Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Archer-class update! Meet the USS Reykjavík. #WIP Still much to do because I want to give this ship a decent amount of detail, but I'm happy with the foundations.

Before my time on STO, the holographic recreation in-game about the Battle of Wolf 359 was heavily inspired and drew from this project, and I'd started working on Jayce's Fighting Ships of Wolf 359 as a community run followup to that :)

Today we’re launching Jayce’s Fighting Ships of Wolf 359 A project that began as an idea and became something much bigger: a community-run act of creativity. The book is now public. It’s yours. tranquility.press/jayces-fight...

all my oomfs play drehmal apotheosis right now!

Hi, here's a big old blog post with a little bit of info about 2.3 and something arguably more exciting! Please give it a read! www.drehmal.net/post/about-d... Happy New Years!

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.

If you havent watched Star Trek Prodigy yet, and you're even a little bit interested, I cannot recommend this show enough. IMO it's one of the best if not the best Star Trek series. It encapsulates the core values of Star Trek.

A warp capable system patrol ship. Pre/early Federation possible setting. Enjoy. #scifi #scifiart #startrek

ILM VFX Supervisor John Knoll working on the CG Enterprise-D created for STAR TREK GENERATIONS (1994)

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays of many cultures from all of us at Tranquility Press However you choose to mark the season (or don’t) we hope it’s filled with warmth, stories, and good company. Thank you for being part of this strange, thoughtful, creative little corner of the galaxy.

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

forgot the name of the FN P90's same-calibered pistol and you would not believe what I said instead

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!

One year ago today #StarTrekLowerDecks season 5 finale aired and these two started sharing the duty of the first officer on USS Cerritos. I wonder how well they are taking it and getting along 🥹 PS: Mariner is only a menace off the clock. 💖 #StarTrek #lowerdecks #BeckettMariner #BradBoimler

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

Finished my Ganymede model and game it the shader upgrade. Still some details I want to tweak, but that never ends with me. It's essentially done!

We have Cat Meowlgrew as Captain Catnip Janeway, now we have: HARRY KITT and TOM PURRIS

David was kind enough to sit down with me this year, and when I tell you - he's a funny, ridiculous man, he made me laugh for an hour. If there's anything at all you can do - the man invented Tribbles! :) #StarTrek www.gofundme.com/f/david-gerr...

Larian: “We commissioned this creepy statue based on our torture orgy trailer because we value craft and human creativity.” Larian’s CEO: “I’m *pretty sure* that the world-class creatives that work for me don’t mind a robot barfing and shitting all over their world-class work.”

Starfleet Academy isn't even out yet, and, based on the discourse, I'm already worried it's going to be another Prodigy situation, where fans who most likely really would enjoy it if they were to give it a chance have already written it off as something they aren't interested in.

Making plans for April yet? Then get this in the diary. Me and @jmswallow.bsky.social chatting #StarTrek at Waterstones Canterbury! www.waterstones.com/events/james...

Please stop playing Fortnite if you support the continued existence of Trans people. If you've been playing up until now, you have the power to show them that their willingness to support blatant Transphobia comes with serious consequence to the size of their playerbase.

I'm glad we could honor both Bill Krause and Howie Day and show off the Shangri-La in this manner. Shoutout to Howie as well - I used a lot of his work as reference for look development as pre-production of the trailer was going on :)

As art evolves, things change! I believe S4S6 was cut from the final edit - with just one shot of Klingon K't'ingas in formation. One detail I had to make sure I included was the arrowhead on Klingon disruptor fire, seen in Star Trek III. It ended up less clean than I'd've liked, though.

I loved the use of the "loot critter" objects as mines in the start of this final scene.

Originally designed by Virtuos Games based on the Shepard-Class from Star Trek: Discovery (by John Eaves), the Kerala was a joint effort between myself, @scorpiondesign.bsky.social and Thomas to bring it to the final state it is in-game! Virtuos did an amazing job to start with, and we pushed it

Each scene in the trailer had a slightly different backdrop. We started with Earth, then deep space, now an asteroid field, and later a vaguely red nebula. The background of this scene took the most iteration. Asteroids were a simple-enough system, but Thomas wanted some dusty fog/haze

For the Ark Royal's fighter launch sequence, I modelled the shuttlebay interior which was also made available to captains of the Ark Royal in-game! The scatterpack shuttle scene was one of the most difficult for me - it took a lot of iteration to get the explosion to look right...

The Aurora-Class remaster was the very first ship I worked on for STO - designed and modelled by EC Henry, it allowed me to tackle the starship art pipeline with great haste. It was fun blowing it up, with SkyForge Films's wonderful explosion effects!

The wonderful TMP drydock model was made by Tobias Richter for this trailer. A late addition in the final trailer that I wanted and Thomas went with was the inclusion of the bundle-exclusive Theseus Prototype - designed by @scorpiondesign.bsky.social based on @idwpublishing.com 's work!

It's been almost a year since I worked on the trailer for the 15th Anniversary Classic Film Bundle for Star Trek Online, and it was extremely fun to do! I started my foray into official STO work with the tie-in series Ex Astris for STO and Spacedock, and this felt like myself coming full circle.

Shang to the rescue! Given its canonization in Star Trek: Picard, and as a salute to both @admiralbuck.bsky.social and @howieeday.bsky.social (whose Shang model we used as reference for STO), I wanted to make the Shangri-La the ultimate hero of the trailer, and feature its "big guns" in action!

I wanted the final sequence to feature the Shangri-La kicking ass, but I also wanted it to tie the whole trailer together. So that's why the other three bundle ships show up to the Kobayashi Maru's defense first. Unfortunately, they are (temporarily) outgunned by the Klingons!

For the final sequence of the bundle trailer, I knew a TMP-era trailer HAD to include the Kobayashi Maru! But with the help of @admiralbuck.bsky.social's iconic Shangri-La class starship, things would go a little differently this time around...

If I recall, I was planning these shots right around the time the systems designers were working on the ship. When I found out they were doing a broadside power for the Kerala, I updated the mechanics of this shot to really lean into showing that off.

The next shot makes use of the Orion D'Var ship from Strange New Worlds. A pair of them chase down a some civilian merchantman freighters. Then the battle cruiser U.S.S. Kerala springs a trap, emerging from behind a large asteroid in ambush!

For the battle with the Romulans, I was excited to show off not just the massive Ark Royal but also her new Scatterpack shuttles, which were lifted directly from Starfleet Command II. The fighters were, unfortunately, old news at this point having launched with the Legendary Akira.

The audio for the trailer this time was 100% found audio using dialog we already had in the game. I sifted through our library to string a coherent narrative together. It was a challenge but thankfully I had 15 years of audio to work with!

The first ship to feature was the Pioneer Refit, since people had been asking for it for a long time, and I wanted to use its similarities to the Constitution to do a bit of a head fake by teasing bits of the ship before doing a full reveal. Of course, also inspired by TMP drydock sequence.

Storyboards for the TMP Bundle Trailer! The goal of this trailer was to create a narrative like a mini movie that featured all the bundle ships in a fun adventure set during the era of the classic Trek films. Of course, to do that, you have to open with the iconic "In the 23rd Century" title card!!

Are you curious what people on the Star Trek Online Wiki have been browsing this year? See some stats here! sto.wiki/STOWiki:Temp...

may have scored one of these (i will probably refurbish it at some point) no press kit though, just the ship itself

Still a fuckin' banger if I do say so myself. I wrote, directed, and edited it and @pundus.art did an incredible job animating it all with Blender. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GG...

my favorite gals

I’ve been really looking forward to posting these together #StarTrek

i forgot to repost this until after the stream but i did a trivia!

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

Spent a little time today refining my TAS shaders. I'm pretty happy with how things are looking right now! Used some compositor nodes as well to add some post-processing. These are all 'in-camera' renders straight out of #Blender3D