Really liking these volumetrics for this scene

Nothing like getting Deep Vein Thrombosis to ruin your night!

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

I just ahd to go and improve my quick little building generator and make a nice little UE scene with PCG for it, kinda want to add in some flying cars. Running real-time in #UnrealEngine 5.7.3, Hardware Lumen. Not a bad result for only 2 evenings of work. #UE5 #GameDev #TechArt #Cinematic #SciFi

I just ahd to go and improve my quick little building generator and make a nice little UE scene with PCG for it, kinda want to add in some flying cars. Running real-time in #UnrealEngine 5.7.3, Hardware Lumen. Not a bad result for only 2 evenings of work. #UE5 #GameDev #TechArt #Cinematic #SciFi

Having some fun with a quick Houdini building generator and PCG in Unreal, Long Lenses + Cities, love the vibes. #UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #Cinematic #PCG #TechArt

Finished up my mini Dune Harvester this evening, definitley had no idea just how much my digital lookdev background would help with physical painting, having lots of fun with this! model #3 finished :)

I've started on Colonial One today, and yeh decided to light it a bit since the plastic is pretty translucent , shouldn't need any window drilling

Nice morning painting some (well maybe more than some) grime and weathering on the harvester, lots of fun, filling breaks with playing some of the new Voyager game

Very much enjoying Star Trek Voyager: Across The Unknown so far, extreamly happy to see its sitting at Mostly Positive & Very Positive reviews on Steam, congrats to the team!

It finally arrived!

Second ever model kit pretty much complete, really had fun with the paint job on this one, building up to larger models slowly!

Building that kit stash up

It lives!

"we shouldn't have to work for free on a game until it's nearly-done enough to get funding" and "it's the only thing you can really do so you should do it if you want to make games" are both true imo and it's shit but what else is there really to do that isn't just give up

I may have purchased two 37" 16:9 monitors and am currently in heaven, only think that could make this better is if they were OLEDs and also the best aspect ratio, 16:10.

Working on a little something #UE5 #GameDev #Cinematics #TechArt

Light blocking time

Some more testing of AccumulationDOF in UE5-Main #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematics #Cinematography

You know whats cool as hell? The physical lens colour seperation stuff in AccumulationDOF, lens freaks are winning #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematic #Cinematography #VFX

Combining AccumulationDOF and my Lens Flares works well

Some more agressive fun Akira Attack tests I whipped up last night, went for a BSG camera feel. #UE5 #StarTrek #SciFi #VFX #LooKDev #Houdini #Substance

Check out my quick look at the brand new production quality depth of field method added to UE5-Main over the weekend for Cinematics, AccumulationDOF, I am so excited about this and it works so damn well! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematics #Cinematography #VFX #TechArt #Rendering

Check out my quick look at the brand new production quality depth of field method added to UE5-Main over the weekend for Cinematics, AccumulationDOF, I am so excited about this and it works so damn well! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematics #Cinematography #VFX #TechArt #Rendering

New in UE5-Main, AccumulationDOF, A close to physically accurate DOF implementation specifically for production renders!! And damn it works far beyond what I expected, can focus THROUGH transparencies correctly! Into Reflections, no foreground artefacts! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX

New in UE5-Main, AccumulationDOF, A close to physically accurate DOF implementation specifically for production renders!! And damn it works far beyond what I expected, can focus THROUGH transparencies correctly! Into Reflections, no foreground artefacts! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX

before i tackle the enterprise c kit i wanted a small, cheap model kit to start practicing with and this was the cheapest haha Model Kit era begins!

I cannot leave it alone haha, Photon volley much improved, all real-time #UE5 #StarTrek #SciFi #VFX #LooKDev #Houdini #Substance

I just had to do a quick Photon volley test haha #UE5 #StarTrek #SciFi #VFX #LooKDev #Houdini #Substance

My Akira Class is now complete (for now) Extatic on how it turned out, definitley lots to improve on but leaving it here for now! This ship really deserved more than it got! such a great design. #UE5 #StarTrek #SciFi #VFX #LooKDev #Houdini #Substance

My Akira Class is now complete (for now) Extatic on how it turned out, definitley lots to improve on but leaving it here for now! This ship really deserved more than it got! such a great design. #UE5 #StarTrek #SciFi #VFX #LooKDev #Houdini #Substance

Some initial tests of the Akira in Unreal, still got to do a final detailing pass, and model up the interior shuttle bay #UnrealEngine #UE5 #StarTrek #SciFi

First pass of textures done! #StarTrek #SubstancePainter #LookDev #Houdini #SciFi

Akira Class almost finished the modelling stage! , just some smaller details to add and then onto UVs and Texturing! #Houdini #StarTrek #SciFi #VFX

Today's progress on the Akira Class, really happy with it so far, on to nacells and such soon! #Houdini #StarTrek #SciFi

I think this being a long weekend, i might actually finish the Akira , progress on the top saucer

The best thing about continuing to build Trek ships is since its all procedurally moidelled in Houdini, Im slowly building up a great toolset to get them done fairly fast :)

Lower Saucer coming together! #StarTrek #SciFi #Houdini #VFX

Shader tests on the Akira Secondary Hull Piece, wanted to make sure it was all working before i model up the rest! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #StarTrek #LookDev #Houdini #SciFi

Progress on the seconary(ish) hull of the Akira Class

Oh my what a day for deliveries @beforesmag.bsky.social

Finished my Enterprise-E asset! Very happy with how it came out, i really wanted to push for s filmed model look, and to get close to Show / Film level of detail in #UnrealEngine Want to do an Akira next! #StarTrek #UE5 #GameDev #TechArt #LookDev #SciFi

Finished my Enterprise-E asset! Very happy with how it came out, i really wanted to push for s filmed model look, and to get close to Show / Film level of detail in #UnrealEngine Want to do an Akira next! #StarTrek #UE5 #GameDev #TechArt #LookDev #SciFi

It looks so damn good in engine :D even added a little interior scene for those large windows :P #UnrealEngine #SciFi #UE5 #GameDev #TechArt #LookDev #StarTrek

Went back and worked more on the E, Doubled mesh resolution, baked the 8k Substance heightmaps back into the model in Houdini for a loop around, now we are cooking! (Substance Screenshots)

Super useful!

The real cool thing about this kit is how damn large it is! I wish I could get all the ships at this scale

Box is a little battered but my second kit arrived :)

Spent the weekend doing a second pass on my Enterpeise-E asset, much higher resolution geo, textures and tweaks to get more of a model feel. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #TechArt #LookDev #SciFi #StarTrek

High Res 4k 60 extended recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvS5... #GameDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #TechArt #MegaLights