Satisfaction...

Ahh... it's nice to have accomplished something, even though few people around me have any appreciation for it. I finished this last night for an illustration for my science fair project (though the illustration is actually an interactive display of the model and doesn't look nearly as nice because of the lower quality of a real-time render). Sorry about the funky perspective, but I had to widen the camera's focal length because I wanted to show off my little rigging job there. x) I know NOTHING about rigging a ship or anything so it was completely guesswork. But, in my opinion, it looks reasonable enough to pass for plausible. =P I suppose I'm banking on the hope that nobody scrutinizing my project knows much about ships or else they'd know that the purpose of the bowsprit (the spire protruding off the bow) is to secure the jib sails, and in this picture (and my model) it isn't connected to anything, thus: it is pointless and only adds useless weight to the ship for small aesthetic gain.