Aries-1B

My latest project. This time I wanted to recreate the moon shuttle that appears in '2001: A Space Odyssey', by Stanley Kubrick. The first one is a recreation of a scene in the movie.

I had 3 ongoing projects and I felt like this one was the first I wanted to finish for several reasons. I am a huge fan of Kubrick's work and sci-fi in general, something that kept me motivated while working on the project. I also wanted to try different things with my modeling techniques, especially boolean operations and the proper mesh cleanup that comes after those.

I took the opportunity to rig the spacecraft's landing gear using some basic stuff like parenting and aim constraints. I want to create an animation in the future but I still have to work some more on the rig for that to happen.

I'm pretty happy with the result overall, and doing this has made me take a deeper interest in hard surface modeling for robotics, spacecraft and sci-fi stuff.

I hope you like it.

Happy New Year everyone!