I'm using the Amiga palette which at first glance I hated but once I started using it I love it. There are some colours I wish it had but I will just have to improvise. Limitations boost creative thinking.

What do you mean with Amiga palette? Amiga computers had user defined palette out of 4096 colors. (Amiga 1200/4000 out of 16M colors) About the shading style: This is really cool, but the tower(?) should also have a shadow-part!

Hey, thanks for the comments!

@snader: My concept art is on paper and as I am no artist, it isn't really impressive to look at. You are right, I should definitely add some details on the starbase. (which is indeed a refueling station) And probably on the smaller crafts, too.

@questseeker: Yeah, more details on the Interceptor!

@willows: Well, what is the "typical" terrestrial battlecruiser? Is it edgy? Is it round? It is hard to say, because there are only fictional battlecruisers to look at. In Star Wars, these star destroyers are edgy, where in Perry Rhodan the terrestrial battleships are all spherical, and in Star Trek it is kind of a mixture, isn't it? But finally, I have to agree with you. The old version really looks like a bigger version of the transport ship.

@TrevoriuS: As far as I know the iPhone specs are like this: 480x320, 24 MB texture memory, textures up to 1024x1024, over 2000 polys with "very good" speed. So yes, 600 polygons for a craft would be indeed way to much. Actually, I still want to keep them prerendered, so the polygons are not the problem, but the 24 MB texture memory. "lowpoly" is with me as a fallback option - let's see how it will develop. By the way, the required number of rotation angles for a smooth rotation depends also on the rotation speed. So 32 angles may only be enough for small, fast rotating objects.


The fleet of the Fanatics Empire / the new Battlecruiser (reduced to 400 polys) better?


A first attempt on texturing. I only wrapped the texture on the sphere of the supplyship, so far. Well, looks a bit boring. Any hints?

Second, never save as .JPG, because 1) it's hard to edit and work on afterwards 2) it screws with the quality.

Well, I think these are anti-aliased cows in PNG and no JPG-artifacts  Really nice cow (a bit lazy maybe). Is that the original size you draw the cows? (looks like shrunken down) To improve her, I would start by giving her a more sharp outline then.

Hi, the nozzles of the craft should point directly to the back and not 45 degree up and down. (otherwise it could not move forward) If you persist with that 45 degree angle for some reason, you might want to have the same amount of nozzles for the upside, as for the downside. The lights on the back of the grey and red crafts are flashing. Did you do that by intention? On the green one, that is just fine.

Apart from that, I think this is really excellent! How did you create these explosions?

Looks nice, especially this giant bat-like-guy (or what is he?). As he is so big, some anti-alias could be fine here. And is there a chance to see some of these as animated gif?