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Okay... finished! ^_^ Out of the scraps book and onto the front page.

I made a set of transport rings a few years back (There's a pic of them hanging around here still I think lol) but since then, I've had time to refine my modeling skills. All of these little nitty-gritty things like beveling and microbump-mapping... stuff that is too subtle to notice alone, but adds to the overall realism.

Anyway, so using the TV rings as a rough base, I created this design over the period of about 3 days. The overall shape was created using the lathe tool, smooth shift and scale, and then made high-res using Sub-D. It was modeled, surfaced and rendered in LightWave 8.5.

One of these, I'm thinking of trying to make a Stargate... although it seems everyone's doing that these days ROFL.

-TiM

Description
Okay... finished! ^_^ Out of the scraps book and onto the front page.

I made a set of transport rings a few years back (There's a pic of them hanging around here still I think lol) but since then, I've had time to refine my modeling skills. All of these little nitty-gritty things like beveling and microbump-mapping... stuff that is too subtle to notice alone, but adds to the overall realism.

Anyway, so using the TV rings as a rough base, I created this design over the period of about 3 days. The overall shape was created using the lathe tool, smooth shift and scale, and then made high-res using Sub-D. It was modeled, surfaced and rendered in LightWave 8.5.

One of these, I'm thinking of trying to make a Stargate... although it seems everyone's doing that these days ROFL.

-TiM