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Art of 26th Century Ships

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
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In our latest developer blog, concept artist Hector Ortiz and ship artist Ian Richards show how our latest 26th century ships were designed!

You can find our latest art blog here.

~Morrigan "LaughingTrendy"
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Very Nice!
    LUV the "Let's Feed the Neighborhood" aspect. <chuckle>
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    What's with the CEot3K reference in the second pic down??
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  • aphelionmarauderaphelionmarauder Member Posts: 184 Arc User
    I love it when the developers do things like this! It shows the hard work that goes into the game. I for one, appreciate the hard work! Keep up the production Cryptic! Once I get enough shekels, I will throw a few in the pot for STO.
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  • keletteskelettes Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Always love taking a peek behind the scenes and how the design team thinks when putting ships together. Interesting idea to take inspiration from a jellyfish (see first pic for example) or a cephalopod (Nautilus), but it did pan out; big time :smiley:
    Due to the discrepancy of style between the 23rd century ships and the 26th century ships, individual parts are not interchangeable, however, the entire ship can be swapped between the 23rd century and 26th century visuals.

    That also answers the question that's been asked by people for a while :smile: And it's logical. The two styles are just too far apart for a proper kitbash.

    My biggest favorite from the lineup is the Sagittarius :smile: Kinda like an Eclipse and the Ent-J mixed together.
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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    That does answer the big question on styles - but I love this sort of blog. I didn't immediately thematically link the 26th to the 23rd ships (the Nautilus obscures the trend a little) but I can definitely see it.

    The 'design lineage' across these really comes through. Big fan of the Paladin!
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    Was ZBrush used? I NEED TO KNOW!!!11!!!
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    No...

    Dey uzed zee computer!


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  • yanayugi#3666 yanayugi
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    Can't wait until they get to the Universe Class, Enterprise J. I expect that will be a Tier 9 ship with 10 forward and rear weapons.
    it's sheer size alone would make it unstoppable.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    Very Nice!
    LUV the "Let's Feed the Neighborhood" aspect. <chuckle>
    B)

    What's with the CEot3K reference in the second pic down??
    I think it's something that inspired the design?
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    yanayugi#3666 wrote: »
    Can't wait until they get to the Universe Class, Enterprise J. I expect that will be a Tier 9 ship with 10 forward and rear weapons.
    it's sheer size alone would make it unstoppable.

    If flying Scimitars taught me anything, it's that sheer size constantly leads to stops. :p
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  • orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    I'm actually somewhat relieved that these new ships aren't going to be 'one upping' previous ships released in terms of size. I, for one, am getting a bit disgruntled at the trend of new ships being physically larger than the older ones. Though, I fly a Paradox, which is absurdly huge for what it does in-game. Lol.

    Here's hoping that the Galaxy class won't be reduced to a 'tough little ship' in the future... :p
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    Love these blogs. I'm using the nautilus art for my desktop now ^.^

    Thank you for taking the time to explain the behind the scenes stuff!

    @daveyny, What is ceot3k?
  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    orion0029 wrote: »
    Here's hoping that the Galaxy class won't be reduced to a 'tough little ship' in the future... :p

    It almost already has.
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  • keletteskelettes Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    orion0029 wrote: »
    I'm actually somewhat relieved that these new ships aren't going to be 'one upping' previous ships released in terms of size. I, for one, am getting a bit disgruntled at the trend of new ships being physically larger than the older ones. Though, I fly a Paradox, which is absurdly huge for what it does in-game. Lol.

    Here's hoping that the Galaxy class won't be reduced to a 'tough little ship' in the future... :p

    Compared to the Enterprise-J, everything 25th century Starfleet/Republic/KDF have are "tough little ships" at best :smile:

    After a quick google-fu I stumbled into this here :smile:
    Here's how it looks next to a Galaxy (pic drawn up based on images and available specs)

    15547354204_c915d96375_b.jpg

    That's roughly 3.2km right there. With the Jupiter, ~1.5 is the best we've got so far.

    This becoming a playable ship? Don't think so. The Scimitar, Tarantula, the Iconian Vonph, even the Jupiter. These are all pushing it as far as ship size go. A ship like the Ent-J? Have to shake my head at that. While we cannot rule out an eventual encounter with it, it's not exactly player ship material, from the sheer size alone.

    Which is why I think it was a good idea to introduce ships that are scaled down, even though Starfleet's 26th century tech could allow larger ships without sacrificing durability/function and space stations that can accomodate them.

    And that's just Starfleet! Who knows what the Voth will come up with by the 26th c. :smiley: Now those guys do love building big -- as far as ships go. Installations like the Iconian/Solanae Dyson Spheres still uber anything ^^
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  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    I love the imaginative description of what life on 26th-century ships is like. Turning walls transparent at one's leisure, no more holodecks (and therefore no more holodeck malfunctions), that "energy lake" sounding thing. Awesome ideas!
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  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    @gavinruneblade
    Close encounters of the third kind. Took me awhile to decipher his acronym.
    Movie from 30 years ago with Richard Dreyfus and i believe Wilford Brimley was in it too.
    They have still shots from it on the art work it appeared.
  • captsolcaptsol Member Posts: 921 Arc User
    themetalstickman wrote: »
    I love the imaginative description of what life on 26th-century ships is like. Turning walls transparent at one's leisure, no more holodecks (and therefore no more holodeck malfunctions), that "energy lake" sounding thing. Awesome ideas!

    How much of that will we get to see in STO, though, I wonder? :)
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    gavinruneblade wrote: »
    Love these blogs. I'm using the nautilus art for my desktop now ^.^

    Thank you for taking the time to explain the behind the scenes stuff!

    @daveyny, What is ceot3k?

    "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
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  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    Who knows? Maybe we'll get something onboard the Ent-J. Or maybe on those unique temporal ship bridges they mentioned.
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  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Lets keep in mind the Enterprise J was a fictional ship.
  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    kelettes wrote: »
    orion0029 wrote: »
    I'm actually somewhat relieved that these new ships aren't going to be 'one upping' previous ships released in terms of size. I, for one, am getting a bit disgruntled at the trend of new ships being physically larger than the older ones. Though, I fly a Paradox, which is absurdly huge for what it does in-game. Lol.

    Here's hoping that the Galaxy class won't be reduced to a 'tough little ship' in the future... :p

    Compared to the Enterprise-J, everything we have today is a "tough little ship" at best :smile:


    After a quick google-fu I stumbled into this here :smile:
    Here's how it looks next to a Galaxy (pic drawn up based on images and available specs)

    15547354204_c915d96375_b.jpg

    That's roughly 3.2km right there. With the Jupiter, ~1.5 is the best we've got so far.

    This becoming a playable ship? Don't think so. The Scimitar, Tarantula, the Iconian Vonph, even the Jupiter. These are all pushing it as far as ship size go. A ship like the Ent-J? Have to shake my head at that. While we cannot rule out an eventual encounter with it, it's not exactly player ship material, from the sheer size alone.

    Which is why I think it was a good idea to introduce ships that are scaled down, even though Starfleet's 26th century tech could allow larger ships without sacrificing durability/function and space stations that can accomodate them.

    And that's just Starfleet! Who knows what the Voth will come up with by the 26th c. :smiley: Now those guys do love building big -- as far as ships go. Installations like the Iconian/Solanae Dyson Spheres still uber anything ^^

    Awesome! The thing is the size of a damn fleet of Galaxies.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    ???
    Aren't they ALL Fictional Ships?

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  • captsolcaptsol Member Posts: 921 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    ???
    Aren't they ALL Fictional Ships?

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  • orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    Uhh... Right...

    Point is, in the shows a Galaxy class is a sizable beastie easily standing out in a fleet of ships. In STO, not so much. And I really don't like manuvering those absurdly large ships. (One of the reasons I don't fly a Scimitar, by the way.)

    I know that as technology progresses ships will enevitably become 'bigger and better' but there has to be a practical limit to how large a ship can be. I don't even know where to start with the Ent-J, whoever designed that monstrosity must not have put much thought into it...
  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Wouldnt Capt Archer inevitably alter the future he saw simply by occupying that space and observing it, even if he didnt report back to Admiral Forest what he saw. If fact iirc didnt it get changed where he was trapped in the future with a destroyed earth or wherever he was and that daniels guy was killed or injured or something.....im really foggy on my Ent.

    Anyways, if B2TF taught us anything the future got altered so the Enterprise J may have not had been existed then yet.

    Like i said, just a fictional ship.
  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    In fact......with us doing all that time traveling "now" in the future during the Temporal Cold War the future can and will be altered and we can change everything.

    I really hate Daniels.
  • orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    That fictional ship argument could be copy-pasted into a reason for Cryptic to not make a Galaxy Dreadnought.

    A shame, I really wanted one of those...


    **This comment consists of 100% sarcasm, not intended as an insult but as a humorus argument.
  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Your ** makes me happy. I was half serious as well.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    orion0029 wrote: »
    Uhh... Right...

    Point is, in the shows a Galaxy class is a sizable beastie easily standing out in a fleet of ships. In STO, not so much. And I really don't like manuvering those absurdly large ships. (One of the reasons I don't fly a Scimitar, by the way.)

    I know that as technology progresses ships will enevitably become 'bigger and better' but there has to be a practical limit to how large a ship can be. I don't even know where to start with the Ent-J, whoever designed that monstrosity must not have put much thought into it...

    Doug Drexler designed the Enterprise-J.
    And if ya don't know who he is, turn in your Trek Membership Card and read this...
    http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Doug_Drexler

    Also, it's a Galaxy Hopping Starship, that's why it's so big.
    It's a really, Really, REALLY BIG Traveling City in space.

    Read this to see just how much thought he DID put into it...
    http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-J)
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  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Didnt it only appear like 3 seconds on either a view screen or window to be a teaser?

    Why is there so much attention on it now here? I dont get it.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    officerbatman81 wrote: »
    Didnt it only appear like 3 seconds on either a view screen or window to be a teaser?

    Why is there so much attention on it now here? I dont get it.

    It's an Official ENTERPRISE...

    What more is needed?
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