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

And finally, at long last... Bird of Prey modelling is complete*! Last element to add was the rear ramp, roughly as seen at the end of The Search for Spock. As this was not part of the model, some minor changes were needed. Originally had it with 2 sections, but added a third to reduce the angle.

An excellent #StarTrek Steamrunner class model and warp effect animation from Japetus Productions - I once did some renders with his Saber class, he is nailing these updates of First Contact ships www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXi...

So now the Klingon Bird of Prey's landing gear is fully complete. Working out the mechanism for the hatches turned out to be a lot harder than I expected! Very little room left to work with! Forward ramp also finished. This was included on the studio model, but never seen on screen. #StarTrek 🖖🖖

Congestion and pollution in Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour will impact the orbital environment in the future...

Little bit more progress on the rear hull of the Miranda class. This is the total surface area that I need for my planned render- just have to detail the crap out of it (and do an equally detailed rollbar going overhead.

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

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

Asking for a friend... anyone ever seen nice high res versions of any of these photos of the large Jem'hadar fighter studio model from Star Trek Deep Space 9? This image is from a ~20 year old auction, but presumably they were not the only copies. @portalrealm.bsky.social

Trying out Embergen www.artstation.com/artwork/eRyVB3 #startrek #llap #starship #scifi #ussatlantis #vfx

Star Trek short shot Update: Tons of improvements on this one - added sparks, debris, flame, tuned the animation, and a bunch of other stuff. Making progress, my estimate is about 80% done with the visuals! (Low sample WIP)

Render of my old realtime Zerg Hydralisk model from a few years ago, based mostly on the version from the original #StarCraft. #fanart #3d

With the main modelling basically finished on the Bird of Prey, I turned attention to the landing gear. Refs for this are few and of poor quality, but I decided in advance I would only do it if I could find a way to make it work and fit inside the ship. So... here is Iteration #10! 🖖🖖 #StarTrek

For a Bird of Prey to represent HMS Bounty from The Voyage Home, you have to add this stupid extra thing to the bottom of the hull. It blocks the hatches the landing gear and access ramps come out from... This was visible on every shot of the model in TVH. But thankfully never seen again! 🖖🖖

Using AI for concept art is like: “I want to come up with something no-one has ever seen before, so I’m going to use this machine that can only regurgitate existing stuff after blending it into a lumpy paste.”

Here are a few more renders of how the Bird of Prey is looking right now... Does anyone know when the extra panels were added to the top of the wing, between the 'pyramid' and the raised ridge? I'm thinking maybe for Generations, but maybe it was earlier, when they were removing the.. 1/2 🧵

#Klingon Bird of Prey progress! First detail pass modelling finally complete! Still some alternate version stuff to add, maybe try the landing gear too... Feels like a milestone has been reached! #StarTrek #BirdofPrey #LLAP #IDIC

Your daily dose of cosmic perspective… 🔭🧪

For some amazing renders of this ship by Lewis Niven, see his artstation page www.artstation.com/artwork/QK8W...

Fan animation by Lewis Niven - a recreation of the opening shots of "The Return of The Archons" in CGI whilst keeping the look and feel of the original www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8g...

A 🧵 For centuries, Betelgeuse, the iconic red supergiant in Orion, has fascinated astronomers with its changing brightness. Why does its light vary over a ~6-year cycle? Thanks to the Gemini North telescope, we now have an answer: Betelgeuse has a companion star! 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #galactic

Every so often, we get to go into the ship hall with our conservation team and get pictures from an unusual angle...

Oh God no, not again! Have these people ever heard of chemistry or physics or do they just have a supply of magic wands? The only way this could possibly work is if the quicklime were produced in a furnace using larhe scale CCS. Which isn't a real thing.

"Leaving standard orbit" USS Jacoby model by me Rendered in Blender using Cycles Compositing in After Effects with Red Giant Suite #scifi #startrek #blender #aftereffects #3dmodeling

That's right, the two LIGO sites (Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington) are not independent instruments, but essential components of a single interferometer designed to detect gravitational waves. If one of the two sites were deactivated, 1/2 🔭🧪

Still making slow progress on the Klingon Bird of Prey. Onto the wing detailing now! 🖖🖖🖖 #StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #SearchForSpock #Klingon #B'rel

The latest entry in the #Aerodex is the Vistalux 202 "Thunderhead," a light bomber design inspired by the Northrop flying wings and an obscure experimental plane called the "Horton Wingless." www.artstation.com/artwork/RKQZWW #skyfi #digitalart #blender #b3d

Street in Ancient Rome from the 3rd edition of 'La Roma de Constantino' published by @despertaferroed.bsky.social. #RomanSiteSaturday

Absolutely fantastic recreations of Cassini's Saturn pictures, with scattered sunlight revealing the faint G and E rings. #space #art by Thomas Thomsen. www.artstation.com/artwork/OGmqE6

Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity. Please repost! Spread the love! Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi

Finally time for a small #KlingonBirdofPrey update. The big details at the inboard rear end of the wings are now done. Lots of assymmetric detailing needed in there, as usual. 🖖🖖🖖 #StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #SearchForSpock #Klingon #B'rel

I've been very quiet on here lately! A few distractions. Hopefully will be more active again soon!

Get 30 pct off Cockpits & Instruments by using the PROMOCODE ‘MACH10’. technouveau.gumroad.com/l/bhrjc?layo...

[Thread] It's a good day to reiterate my support for the brave Ukrainians, so here's a thread highlighting some of the artists from this neighboring country that's been under attack for the past three years. (this is taken from another, longer thread I did on Twitter - RIP - 3 years ago) 1/11

After a crap ton of work the past week, I finally got a shot put together that I feel like successfully mimics the 80's ILM optical compositing process. USS Jacoby by me Spacedock by @misterwilde.bsky.social Rendered in Blender 4.3 Composited and CC'd in After Effects with Red Giant Magic Bullet

Admiral! There be engines here! #Klingon Bird of Prey progress update! Main hull details are now basically done. Just the wings to go! 🖖🖖🖖 All lighting effects are very temporary! #StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #SearchForSpock #TheVoyageHome #HMSBounty #Q'pla

The B-Wing Cockpit animation and model are done! I've been at this one for a while, and I'm relieved to have it finished, so I can move onto something else. Enjoy! Rendered in 3dsmax 2024 using VRay 7 GPU on a 4090 RTX. It took about 3-3.5m per frame.

Some final renders of my TOS Enterprise model. Modeled in Blender 4.3 Renderd in Cycles with LensSim Color correction in Photoshop #blender3d #3dmodeling #startrek #scifi #scifiart

A little progress update on the #Klingon Bird of Prey. Detail work on the main hull now almost complete - just the engine to go! After that, just the wings plus mopping up left. #StarTrek #Qa'Pla #B'Rel #CGI #WIP

"Wolf pack!" Enterprise by me, Klingon D7 model by Robert Rose. Modeled in Blender 4.3 with Lens Sim Rendered in Cycles Compositing in After Effects #blender3d #3dmodeling #startrek #scifi #scifiart

Silly #StarTrek riff on the Star Wars TIE Fighter (1994) box art. Using the 'Twin Ion' font made by StarWarsFonts and some old renders I had lying around. ko-fi.com/s/f5f68413d1

Byers pattern stockless anchor from the King George V class battleships. I completely remodelled this back in 2016 (so long ago!!) as my original was laughable 🤣 There's a problem with the normal map in this render, but all the materials will be redone eventually anyway.

Test animation to see how the new model holds up. Looks just like the show! #startrek #blender3d #3dmodeling #scifi

What a wonderful, if somewhat tragic, story 😿

#Cardassian #Keldon class cruiser. Model & render by me. 🖖🖖🖖 Simple but effective changes to the base Galor model. Would have been nice to have seen a few in the big fleet shots of the #Dominion war, but sadly not. #StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #CGI #Cinema4D #Redshift3D

Deep Space Nine: A Stroll Down the Promenade with Armin Shimerman youtu.be/u2s0yrRSouI?...

3D model of HMS Agamemnon that I completed in... *checks in horror* ... 2004. Horatio #Nelson was captain of Agamemnon, a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, between 1793 and 1796. Later, the ship took part in the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar (amongst others). #NavalHistory #Cinema4D #CGI