Air Transports and Gunships should be Helicopters.

[Licho]

Also like impossible to make nicely in spring.

[Pxtl]

@ Mav

Yes, but I'm referring to mainstream. Of course every SF concept has been beaten to death by much better authors decades ago... I'm referring to stylistically.

The opening cryo-awakening scene lifted from his own movie, Aliens. The neon black-light forest that reminded me of the terrible Batman Forever. The plot that seemed like it should have been a Kevin Costner movie. The freaking Papayrus font... even for subtitles. The New Age religion stuff of the Na'vi. The black-and-white "humans are the bad guys" environmentalist concept that reminds us all of Fern Gully.

Everything about the movie seemed to be a re-tread of main pop-culture of the late '80s and early '90s. Obviously there are no ideas left under the sun, of course... I just didn't expect a movie where all the material was so specifically dated to the same period.

[bobthedinosaur]

there is a helo in the gear commander material i posted and for Blood and Steel all of my stuff is cc nc and there are a couple of non helicopter jet VTOLs you can use.

[srapop]

visuality is what counts.
at least in CA.
the idea of the model counts,not the detail.
i mean the shape, style and feel of it.
that model gets me learning modelling.
although i wont start with that superheli.
if someone wants it, please someone model it.
it looks like MidKnight is willing to add the model.

woa.

[bobthedinosaur]

is that some strange poetic form attempt?

[Tribulex]

I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.

avatar_helicopter-580x326.jpg

the animation is very much like the banshee, and even the light gunship of arm in ca i believe. just that they are rotors instead of jet/rockets/magic

actually i already made a model that is the similar kind of helicopter, but looks a bit more planelike. has short wings with the rotors in them, but it can go into jet mode by closing the rotors and popping out the jets (just fancy eye-catching anim not actually practical). Just more food for thought.

[Noruas]

Fuck helicopters we need modern zeppelins.


That shit and scale in Spring Could be so boss.

[Gota]

+1 the Sumos of the sky.

[Licho]

Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

[srapop]

I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.

avatar_helicopter-580x326.jpg

the animation is very much like the banshee, and even the light gunship of arm in ca i believe. just that they are rotors instead of jet/rockets/magic

actually i already made a model that is the similar kind of helicopter, but looks a bit more planelike. has short wings with the rotors in them, but it can go into jet mode by closing the rotors and popping out the jets (just fancy eye-catching anim not actually practical). Just more food for thought.

would you mind posting a lil eyecandy?
it might be what we are looking for?

[srapop]

Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

that is right,but it might look good with the shadows.
also usually zeppelins are impressing by the noise they make.

[Gota]

It can do flips in the air once in a while XD
The idle animation.

[srapop]

we now have potential gunship and a potential transport.

[srapop]

It can do flips in the air once in a while XD
The idle animation.

poor passengers...

[srapop]

the zeppelin is THE transport.
as MidKnight said,transports are made out of paper...
the zeppelin is indeed.
it also feels really intuitive.but imagine a transport zeppelin as small as dragonfly or vindicator...too small.
if you size it up => vulnerable.
only way seems to be giving it good health.

[smoth]

Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

not even that cool

[srapop]

lol.

[KingRaptor]

(they're carrier drones in case you couldn't tell)

Maybe giving them aquatic camo wasn't such a good idea...

[Saktoth]

Meh. PL's is better and uses things like a solid/transparent spinning rotor.

GJ trying to replace model with IP free variant ofc.

[zwzsg]

Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

not even that cool

And you didn't even mention Gamera? I'm disappointed.