I took the time to write up another wee lil article about how I design and create the panels on my Akira class variant for my Eager & Excited patrons. www.patreon.com/posts/150530... #akira #heroakira #7ftakira #ilm #b3d #blender #modeling #wip #concept #startrek #firstcontact #fanart #bts

Tons of more details, polish, animation, fixes, and lighting work on this Star Trek shot, I'm now really happy with it! Movin on to the next. :D

Currently in the process of planning all the panels and details. #akira #startrek #firstcontact #ilm #7ftakira #ilmheroakira #enterprise-e #sovereign #blender #b3d #modeling

I'm not big on tutorials, so I made a blender file with 10 stages of my Akira class modeling process available on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/downlo... #akira #startrek #firstcontact #ilm #7ftakira #ilmheroakira #enterprise-e #sovereign #blender #b3d #modeling #conceptart

I owe you a retopology.

In order to be able to afford an RTX 5090 I only need 1700 more Patrons. #ahwell

My boiling hot take: all of TOS actually looks like TMP (Klingons always had ridges, and the Enterprise always looked like the TMP refit).

Howie Day, professional miracle man.

Alrighty - my final update on this shot for now! Tons of revisions and fixes, as well as new Music SFX and VO. Added the welders welding, a few more work bees, the Arges in the background, and some changes to the lighting angle. 4K in the 🧵! I hope everyone likes it!

I wrote up a little article of my current work on the Akira class for my eager & excited patrons. www.patreon.com/posts/148269...

I also managed to merge the back of the primary hull into the saucer smoothly. It looked weird when I left it months ago. #akira #startrek #firstcontact #ilm #7ftakira #ilmheroakira #enterprise-e #sovereign #fanart #b3d #modeling #conceptart

I haven't looked at the #akira for some time. Yesterday I began tackling the transition of my idea of the deflector area into the saucer section. #llap #startrek #firstcontact #ilm #7ftakira #ilmheroakira #enterprise-e #sovereign #fanart #b3d #blender #modeling #wip

Alrighty - update on this shot! Tons of revisions and fixes, as well as new music SFX and VO. I'm hopeful everyone likes it. :) I did forget to add the welding VFX, though - and the VO is AI and will be replaced with actual Voice Actor work in the final.

@6to12elbow.bsky.social Hi. I am a freelance illustrator and loather of AI art (as it has always said in my profile). I never knowingly repost AI crap yet I am on your AI Horseshit list. Respectfully, you have made a mistake and it is damaging to me. Please remove me. Thank you.

USS Bolden model in the Shmork Co VFX model shop, 2019. Ship modeled in Blender All other assets from BlenderKit Post process in Adobe Lightroom #blender3d #3dmodeling #scifi #startrek #adobelightroom #vfx

For the past 6 years I've been saying "This is the year I'll finish my novel". So, listen up: This is the year I'll finish my novel. #ptbd #wip #amwriting #amprocrastinating #writesky #writingcommunity #novel #scifi #debut

The Niimiipuu patches up battle damage after the battle with the Romulan warbirds. There's still some floaty-ness to one of the characters walk cycle that I need to fix, and I still need to tweak some of the workbee animation, as well as adding welding animations to the hull plate repairs.

Preview playblast of all the modifications, re-timing to be longer and more elegant, and additions to that Post-Battle repairs animation! Repaired hull panels, workers welding, and workbees! I'm doing a low-sample preview render now.

Every now and then I do find the time to sketch. Would love to improve in 2026.

"You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy."

It's not Christmas until the sewer explodes.

Latest archive update ready * Annotated blueprints * Blueprints * Concept Art * Physical models * Lots of Costumes * LCARS * Games and more... Full changelog and direct links to each new item/section : www.trekbbs.com/threads/set-...

Is this bit necessary? It's a novel, honey, not the instruction manual to a Hotpoint washing machine. None of this baroque, decadent project is necessary. I'm just driving donuts in a dictionary

The outline of my original #debut first-time #scifi #novel that I #amwriting tells me it's gonna have 55 chapters. My first two revised chapters tell me they are 6500 words each. Oops. #writesky #writingcommunity #wip #draft #ptbd

So as I'm healing, I'm getting the creative spark back - here's a shot from after the battle, with some wonderful EVA suits by Robert Rose! This is totally WIP, low-sample, and missing SFX. I'm gonna add workbees and repaired panels!

Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. youtu.be/nCs4gdt-mPY?...

Henceforth, until the actual title is revealed, all posts refering to my #scifi #novel #wip will be tagged with #ptbd, as in #preparetobedisappointed

I had a HUGE plot hole in the premise of the original #scifi #novel I #amwriting. To fix it, I introduce an equally huge scifi concept that would be worthy its own story, but eventually it's just two lines of dialogue. Haha. The joys of writing. #writesky #writingcommunity #wip #draft #ptbd

It's funny they pulled it before release. It's probably for the better. I heard crazy rumors about the script, like there's yet another Death Star, but bigger, Luke doesn't appear until the very end and doesn't say a word, or Han is murdered by his own son. LOL, that would have been awful, right?!

Seems I picked a hell of a time trying to write and publish original fiction. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #writerbeware

Received them in the mail yesterday, an early Christmas present. Very cool stuff. A wee bit of insight into the process, followed by nothing but exquisite sketches.

Ol' Pen & Ink from the archives. (1985)

The holiday shopping time is upon us, and maybe a dual dose of sketchbooks would be a gift for your scifi loving friend or family member? Check them out here: www.amazon.com/Neil-Blevins... and www.amazon.com/Neil-Blevins...

Another incremental WIP step in the ongoing damage experiments. Everything here is kind of low res and doesn't hold up under close scrutiny, but it's pretty neat. The explosion is an embergen-made image sequence on a 2D plane intersecting the ship, but the damage shader having a 3d radius sells it.

You know they *could* have done the same trailer with scenes from TNG superimposed on the Enterprise-D for Picard Season 3, but what do I know?

Every day I have a different opinion about sharing my original #scifi #novel #wip draft while I #amwriting it. Should I sprinkle fragments of chapters here and there, or should I sit quietly until it's completed? What's your recommendation, #writesky, #writers, and #writingcommunity?

I've always loved this particular Briar Patch matte painting they used in Insurrection. Those pockets of free space between dense columns of gas. I want to try to put a version of this as the background of my gas giant environment. Hopefully I can pull it off.

I've just uploaded the final epub and kindle files of Frostfeld The Mourning Son to the Amazon, Google books, and draft-to-digital platforms. Now all that is left is to work on my illustrations and formatting for the paperback edition of being released a month hence. Just a little while longer..

More #DS9 Redefined work from S2E13 on show for you, enjoy.

Alright, this is my first ever #WIPSnips, so please bear with me.

Does anybody who's deeply involved in #startrek lore know where the famous nebulae (Eagle Nebula, Carina Nebula, ...) are located in relation to Federation and Cardassian space? Asking for a friend.

Establishing shot time! youtu.be/en8TsgnMuzg Get an exclusive sneak into my creative process by supporting me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/wip-ma... #wip #previz #animation #b3d #blender #fanart #tng #dominion #enterprise #cardassian #battle #action #goals #conceptart #scifi #patreon

Roughly a minute later, the Enterprise-E (model by IRML) warps into the scene.

Here is also a render of my #StarWars AT-ST lit by a forest hdri from polyhaven. Rendered in #Blender3D #fanart

And no actual writing was involved. All in my head while doing other stuff.

I have been working on a writing idea for a very long time and have just realized i had the wrong character as the protagonist all this time.

While I wait for it to be a bit warmer (and dry!) so I can paint the Jetpack, I’m finally back to paint the Ra Headdress I started in Jan. Just the base coat and some bronze green down and then can go in for touchups and fine detail work #stargate #3Dprinted

An exclusive update about a super early version of the opening shot of my animation, for all those folks that are too eager & excited to wait. www.patreon.com/posts/144037...

How it started, how it's going. #b3d