Threw some of the same smart materials on those unfinished legs just to see it looking a little more complete, and possibly complete enough to be used as a promo render for that SC2 mod I contribute to.

What the hell is so hard about this? You put the old school gun barrel at the beginning and open to a man in a three piece suit putting flowers next to a gravestone that says "Teresa 'Tracy' Bond". #problemsolved

It always starts with the most rough and terrible blocking of shots where nothing fits. The final will be ~3 minutes of starship pew pew to Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack. #wip #previz #animation #b3d #blender #fanart #tng #dominion #enterprise #cardassian #battle #action #goals #conceptart #scifi

Enough with the warp jumps. #llap #action #b3d #phaser #galor #cardassians #enterprise #tng #battle #fanart #3dart #startrek #ds9 #dominion

Stats for fun: setting up the animation in blender took 28.5 hours, and rendering 445 multilayered frames (including all iterations) at 4K in Cycles GPU and After Effects required 27.59 kilowatt hours of electricity.

A new animation just went live (1080p on Youtube, 4K on Patreon). Thanks to all my Patreon supporters and to Lewis Niven who lets me use his magnificent Galaxy class model. youtu.be/O6IiLERQby0 #llap #startrek #enterprise #galaxy #warp #warpspeed #b3d #blender #spacedock #3dart #fanart #animation

The #WIP is progressing. Another 20 hours of rendering left to do. See the WIP preview exclusively on Patreon. Supporters receive a credit at the end of the video, as well as exclusive access to the 4K 16:9 full frame version. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-ga...

I've been uncertain about the use of #holograms in my #scifi #novel #wip that I #amwriting, as they are impossible to create in real life (sorry), so I went for a system that projects them into the character's eyes. Pat myself on the back for it. And then I read this sentence in my draft. Silly me.

I work two jobs. My wife just lost hers. We could use help. 🧡

Ah damn, I haven't reached that part in my story draft yet.

Every once in a while I daydream about timetraveling to 2010, release a Star Wars fanfic with the exact same plot as The Force Awakens, and see Disney not do it because the entire internet says "what the hell, the the most stupid fanfic I ever read".

I have to thank the President for working hard to create a world in which renowned critics will consider my #wip #novel a "terrifyingly realistic scenario", boosting the sales like thousands of nukes detonated all around the world.

I published the Enterprise Leaves Spacedock animation to Youtube exactly 3 years ago. To celebrate 1.3 million views, 30K likes and 5K comments, I'm now making the high bitrate 4K fullframe video available on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/141833...

Can't make that up.

I always hoped they'd one day make a AAA Stargate game that blended the grandeur and production design from the movie with the entertaining atmosphere and storylines from the TV show(s).

Random find on an external harddrive. Renders I made in 2010 that kinda sparked the idea for that animation.

WIP

That's how I operate as well, haha.

On my journey of learning modeling in #blender, I stumbled over these awesome #modeling #addons. kushiro.gumroad.com #b3d #plugins #imdoingmypart

Further messing. My concept would add a separation line between the saucer and the engineering section. Added additional struts to the vertical nacelle to make it appear more stable, as well as a smooth transition into the back of the neck. Underlying model still by the magnificent Lewis Niven.

I'd kinda like this angle.

Further fooling around. The rough idea is that the third nacelle pylon is much thinner and smoothly integrated into the already existing torpedo tube "bump" on the back. Ent-D mesh by Lewis Niven.

I've been experimenting with the idea of a streamlined 6-footer All Good Things Enterprise. What if the parts were not tacked on but properly added? Already received strong headwind on this, haha. #tng #agt #galaxyx #enterprise #b3d #alternate

Another update of my #WIP and a little #tutorial how to achieve the warp effect is available on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-tu... #b3d #blender #llap #enterprise-d #allgoodthings #tng #startrek #animation

Eager & excited patrons can see the state of my current #WIP here: www.patreon.com/posts/wip-al... If you're neither eager nor excited to see WIP updates, that's okay. The final version will be posted in 1080p on Youtube, and in all it's 4K glory on my wee lil Patreon. #llap #b3d #spacedock #entd

Looks like I'm onto something here. #wip

Schrödingers LightWave version.

That's gotta dirty up their precious training data.

THE WHOLE REASON I WANT TO PAY YOU MONEY IS TO GET A HIGH QUALITY PRODUCT CREATED BY A PROFESSIONAL. I don't have time or the ability to make it myself. If I wanted the slop machine to slop up my project with its shitty slop, I know where to go, and it'd be cheaper than buying from you!!

It's making your asset marketplace 1000 times worse if I have to fucking click on the "NO AI" button EVERY SEARCH and then that still doesn't filter out people who don't self tag their asset, EVEN IF THEY MENTION IN THE DESCRIPTION IT WAS AI GENERATED.

Creative Market, Adobe Stock, and every stock site should prohibit the resale of AI-generated imagery and ban people who are caught trying to sell AI-generated assets. If I wanted to use that kind of garbage in my project I would make it myself. Their ONLY advantage is a guarantee of skilled labor.

I unearthed the 18 year old scene done in #LightWave. Obviously I lost the planet and the stars, as you do. It was rendered at the mindblowing resolution of 1024x427 pixels. No motion blur, no fancy PBR rendering, no GI, nothing. Gonna take that to #blender and see what happens.

I like this. For reasons. #amwriting #scifi #novel #wip

I'm doing a little poll with 3 options. What warp speed animation should I tackle next? The option with the most likes wins. #startrek #llap #warp #warpspeed #poll #fanart #wip #b3d #blender #animation #decision

And there it is. youtu.be/ltrNTAGIRaM #startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation

Eh voilà. www.patreon.com/posts/4k-ent... #startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation #patreon

And there it is. youtu.be/ltrNTAGIRaM #startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation

Preview of the updated version of my little warp jump animation. It's gonna be soon on Youtube at 1080p, and at 4K on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-en... #startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation #patreon

How a WIP evolves. Enterprise-E by IRML. #b3d #wip #llap #enterprise-e #fanart

It's like running a car dealership with stolen cars, but the robbed car owners are welcome to opt out of that.

A preview of an animation I'm working on - for people who are eager & excited and can't wait until I publish the final version. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-en... #startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation #patreon

Might be a couple more small things I catch and tweak, but here is a full render of it: the rad suit configuration with mag boots and EVA helmet from #StarTrek VI, made for @howieeday.bsky.social - Klingon diplomats beware! Probably like 86% accurate to the movie ones.

Lots of updates - Timing adjustments, Sparks and flame improvements, I added more debris, and debris/shield interactions, as well as adding Romulan Disruptor fire and SOUNDS! I'm quite happy with how this ended up looking.

Bird of Prey feet detail is basically complete now... a few more elements of the landing gear structure to flesh out inside the gear bays... landing ramps to do as well yet. Getting there! Qa'pla! 🖖🖖 #StarTrek #Klingon #TNG #DS9 #Feet

Model work on the Klingon Bird of Prey for Star Trek 3 If you like the content and want to help, Feel free to follow me and share my posts. #Startrek #Trek #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

My patreon supporters can get an animated sneak peak of my previz efforts here. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-la... More to come.

an old wip will be no longer wip soon

An idea for an animation that I'm currenlty blocking. #b3d #startrek #fanart #animation #spacesuit #dominion #ds9 #tng #draft #blocking #wip #prototype #previz