New Free Sprite: Light Fighter

The latest sprite is being added to the collection of free sprites, an all new, heavily detailed space fighter model! As always, the sprite is released under CC-by international 4.0, with mention of "Alan Guyant" or "MillionthVector".
The .zip includes a side-to-side animation and normal maps.
Download Link

Another Pixel Art Spacecraft

I decided to have another go creating a pixel art  styled spacecraft, since for the most part I don't actually create it pixel by pixel, I suppose it's not technically pixel art, but it's meant to look like pixel art for the most part. Done over the course of one day.

Alien Starship

Another contest entry has been completed and entered, as usual, with the space theme again.
The model has been posted for sale -here-.

This ship runs over 300K polys and vertices.

SpaceDock

Here's a quick project I did using Greyoxides shipyard models and a PD background image:

New Free Starship Sprite

I've completed another spaceship model, and have rendered out a top-down sprite with normal map for you all.

New Free Sprite: Red Spaceship

I originally wasn't going to do any more of the cartoony ships, but I got a special request. This one has an animation to turn left/right as well as normal mapping.

New Type of Free Sprites

  I think we have quite enough of the cartoonish sprites in the free sprites by now, it's time to move on to a more realistic style.
  Also with this new style, you may notice 2 things, I'll likely be releasing them 1 at a time, as they take more time and effort to make, and secondly, there will be links to the actual 3D model for purchase. This way I can continue to release sprites for nothing.
  Another thing you may notice, I plan on releasing future sprites at a higher resolution, hopefully this will be useful to you.

Purchase the 3D model here

Thanks, I hope you enjoy.

Krita Top Down Spaceship Tutorial

 Here's a quick little tutorial on how to do a basic-ish top-down spacecraft using Krita.  The instructions are kind of basic so it may be possible to follow along using other software.

Step 1:

First, create the basic shapes of your spaceships in black, for this I find the "sketch_ink" brush to be quite useful for this as it automatically helps fill in the center as you draw.

Don't forget to turn "Horizontal Mirror Mode" on before you begin, it's a small button in the upper, right hand corner.

It takes a bit of trial and error to find a good starting point for a spaceship design, but once you have a part you like, base the rest of the spaceship off it. For instance,if you've drawn a wing you like, add various parts until you have a complete spaceship.

When you are designing the basic shape of your spaceship, don't be afraid to use cntrl+z, a lot.




Step 2:

Now use a light grey color and the same "sketch_ink" brush on a new layer (Press the "Insert" key to add a new layer and move it below your current layer by clicking and dragging in the layers area).

Use the light grey brush to connect the black parts of your spaceship.




Step 3:

Now use a somewhat darker grey brush to add some detail to your light grey layer.





Step 4:

  Create a new layer by pressing the "Insert" key and move it above all your existing layers. Choose what colors you are going to use for your image, you may want to use contrasting colors or complimentary colors, but if you want to play it safe, use only one main color. I have chosen orange for this example.

Next decorate your black layer with interesting sci-fi type shapes that go with the shapes you have chosen for your black layer. Try to keep them the same type of shapes as your black layer, if your black layer has a lot of sharp edges, do likewise with your colored layer.





Step 5:

If you have only chosen one color like I have here, add some more details on top of your colored areas with a lighter or darker version of the color you chose.




Step 6:

Add yet another layer and move it to the top of all your layers, turn off horizontal mirror mode and draw a little shine on the cockpit area of your spacecraft to differentiate it from the rest of your spacecraft. You may use the same "sketch_ink" brush as I have done here.





And there you have it. For this tutorial the spaceship was pretty basic so you get the main technique down, but freel free to get creative, go crazy with detail, shapes, colors and shading! I hope this tutorial has helped you, thanks for reading!

Sci-Fi Spaceship on Ice World

I discovered a site loaded with amazing CC0 images today, there were tons of them! So I decided to have a little fun with the wide selection of images, I made this winter scene on an alien planet with a red sky, and I inserted a spaceship I have been working on for the last few days, personally I'm very happy with it.

New Free Spaceship Sprites

New faction of free sprites has been released today in the free sprites section!

 Normal maps with all 4.

Finished Entry

Finished my entry for a competition, it was about Christmas, not space scenes, but we could probably make a space scene for just about any contest, regardless whether it's actually supposed to be about space or not.

Much of the stuff on the scene is pretty simple to do in Blender, the most difficult parts would likely be the special materials used (BI materials, but I used material nodes, because if just wouldn't likely be easy with the regular BI material settings), and the background, which was partly made with Apophysis.

Another UFO Fake

Did another short UFO fake:

Another Night Vision UFO

Did another night vision UFO with Blender today with some of the suggestions given on the last night vision UFO video:

UFO

Did a UFO video, used an image in the background, and did camera effects with Blender. Blender was the only program used in the making of the video. The sound effects are from my backyard.

UFO Video Frames

 Below are two frames from two different UFO videos, the one on top, the glowing orange lights, it currently rendering.  The bottom image if of a canceled video, it just didn't look very good.

Alien Structure

As a fun project today I did a large alien structure, maybe a spaceship or base, lot's of glowing lights.

The scene is around 700,000 polys.

Spaceship Render

Here's a render done with a spaceship model made awhile back:

New Free Top-Down Spaceship Sprites!

 Added some new sprites to the free sprites page, these are complete with normal maps as well as top-down lighting to unsure the normal maps will result in even lighting from all 360 degrees, as per a suggestion I received. Enjoy!

New Product -- Spaceship

It's been awhile since I posted anything to my Turbosquid shop, thought I'd do something with the greeble pack I've been working on:

Link to item in shop.

Thanks for looking!

New Free Sprites With Normal Maps

 Thanks to a suggestion on the comments of the free sprites page, this latest faction comes with normal maps!