Tredecim wrote:
vahout - awesome! Although I tink they look a bit too similar

Thank you! Only two are similar actually, Transport and Destroyer and that's because I wanted them to be like the ones of the other factions, you know... a transport is a Destroyer with a colony pod attached.

Samblaster wrote:
I like your concepts very much

I think that they are very similar to the automatons style, and with the right color combination they can be pretty good

Maybe they can be more.. wide? I mean, in the perspective they seem a bit narrow :I

Maybe you could enlarge the white parts, not the rotating rings (not too much uh? )

However, they are amazing man ;D

Thanks! The larger ones are more wide. The Battlecruiser has a bug like shell with bumps on both sides and the Dreadnought is considerably more wide with a triangular shape like this:

vahouth wrote:
Thank you! Only two are similar, Transport and Destroyer and that';s because I wanted them to be like the ones of the other factions, you know... a transport is a Destroyer with a colony pod attached.

Yeah, my train of thought



Good work so far, I already started thinking of places for the weapons

I now realize what it is. I'm starting to appreciate the "Alien geometry", but I just found it really hard to wrap my head around the engine location vs the bridge, even though I went back and tried it and it makes sense. The problem is that you made the engines red and the bridge blue, my eyes were simply drawn to the red engines while the blue blended in with the rest of the ship.



Love the top down view, gives them a distinctive silhouette

At this point I am sitting here and thinking to myself, can I even compete with this? :/ I finished my Automaton Destroyer depiction though, so here it is, but please note, the color scheme is up for debate I was simply picking the colors that made sense



Some segments of the ship could also be modified slightly such as the front and back, but in general it should stick with the "floating platform" feel.







Comments/criticisms are quite welcome !

I don't even care if I win anymore, I'm having too much fun creating concepts. I borrowed a little from your idea Panzer, but not too much I hope.

i think that something like a series of concentric gear rings would look really good possibly around some kind of mechanical sphere to give a neo-mechanic feel meshed with cyber-punk

Javarino wrote:
I don't even care if I win anymore, I'm having too much fun creating concepts. I borrowed a little from your idea Panzer, but not too much I hope.

I don't mind you borrowing, but oh my god, that looks quite similar to the pen and paper cruiser I drew 2 days ago. Try doing the battleship, maybe that will match up too xD

This design has my vote!

http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5704&d=1360507107

Panzer wrote:
At this point I am sitting here and thinking to myself, can I even compete with this? :/ I finished my Automaton Destroyer depiction though, so here it is, but please note, the color scheme is up for debate I was simply picking the colors that made sense



Some segments of the ship could also be modified slightly such as the front and back, but in general it should stick with the "floating platform" feel.









Comments/criticisms are quite welcome !

Whats with the fire in the front haha, that only happens when you enter orbit because you have to break through the atmosphere

stasik28 wrote:
Whats with the fire in the front haha, that only happens when you enter orbit because you have to break through the atmosphere

Its more of a hyperspace trail xD The ships are using their dust engines (The two swirly circle structures) to accelerate themselves through space

Panzer wrote:
I don't mind you borrowing, but oh my god, that looks quite similar to the pen and paper cruiser I drew 2 days ago. Try doing the battleship, maybe that will match up too xD

Yeah, once again sorry. I wanted something that fit with your canon of orbital platforms but kept my concentric rings idea. I have two more in production that are definitely dissimilar though.

Javarino wrote:
Yeah, once again sorry. I wanted something that fit with your canon of orbital platforms but kept my concentric rings idea. I have two more in production that are definitely dissimilar though.

Dont worry about it man It's looking like those bad ass asymmetric MS paint ships will likely win :/

Well, travelling through hyperspace will look like this image below VVV (at least for the people travelling through it)

Panzer wrote:
Dont worry about it man It's looking like those bad ass asymmetric MS paint ships will likely win :/

I dunno, I thought the point of this contest was not who had the best looking "art" and who actually had good ship ideas. Ultra-complexity doesn't always = good concept. I can't see the end vote being too one-sided.

panzer wrote:
at this point i am sitting here and thinking to myself, can i even compete with this? :/ i finished my automaton destroyer depiction though, so here it is, but please note, the color scheme is up for debate i was simply picking the colors that made sense



some segments of the ship could also be modified slightly such as the front and back, but in general it should stick with the "floating platform" feel.







comments/criticisms are quite welcome !

i love these <3

I decided to add a little more fuel to the fire so... here my 2nd take on the Automaton Spaceships



I'' be back with the Dreadnought later today.

Quite tough concepts, I shall say. But, although I really like the looks and I got no my own ideas, I have one question. Should automaton's ships really look so much like automatons themselves? Because it's like United Empire will build giant human-like robot torsos instead of spaceships.

Depends if you consider them to be the robots you see, or the ghost in the shell.



Their ships could simply be space worth bodys for them to inhabit, similar to an organic race.....but not.

I like the designs offered by Vahouth. Great job! In fact, I like his better than the ones I did!

FarOceans wrote:
I like the designs offered by Vahouth. Great job! In fact, I like his better than the ones I did!

Thank you! You have done a great job yourself as well.

In fact the reason I'm posting a second line of ships is because I want (with my limited resources :P) to inspire if I can other people to share their thoughts and talent.

As you and some other guys in here have inspired me to give it a go.



And as I promised, here is the Dreadnought.