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

A short article about the current state, and where I want to go with the "planetary environment" of the battle scene. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-do... #wip #previz #animation #b3d #blender #fanart #tng #dominion #enterprise #cardassian #battle #action #goals #conceptart #scifi #patreon

I've always liked the bug metaphor. In a TNG Dominion War movie I'd probably have a scene in which the villain's battlecruiser appears for the first time, and all those tiny attack bug ships detach from the wings to engage the Enterprise.

Internet! How do we feel about this scale relation?

I wrote up a quick, dirty and #free breakdown of what I'm currently doing there. www.patreon.com/posts/wip-do... #wip #previz #animation #b3d #blender #fanart #tng #dominion #enterprise #cardassian #battle #action #goals #conceptart #scifi #patreon

Star Trek is just as much social fiction as it is science fiction. It's a what if scenario. If you accept warp drive and time travel, you better accept a human society without money, greed, poverty and wars. #suckitalexkurtzman

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".