Progress on my version 2.0 of the Connie Refit as well as some tech I developed for window interiors. #startrek #ussenterprise #enterprise #llap #interiors

New image to illustrate my Excelsior post on artstation. Enjoy :) www.artstation.com/artwork/ZlNbkG #startrek #ussexcelsior #llap

Current state of the texturing on the #Klingon #BirdofPrey. Still so much to do! Running into some serious problems with Substance Painter at the moment, where it now hangs when saving the project 😞so progress is halted until I can find a solution... 🖖🖖 #StarTrek

Quite simply, the best version of the Akira class there has ever been. Will be amazing when finished 👌😍

New image up. I've been focusing on other things lately, but I'm hoping to get back to CG soon. In the meantime, hope you enjoy it: www.artstation.com/artwork/AZ0kv5 #startrek #llap #excelsior

Okay, this is a massive re-render of this scene, with bespoke, actual voice work by Balwin Williams Jr - Tons of improvements and tweaks, and I really like how it ended up looking and sounding. I hope you like it!

Back to the Barn - Penultimate Star Trek short shot! It's almost done - I just need to re-render the whole thing. :P Brand-new VO work by Baldwin Williams Jr. This shot was a monster to render. 4K in the 🧵! Enjoy!

Trying my hand at doing new Trek style lighting and compositing. Made the hull materials much more metallic than I normally do and much more modern/vivid color palette. Rendered in Blender Cyles Composited in After Effects with Red Giant #startrek #blender3d #scifi #3dmodeling #adobe #aftereffects

Here's just the preview part of the end of the shot, with temp VO and music, for those interested. :P

Some texturing progress on the Bird of Prey... yeah, this is going to take a while! 🤣 🖖 #StarTrek #Klingon #SubstancePainter

I think this counts as a project milestone... 😎 Now in Painter and ready for some Fun™️ 🖖 #Klingon #BirdofPrey

Well, 2 months later and now it really is complete 🤣🙃 Everything is unwrapped, final modelling cleanup done, etc. Just packing now ready to move across into Painter, where the fun returns!

Getting into Star Trek Enterprise again and hitting the heartbreak of there being nothing more after season 4 - are the books any good does anyone know? #startrekenterprise

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

Admire this fantastic pic, dominated by the diffuse blue light of the M78 nebula. Igor Chekalin, by processing the raw data for the original image uncovered in ESO's archives, claimed first prize in the ESO's Hidden Treasures 2010 contest with his final work. ➡️ www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪 1/9

WIP

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!