called [b]Character Development in Blender 2.5[/b]. I made it through the first few chapters and had a human-esque figure but never finished it. My treat for myself was to finish the book then buy a DVD on vehicle design which I could have used for this jam. So I decided I would push through the figure quickly and then order the DVD. I started reading the final chapters and it is all about sculpting the figure to get in the final details. The author, Jonathan Williamson, says "Sculpting is one of those skills, much like drawing, that can be taught only to a certain level. Much like drawing, sculpting is one of those skills that's best mastered through lots of practice."

I am also trying to think of a spaceship that could be entirely from clay and pretty small.
My ideas are:
Thermal Pod (at the end of the movie) - Buckaroo Banzai
Valkyrie (Korso's ship) - Titan A.E.
Axiom- Wall-E

So there my dance card is full; two digital sculpts, a clay sculpt, and finishing a clay sculpt from last jam.
Then there are 4 other sculpts I have tried and need to try again that are staring at me from my desk.

LOTS OF PRACTICE!!

[Tim-Osullivan]

good on ya steve! push on with the digital. its kinda cool once you like it. as for the clays, dont listen to em! they're the ones who come alive at night and hide yer car-keys!!

my idea for a ship is NCC1701.......
I found a flange for a table leg lying around. its domed and disc shaped. just need one more and that'd be the saucer....


atb mate --tim

[Tim-Osullivan]

any one doing anything on this one?

Ant, hope all went well Friday.

atb --tim

[grimaldi]

Hi Tim
Thanks for asking how it went. They found nothing wrong in that department which I guess in itself is good, but it means I have got to go through more tests....lucky me. Think I might be better off going back to Mars... Camera up bottom = not very nice.....

Hope someone takes this one up soon...or I will be forced to stay and work off my deathbed.. ( see what I did there playing the sympathy card worth an oscar of anyones money, even though all I have got is a bad stomach ) alongside yourself and scubasteve, to get this jam up to warp speed...

Ant

[Tim-Osullivan]

there are places cameras shouldnt boldly go......

lol.

i've had an injection in the eye while conciuos. that hurt like a B* !!! least it wasnt my Stones! ...

i am fixed on sculpting people at present. enjoying the freedom of wax.

atb- tim

[Awen]

IM BACK to the Jam!!

Ive started sculpting a ship from Star Wars ive always wanted a model of, i'll post up pics when it resembles something ive never sculpt anything other than a human/biological being so this is going to be quite the fun challenge for me

[grimaldi]

Hi Awen
Very much looking forward to seeing this.

Ant