look how cute it is! with it's little wheels and all the....dirty. i love it! two thumbs up matty.

Friends will help u move. Good friends will help u move the body

Shiny!

Awe, it's just so damn pretty!

It's just so, so... purty!

Is it wrong that the ship is totally going to be the star of the show? I think she shows the rest of us up! :)

Wow, nice stuff Matt as always..and I like what you're doing with the background, so it doesn't look like the location as much :D

I was having my doubts about the look of the ship, but in context it looks great. Does Samsara have any weapons?

wow the special effects are coming out amazing!!!!!
Great Job!!!!!!!!
Rob kuhlman

"Earth-that-was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system - dozens of planets and hundreds of moons."

great job indeed.

I'm so impressed! Beautiful ship!

Hey, is that my back yard?? ;)

Candy~ who lives in Langley...

lovely lovely shot. high quality. beautiful

Really nice shot! Samsara is a real looker from almost every angle, it seems. Good job matching the lighting. What are you using for compositing?

"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak!"

I like her. Although I didn't like the top-down shots at first, seeing her in a final render in the field makes her look very pretty. I'm guessing that her height is a little less than Serenity's (judging by the nose gear, if that's comparable to a 747's)

The twin-boom tail looks very cool, judging by her looks she might be a bit faster than Serenity and a bit more maneuverable, and possibly from a later era. Hsve you already worked out some motion effects? I'm guessing by the fact that she's got a nose gear that you might be planning to do a few runway landings (unlike Serenity, which had legs, and was VTOL only), I can really imagine a good taxiing scene for Samsara across a hugely overcrowed spaceport somewhere on Ariel.

Samsara is quite a bit smaller than Serenity, and certainly more maneuverable, and you're right, she's a bit newer as well.

Samsara is fully VTOL capable, and that's fairly standard procedure for her. But you never know when you're gonna have to make some kind of crazy emergency landing :)

Aviation wise speaking, a vertical take off takes tremendous amounts of engine power (and thus wastes lots of precious fuel). Although it looks a lot cooler on film when taking off from a desert area... but making a very crowded sky with landing lights and aircraft lights flashing all over the place is also a challenge, especially a night scene.

Note: I'm going to utterly fail to explain how much I like this picture, but try to anyway.

This picture is so genuine and so simple that it looks like a vacation photo. I expect to see a caption that reads "We parked the ship in a grassy field. The weather was great." It's so perfect in a care free sort of way that it looks like the crew went a picnicking and snapped off the shot just 'cause. I don't know why, but this shot alone makes me want to build a C-314-D to scale in my yard, just to do it.