Eve Online Art Contest! : Design a Starship!

[pyan]

I did notice that most of the pro level entries have length, width and height stats, whereas yours has just the length: and that they all use the abbreviation "m" instead of spelling out meters.

[Fuzzy Modem]

The only requirement is length, and I'm trying to keep it uncluttered. Also, my height and width aren't identical as it's not perfectly circular, and I don't feel like advertising that, as it might be perceived as unintentional.

Thanks for the suggestion though. See anything else?

[edit] I tried abbreviating "Meters" to "M." and it looked... wrong. I did try though.

[Fuzzy Modem]

I guess I don't know that the newer entries are from more seasoned professionals. I have nothing to base that on other than a sense of... well rounded software competence.

Amateurs (like myself) get good at utilizing about 1/3 of our software's capabilities. We might get really, really good at that 1/3, but without a knowledgeable employer expecting us to execute tasks that would otherwise be outside the scope of our knowledge, we tend to stick with what's comfortable rather than learning to utilize the software's full potential.

Most of the more recent entries seem to be from this upper echelon, where every trick and tool has been utilized to full effect.

This one for instance was submitted today. It's the best I've seen thus far:
Tyrfing by ~Krats on deviantART

[Vertigo]

Still prefer yours FM. They just don't look complete to me. The wings on that last one just seem to offer a bigger target in a battle. Any near miss is going to take them out straight away.

[Fuzzy Modem]

Originally Posted by Vertigo

Still prefer yours FM. They just don't look complete to me. The wings on that last one just seem to offer a bigger target in a battle. Any near miss is going to take them out straight away.

Lol! Well, that's logistics for you but it is consistent with existing designs.

I am glad I decided to spend the rest of my time polishing my entry rather than starting a 2nd one. I'm nervously optimistic, but my competitors just keeps getting more impressive as time goes on, and I'm sure there are others like me who will keep buffing and tweaking right up to the deadline.

This is another killer submission that I had missed before:
Battleship Lammergeier by ~TranquilRuins on deviantART

A bit simple, but very well executed.

[Vertigo]

Yeah that one is nice, one of the better ones. don't like the way he's 'posed' it though. With the right 'wing' hidden it looks very asymmetric.

[Fuzzy Modem]

Finished and submitted

Here it is in the DA contest section. Wish me luck!

[Vertigo]

Fingers crossed for you FM; when are the results announced?

I just took a browse through the entries (there a awful lot of them!) and still rate yours! I do love some of the joke entires though. Particularly the cardboard box and the banana biplane thingy!

[Ursa major]

I do not play computer games, so you can safely ignore what I'm about to say, FM.

I've seen the current competitors in the link you provided. To be frank, and if I didn't know otherwise, I'd say yours looked like an existing, professionally produced, ship from the game, which the others were striving (and failing) to match.

I'll still wish you luck, though you probably need less than most.

[Fuzzy Modem]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

I do not play computer games, so you can safely ignore what I'm about to say, FM.

I've seen the current competitors in the link you provided. To be frank, and if I didn't know otherwise, I'd say yours looked like an existing, professionally produced, ship from the game, which the others were striving (and failing) to match.

I'll still wish you luck, though you probably need less than most.

Originally Posted by Vertigo

Fingers crossed for you FM; when are the results announced?

I just took a browse through the entries (there a awful lot of them!) and still rate yours! I do love some of the joke entires though. Particularly the cardboard box and the banana biplane thingy!

I'm cautiously optimistic. Thanks for the vote of confidence
The contest ends on Wednesday, and the winners will be announced "on or about October 20."

Originally Posted by pyan

I did notice -they all use the abbreviation "m" instead of spelling out meters.

You may notice I ended up taking your advice after all

[Fuzzy Modem]

Wow! This one makes me hope for second place:
EvE Online -Tornado by *dreamwa1ker on deviantART

[Ursa major]

I had seen that before I made my earlier remarks.

Something bothers me about it, though I can't quite put my finger on why that is. Perhaps it's because it looks like a flying wing (albeit on its side), which seems out of place in a near-vacuum. Perhaps its because most of its surface area (aka as that part of the ship an enemy would target) overlies very little useable volume. (Your ship adds extra volume by shrouding part of the vehicle's central section.)

Your ship is unsettling, due to its asymmetry. If I were an enemy, I'd wonder why it was that shape. Is it built to contain some terrible weapon (in spite of its alleged function, command ship)?



So if I had a vote, I'd vote for yours.

[Vertigo]

From a military stand point I dislike any of these 'flat' designs. They expose the maximum surface area to attack for a given volume. Making you a much bigger target than is necessary. Also there is very little dpeth in your armour.

In many respects the perfect shape for a warship would be a sphere where you get the minimum surface area (targetable area) for a given volume and you also maximise the potential to bury your most critical components deep in the ship.

The nature of your shape is that it will have a fairly higher surface area but much of it is shielded by the 'wings'. I would therefore rate yours a much more practical design.

[Fuzzy Modem]

Actually, the optimum design for a starship looks like a "jack."



With the weapon turrets mounted on the outside points you maximize available line of sight, no nearly all your weapons could fire at a single target at any given time. Engines would be mounted in a sphere around the center, to thrust in any direction optimally.

But this^ while, interesting, would look a little silly, and not at all cool.

[Rodders]

Fuzzy Modem, i love yiou ship and can't believe how much work you've put into that thing.

I really hope you win.