Super Yacht - Starfish

[Short_Fuse]

Starfish, 50 meter luxury Superyacht.

Starfish was a huge project as the client wanted everything, high res stills for print of the exterior and interior, animations the works. Fortunately the naval architects blueprints, schematics and reference where superb, reducing the stress levels ever so slightly. Working remotely with another 3d Artist and good buddy, we where able to synchronise workflows to get her complete. Plenty more stills available at my Website.

Tragically though on August 16th 2012, Starfish was partially destroyed in a major fire at the warehouse she was being constructed. The news was hard to hear after working on the project for so long I’d gained tremendous respect for the project, design and vision.

Stills:







Animation: Which is now outdated due to a major redesign. Most notable is the stone decking which has now changed to teak as shown in the stills above.

[glorybound]

Yowza!! It must have been a massive amount of work!

[YoyoBoy]

What?! No helicopter pad?? Only paupers have yachts without helo-pads. And I bet there isn't even a single bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite on board.

Just kidding. Great job, James.

[snivlem]

Nice, was the glow done in post or the V-Ray flare effects?

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Thanks for the positive comments guys.

Yoyoboy: Sorry no helipad, major design flaw :P

Snivlem: The underwater lights where done with standard Max .ies lights and Vray Fog under a displaced water plane. Took some time and tweaking to get good results from all angles, but worth it. The deck lighting flares where all done in post, After Effects.

[jacksc02]

Nice work there James.
I saw the fire on the news.... are they rebuilding the boat?

[tooves]

Nice work. Can you speak at all about how you did the water? I am playing with a few techniques at the moment for oceans so wouldn't mind picking your brain a bit.

[Crayox13]

It takes guts to take on a project like this
It turned out pretty great! I would only like to see the yacht glow more on the mid-day renders. I'm guessing it's white, and not light gray...you know how yachts sparkle in sun

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jacksc02: As far as I'm aware they are currently regrouping to figure out the projects future. Official statements available on the official website, Aquos Yachts.

tooves: I can't give out to much information about the ocean sorry. All I can say is I've tried every plugin, work around, trick in the book and none even come close to providing a working solution. I needed a solution that you could get up close, far away, see to the horizon, animate, change camera angles on a whim, different lighting, the works. So the solution I came to that's used in the images is extremely brute force with no plugins. The surface is a simple plane using a VRay Material and VRay Displacement on top.

Crayox13: The white material your referring to is supposed to be a very light shade of grey, but in some angles its overblown and appears white. Getting a consistent shade across all images with different lighting and sun positions was damn near impossible. Personally I like glowing the bright surfaces but clients come first and they didn't agree, so toned it down a lot.