Why You Should Use Architecture as Inspiration for Sci-Fi Ship Design

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Spacedock delves into architecture as an inspiration for sci-fi spacecraft design.
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@Spacedock Жыл бұрын

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@DrakeAurum Жыл бұрын

The Alliance capital ships in Firefly take this to an extreme, being basically just a set of modern skyscrapers on a platform with engines.

@opensketchbook Жыл бұрын

That Holly Jencka art at the end is from the upcoming RPG "Torchship", an exploration game which combines soft sci-fi, Star Trek like space exploration with hard sci-fi concepts and dangers. Holly's an amazing artist and its incredible to have her on the team bringing it to life.

@andyb1653 Жыл бұрын

WH40K has some of my favorite spaceship designs, from the elegant-yet-brutal flying Cathedrals of the Imperium and forces of Chaos, to the ramshackle and comical "this really shouldn't work" jerry-rigged Ork ships. Star Wars also has some stunning designs, especially in the Imperial capital ships (the Executor class being my all-time favorite space warship). Colin Cantwell could really do some incredible things with a simple triangle.

@lostmarble540 Жыл бұрын

I love that imperium ships in 40k have battering rams on them. It's got to be the silliest thing to put on a space ship but damn does it look cool

@The_Lone_Aesir Жыл бұрын

I like how in "Space above and beyond" the Human Capital ships were basically futuristic aircraft carriers, and the Hammerhead fighters drew inspiration from, well hammerheads.

@LordCrate-du8zm

Warhammer 40k fans laughing maniacally as their rocket-powered cathedrals fly into hell and out the other side

@hughsmith7504 Жыл бұрын

Ah 40K, where you don't need to worry about going to church, because the church is coming to you.

@Teekanic Жыл бұрын

There's a particular Union ship in Firefly that I always thought looked like a city in space. I love it because it looks so practical and different from other ships in sci-fi, and even the series.

@DycuswasHere Жыл бұрын

Might as well throw in the Castle of Lions from Voltron: Legendary Defenders. A bit of a surprise when we found out it was really a rocket ship in the first season but the more you saw it the more sense a castle would make as a ship.

@Omnomface Жыл бұрын

Regarding brutalist designs, i can easily point to EVE Online's Caldari vessels for other examples, like the Rokh battleship which used to be referred to as the cinderblock or the Naga battlecruiser. It's fun to see how they've mixed brutalist with radiotower aesthetics for that faction.

@mitwhitgaming7722 Жыл бұрын

One thing that I always love in sci-fi is when they have a continuous shot that follows the characters through the ship, giving you a clear picture of how it is layed out.

@Ushio01 Жыл бұрын

Using naval traditions makes a lot of sense since during the age of exploration sailing ships could take years for a one way journey even with lots of stops on the way (discovering strange new worlds and new civilisations) Even crossing just the Atlantic in the 1840's could take over 50 days while today it's 6-7 hours on an airliner.

@deusexaethera Жыл бұрын

"The Eiffel Tower is damn near a spaceship already."

@d.robertdigman1293 Жыл бұрын

I loved the fact that HMS Camden Lock from the British series Hyperdrive was basically the British Telecom Tower with engines attached!

@lukasvillar9328 Жыл бұрын

The OG Iserlohn Fortress is beautiful... It is like a castle inside a silver snow globe in space.

@seth408 Жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for mentioning Moscow landmarks, the Mercury tower also resembles Orion-class destroyer from Freespace, and top-to-bottom Ostankino tower drone shot is glorious, Soviet-era high-rise construction is impressive.

@TheOneWhoMightBe Жыл бұрын

The Battleplates from Schlock Mercenary were simple geometric shapes (primarily triangles), although inside them was hundreds of 'skyscrapers' which functioned as independent ships if necessary.

@44WarmocK77 Жыл бұрын

I've been working on a ship design using art deco for some time now - works surprisingly well and you get these awesome dieselpunk vibes quite easily. ^^

@kevingriffith6011 Жыл бұрын

This just reminds me of a bunch of digital paintings I saw a couple years ago. (A quick google search says they were done by Eric Geusz.) Basically he took a bunch of mundane household objects (bottles, electric razors, potato peelers, etc) and used them as the basis for spaceship designs. Some of them are a bit silly, but some of them are legitimately cool designs.