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See video for rendertimes.

This was actually an experiment to determine how fast a scene like this would take to set up. Ship was generated at random here http://ship.shapewright.com/?name=bfl... (the text i used is in the url, thus the model is the same) Then imported the WRL into a Cycles build of Blender. The (single) texture was then smart-UV-projected onto the mesh, and I selected a few parts that looked like they could glow, and applied emit materials for Cycles. The compositing is fairly basic for a deep space scene.. a few glare nodes, and a Lens Distort for grain/chromatic aberration. DOF was done automatically in the Cycles camera settings. The stars are created by a large plane emitting particles (linked to an Icosphere at the lowest subdivision setting, with a high emit value) in a direction parallel to it's normal. The ship isn't actually moving at all, as I wanted to be able to animate the camera with a parented empty.

At any rate, I'm happy with how it turned out. Working time was only 5-10min total, including adding the anamorphic flares/text in AE. Cycles ran incredibly well. I sense a fleet of random ships is coming soon...

NOTE: it's not Cardassian, obviously.. being randomly generated and all, but it looks like something they might use. Or the Klingons, for that matter.
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EDIT: here's the texture used, all rights go to the original creator.
http://davidsstuffandbits.blogspot.co...