Star Wars - Redemption | LightFreighter XT-3400

This is a collab made for the fan project Star Wars - Redemption with a dear friend and old colleague of mine, Aurélien Baarsch (you can find his work/contact here : portfolio.dessinandier.com).
Aurélien is a fantastic designer, an inspiring artist and somehow, a long-term mentor. I had the pleasure to work with him at several occasions, the first being on his own project "Le Voyage de Léo". By then he was leading a small team of students towards a colorful, creative and inspiring art direction around a very inspiring story, you can find out more here : https://vimeo.com/68541662. Aurélien is also a much more hardcore fan of the Star Wars universe, knows the Legends a lot, and as such, he is able to craft neat stories, assets, and characters that seem really out of this universe while being surprisingly fresh. He made this cargo ship for his personal project called "I-on Rat", but I loved the design so much I asked him if he'd like to do a collab (and he said yes =D). Aurélien was one of the very first person to learn I was making Mevenn back when we were at school, and has since always loved the project, so this collab was a much anticipated pleasure for both of us =) Here I did only the optimization/UVs/texturing/rigging/animation/UE4 integration parts of the process, the hardest and most original part, designing the ship, was done by Aurélien. You can pilot this ship if you want, or explore around it somewhere in the Lumberia Temple forest =)

I hope you'll like it !

Texturing the metal/rough in 3DCoat is always what makes a model stand out to me. That's where you get to tell what the asset traversed in its life (where it's used, cleaned, scratched, burnt...etc)

Landing animation, made in akeytsu as well as the rig/skin. Please note that this is litterally made for fun, landing is not an existing feature in the current build of the demo (2.7 by the time I write these lines)

In-game, you can find it on Lumberia Temple somewhere in the forest :)

In-game, you can find it on Lumberia Temple somewhere in the forest :)

It's also a ship you can use ;)

It's also a ship you can use ;)