More Modo Modeling for Steem Wars

I have modeled two ships for the Steem Wars Dronefly crew, the Dronefly itself and the Maverick. There were some changes desired on the Dronefly, namely the larval stage of a dronefly, upon which the general shape of the ship is based, has a tail, like this.

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So I fired up Modo and had a tinker around until I came up with this.

Now, you may be asking yourself what the hell is that part halfway down the tail? I was sent this precision engineered diagram from @rhondak with details of how this would dock with the Maverick.

Such wow

After resizing the Maverick and modeling the docking section, @rhondak was happy with this result.

I then exported the models and took them into Keyshot for rendering.

I actually rendered two passes, the main one then an ambient occlusion pass to add deeper shadows. Here's the AO pass for that image.

It can be a subtle effect, but here on the left is the image with AO added - a multiply layer in Photoshop - and the right image has no AO.

I also rendered a couple of other views and composited the AO on them too.

Click on any of the renders to see the full size results.

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