CG Aviation Art

Mark_Miller · 16 December 2003, 05:33 AM

I post on another forum called CGTalk -
a very active forum dedicated to Computer graphics.

There is a huge thread titled "Vehicle - post your aircraft"
almost 600 replies and 132800 views

Of course, 90% of the images are not WW1, and the quality of the work is variable, but there is a lot of great stuff here.
If you have some time to kill - check it out
airplane thread

Make sure to check out "Lemog's" work on the last couple of pages

Mark

Mark_Miller · 16 December 2003, 07:45 AM

I am happy to say, i talked Lemog into starting a WIP thread for his Dewoitine D.520 project.

yes, I know, it off-topic
But it just so pretty
check it out
D.520

mark

Alan · 16 December 2003, 11:18 AM

Wow. Good stuff. Don't sweat the slightly Off Topic thing...I've seen a ton worse and that is not by any stretch bad....so...

I'm sure All here will appreciate it.

I know I do.

Thanks!

wingstrutdotcom · 16 December 2003, 07:56 PM

Mark and all,

I dont know if you know about this site but it is mostly military 3d although there are sci fi stuff also. I have not posted to the board in some time but it has some nice stuff and projects posted.

military meshes

Tim West · 16 December 2003, 09:54 PM

Heya,

Interesting board. Your right the Dewoitine D.520 is very nice. I also love WWII birds a lot.... almost as much as WWI

Actually it was Jerry Bouchers renderings that first got me interested in 3D art beyound low poly game models.

BTW the board you linked seems nice. I lurk a few CG boards but post to very few. It seems that aviation art has a very small following around the boards. If I get some time I will check CG Talk out further.

Mark_Miller · 17 December 2003, 06:19 AM

Hi Tim
CGTalk is great forum.
You can get some excelent critique.
You should post some work in the "post your aircraft" thread

I also post on the Threedy Forum
Threedy
Not as much traffic as CGTalk. but there are some guys there with a more technical slant and they can offer some interesting input.

Jerry Boucher is one of my favorites as well
Jerry's site
He has a nice painterly style that is very disinctive.
also a pretty nice guy, we have been corresponding for years B)
Mark

Mark_Miller · 17 December 2003, 07:52 AM

here are some more links to CG avaition sites that I like.
All off topic, but I figure somebody should enjoy them.

Jerry Boucher
polygon model
Skyraider 3D
Akio Takahashi

and that should make me an ace

mark

Barrett · 17 December 2003, 04:38 PM

There's also some remarkable digital work being done on historic ships (HIJMS Yamato's destruction comes to mind) as well as aircraft. I wonder whether such realism will eventually become accepted in no-kidding history volumes: "This is what it woulda looked like."

Alan · 20 December 2003, 05:09 AM

Why not? If it is as accurate as possible....

In We Were Soldiers when Moore (Gibson) calls in the airstrike, we see a lot of aeroplanes from that era peel off to start their attacks. Some don't exist anymore or aren't in flying condition. Obviously, they were all CG. They were, IMHO, quite well done. I'm not sure if the more learned individuals here would agree.

What it does tell me, however, is that as the technology gets better things that were impossible to film before are becoming possible.

The future is bright.

'specially for WWI aerial combat.

Thank you, George Lucas.