Modelling, texturing and animation - Part 2

After a short break from my animation project to do some character modelling and a few days away from my CGI all together as I have been in interviews looking for full time CGI work and touting for more freelance CGI work (either will do), I am now back and ready to pick up where I left off.

Well after some thought I decided its time to build up some detail. I knew more detail and better textures would help sell this whole animation and make it look better and more realistic. So I have been back re-modelling the ship to build detail and improve the textures and here are my first renderings with the new details added.

This is a captains view from the ships wheel. Notice the nice plank work deck and the improved rigging but now I need to add little knots to the rope work rigging and improve the masts and booms.

Here are a few views of the ships new paintwork. I can see from these renders that I still have a lot of re-rigging to do and some of the textures need major tweeking.

Well now I am going to have to re-renderer everything for video but only after I get the ship 100% right. At least now I know exactly what I want, I can get everything planned and ready to render over the nights as I sleep.