I really like this design. The original TIE fighter is one of the simplest yet ominous looking designs I have ever seen. Your design looks more "armored", but not cluttered. It reminds me of a sea ray or manta. With some changes, the asymmetrical design lends itself to the HR Geiger bio-mechanical like style like the "Derelict" from the original ALIEN movie.
You could call this the TIE Mynock! I really love this design, it looks like the logical progression of the TIE fighter series. I'd love to see more of your work!
disney is sleeping on your work. Your designs have infinitely more Star Wars spirit than anything they put out in the sequel trilogy. (Not counting the mandalorian. Razorcrest design is goated.~)
Beautiful ship, would have loved to see a novel design like this in the films. It manages to still feel like a tie fighter without just regurgitating the classic TIE bubble and weird wings designs that are some common. It feels functional, and has that "WWII in space vibe" that's so classic to Star Wars. That "attack pose" like the hawk or bat really reminds me of an interview I saw talking about the design of the Klingon Bird of Prey for Star Trek 4, with the forward swept wings. The designer described how they wanted the ship to feel aggressive, and to look both like a swooping eagle and a body builder flexing muscles. It made me realize that model design IS character design, and that a model's mood can communicate a great deal to the audience.
What I get from this is a few things: 1. The smooth lines on the fuselage tapering back from the front and the offset cockpit remind me a lot of the Cylon Heavy Raider from the 2003 series, which I always found to be a uniquely cool, almost art-deco looking craft and totally different from the normal Cylon raider. 2. The gun pod off the side and dedicated generator behind it spells for me "ship killer". This is the imperial version of an A-10. A ship built around a heavy weapon meant to rip open hardened targets. 3. The word that leapt into my mind upon seeing it was "TIE Corsair". I realize the F4U Corsair was just a carrier-based plane with folding wings, but I always thought its W-wing arrangement looked powerful and aggressive compared to average WWII planes. And the word Corsair refers to pirates, but a ship like this might be used to DEAL with pirates. Like, big pirate ship like we just saw in Skeleton Crew comes along? This thing pops it like an egg in the microwave.
While Disney SW designs are boring and plagiarized from the OG trilogy, this fine gentleman brings us a completely new but cool design which exudes SW essence
Oh, wow. This is perfect. It's a mastery of visual languages. Even the places where you take a risk and veer off accepted Imperial aesthetic really pay off (such as the corrugated back or the cylindrically curved surfaces... whereas an OG imperial ship is usually triangles and flat surfaces).
The thing i've noticed about starwars ships is that the hero ships are mostly all asimmetrical (Han's Millenium Falcon, Hera's b wing, Greez's mantis, starkiller's ship, the onyx cinder), while the villain ships are all simmetric; Maul's Scimitar, Dooku's Sailer, Vader's TIE Advanced, Kylo's TIE silencer, even Palpatine's Lambda T-4a. There are some exceptions, like Luke's x-wing, but they're there for characters whom you're supposed to doubt what side they're on. Also, every heavier than a regular TIE fighter (fighters, interceptors) TIE, other than the first bombers, uses more than just two engines. Vader's uses four, TIE shuttles and bombers use four in 2-2 configuration, the phantom and the defender had three, the TIE Echelon uses twin clusters of 3 ion engines. So why not use a Twin ion thrust arrays, like the one on the silencer, or reaper or the scimitar?
@@Wohren_Oss I love that analysis. Very cool. I think two thrusters look gopd on this design, and I could argue that the “ion exhausts” are quite a bit larger on this than the regular ties. But cool observations none the less. Thanks fpr sharing
Reminds me of something similar to the old Sith fighters especially in the Dark Empire II comics which it has dead Tie pilot aces' brains as its cyborg pilot. There's also Old Republic/Onderon fighters too.
Good day Technouveau, a beautiful piece of Star Wars inspired art. It's a spaceship concept I find particularly captivating and interesting telling its own great story. Very pleasing aesthetics. Thank you for sharing this special creation- Best wishes from the Cape of Good Hope peninsula South Africa //\/\\ //\/\\
In my opinion there is nothing better than the Tie Interceptor. But your Version is still great and way better than many of the official new additions to the SW-Franchise.
I always love seeing your work! The ZT-800 is stellar and seeing it and this TIE make me wish the sequels were more daring with ship designs instead of baiting nostalgia. I really love how the aft section is similar to the TIE Silencer a (imo the peak TIE) and TIE Advanced. I wanted more iterative ships like this than whats effectively the difference between a honda civic from 2001 and 2016
From what I heard the TIE fighters were originally intended to be a blue shade but there were issues with keying out the bluescreen in ANH so they were made gray. In Empire and Jedi they hade switched to greenscreens and where thus able to go with the original idea. Fun fact, apparently the A-wing was supposed to be green (hence green squadron) but was repainted red because of keying issues with the greenscreen. I don't particularly mind the blue but I much prefer the gray versions. Matches the Star Destroyers and the stark, monolithic design language of the empire better.
Id love to see a single seater arc-170 varient where the center & rear pilots is no longer needed due to advancements in automation process the rear turret is operated by the astromech etc
Amazing design! My brain won’t let me ignore the question of pilot visibility with the radiator fins so far forward of the cockpit, but that problem exists in almost all TIE designs anyway right? Anyway: very authentic design true to the originals! It fits perfectly into the universe in my opinion and I wouldn’t doubt it for a second if I saw it in some Disney+ series or movie.
any fighter in history with snubbed barrels on the weapons usually failed the snubbed look came from the weapons being mostly inside the wings or fuselage. the tradeoffs for snub barrels were crippled ballistics. the cannons in the wings section give off more powerful vibes than the punny gun in the side section which looks like it could be the Star Wars equivalent to a minigun that replaced the two laser cannons the original tie fighter had.
I think it would be logical if the big cannon was a variation of what you can find in the turbo laser towers, and the round thing behind it could be the turbine (that's what "turbo" most often refers to in real life engineering).
At first glance I did not like that Tie fighter at all, but the more I look at it the better it looks. That assymetry and the tank hatch looking reactor/cyclotron looking detail is top notch. Chonky boys are the best, A-10 P-47, Corsair etc. When you attack craft looks like a fist you've done something right.
Love your videos and your design! On your website I subscribed to your newsletter to receive the free 3d model but never got a download link, how do I access it?
Your Heavy TIE is an excellent design that fits easily and seamlessly in the "Star Wars" universe, as far as its aesthetics go. As a sidebar, I can see your inspiration from the P-47 Thunderbolt. But to my mind, the standard TIE Ln always suggested the MiG-17 by the way it was used by the Empire. That said, how would your Heavy TIE be used on Star Destroyers and Imperial Space Stations with infrastructure designed around the standard TIE Ln or Interceptor? Since these ships are serviced and stored hanging from standard cycling racks; would these existing racks be able to accommodate your much wider design (even if the wings are able to fold inward for storage) without extensive modification? Here I'm assuming that the upper section of wings is shorter so as not to cover where the fighter docks with the racks when folded after 'landing'/recovery. I'm also assuming that TIE variants like the Boarding Craft, Bomber, Brute - and especially Darth Vader's Advanced X1 - are all serviced and stored in separate, bespoke landing bays on Star Destroyers and Space Stations like the Death Star. Again, your design is great, but would probably be limited to planetary defense bases or newer model carrier craft in the current "Star Wars" context - as would Grand Admiral Thrawn's TIE Defender. Thanks for sharing your imagination with us! 478th Like.
@@modelermark172 Thanks :) I love your take on the basic TIE being like a Mig-17. Good call. I haven’t considered deployment and servicing at all. I’ll let the engineering team sort that out, but modified TIE bomber bays would make sense to me.
@@technouveau_art Just to be sure I understand you correctly, your Heavy TIE "scratch build" is a computer-data model; not a tangible, plastic model 3D printed to a standard scale like 1/72nd or 1/48th that you built and can hold in your hands. It's hard for me to tell as your model is weathered in a VERY realistic manner. Please let me know if your model is physically on your display shelf, or data in your computer . . . . As an aside, I think the chipped paint you noted on the TIE/LN studio model at 5:30 was deliberate weathering by the model shop added for a more candid, realistic appearance - not damage from years of storage. It was this "lived-in look" that added a lot to the believability of the "Star Wars" universe. As for the various colors of canonical TIE/Ln's and Interceptors, this could be explained as variations in paint quality control, depending on where the spaceframes were built, as well as how the paint weathered depending on where the ships operated - another nod to realism. I'm a bit older than you are - I saw "Star Wars" when it was new in theaters several times, and waited in long lines, and all - and I build models from plastic kits since I was six. (This is probably why I associated the Sienar Fleet Systems' TIE/Ln with Soviet MiGs.) I remember the first "Star Wars" model kits from MPC in 1978 released my Senior Year of High School. I was very happy to have them, but disappointed in MPC's decision to make them in a "Box Scale," rather than a standard scale. (I would have thought Box Scale went out with Poodle Skirts and carhops on roller skates.) I'll check out your other modeling projects in the near future. Subscribed.
From the practical standpoint, the wings shouldn't bent outwards. It makes this design wider than it needs to be. Also none of the canon designs have their wings bent outwards either. And there's nothing wrong with the design being asymmetrical per se, but it needs to be visually balanced. That power coupler thing you talk about should be bigger to visually balance the cockpit.
The only thing I don't like about it are the asymmetrical wings, the upper surfaces should mirror the lower, something that all other TIE designs share.
for me the initial tie fighter is like an "all seeing eye", the eye of the emperor which you can't escape, with blinders on side like on horse to make them avoid seeing larger so they can focus and be mastered by the cavalier. thats the TIE fighter, a blind soldier of a superpowered empire designed to hunt you down. your design here is reaaaaally cool, the shapes are amazing. But: with time, tie fighter types we see, like vador's tie, the bomber one, and the interceptor one, have that one thing in common, their blinders are hiding even more than usual whats on the sides of the ship. your design is the opposite, with its wing set outward look like more "open", which doesnt fit with the overall imperial feel of cultural blindness and servitude. i have another question: how much time you need for the render you showed at the beginning of the video? and what is needed in term of graphic cards, cpu and ram needed to not wait a year until the final rendered frame?^^
I think the interceptor with its wing cutouts has a hard time fitting into the "blinder" aesthetic you've described. I agree, it's a big part of the TIE's design, but I don't think it's entirely necessary. Regardless, these wings still manage to retain the "blind spots," and manage to give this TIE a shape that's more distinct than most TIE variations. There's also a barely visible background TIE in RotJ called the TIE command shuttle that uses a similar double hull and outward sloping wing configuration, but this manages to be a huge upgrade IMO, with more attitude and a greater sense of purpose. Why'd you ever get on a TIE shuttle when the Lambda class exists?
On another note, I think the tie fighters were initially supposed to be blue but that did not work with the blue screen they were using at the time so they went with gray.
These are totally unreal ships, however, they should have an implicit design logic. It should seem as if physics, engineering, and strategy/tactics inform a design. TIE fighters with silly wings pointing in every imaginable direction completely undermine any sense of design logic. It looks like an X-Wing with a bit of the asymmetry of other designs (e.g., the Falcon). We're wayyyyyy past "peak TIE-wing kit-bashing."
@@technouveau_art I think the design itself is nice (it is aesthetically pleasing), but it is an example of design without a design-logic. TIE fighters must have panels. Why? Who knows? It's space-wizards. But the more randomly those panels are placed, the more the illusion that there is a design logic in the background evaporates. Not a criticism of the ship, per se, but of the genre in which it partakes (i.e., TIE kit-bashing). The ship itself is cool.
You got it all backwards bud. Top wings should come in not out. Cockpit should be central or on left side. Tail portion should be thicker and more squared. Imperial ships are not organic. Fail to me in my humble opinion.
@@BrianSmith-ql5nj I like your take that Imperial designs should not be organic. Do you they should remain geometrac and not have an animalistic character? Obvz I disagree on the rest :)
I do not agree this fit to the iconic SW ships - the shape must be clear and unique: X >°< = X-Wing, H |o| (o) = Tie Fighter, Q O^ = Falcon, V = Star-Destroyer, O = Death Star ... the different angles of views of these ships change but do not lose an(other) unique appearance to identify the ship type.
Ladies and gentlemen, the creator of one of the coolest Star Wars ships has returned!
@willyaleksanderwiksaas9561 Haha thanks
Not picking a winner for that title but check out EC Henry
Love the idea of folding the wings outward like on the Defender and giving it a shape reminiscent of a manta ray.
That tie fighter design is awesome. The top view of the tie fight looks like a bat flying lol.
@@juliojreyes6234 Thx. I talk about it in the video too ;)
@technouveau_art yeah you said it that it looks like a bat right after I wrote it lol.
I really like this design. The original TIE fighter is one of the simplest yet ominous looking designs I have ever seen. Your design looks more "armored", but not cluttered. It reminds me of a sea ray or manta.
With some changes, the asymmetrical design lends itself to the HR Geiger bio-mechanical like style like the "Derelict" from the original ALIEN movie.
@@marcoscaba3846 :)
You could call this the TIE Mynock! I really love this design, it looks like the logical progression of the TIE fighter series. I'd love to see more of your work!
@@maxbrandt6 Mynock. Haha, yeah
Your iterations are excellent, on point, all the time
@@I.Am.Nobody thank you
disney is sleeping on your work. Your designs have infinitely more Star Wars spirit than anything they put out in the sequel trilogy. (Not counting the mandalorian. Razorcrest design is goated.~)
@@hraefn1821 I’m glad you like it
You do good work man. I hope this channel gets the popularity it deserves.
@@guradem6133
That is the coolest TIE I have ever seen!
I think this design is simply Brilliant!!! Great Job!!!!😊
@@carrolbrooks2143 Thanks :)
Absolutely love the design, great work!
Beautiful ship, would have loved to see a novel design like this in the films. It manages to still feel like a tie fighter without just regurgitating the classic TIE bubble and weird wings designs that are some common. It feels functional, and has that "WWII in space vibe" that's so classic to Star Wars. That "attack pose" like the hawk or bat really reminds me of an interview I saw talking about the design of the Klingon Bird of Prey for Star Trek 4, with the forward swept wings. The designer described how they wanted the ship to feel aggressive, and to look both like a swooping eagle and a body builder flexing muscles. It made me realize that model design IS character design, and that a model's mood can communicate a great deal to the audience.
@@DarthCool99 Absolutely!! Thanks :)
You had me at twin ion engines. ❤️
What I get from this is a few things:
1. The smooth lines on the fuselage tapering back from the front and the offset cockpit remind me a lot of the Cylon Heavy Raider from the 2003 series, which I always found to be a uniquely cool, almost art-deco looking craft and totally different from the normal Cylon raider.
2. The gun pod off the side and dedicated generator behind it spells for me "ship killer". This is the imperial version of an A-10. A ship built around a heavy weapon meant to rip open hardened targets.
3. The word that leapt into my mind upon seeing it was "TIE Corsair". I realize the F4U Corsair was just a carrier-based plane with folding wings, but I always thought its W-wing arrangement looked powerful and aggressive compared to average WWII planes. And the word Corsair refers to pirates, but a ship like this might be used to DEAL with pirates. Like, big pirate ship like we just saw in Skeleton Crew comes along? This thing pops it like an egg in the microwave.
@@autocon2002 Yeah absolutely. 2: 100 pct. Hence the P-47 Thunderbolt reference :)
Awesome design, I always love ship designs!
Love this design
@@Tigrillo :)
Thank you for the inspiration, and for showing your design journey 👍
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While Disney SW designs are boring and plagiarized from the OG trilogy, this fine gentleman brings us a completely new but cool design which exudes SW essence
Oh, wow. This is perfect. It's a mastery of visual languages.
Even the places where you take a risk and veer off accepted Imperial aesthetic really pay off (such as the corrugated back or the cylindrically curved surfaces... whereas an OG imperial ship is usually triangles and flat surfaces).
This is a really good ship, well done my Nordic brother 🇸🇪
@@ispbrotherwolf
The thing i've noticed about starwars ships is that the hero ships are mostly all asimmetrical (Han's Millenium Falcon, Hera's b wing, Greez's mantis, starkiller's ship, the onyx cinder), while the villain ships are all simmetric; Maul's Scimitar, Dooku's Sailer, Vader's TIE Advanced, Kylo's TIE silencer, even Palpatine's Lambda T-4a. There are some exceptions, like Luke's x-wing, but they're there for characters whom you're supposed to doubt what side they're on.
Also, every heavier than a regular TIE fighter (fighters, interceptors) TIE, other than the first bombers, uses more than just two engines. Vader's uses four, TIE shuttles and bombers use four in 2-2 configuration, the phantom and the defender had three, the TIE Echelon uses twin clusters of 3 ion engines. So why not use a Twin ion thrust arrays, like the one on the silencer, or reaper or the scimitar?
@@Wohren_Oss I love that analysis. Very cool. I think two thrusters look gopd on this design, and I could argue that the “ion exhausts” are quite a bit larger on this than the regular ties. But cool observations none the less. Thanks fpr sharing
Reminds me of something similar to the old Sith fighters especially in the Dark Empire II comics which it has dead Tie pilot aces' brains as its cyborg pilot. There's also Old Republic/Onderon fighters too.
Thanks for sharing and explaining your process. Gets my creative juices going 🍻
@@BearyCoolGaming76 Great. That’s the intention
Good day Technouveau, a beautiful piece of Star Wars inspired art. It's a spaceship concept I find particularly captivating and interesting telling its own great story. Very pleasing aesthetics. Thank you for sharing this special creation- Best wishes from the Cape of Good Hope peninsula South Africa
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@@matthewmillaisgray Thank you. Best wishes to you too.
I like that birdlike shape
@@SimonJacquin Thanks :)
In my opinion there is nothing better than the Tie Interceptor. But your Version is still great and way better than many of the official new additions to the SW-Franchise.
I always love seeing your work! The ZT-800 is stellar and seeing it and this TIE make me wish the sequels were more daring with ship designs instead of baiting nostalgia. I really love how the aft section is similar to the TIE Silencer a (imo the peak TIE) and TIE Advanced. I wanted more iterative ships like this than whats effectively the difference between a honda civic from 2001 and 2016
@@tomdeneen4880 Glad you like it
This thing might even look TOO good.
@@scambroselauntrellus3681 ;)
From what I heard the TIE fighters were originally intended to be a blue shade but there were issues with keying out the bluescreen in ANH so they were made gray. In Empire and Jedi they hade switched to greenscreens and where thus able to go with the original idea. Fun fact, apparently the A-wing was supposed to be green (hence green squadron) but was repainted red because of keying issues with the greenscreen.
I don't particularly mind the blue but I much prefer the gray versions. Matches the Star Destroyers and the stark, monolithic design language of the empire better.
@@DarthFolo makes sense
i would love to see one without the side cannon and more symmetrical. This should have been what the First Order used instead of pallet swapped TIEs
NEVER NOT ASSYMMETRICAL ;)
Id love to see a single seater arc-170 varient where the center & rear pilots is no longer needed due to advancements in automation process the rear turret is operated by the astromech etc
Not a fan of the Arc, sry.
Decent design.
wow asombroso que genial diseño :D
I always think the bluish grey color comes from the WW2 Gray paint germans they used on their tanks (panzer grey)
Amazing design! My brain won’t let me ignore the question of pilot visibility with the radiator fins so far forward of the cockpit, but that problem exists in almost all TIE designs anyway right?
Anyway: very authentic design true to the originals! It fits perfectly into the universe in my opinion and I wouldn’t doubt it for a second if I saw it in some Disney+ series or movie.
I remember when first seeing this one years ago that the front reminded me a lot of the radiators on a Mosquito.
@@YIIMM Yyeeeah
any fighter in history with snubbed barrels on the weapons usually failed the snubbed look came from the weapons being mostly inside the wings or fuselage. the tradeoffs for snub barrels were crippled ballistics.
the cannons in the wings section give off more powerful vibes than the punny gun in the side section which looks like it could be the Star Wars equivalent to a minigun that replaced the two laser cannons the original tie fighter had.
@@herosupport1606 Good point. I should make a Lancer variant with a massive barrel. Could look fun
The LEGO Community got the awnser for you, dark metallic greyish blue is the color of a tie fighter
@@JanoschNr1 Haha, nice. The LEGO community always have the answer
Would be neat to have this as a TIE bomber replacement in the sequels, instead of just repainting the original
@HalNordmann Glad you like it :)
I think it would be logical if the big cannon was a variation of what you can find in the turbo laser towers, and the round thing behind it could be the turbine (that's what "turbo" most often refers to in real life engineering).
Yeah
At first glance I did not like that Tie fighter at all, but the more I look at it the better it looks.
That assymetry and the tank hatch looking reactor/cyclotron looking detail is top notch.
Chonky boys are the best, A-10 P-47, Corsair etc. When you attack craft looks like a fist you've done something right.
@@apathtrampledbydeer8446 Haha great. This is like hardcore jazz, then. Grows on you ;)
This makes me want to play Space Engineers...
Makes me wonder... Does this sidepod hold a mono barrel turbolaser canon ?
@@SimonJacquin Something like that :)
Battleship Assault Tie. BAT
it remind me of the henschel hs 129
Love your videos and your design! On your website I subscribed to your newsletter to receive the free 3d model but never got a download link, how do I access it?
It should be at the bottom on the email message, as a link
Or perhaps batlike ?
@@SimonJacquin Indeed. Watch the videp ;)
Your Heavy TIE is an excellent design that fits easily and seamlessly in the "Star Wars" universe, as far as its aesthetics go. As a sidebar, I can see your inspiration from the P-47 Thunderbolt. But to my mind, the standard TIE Ln always suggested the MiG-17 by the way it was used by the Empire.
That said, how would your Heavy TIE be used on Star Destroyers and Imperial Space Stations with infrastructure designed around the standard TIE Ln or Interceptor? Since these ships are serviced and stored hanging from standard cycling racks; would these existing racks be able to accommodate your much wider design (even if the wings are able to fold inward for storage) without extensive modification? Here I'm assuming that the upper section of wings is shorter so as not to cover where the fighter docks with the racks when folded after 'landing'/recovery.
I'm also assuming that TIE variants like the Boarding Craft, Bomber, Brute - and especially Darth Vader's Advanced X1 - are all serviced and stored in separate, bespoke landing bays on Star Destroyers and Space Stations like the Death Star.
Again, your design is great, but would probably be limited to planetary defense bases or newer model carrier craft in the current "Star Wars" context - as would Grand Admiral Thrawn's TIE Defender.
Thanks for sharing your imagination with us!
478th Like.
@@modelermark172 Thanks :) I love your take on the basic TIE being like a Mig-17. Good call. I haven’t considered deployment and servicing at all. I’ll let the engineering team sort that out, but modified TIE bomber bays would make sense to me.
@@technouveau_art Just to be sure I understand you correctly, your Heavy TIE "scratch build" is a computer-data model; not a tangible, plastic model 3D printed to a standard scale like 1/72nd or 1/48th that you built and can hold in your hands. It's hard for me to tell as your model is weathered in a VERY realistic manner. Please let me know if your model is physically on your display shelf, or data in your computer . . . .
As an aside, I think the chipped paint you noted on the TIE/LN studio model at 5:30 was deliberate weathering by the model shop added for a more candid, realistic appearance - not damage from years of storage. It was this "lived-in look" that added a lot to the believability of the "Star Wars" universe. As for the various colors of canonical TIE/Ln's and Interceptors, this could be explained as variations in paint quality control, depending on where the spaceframes were built, as well as how the paint weathered depending on where the ships operated - another nod to realism.
I'm a bit older than you are - I saw "Star Wars" when it was new in theaters several times, and waited in long lines, and all - and I build models from plastic kits since I was six. (This is probably why I associated the Sienar Fleet Systems' TIE/Ln with Soviet MiGs.) I remember the first "Star Wars" model kits from MPC in 1978 released my Senior Year of High School. I was very happy to have them, but disappointed in MPC's decision to make them in a "Box Scale," rather than a standard scale. (I would have thought Box Scale went out with Poodle Skirts and carhops on roller skates.)
I'll check out your other modeling projects in the near future.
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From the practical standpoint, the wings shouldn't bent outwards. It makes this design wider than it needs to be. Also none of the canon designs have their wings bent outwards either.
And there's nothing wrong with the design being asymmetrical per se, but it needs to be visually balanced. That power coupler thing you talk about should be bigger to visually balance the cockpit.
@@Jan_Strzelecki Thanks for sharing your take. I obviously don’t agree. But all good :)
The only thing I don't like about it are the asymmetrical wings, the upper surfaces should mirror the lower, something that all other TIE designs share.
I think this shape is key to giving it a pird of prey attack stance, so I disagree.
for me the initial tie fighter is like an "all seeing eye", the eye of the emperor which you can't escape, with blinders on side like on horse to make them avoid seeing larger so they can focus and be mastered by the cavalier. thats the TIE fighter, a blind soldier of a superpowered empire designed to hunt you down. your design here is reaaaaally cool, the shapes are amazing. But: with time, tie fighter types we see, like vador's tie, the bomber one, and the interceptor one, have that one thing in common, their blinders are hiding even more than usual whats on the sides of the ship. your design is the opposite, with its wing set outward look like more "open", which doesnt fit with the overall imperial feel of cultural blindness and servitude.
i have another question: how much time you need for the render you showed at the beginning of the video? and what is needed in term of graphic cards, cpu and ram needed to not wait a year until the final rendered frame?^^
I LOVE your analysis. Nice! I have a 4090 and render that turntable in 30 mins
FLYING EYEBALLS!! Haha. Oh, so good, man. I'm having a good time with this.
@ plus the noise of the tie, its like a monster sreeching at you no?
I think the interceptor with its wing cutouts has a hard time fitting into the "blinder" aesthetic you've described. I agree, it's a big part of the TIE's design, but I don't think it's entirely necessary. Regardless, these wings still manage to retain the "blind spots," and manage to give this TIE a shape that's more distinct than most TIE variations. There's also a barely visible background TIE in RotJ called the TIE command shuttle that uses a similar double hull and outward sloping wing configuration, but this manages to be a huge upgrade IMO, with more attitude and a greater sense of purpose. Why'd you ever get on a TIE shuttle when the Lambda class exists?
@@DarthCool99 when? plz tell me!!! i want to see it!^^
My head just wants to center the crew pod and add another gun pod on the other side.
@@seanrea550 Booh, too boring ;)
Diffrent taste. I like my symmetry where possible.
On another note, I think the tie fighters were initially supposed to be blue but that did not work with the blue screen they were using at the time so they went with gray.
Looks mean and hungry! Like a Panther. Would not want to be on the receiving end of it's wrath.
@@RETOKSQUID :)
Ilove the model but if u could put centerd it would be more pleasureable thank ❤ but who am i a noob but i wanted to share have a grreate day
@TKB-u5r Thx. I love asymmetry
if X-wing Mini's wasn;t being murdered, I'd love to mkae some fan cards for this.
@@SoloWing88 Murdered?
@@technouveau_art AMG is shutting down Xwing and Armada despite their poularity and them having the license
first impression? opening clip shows a flock of bats
@@kazoosc yup
These are totally unreal ships, however, they should have an implicit design logic. It should seem as if physics, engineering, and strategy/tactics inform a design. TIE fighters with silly wings pointing in every imaginable direction completely undermine any sense of design logic. It looks like an X-Wing with a bit of the asymmetry of other designs (e.g., the Falcon). We're wayyyyyy past "peak TIE-wing kit-bashing."
@@ryanclark4674 You think it’s doing too much, this one?
@@technouveau_art I think the design itself is nice (it is aesthetically pleasing), but it is an example of design without a design-logic. TIE fighters must have panels. Why? Who knows? It's space-wizards. But the more randomly those panels are placed, the more the illusion that there is a design logic in the background evaporates. Not a criticism of the ship, per se, but of the genre in which it partakes (i.e., TIE kit-bashing). The ship itself is cool.
You got it all backwards bud. Top wings should come in not out. Cockpit should be central or on left side. Tail portion should be thicker and more squared. Imperial ships are not organic. Fail to me in my humble opinion.
@@BrianSmith-ql5nj I like your take that Imperial designs should not be organic. Do you they should remain geometrac and not have an animalistic character? Obvz I disagree on the rest :)
9:30 lol
wings look too small compared to the bomber and normal tie fighter IMO.
@@dwwolf4636 Fair point
I do not agree this fit to the iconic SW ships - the shape must be clear and unique: X >°< = X-Wing, H |o| (o) = Tie Fighter, Q O^ = Falcon, V = Star-Destroyer, O = Death Star ... the different angles of views of these ships change but do not lose an(other) unique appearance to identify the ship type.
Not simple enough, eh?
The feel is it's going the wrong way. The wings are in the wrong place, wrong shape and size.
@@wayneclayton5426 I disagree. But thanks for sharing your opinion :)
Agreed, but I like the symbolism: when this thing shows up, everything is going to go wrong.
Meh … I like EC Henry designs better 🤷♂️
@@thomasthemtman Good thing he has a whole channel for you :)
Looks like a bat