And while I was playing with the nebula technique, I animated the displacement, futzed with some particle systems, and started making explosions:

And here's an excerpt without denoising, again, low sample rate. Amazing glittering effect coming from the noise on the nebula.

That was rendered in the lower-quality Eevee renderer built into Blender. It doesn't handle lighting and reflections as well as the more upmarket Cycles (also built-in), but it's a tad quicker.

Here're an excerpt from the same animation data rendered in Cycles, low sample rate, with de-noising:

I refined the Nebula and the shield animation
#StarTrek #StarTrekPhaseII #StarTrekPhase2 #PhaseII #Phase2 #Blender #Animation #Creativity #3D #Render

While playing with material settings to perfect the look of the ship (see my Imgur log imgur.com/a/enterprise...) I came up with a new inexpensive technique for making nebula clouds, which then informed the shield effect. Not happy with the behaviour of the shield bubble yet thought.

The view from the bridge (made with a screengrab of the Phase II bridge explorable on Roddenberry.x.io).

Made a couple of animations with my Star Trek Phase II Enterprise while fiddling with materials in Blender.

#StarTrek #StarTrekPhaseII #StarTrekPhase2 #PhaseII #Phase2 #Blender #Animation #Creativity #3D #Render

As promised, @jayshum.bsky.social , well, not promised... alluded to... anyway, a little #animation (which took waaay too long!) of a TV in an alternate 1970s showing #StarTrek #PhaseII airing, originally inspired by an offhand line in #ForAllMankind.
Render: #Blender, some assets: #Thingiverse

I get you. And thank you! I was hoping that's how that might look! In fact, here's a render of a scene I whipped up ages ago and kind of forgot about. I think I'd like to make a little clip on this concept...https://i.imgur.com/lXvCvTJ.png

imgur.com/a/4gsNpLb <- Phase II build album

imgur.com/a/xoM5xIJ <- Enterprise-D album

Does Bluesky include audio in these videos? We'll see...

I built the Phase II version of the Enterprise and, with the skills learned doing that, I built the Enterprise-D (both for rendering only, not as a 3D print project, sadly... Not yet anyway...)

Below is a test render. There's more detail on it now.

@jayshum.bsky.social even though the projects I detailed on Trektoy are crowded together on a way-over-capacity backburner, I do still use those skills to preserve my sanity(?) with some animation fun: