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MeganeRid β Commission - The StarCaster
Published: 2010-02-10 15:34:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 21411; Favourites: 653; Downloads: 1032
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Another piece commissioned by , this time a spaceship ;dThe StarCaster:
Class: Explorer III Long-Range Scout Transport
Type: Light corvette/medium transport
First pic is the StarCaster with everything retracted, second with everything out, and third is the view from below
Might have some differences between the top and bottom views ;x
Hope you like!
Done with 2b mech pencil on A4 paper, edited in photoshop
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Comments: 46
you sir, are epic with a pencil 
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good scematics not only to say it: Perfect !!
keep up!! Realy good piece of work
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Dude you could totally work as a game designer!
...that's if you weren't already
*pokes*
*waves* He's not, I am. Game designer and writer right here. ^^ I'm not NEARLY the artist Rid is, though, so I go to him for StarCaster's artwork.
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I'm more of a 3D artist for work haha
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Why aren't you working on Bioware's Mass Effect game trilogy designing their ships??
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I was just thinking that, at a glance, the shape of this ship reminded me of the turian cruiser.
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Ha! I was very glad that they changed the SR-2's vertical stabilizers/tail fins. The SR-1's kept reminding me of a Legoβ’ piece and that irked me to no end.
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Ah I love it! I wish I could draw one like that. The design is something like what I had in mind. It looks like a heavy armored version of the normandy from mass effect. Ah I love the design of the Normandy on Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. Are those grappler arms as well? Some Outlaw Star inspiration as well wow. I want it!
Funny thing is that in a story I'm making the main ship in the story is called Starlight. The StarLight and the StarCaster. Would love to see a battle between those two.
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OMG it's so stylish!
If I ever happen to need a spaceship built I'd know which designer call to project the hull
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Mantep bro! Kereen abizzz desain kapal ruang angkasanya.
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This is pretty wicked, I'd love to see this inked and coloured.
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xcellent design. Your work never fails to impress me.
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Very solid design. I think its quite impressive. Thanks for sharing.
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nice design, mophic looks cool but it's practical aplications seems to go down the drain once the hull is hit.
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It's actually supposed to be one of the most horrifically impractical vessels ever designed. Part of the backstory of this thing is that it's trying to please too many markets and cram too many technologies into one hull at once, so it makes a poor exploration vessel and a poor military vessel, prone to power-outages, overheating, and all manner of awful things.
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Cool! It's a grappler ship! This design is BAD ASS!!!
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my god thats impressive!
Is it alright if i used that for a ref?
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That's incredible! As always, love the detail.
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sweeeeet!!!
love it, great sketching and cool design! i just don't get why there have to be so many parts moving in and out (besides it looks cool 
fav!
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My thoughts:
Is that dorsal extending piece the command deck, or the part between the turrets?
I like the idea of manipulator arms-- reminds me of Outlaw Star.
The only part I don't like is how the moving parts extend and flex by means of those bundles of tubes and stuff underneath the plating. They look too organic to fit with the overall silhouette of the ship.
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The extending piece is an auxiliary module. It can be loaded out with additional weapons, or communications equipment, or an extra engine, or a number of other things.
The command deck is the low-profile structure between the two pods with the small turrets on top of them, more towards the middle of the ship.
The underside is admittedly a pretty rough sketch, and I asked Rid about that as well. To clarify: those aren't tubes. They're the same as the structures you see extending the side parts in the top view, in between them and the main body of the ship. They're just sketched kind of rough.
Hope that answers your questions.
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This is wicked!
Awesome work! The level of detail is impressive
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Absolutely amazing! Can't wait to see this become a 3D model
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very nice work, love the attention to detail
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I like the two prongs at the front and the wings
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