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Halcyon
United States
Приєднався 22 січ 2017
Set in the expansive reaches of a distant future, Halcyon unfolds the saga of a starship as it ventures into the unexplored corners of the universe. Driven by a mission to explore, discover, and understand the vast cosmos, the crew encounters alien civilizations, mysterious phenomena, and the outer limits of scientific understanding. Each episode weaves together thrilling adventures with complex scientific and philosophical dilemmas, showcasing the profound mysteries of the universe. Halcyon invites viewers to join in these extraordinary journeys, exploring the deep mysteries of existence through the eyes of its uniquely diverse characters, and to ponder what it means to seek knowledge in a universe that continually expands.
Starship Concept 004
Since Halcyon is the fastest ship in the fleet, it needs to look the part.
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Shields up! Forcefield Impacts Test
Переглядів 5357 годин тому
I've always preferred bubble forcefields over the hull tight ones. It just seems more dramatic. I've also always thought that forcefields should distort and ripple when hit, and not just dissipate the energy. This was a surprisingly frustrating and tedious effect as it's really many effects wrapped into one. I spent 3 hours debugging before I finally discovered that two cache files needed to be...
Real-time Spoken Translation for Bioluminescent Language
Переглядів 82914 годин тому
How would a crew member who lacks vocal cords and natively uses bioluminescence communicate and interact with the crew? Short of a wireless brain to brain interface, one would think the crew member may need to wear a device that translates the rhythmic pulses of light into spoken language. Depending on if the crew member can hear or not, the device may also need to generate light pulses to tran...
Red Alert! All Hands to Battle Stations!
Переглядів 45119 годин тому
I set it up so that with a single slider I can transition everything on the bridge into full red alert mode. This includes the lighting and parts of the actual halcyon operating system. I have also been working on decluttering the screens and refining the graphics. I also lengthened the bridge some and spread things out a bit more as it was rightly pointed out that it was a little cramped at th...
Uniform Update
Переглядів 166День тому
Since we can't have everyone running around in a one piece jumpsuit, each uniform can be accessorized, and augmented, with matching vests and jackets. These added garments can provide additional power and functions to the standard base uniform. The boots have also been standardized, at least for humanoids. No belts or holsters are needed as weapons and other devices will attach directly to the ...
All Characters Update - Halcyon Bridge Crew
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Here is the latest for all five character concepts so far. Most of them have had some change since last seen. Biggest change is to the non-humanoid lieutenant. I didn't want him to be obviously a "slug person." The two stalked character is back with some modifications to his body and face. I'm thinking he may make a good tactical officer. Some of the rigs are incomplete and most do not have any...
Female Alien Lieutenant Concept
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Looks like catsuit is back on the menu boys! Joking aside, I was able to do a fairly quick turnaround on this character because of the high quality base meshes available on the blender website. I will probably be redoing the captain using one of the male base meshes. Background on Dr. Shira: Dr. Lyra Shira, a Xenthari xenoanthropologist and first contact specialist, hails from the technological...
Non-Humanoid Lieutenant Concept
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Lieutenant Xylar was fun to model but a pain to rig! Good thing about a standardized uniform is that it saves a lot of time detailing the model since there's no need to texture what is under the uniform. So in order to create a new officer, all I need is a basic body shape, a detailed character bust and hands. Since the character is non-humanoid, I actually have to design a chair for them to si...
Captain Concept 002
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Here is the newest alien captain concept. It took about three days to get to this point. The previous concept with the long eye stalks was kind of dumb looking. We can't have a main character looking like a cross between jar jar binks and The Tick! Maybe I will use him as a background character at some point. I need 4 characters total for the first episode. I am not sure if I will use a human a...
Halcyon Bridge Update
Переглядів 2,1 тис.Місяць тому
A great deal of work has been done on the bridge since you last saw it. All of the display screens, that's over a dozen on the bridge alone, now have their own corresponding blend files for motion graphics. This will allow me to animate the screens and use them for close-ups. You may have also noticed the ceiling is gone. I never did like the ceiling textures and since this bridge is located de...
Commander Ouro
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Commander Ouro is an embodied superintelligent AI that is also second in command of the ship. She interacts with the environment using force fields and other technological means. She can usually be found docked to her dedicated station located on the bridge. Improvements from the previous animation to show the commander is the voice audio visualizer has been changed to be less "eye of sauron" l...
Force Field Assisted EVA Mode
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Here you can see the minimalist uniform design and force field assisted EVA mode tech concept. Uniforms in the Halcyon universe are extremely advanced with built-in portable force field generators, life support, sensors, and a sophisticated communications system. Effect created in geometry nodes and parented to bones along with the skin and uniform so everything moves with the character.
Alien Captain Concept 001
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This alien captain concept is the first organic creature i've designed, modeled and animated from the ground up. It took about three days to get to this point. The texture is partially see through so we can see organelles inside him. Right now the texture is procedural, but I would like to hand paint some spots to make him look more evolved. The lip sync was manually keyframed so it may not be ...
Starship Engine FTL Effect
Переглядів 3,3 тис.2 місяці тому
Made some improvements to the nacelles and added a traveling glow effect for when the ship is at FTL. More improvements to the textures. I think i'm at a decent stopping point for the exterior now. Back to the bridge!
I have often thought of a bridge in that concept, to see it actually done is amazing!
You might want to consider the windows. Unless they are massive compared to a person, there isnt going to be very much internal space
or you can make a ship that looked different while still keep in tradition profile, but have some difference in features that will let it looked fast. Like, extreme obvious (long) nacelles...
Nice but prefer concept 3
I prefer the one in video titled FTL effect. Concept 3 is too Star Trek, this one with the middle nacelle is a little too much engine
really really like it but without the red constant moving lights. Overkill IMO but man the design is sweet.
This is really impressive work!
That bridge concept is gorgeous! Truly sublime.
Launch reading from enemy, incoming torpedoes!
this has a bit of an elite dangerous feel to it.. like if lakon had a type 11 or some kind of high end multicrew ship
It kinda resembles the shield effect on the Whitestar in Babylon 5
I love the ripples! Makes me think that a large enough hit could indent the shield bubble far in enough to expose the hull. And now I'm curious as to how the enemy ship(s) might look!
I like how we see the energy of the projectile diffusing on the shield ! Bravo, excellent work!!
This is awesome. But bro. Make it Loooooonger
Great work...I hope paramount didn't sue you or something for the Trek similarities.
this is absolutely wonderful, keep up the great work!
Be proud of FTL traveling.
At first i thought this was the most random video ever but then again i always have thoughts like these lol
Cool
is that a future game? is it on kickstarter or something like that?
Right now it’s going to be a series of short story animations. But all assets are created game ready so if there’s interest in a game, perhaps so. There is a Patreon, but I’m waiting to get a couple dozen videos and the first episode before I promote it.
hi mr z :>
Mr. Z looking real zesty
Real
Sleek design - like a major upgrade to the Voyager class.
holy see
Hey Mr Z :)
Oh gosh, was that my suggestion? If it is, I'm really honoured to have helped! This truly does look amazing! Having those borders on the UI change colour to indicate the alert is inspired. I especially like how it looks on the sloped vertical parts of the curved console behind the captain's chair.
Yep, pretty sure that was you. Thanks for the input! This project actually started out as a shuttle+ sized craft in Unreal Engine and has undergone several expansions as the scope increased. The ship has gotten big enough to where now i'm actually back to the position where I need to design a shuttle. Doh!
@@HalcyonUniverse Sooner or later, the shuttle will end up so large as well that it too will need a shuttle! It's shuttles all the way down! From a ship design standpoint, you're coming at it from a direction I really appreciate; you've started with a small ship and are only increasing its size as much as is necessary. That seems realistic to me. I can imagine the in-universe ship designers taking that exact same approach.
the little pricks of light on the "Nacelles" are odd touch but nice.
I thought it was too busy at first, but pivoted when I considered that it's a small bridge. And yet it's still very clean looking. Overall, I like it. The things I don't care for are the bezel trim lighting, but it's not too that bad I guess. And the console behind the Captain... That works well with a ship like a Galaxy class because of the multi-level, but this is just someone hovering within less than a meter of the Captain... It's just too close... Otherwise, I quite like it. No lights in your face. Simple. Not needlesslessy oversized. The helm and conn are elegant. I even don't mind the insanely large main viewer (or is it a window?).
Very nice!
I wonder, for the sake of lore: Is this an unique ship and crew or they are part of some organization like in Star Trek with the Federation?
Halcyon is one ship in a huge fleet that is part of an Intergalactic Union that spans hundreds of galaxies. Specifically, Halcyon is from a class of cutting edge ships designed for rapid response to emergent situations that require immediate attention, such as scientific phenomena, distress signals, and potential threats to the union.
I like to think that this is an alien species who found our star trek show and they liked it so much that they decided to base their society on it ad try to recreate it with their own superior technology.
By the way i like the uniforms and the different species that look different but at the same time share the style, which is good and i like it
Wow - looking good :)
oh boy...... mind blown....
p.s. all internal walls should be this way as well as the ships exterior.... how long before you can have the full ships walkthru done.....😅
looks like a natural progression of the dauntless class.
Very impressive. This looks so cool and pretty believable. I thought it might be a clip from some Star Trek project that I had not seen yet.
this is what the 32nd century starship bridges should have looked like.
Now that is the future. Love this bridge design.
I like this design; honestly I feel like this design kind of leans more into my point in the other video; where the need for diversifying the alien species list; I think this female officer being her own species completely unique from the Captain (since the latest design hints more at a similar motif to this one) can subtly but not so intrusively; expand the universe of this world you are building.
Amazing!
I'm completely blown away by this. I want more!
I actually preferred the old Captain design because it gave off Golden/Silver age comics design influences, I never saw him like what you suggested in the description to be honest.
I think it's going to be really hard to nail down the captain. I have a few other concepts I want to try and I now have four eye stalks on one of the lieutenants, so I can't go too crazy with eye stalks. We will see. Everything is in flux right now. Thanks for subscribing!
@@HalcyonUniverse Anytime, from one person hoping to make their own sci-fi series to another; I wish you the best here. But I do understand the need to diversify alien designs and avoid the usual Star Trek style of “Human with ridges on face and maybe a different skin color” approach especially with the freedoms of CGI; but I feel with some texture updates and maybe a different mouth; the old design easily could have been worked on to be made even better I feel. Maybe even lean more into the snail like qualities of his design more; give him a snail-like mouth that speaks in a low like tremor like tone that has a delayed auto-translater/transcriber with an english language of sorts. Something that makes him a cross with your original design while adding something new.
This is beautiful
What class of ship is the halycon?
The Halcyon is a Sojourn class starship.
Slug species ❤
Nice to know it's not a window.
Wow!
That awesome that is what star trek Discovery should look like
I thought it was really cool! However, I have a certain admiration for the ships with the disc session and engineering being a little more well defined. I think it's one of the ships with the most beautiful integrated sections that exist (even more than the Constitution and Galaxy class) from the Sovereign and Odyssey-class line. What do you think about creating something with this concept I mentioned, combining these cool modernities of this ship in the video? 🖖🏻😉👍🏻
This is how I imagine a bridge from the 32nd century.
No they have shown star ship's from that time and this ship has only a couple of things about it that star fleet ships have!!!
Nice.