Space Ship Part 1

This weeks visual design project is the first of a 2 part project. For this project we have to design a sci-fi military spaceship. As normal I started by looking at pre-existing spaceship designs and real vehicles for reference. From these I compiled a moodboard.

We had the choice to go for either a transport or fighter spaceship. I decided to go for a transport. I wanted to design a transport vessel that has the capability to carry a huge number of fighter ships. I decided to use aircraft carriers for some inspiration. I looked at the book Blast to look at how I might go about designing a ship. Then I sketched a few spaceships.

I took two of them into Photoshop to make more sense of.

I chose the top ship and created a basic 3D model to see what I thought of it. I added in some smaller fighters coming from it because I wanted to show that this is a huge transport ship similar to an aircraft carrier. I am happy with how it turned out.