The IVL "Black Fleet"

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:08 am

IVL Destroyer

IVL taskforce which ripped a hades to bloody bits.

IVL small craft.

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:52 am

Bump bitchez

Post by **Anna** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:44 pm

I really dig the Ascendant Twilight. That thing is huge and armoured and nasty. Seriously. It looks like it'll totally fuck someone up. Easily the best ship of that style that I've seen.

Cycerin · Post by **Cycerin** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:01 pm

Yah, it's just brutal. No-nonsense. You've nailed that look better than ever. Also, it's great how it's full of weapons but still doesn't look cluttered - which is to say, it looks cluttered, but in a good way. I never liked your color scheme, though.

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:11 pm

Cycerin wrote:Yah, it's just brutal. No-nonsense. You've nailed that look better than ever. Also, it's great how it's full of weapons but still doesn't look cluttered - which is to say, it looks cluttered, but in a good way. I never liked your color scheme, though.

What colors would you use then?

Cycerin · Post by **Cycerin** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:37 pm

Basically, my gripe isn't with the yellow or red, it's just that they're 255. Try to bronze out the colors a bit, maybe?

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:49 pm

Cycerin wrote:Basically, my gripe isn't with the yellow or red, it's just that they're 255. Try to bronze out the colors a bit, maybe?

So it's the brightness then?

bien4500 · Post by **bien4500** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:02 pm

I agree with Cycerin, and nice ships by the way. And a quick statement, your ships remind me of Battlestars. BSG inspired?

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:12 pm

bien4500 wrote:I agree with Cycerin, and nice ships by the way. And a quick statement, your ships remind me of Battlestars. BSG inspired?

Partly. Though I have said that repeatedly over the past year or so I've been here.

Malahite · Post by **Malahite** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:27 pm

As usuall Liz, you make great, nasty ships :twisted:

Cycerin · Post by **Cycerin** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:56 pm

Lizzie wrote:
Cycerin wrote:Basically, my gripe isn't with the yellow or red, it's just that they're 255. Try to bronze out the colors a bit, maybe?
So it's the brightness then?

It's basically intensity. It's hard to judge what looks good when I don't have a color picked in front of me, but both colors should look more pastel or gray/browned out.

Note that this is mainly my taste speaking so you should just try it out and see if you like it.

Aaganrmu · Post by **Aaganrmu** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:40 pm

It has been said before, but I'd still like to say you make weapon spam look good. Putting them in identical batteries really makes this ship easy on the eyes.

And you used lots of little doodads! More detail, yum.

I'm not too happy with the gatling-toting small craft. It seems a bit overkill to have one single gun covering half of the ship. I know such things exist (A10 anyone?), but it just doesn't look as good to me. Maybe cover it up or something.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:32 am

The first ship really stands out to me because it looks to be on the smaller side yet you still fit everything on it that should be in a ship. I also like that your continuing to use plenty of the older sections on your ships, some people don't.

The small ships really could do with having their weapons partially covered. Its fine to have a vulcan gun on it but doesn't look as realistic as it could if the gun weren't just sitting on top. I'd cover the back of the gun mostly so it looks like its sticking out of the body, same with the others.

The biggest ship, Ascendant Twilight(?), is awesome in all respects though I'm normally not a fan of the strutted sections on either side like bsg does it, but you gave it the proper scale. Only nitpick from a quick view is that the pylons holding them on are darker and look like their coming up from under the ship so it gives me a weird image of how it would be 3d. Also the nose extends for three artillery guns and could use with some variation, if only to give it a sense of slope or stepped down levels, or even just widen it up where you started with the yellow.

Have you thought about putting fleet logos on your ships? Would allow for plenty of use of the red and yellow you prefer.

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:49 am

jwa8402 wrote:The first ship really stands out to me because it looks to be on the smaller side yet you still fit everything on it that should be in a ship. I also like that your continuing to use plenty of the older sections on your ships, some people don't.

The small ships really could do with having their weapons partially covered. Its fine to have a vulcan gun on it but doesn't look as realistic as it could if the gun weren't just sitting on top. I'd cover the back of the gun mostly so it looks like its sticking out of the body, same with the others.

The biggest ship, Ascendant Twilight(?), is awesome in all respects though I'm normally not a fan of the strutted sections on either side like bsg does it, but you gave it the proper scale. Only nitpick from a quick view is that the pylons holding them on are darker and look like their coming up from under the ship so it gives me a weird image of how it would be 3d. Also the nose extends for three artillery guns and could use with some variation, if only to give it a sense of slope or stepped down levels, or even just widen it up where you started with the yellow.

Have you thought about putting fleet logos on your ships? Would allow for plenty of use of the red and yellow you prefer.

Logos/custom sections were after I created these. These was made pretty early in .90 development.

Furthermore I'll keep all these suggestions in mind but this style won't be continued. I got a new style in mind for some work when I get around to it. It was made with the aid of Talhydras so I'll leave your imagination to play with that.