sci-fi catamaran design help

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by arkanoid

Initially I was pending between a tank, an amphibious and a ski cat (right spot Chris!). I then decided for a boat; since I always admired catamaran shape as the best I've gone for this. All these choices have came during the actual creation in Maya.
That is not the reccomended method to work, but I wanted to take a chance on that and just enjoy the creation.

You are creating art, with a some function, call it Industrial design for now.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting it.

Let me know if you get into doing a hovercraft design in the future, I'll try to keep you out of too much trouble.

[arkanoid]

Originally Posted by kach22i

You are creating art, with a some function, call it Industrial design for now.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting it.

Let me know if you get into doing a hovercraft design in the future, I'll try to keep you out of too much trouble.

Thanks kach22i
I can now confirm that the method I used is not raccomended for working as kerosene already stated: it's incredibly time-wasting. I stopped working on this and I recently revamped the project because I want to finalize it. Now it has evolved alot in shape. I'll post some news in short.
About hovers one day I'd like to make something like this:



Really awesome!

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by arkanoid

About hovers one day I'd like to make something like this:

I'm sure that if either one of us had a chance to influence the engineers and make the marketing people happy the end product would look a little sexier.

[arkanoid]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I'm sure that if either one of us had a chance to influence the engineers and make the marketing people happy the end product would look a little sexier.

Don't you like that? To me is one of the scariest thing I've ever seen. Considering also how BIG is that monster. And the two rotors are insane!!

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by arkanoid

Don't you like that? To me is one of the scariest thing I've ever seen. Considering also how BIG is that monster. And the two rotors are insane!!

Scary/military and Sexy/commercial are two different things. Sexy military is best, although it's hard to come by unless you are talking top of the line fighter aircraft.

The LCAC is dwarfted by the much larger Russian hovercraft which Greece purchased a few years ago.

There is a great video of Russian SES/Hovercraft with some marching like music which is scary.

I think this is it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDd9vlnqRuo

[arkanoid]

WHAHA
Impressive.. but I still like more the LCAC.
This is a bit sexy-scary. Could be better though:

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by arkanoid

WHAHA
Impressive.. but I still like more the LCAC.
This is a bit sexy-scary. Could be better though:

The LCAC is like a Humvee, the M-Craft is like an Isuzu VehiCross both are cool but in different ways.

I'm just surprised that you like the pure functional look over something more stylized. Based on your work process and all the curves the project had, it seems like you are moving in the other direction.

[arkanoid]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I'm just surprised that you like the pure functional look over something more stylized. Based on your work process and all the curves the project had, it seems like you are moving in the other direction.

Well I like different styles too! But you'll see that my project has moved in a more functional way, despite all those curves (and some curves has gone away pretty soon).

[gruenemachine]

do u do outside imaging work?

[arkanoid]

What do you mean? If you mean if I do some post work outside my 3d program, yes I do. If you mean doing 3d landscapes as enviroment, I do it too.

[gruenemachine]

ive posted under sportfisher carbon command pod...at 621pm monday

[arkanoid]

I've worked a little on it. Modeling is almost done.
Yeah it probably doesn't float.
I'll upload some better images tomorrow with some details. There's some surface that I'm pretty proud of in the helmstation (that you can't see from this image).