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Credit to @silvervibranium2832 in the YT comments on that video for sending me here.
May 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Credit to @silvervibranium2832 in the YT comments on that video for sending me here.
And while I was playing with the nebula technique, I animated the displacement, futzed with some particle systems, and started making explosions:
May 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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.
May 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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:
Here're an excerpt from the same animation data rendered in Cycles, low sample rate, with de-noising:
May 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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:
Here're an excerpt from the same animation data rendered in Cycles, low sample rate, with de-noising:
It's just on a card in front of the camera with a hole cut out for the viewer, and I messed with the material settings to make the change to red. The camera shake is a noise modifier on the camera's X and Z coordinates allowed to affect it gradually and fade out over a constrained number of frames.
May 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It's just on a card in front of the camera with a hole cut out for the viewer, and I messed with the material settings to make the change to red. The camera shake is a noise modifier on the camera's X and Z coordinates allowed to affect it gradually and fade out over a constrained number of frames.
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.
May 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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).
May 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The view from the bridge (made with a screengrab of the Phase II bridge explorable on Roddenberry.x.io).
Thank you. Your encouragement has been motivating for me.
May 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Thank you. Your encouragement has been motivating for me.
Thank you!
April 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Thank you!
Oh my! You're too kind, thank you! I'm glad you understood the intent. I kind of consider this to be a concept render more than a finished product, but I had resolved recently to not hold myself to impossible standards and actually just allow myself to release something unfinished once in a while.
April 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Oh my! You're too kind, thank you! I'm glad you understood the intent. I kind of consider this to be a concept render more than a finished product, but I had resolved recently to not hold myself to impossible standards and actually just allow myself to release something unfinished once in a while.
April 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hot chocolate iirc, yup.
April 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hot chocolate iirc, yup.
Ensign Sonia Gomez: "Do I mean nothing to you?"
April 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Ensign Sonia Gomez: "Do I mean nothing to you?"
While we're talking about excellent 23rd century rendering and "In the XYZ Century" captions, this recent STO bundle trailer is very fun: youtu.be/S4GGIVj20yw
Star Trek Online - 15th Anniversary Classic Film Bundle
YouTube video by Star Trek Online
youtu.be
March 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
While we're talking about excellent 23rd century rendering and "In the XYZ Century" captions, this recent STO bundle trailer is very fun: youtu.be/S4GGIVj20yw
Great material rendering and cinematography.
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Great material rendering and cinematography.
Here's another good one: youtu.be/eSW6m9pCAtI
Launch of the New New Enterprise - ROUGH CUT
YouTube video by BVC Studios
youtu.be
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Here's another good one: youtu.be/eSW6m9pCAtI
And fair warning, there's a good deal of casual, unconsidered sexism. Most is simply 60s ethics, but "Gamesters Of Triskelion" has a particularly disturbing scene that the show then does not react to. If you're braced for some of that culture shock, there are indeed many brilliant episodes to enjoy.
March 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
And fair warning, there's a good deal of casual, unconsidered sexism. Most is simply 60s ethics, but "Gamesters Of Triskelion" has a particularly disturbing scene that the show then does not react to. If you're braced for some of that culture shock, there are indeed many brilliant episodes to enjoy.
Ah, yes - Did you catch how the lighting in the FC grading test didn't match? I had a chat with Prov about it and I correctly guessed that it began as an exercise to exactly match the lighting setup in FC (Mission 10000% accomplished!), and the idea of compositing the ship against V'ger came later.
March 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Ah, yes - Did you catch how the lighting in the FC grading test didn't match? I had a chat with Prov about it and I correctly guessed that it began as an exercise to exactly match the lighting setup in FC (Mission 10000% accomplished!), and the idea of compositing the ship against V'ger came later.
Not sure who you mean exactly... JTVFX has some TOS/TMP stuff, and Mylex does nice work. Oh and @howieeday.bsky.social of course!
March 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Not sure who you mean exactly... JTVFX has some TOS/TMP stuff, and Mylex does nice work. Oh and @howieeday.bsky.social of course!