Hyperion-At-Top-of-World

Huge ass file is HUGE, and I'm sorry but there's no way for me to reduce it's size and still show off many details that would otherwise be lost due to compression, shrinking, etc.

Also this may be the exception to my late use of Stash to serve as my WIPs sharing... I'm posting this as a normal submission in my gallery for the sole purpose of displaying my 99.9% completed model of the Hyperion. There are but a few minor details such as the switches on the dash board and the addition of a magnetic compass on the steering wheel pedestal but other than that, Hyperion is about ready for uploading to the 3Dwarehouse, hence I'm making this mural as gallery spam rather than update my older submissions via over-write.

There are far TOO many little details such as rivets to be included with this model and still make the 10mb limit for the warehouse, so I'm electing to forgo those details. Hell I've even had to abandon the use of multiple component parts to make an actual bicycle chain to connect the motors to the propellers... I might have gone overboard detailing the engines, but I'm not diving back into the model just to reduce the poly count at this time... later perhaps, just not right now.. And anyhow the balloon portion alone has a shat ton of polygons so this model is pretty heavy as it is.... and speaking of the balloon... I will openly admit to cheating on the construction with the use of Blender, my other 3D program, to make the fluid graceful curves to the balloon. I HAVE tried to make the Hyperion entirely within Sketchup, but each attempt to droop the nose and taper it ended in failure, so rather than frustrate myself and loose time that I could otherwise spend doing other arts, I opened up Blender and using identical reference images as used within Sketchup, I made the balloon of the Hyperion with Blender's unique modeling methods that have yet to be matched by any existing Sketchup extension plug-in module.

Apart from not quite being ready to upload to the warehouse for public release, I hope you all can enjoy the preview images here on dA while I finish off my model.

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5th July 2013~ Model finished and uploaded to the 3Dwarehosue [link]

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The Island At The Top Of The World and Airship Hyperion (C) Disney
3D model made by moi in with the balloon portion in Blender-3D