U.S.S Essex CV-9

heya people, im back again with another render and i must say im pretty proud of this one. my main goal when i started this project was to try to create a ship as ive never done that before but the project quickly turned into something bigger and i ended up with this. The project is essentially 2 parts; the still pictures where i tried to make it look like a model of the ship were sitting in a study area of an old house. for the water i had a plane with a dynamic paint wave and had the ship start outside the plane and follow a path. this way the waves were a lot more realistic, as if i were to have the ship start on the plane it would create unnatural waves.

in the second part i took a plane with a ocean modifier and used instancing to create the whole ocean, this way it was alot less resource intensive than just copying them inside the ocean modifier. i do see some issues with the animation that i would like to address, particularly at the end, but im tired of rendering and i have other things to do so that will have to come at a later date

in total ive probably spent close to 7 hours every day for the past 2 weeks on this project and the render time alone was 35 hours to complete.