Sky Ship

My entry for the Sky Ship Challenge from CGBoost.com. Everything is modeled, textured and rendered in Blender, the clouds are made with the Cloud Generator add-on. I started with modeling the base of the ship,
then I concentrated on creating the clouds, which took most of the time. After I was done I continued modeling the ship and creating the materials for it, I also created a personal pirate flag by taking a real pirate flag and drawing over it. After that I sculpted the dolphin figurehead, a tribute to a real dolphin I saw swimming in my city's harbor a couple of days ago. I had some troublein finding the right mood for the scene and a nice background but in the end I decided to go with the moon, which Ithink creates a nice contrastwith the darker colors of the ship. After Iwasdone rendering the finale scene I used Photoshop to adjust one of the waves next to the ship which was too squared.