Crafting Dream Machines: How to Design Planes in Chasing Stars Online
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Hi @everyone! Have you ever wondered how airplanes are made? I believe that this is a very complex process and I am not going to talk about building real airplanes. But I can tell you about the process of modeling the virtual one. The ones that will be available to you in Chasing Stars Online.
It all starts with a notion, which later turns into an artistic concept. The concept is necessary in order to build on it in the future. It is a set of various aircrafts of the same style for each of the classes.
In these sets, we try to define a few characteristic elements for each model. So, for example, the models of this set are united not only by the same colour, but also by the shape of the wing with a bend in the middle. (edited)
And here a forked wing, extending in different directions, is already considered as a common element. This principle makes the planes of the same set more recognizable and also gives you a choice. Didn't like this set? No worries, there are much more! Moreover, we continue creating new sets.
The next step is drawing the silhouettes. We compose silhouettes of all four classes at once for each set. Why so? Thanks to this approach, aircraft models are designed in the same style, but still differ from each other in class features.
When the silhouettes are ready we start to create a 3D sketch. First, we give volume to the silhouettes of the models, and then real creativity comes into play. Often, creative changes lead to very unexpected results.
For example, this screenshot does not depict four different planes at all, as it might seem at first glance. This is how several stages of work on one model look like and, as you can see, the model on the right side is not at all similar to the original one.
The work does not end there, on the contrary, it is just the beginning of it. We will talk about the next stages in a week