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New Blackbird looks amazing

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Bam Stroker
The Graduates
The Initiative.
#1 - 2014-11-15 18:30:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Bam Stroker
I really like the new model. At first I was taken aback by its radical shape but then I spent some time really looking at it closely and thinking about its role and I decided it looks like a ship that would do the kind of thing that a Blackbird is supposed to do.

It's a triumph of utility over aesthetics which fits the Caldari ideology really well. To represent this CCP previously would have made some random, asymmetric nightmare (like the current Blackbird or the old Moa or Scorpion) but this design suggests a much deeper consideration of how a ship's role would influence its appearance; at least as far as the Caldari are concerned.

I really appreciate this approach and hope you keep doing it when you're looking at remodeling hulls in the future.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#2 - 2014-11-15 20:54:16 UTC
I love that it twitches all the time, frankly it looks like an agitated poisonous insect or crustacean,
not something would like to put my hand anywhere near.

Can't wait for the animations too be finished.
really good job with that ship , I particularly like that it's retained some of its asymmetry.

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Elisk Skyforge
State War Academy
#3 - 2014-11-15 21:34:47 UTC
The design team has done a great job with these and the previous remodels, the number of details on the ship is just amazing, and it's also asymmetry done right!
The bird-like remodel approach for Caldari ships that they announced in Fanfest is a smart move and I hope they continue with this, and that they include an appropriate remodeling scheme for other factions' ships too.
marVLs
#4 - 2014-11-15 22:03:43 UTC
It's just awesome, so modern and realistic, i really like the way eve is going with those new models
Alstevar Eastern
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-11-15 22:37:43 UTC
It can be better with the center less on the top like the Scorpion ship.

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Lloyd Roses
Artificial Memories
#6 - 2014-11-16 10:43:10 UTC
Did anyone actually notice how the hulls from blackbird/falcon/rook each got their own distinctive details? Like that right upwards-fin, it's simple for the blackbird, round and massive for the falcon, and cornered again for the rook. Love that.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#7 - 2014-11-18 03:34:18 UTC
I'm not sure if its just the textures or what but i love the look of the rook/blackbird but i can't stand the falcon

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ISD Alliance
#8 - 2014-11-18 20:32:19 UTC
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#9 - 2014-11-21 14:15:44 UTC
The top part of the model just seems too busy, like a but of random angles tossed on top of each other, interfering with each others shading etc. And the two forward turrets on top are both angled to the middle oddly.
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#10 - 2014-11-21 15:41:15 UTC
Awesome model indeed Big smile

But the texture... eeh, I hope that they aren't finished, because they are waaay too low res.

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Ellie Frog
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2014-11-21 16:42:51 UTC
Post some screens, please. Smile
Leonard Nimoy II
Doomheim
#12 - 2014-11-22 01:40:45 UTC
Ellie Frog wrote:
Post some screens, please. Smile


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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#13 - 2014-11-22 06:09:24 UTC
it looks like a mechanized insect you have to kill quickly or it runs away or causes trouble. Very fitting model IMO - i really like it.

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