Creating "The Ship"

The main point of this film is that there is a giant ship floating above the city.. now to get this effect.. we need... well a giant ship..

I will be making this ship within adobe maya, not going too overboard with the design of it since i need to keep it simple,


Adobe maya is a 3d modelling tool which allows you to create 3d models these can then be textured and used for a viaity of things e.g. films, pictures, 3d movies etc etc,
We start off with an empty scene as you can see above, we then create a simple shape, and add things too it to create a model, either extruding the sides of the shape, adding new faces on it, smoothing it, its basically like working with modelling clay in that your only limit is your own creativity. After a while you can end up with a ship.. which looks something like this..


We then render this image and export it as a "png" file, this cuts out the background and leaves only the ship, making it easier to add into an image, once this is done we import the ship image into adobe after effects and add it on the layer above the video we want it to be placed in