The Yeerk Pool Ship Animation
The Yeerk Pool Ship, from the Animorphs books by K.A. Applegate. I created this in Maya as a final project for my 3D art class. From Animorphs book 53, The Answer: It was as big as a sports arena. It moved slowly, cumbersome in atmosphere. It was designed for space, not, like the Bug fighters, to be comfortable in air. The Pool ship looked like a fat, swollen, three-legged spider. I'd seen it before, up in orbit, high above planet Earth. The Pool ship: home of the Yeerk invasion force, base of the Bug fighters. It was a space-going Yeerk pool, well-defended, dangerous, but essentially a portable barracks, a giant mess hall that served up hearty doses of Kandrona rays, the sustenance that a Yeerk must have every three days or die. The Bug fighters rose to greet their mother, swarming around the Pool ship, bristling, daring anyone to attack. The Pool ship waddled down out of the sky, shouldering through the clouds. And gently, delicately, ever-so-tentatively, it rested its bulk on terra firma.
Just for comparison’s sake, here is a screencap of the animator’s version of the ship:
and here is a screencap of art for the ship from the animorphs journal (sort of canon because it’s based on ‘official’ schematics):
