Paul Dobson
@martocticvs.bsky.social
Engineer, modeller. Sometimes I render things
Tools: C4D, Redshift, Substance 3D
Likely to be posting about #3dart, #SciFi, #3dModeling, #NavalHistory, #Space, #StarTrek art
https://www.artstation.com/martocticvs
http://www.youtube.com/@MartocticvsCG
Tools: C4D, Redshift, Substance 3D
Likely to be posting about #3dart, #SciFi, #3dModeling, #NavalHistory, #Space, #StarTrek art
https://www.artstation.com/martocticvs
http://www.youtube.com/@MartocticvsCG
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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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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.
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.
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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...
Star Trek: Steamrunner class- U.S.S. Appalachia responds to a distress call...
YouTube video by Japetus Productions
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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 🖖🖖
Forward ramp also finished. This was included on the studio model, but never seen on screen.
#StarTrek 🖖🖖
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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 🖖🖖
Forward ramp also finished. This was included on the studio model, but never seen on screen.
#StarTrek 🖖🖖
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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...
Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘health index’
The congestion and pollution of Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour impacts the orbital environment in the future. To this end, the European Space Ag...
www.esa.int
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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...
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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.
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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.
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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
youtu.be/ltrNTAGIRaM
#startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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.
September 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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.
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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
September 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
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Trying out Embergen www.artstation.com/artwork/eRyVB3 #startrek #llap #starship #scifi #ussatlantis #vfx
USS Atlantis flying through explosion, Diogo Vincenzi
Started to learn Embergen and this was the result of some experimentation of having my ship fly through an explosion. My models are too heavy to sim with so I built a basic shell around it to act as m...
www.artstation.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Trying out Embergen www.artstation.com/artwork/eRyVB3 #startrek #llap #starship #scifi #ussatlantis #vfx
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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)
September 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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)
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Render of my old realtime Zerg Hydralisk model from a few years ago, based mostly on the version from the original #StarCraft. #fanart #3d
September 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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!
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#StarTrek
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#StarTrek
September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
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#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! 🖖🖖
This was visible on every shot of the model in TVH. But thankfully never seen again! 🖖🖖
August 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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! 🖖🖖
This was visible on every shot of the model in TVH. But thankfully never seen again! 🖖🖖
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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.”
The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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 🧵
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 🧵
August 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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 🧵
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
Feels like a milestone has been reached!
#StarTrek #BirdofPrey #LLAP #IDIC
August 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#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
Feels like a milestone has been reached!
#StarTrek #BirdofPrey #LLAP #IDIC
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Your daily dose of cosmic perspective… 🔭🧪
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Your daily dose of cosmic perspective… 🔭🧪
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For some amazing renders of this ship by Lewis Niven, see his artstation page
www.artstation.com/artwork/QK8W...
www.artstation.com/artwork/QK8W...
August 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
For some amazing renders of this ship by Lewis Niven, see his artstation page
www.artstation.com/artwork/QK8W...
www.artstation.com/artwork/QK8W...
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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8g...
Modern CGI Meets Classic Star Trek TOS
YouTube video by Lewis Niven
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8g...
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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
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
July 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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
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
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Every so often, we get to go into the ship hall with our conservation team and get pictures from an unusual angle...
June 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Every so often, we get to go into the ship hall with our conservation team and get pictures from an unusual angle...
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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.
"We can capture the CO2 with quicklime!"
"And how do you make quicklime?"
"You heat limestone to release the CO2!"
"Exactly the same amount of CO2 as you capture?"
"Well, no..."
"So isn't this actually releasing MORE CO2?"
"We'll use GREEN quicklime!"
"Is that a real thing?"
"No."
"And how do you make quicklime?"
"You heat limestone to release the CO2!"
"Exactly the same amount of CO2 as you capture?"
"Well, no..."
"So isn't this actually releasing MORE CO2?"
"We'll use GREEN quicklime!"
"Is that a real thing?"
"No."
Shipping is one of the world’s dirtiest industries – could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets?
Freighters emit more greenhouse gases than jets, but a tech startup believes a simple and effective technique can help the industry change course
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.