Firefly Serenity (Unfinished) Fan Art

April 09, 2013
1,841 Downloads
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Blender 2.6x
Render: Blender Internal
Creator: Trager
License: CC-BY-SA

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Description:

This is something I started WAY back in 2008-2009 in 2.49 when I was really first learning how to model. I took it upon myself to try and recreate this fine, shiny vessel from a famous online tutorial done by a gentleman named Treybor over on the Lightwave forums (I don't believe you can find the material for the tutorial online any longer, but Google it for more details).

The final version of this is lost to The Black, unfortunately, as the file became unreadable somehow. This is the closest version I could reconstruct from those older versions into a 2.6 .blend file. I am planning on a new version of this beauty with Blender 2.6 and the new modeling tools available. I will be releasing a finalized version of this in the near future, hopefully recovering the missing elements (landing legs, shuttles, CRUDE interior) or quickly remodeling them for a finished Serenity. Until then, I've been "Badger"ed to release this, so I shall, under CC (CC-BY-SA of course, I spent literally a year of my life on this thing, so hey... credit). If used, you must credit the model to me, or if modified and/or re-distributed under CC-BY-SA, original credit for the model to yours truly.

The file contains the ship as you see it in the image(s). 2.5 million verts, about 2 million faces, so you need some power for this. The ship components are on seperate layers, and I'm not sure if I set and labeled a naming convention for the individual objects. Feel free to texture, modify and use the model, it does constitute "fan art," it is not an exact duplicate of Serenity, but it is big-damn-heroes close. So don't push it by trying to use it for anything "commercial" where you and I would end up getting sued by FOX, Ok? In fact I'd like to see what some ol' fashioned Browncoat will do with this, if you'd like to share your images with me for a compilation, I'll include my contact info in the .zip archive.

Contact:

Blender Artists Forum

Trager

(Update: Cleaned up and ordered the layers, object names and parented everything so it is less confusing, anyway)

spaceship ship tv sci fi Serenity Firefly

Comments:

poifox

The Firefly series is so old that I'm sure this model has more verts than the original models they used in the show lol.

I'm a big Firefly fan, great job and thanks for the share :D

Edited April 10, 2013
Trager

You may be right LOL. Even the movie version was pretty low poly. My pleasure to share with my fellow BlendHeads!

Edited April 10, 2013
ChrisKuhn

Wow, I must be getting old... I totally remember when that show came out:) But good chance you're right about the polycount. My understanding is they had a less-than-stellar budget to work with, even back then.

Edited April 13, 2013
Dracio

This is a wondefull Model and I real beaty

can`t wayt fore more

Written April 12, 2013
ChrisKuhn

Huge Firefly fan, and that's gorgeous.

Edited April 13, 2013
Trager

That is very much appreciated, I've seen your work, so that is a compliment to be sure!

Edited April 14, 2013
ChrisKuhn

Thanks... I actually tried to do this back in the day... but I got really frustrated with it:) Even with good blueprints, it was driving me nuts. But looking at this now... I feel inspired to re-attempt it:)

Edited April 14, 2013
Dubock

I cant even fathom how detailed this model is, Its brilliant

Edited May 16, 2013
Akira_san

Thank you.

Edited June 13, 2013
Trager

My pleasure, it was a labor of love.

Written July 26, 2013
killerfirefly

Firefly has always been my most favorite TV show of all time. Many times I have considered trying to recreate Serenity, but get lost when trying to find descent blueprints. Have you considered trying to do the inside with as much detail as the outside?

Written July 02, 2013
Trager

Absolutely, I'm reworking the missing pieces of the ship now - landing legs, interior, and shuttles. The old interior wasn't as detailed as the exterior, but I plan on expanding that to an accurate "set-worthy" interior of her too. It takes a looooooongggg time, but the new modelling tools means I don't have to all of it by hand this time.

Written July 26, 2013
Trager

I don't think there are any "official" blueprints anywhere, but I have a pretty extensive stash of orthogonal shots from ZOIC (who did the original and movie versions).

Written July 26, 2013
ChrisKuhn

You've inspired me... my version is currently under construction here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.525624987525630.1073741863.345392525548878&type=1

(I'm doing the TV version for mine, rather than the movie)

Written October 19, 2013
RelishRelisher

it is saying the file is invalid for me...

Written September 04, 2014
btbaker

Awesome! Will you be texturing this?

Written April 29, 2015
justinmichelson

great model!! i loved that show and am just getting into 3d modeling this is going to help me so much! now, off to rip this thing to pieces and then see if i can put it back together!

Written April 12, 2016
VectorMaximus

Looks like someone aims to misbehave.... lol

Written May 20, 2016
mikala

A beauty!

Written April 11, 2019
JohnMarchant

Great model and ive been looking for a detailed Serenity. Did you ever get around to finishing her and texturing her.

Written May 12, 2019
DOugl

Just started learning GUI CAD from years of coding with OpenSCAD and wanted to learn Blender and found your model. Amazing work @Trager. And super thanks for sharing!

Written May 29, 2021