I'm an intermediate at modeling, and a novice at everything else. I was going to smooth my model, but then I decided that that rubber-like shine wouldn't be on wood. Anyways, Here's my entry:
It took me about 7 hours to make the model. Its modeled after Queen Anne's Revenge, and has a lot of details that are missing or quite different from the real ship. As for texturing I don't think I'll get to that. As you can well imagine it would be hard to texture this model. I didn't include sails, flags, or ropes because I thought this is, after all, a wood based competition. I could add the stuff mentioned, but then I would have to texture, and the UV mapping would kill me
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Edit: Oh and if anyone's curios the model consists of 3492 quad and triangle polies, and if I converted them all to triangles than it would be 6004 triangular polys. I hope I took no one's idea, I was just thinking of wooden objects and then I noticed the "Pirates" book I had and it so happened to have 10 drawings of pirate ships, along with a detailed picture of Queen Anne's Revenge, outer and interior, labled, so I couldn't resist making it
. If I did accidently take someone's idea, then I wouldn't have a problem making another model and changing this post, I mean, there are many things made of wood in our world.
EDIT EDIT: Ok, I have my backup idea. And this one I might actually texture
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