Making a Spaceship in Cinema4D

In this project I was asked to make a plane.

So Instead I wanted to make something more difficult and REALLY challenge myself and make a spaceship. Below I will show you a step by step on how I made this spaceship shown below.

Starting with the basics I had to make the base of the spaceship so I used a cube and used a tool called extrude. This allowed me to stretch and add other cubes to the cube allowing me to edit the other shapes in time if I wish to.

After using the extrude tool a few times and shaping it to how I wanted it by using the scaling tool and rotating how I wanted the wings to go and how thin I wanted the wings or the base I was then left with a plane/spaceship shape as shown below.

After I was then happy with the base of the Ship I then added a HYBER NURB. This allowed me to make my ship smooth and have a futuristic looking effect and not a blocky retro tank. As you can see in the picture below you will then see me editing adding a windshield on the ship and tinting it yellow. This was made by adding a cube, Hyper Nurb and re sizing it to make a oval looking shape. I then went to the Material Tab and clicked colour and selected yellow and also creating a reflection by also clicking the reflection tab and lowering the brightness slightly. When I was happy with these settings I then applied it to the ship shown in the picture below.

After I made the Base and the windshield I then added lights/flares to the edges of the wings to make it look like jet engines. I did this by clicking on the light tab as shown in the picture below and positioned it where I wanted it.

The next step I then made a background. How I did this was by going to the Material tab again and applying it as a background. As shown below.

Finally after applying the background I decided to go beyond the idea of just making a spaceship to boost my grade I decided to add rocket pods to my spaceship in fine detail I created this by adding a cylinder and used the selection tool to highlight the circle on the top of the cylinder and cut it out. I then added other cylinders and placed them into the pod and added cone tips onto the cylinders creating a rocket pop. The picture below will show you the rockets.