Serenity Blueprints

POSTED BY: DamoclesX
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 21:05
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DAMOCLESX

Monday, May 19, 2003 2:41 AM (P)

Does anybody know where I can get a 3 shot of Serenity? Or who I could contact to get one generated.

I"m talking blueprints of the Model used in the show, or very close shots of it.

I"m a hobby 3d artist and have been -very- interested in re-creating the model for personal/public use. However I"ve found less then no shots of it.

Thanks guys.

LERXST

Monday, May 19, 2003 3:25 AM (P)

Don't know about the 3-shot thing, but there's no model. All CGI.

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DAMOCLESX

Monday, May 19, 2003 3:26 AM (P)

lol

thats what I ment, I"m going to create a mesh:) But I need blueprints

a 3 shot is a top bottom front shot generated from the model.

TALRIUS

Monday, May 19, 2003 3:28 AM (P)

All I can offer you is some relatively good screencaps from the eps in bmp format if you're interested. That's the only way you'll be able to build a model. Unless I missed something?

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DAMOCLESX

Monday, May 19, 2003 3:30 AM (P)

ya thanks, I guess that will have to do.

I"m going to try and contact the CGI place that created the model, maby they will be good enough to generate the shots, its not unheard of places doing that so we will see lol.

I love this show, and I -really- love the Serenity, such a cool design.

TALRIUS

Monday, May 19, 2003 3:34 AM (P)

Where do you want me to send them?

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DOBSON: I'm supposed to be meeting my wife's sister. I've only got a few days to see her...

ZOE: I wish there was another way...

DOBSON: Oh, no, no. That woman is like a dragon. I mean, I believe she has a tail. If there's any other moons we need to visit, or if we could just fly very slowly...

DAMOCLESX

Monday, May 19, 2003 3:35 AM (P)

damoclesx@hotmail.com

1.2 meg limit I belive

damoclesx@shaw.ca

I dont think this email has a limit.

Thanks for the help, I'll post back once I have some results/new info lol

KENWOOD

Monday, May 19, 2003 9:48 AM (P)

Hey,

Hope you don't mind me asking but why did you choose that handle? I use Damoclese on the Fox board and I'm curious why you choose it. Just curious here.

Later,

ME.

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CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Monday, May 19, 2003 2:02 PM (P)

Hey, I'd be very eager to see what kind of results you come up with. I've been thinking of trying to tackle an actual (physical) model of Serenity, but resources are scarce. I'm not even entirely certain I have enough to block out the rough shape.

Best of luck to you!

DAMOCLESX

Monday, May 19, 2003 4:32 PM (P)

LOL Well, actually my handel I kind of just randomly picked, after reading some greek mytho's

I added the 'x' just because at the time I was in a multi-player online game bender:) and its best to have a DIFFERNT name then everybody else, I lot of Damocles's I was suprised

I got the shots thanks.

Ya Ill post once/if I get some good progress, I"m just finishing up a cgi breen ship for a guy, then my time is totaly free again!

ANND

Monday, May 19, 2003 9:13 PM (P)

Check out the thread "blueprint conundrum" there's quite a bit of talk about layouts etc.

Ann

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Monday, May 19, 2003 9:43 PM (P)

The "Blueprint Conundrum..." seemed to deal primarily with the interior of Serenity and this one with the exterior.

MONICA

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:33 AM (P)

What I have been doing is to go through the entire series and the movie, doing stills on my computer of the various angles of the ship. In the Special Features on Disc Four of the series, It has a piece called "Serenity, the 10th Character." They do a full screem side-view, blueprint line drawing, which adds to the info I'm gathering.

The ship is 190 feet in length, so one can figure the other diomentions from there. Takes a bit of geometry and trig to work it out, but one could get all the dimentions to build a rather accurate model, if one has that skill.

One could build it using styrene and acrylic plastic parts sold it a good hobby store. Lights can be installed in the appropiate and it would be very easy to have a rotating disc that's seen in the front of the engine section. It's very easy, but will be time consuming and could be expensive, depending on what features you want to add, such as retracting landing pads, a cargo door that opens and shuts, and rear engine panels that will open. Gears, motors and everything you'de need is in a hobby store and Radio Shack. It will be a rather fun project.

Monica
(Inora's great, great, great, great grandmother)

CITIZEN

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:37 PM (P)

DARKLIGHTER9

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:15 PM (P)

I found this, hope it helps (should do, looks bitching) has high def cgi pics of bottom, top, side, front and back veiws of the shpi we all know and love, plus cut away interior maps of side and plan view, both decks. Sadly no dimentions but this is probably the next best thing to blueprints

http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/FireflyTransport

Hope it helps!

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MYCROFTXXX

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:15 PM (P)

I seem to recall there is a discussion thread somewhere that covered the development of a Lightwave generated model of the ship. It even had intermediate pix of its development. I'm a relatively new user in this discussion board and haven't mastered the search feature to find it (I have it bookmarked but on a different machine).

I, too, am interested in getting my hands on a model of this specifically for developing a physical model of the ship. I use Bentley's MicroStation product to read the model geometry. There are Lightwave to 3DS converters so my plan is to "beg" for the model and, using a cool built-in MicroStation feature, generate several accurate cross sections of the model and essentially build ribs like an RC airplane wing or fuselage (I've built my share of these). Skinning the skeleton could be tricky but not impossible. The best thing is I can build it to any scale I want using this technique (hmmm, how's 1 meter sound?)

As an alternative to this method but one that limits its size is to create the proper geometry needed to go out for development into a rapid prototype model (aka stereo lithography)then using a tried and true modeling technique generate a hollow resin model of the results. A little airbrushing including simulation of the wear and tear on the ship and I'll have a nice model to hang in my Sci-Fi themed media room.

Of course, the biggest problem is carving out enough time in my schedule to do all this...

CLJOHNSTON108

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:16 AM (P)

Y'know, there's a truly amazing FREE spaceflight simulator called ORBITER...
http://www.orbitersim.com
...which has more realistic physics (and is more expansive) than anything I've seen available commercially!

A talented individual named Jon Marcure has been creating vessels from popular science fiction.

"Serenity" update continued BIG pictures
http://orbit.m6.net/v2/read.asp?id=27546

He accidentally deleted the directory with his WIP shots, so his images don't start until page 8.

Fortunately, I saved a couple of the early ones...

His earlier version, an "Ought 2" called the "Freefall", is in the background.

He's even created a smaller variant, called the "Sport Model"...

SERAPHANT

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:53 AM (P)

just sent you an email with a good top and side view

NEVERED

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:59 AM (P)

does anyone know what that little room under the bridge is for?

you can see the door leading to it in any episode (out of gas sticks out in my mind, the scene where wash is introduced, when mal and zoe talk in the hall you can see the door clear as day because of the lighting)

as far as i can tell, they never use that room.

originally, i just thought it led to the lower part of the bridge, where the commentaries say the lounge used to be, but the side-view blueprints make it look as if it's its own room. with windows?

CITIZEN

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:56 AM (P)

My 3D Studio Max (untextured) model can be found here.
http://www.twisted-imaginings.com/Share/Serenity%20v3%20GR21.zip

You can use it however you wish, just give me credit and I wouldn't mind seeing what you do with it.

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SERAPHANT

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:15 PM (P)

if anyone else is interested here are the images I sent:

FLYWITHMECAPTN

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:08 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Darklighter9:
I found this, hope it helps (should do, looks bitching) has high def cgi pics of bottom, top, side, front and back veiws of the shpi we all know and love, plus cut away interior maps of side and plan view, both decks. Sadly no dimentions but this is probably the next best thing to blueprints

http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/FireflyTransport

Hope it helps!

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"its clear that the only way around this is to stick my fingers in my ears, close my eyes and sing the firefly theme very loudly" a friend of mine talking about a cirtain scene in the BDM

This site is great. Thank you for posting it. I love the views. Side, top, bottom, etc. They are excellent!!

Don't forget to call him "Sir." He likes that.

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:12 PM (P)

The little room under the cockpit? It's used for ... well, it's actually to give the cameramen somewhere to stand, but it can also be used as a place for Wash or River to get some downtime while the ship's on autopilot :)

MYCROFTXXX

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:05 PM (P)

Yeah, that room is called "Ten-Forward" right? In one of the commentaries in the Firefly DVD set (War Stories I believe) it was mentioned that in the early stages of the show there was a couch down there but that was changed to a bunch of shipping containers. Pity, I kinda liked the idea of a sleeper couch for that special married couple to play in when everyone's asleep. Could've made for some interesting escapades had the show continued!