pickled
get rid of the blue paint (make it gray)? it gives me a starcraft ship vibe, hence a game look. just an impression.
That is part because of the environment map, I could play around with desaturating the enviroment map though.
Midphase
I don't think it's a ship's texture as much as lack of small detail. Right now it feels a bit like a toy. I would say add some micro-details, things that would give the viewer a better sense of the scale. Also, the speed of the approach betrays the size a bit, I would slow it down a bit. Then again I don't know what the scale is supposed to be.
I totally agree with this, I'll play around with it and see what happens.
Thank you so much for commenting on it, I want to get better at this and I couldn't really pinpoint what the problem was. We all need outside help sometimes
Vincent Griffith