Reign of Fury – Blender Short Film Production Blog

Drakkar Longship WIP

Thought I would share what I’ve been working on lately. This is a test render of the current state of the first longship that I’m building for ROF. It was built using plans from a recreation of the Gokstad boat, so the dimensions are pretty accurate. The hull is a smooth mesh with the wood detail coming from an image texture. For me it’s not detailed enough because the real longships were made using the clinker style of planking, which leaves the bottom edge of each plank sticking out. I tried some tests with the array modifier and curve modifiers, and it came close, but it did not give me the accuracy need when bringing the planks into the front and back of the hull. So, now I’m going to rebuild the ship using actual mesh planks for each plank in the hull. I’m going to use a different reference model sheet, so we’ll see how the next one turns out. So for now, ignore the colours and textures, they’re just for testing. I should have just rendered and AO image and posted that, but I’ve already changed the model, so too late now.