Art of any form, regarding spaceships. Post your favorites, there’s an old thread from '15 about favorite spaceship designs, but we’re a bit long overdue for another of these threads.
Starting with the obvious ones(corvette is best, fight me):
a lot of times people design ships without critical reasoning and basic understanding of physics, hence wings and rudders on capital ships in the vaccum of space.
infinity and homeworld are two games which have largely eschewed this stupid and cliche design trope for more functional looking ships, and they look better for it.
another thing that annoys me is perfect symmetry on capital ships. on something that large with consideration for space utilization? and a lot of times, there’s so many pointless projections and panels that look like the ship was designed by a 10 year old. on large ships you need greebling, not huge slaps jutting out everywhere. i mean this is fucking garbage:
I’d have to go with StarCraft 2’s Hyperion Battlecruiser as my favorite as it is similar in style of an Ur-Quan Dreadnought from Star Control and has a lot of directional thrusters:
Riiight, the space yacht with turrets protected from the outside world by giant recurved metal walls.
The previous one (original version), had at least a solid utilitarian, men, not-completely-stupid aesthetic that did a good job at illustrating its faction
Too bad the newer teams never had any inkling of what had made design, story or even characters interesting in the first ones, and went instead for pure Hollywood blockbuster filler material instead.