Muxxy Models a Manta Ship and a Dronefly

Captain Trickle's crew are very loosely based on Firefly and their ship is called the Dronefly. I was asked if I could recreate it in 3D, going from these sketches by Miss Fixit - @catherine813.

As you can tell, it takes its inspiration from the early lifecycle of a drone fly, a maggot. Never one to pass up a challenge, I fired up Modo and set to work.

I quickly got the main body of the ship dialed in before trying to make sense of the side-mounted engines. Captain Trickle - @rhondak - seemed pleased with the progress so I shall add further details in the coming week.

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Next, I was asked to create something similar to the J-type 327 Nubian royal starship from shudder The Phantom Menace, only with the shape of a manta ray as inspiration. Sure, why not?

This started from a cube and, using a top view of a manta ray, I created the basic shape in low res, pushing and pulling points, adding loops and then smoothing it all out to the result you see here.

I threw it over to Keyshot, added some materials and created this quick render.

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