Nick Stevens
@nick-stevens.com
Nick Stevens Graphics, based in Moldova, and keenly interested in the obscure corners of the Soviet Space Program. Busy restoring old infographics, and making CGI renders. Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
Demon skull.
More experiments with models generated using Hitem3d. This one went REALLY well, from a 100% free demon skull picture.
I've made the files available for download, LW 11.6 and up, also provided in OBJ format. Link will work for a month.
starbase1.filemail.com/d/ubeazattbb...
More experiments with models generated using Hitem3d. This one went REALLY well, from a 100% free demon skull picture.
I've made the files available for download, LW 11.6 and up, also provided in OBJ format. Link will work for a month.
starbase1.filemail.com/d/ubeazattbb...
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Demon skull.
More experiments with models generated using Hitem3d. This one went REALLY well, from a 100% free demon skull picture.
I've made the files available for download, LW 11.6 and up, also provided in OBJ format. Link will work for a month.
starbase1.filemail.com/d/ubeazattbb...
More experiments with models generated using Hitem3d. This one went REALLY well, from a 100% free demon skull picture.
I've made the files available for download, LW 11.6 and up, also provided in OBJ format. Link will work for a month.
starbase1.filemail.com/d/ubeazattbb...
Wow!
Lightwave development has begun on a Linux version!
Not for the next major release, but targeted for LW '27!
Lightwave development has begun on a Linux version!
Not for the next major release, but targeted for LW '27!
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wow!
Lightwave development has begun on a Linux version!
Not for the next major release, but targeted for LW '27!
Lightwave development has begun on a Linux version!
Not for the next major release, but targeted for LW '27!
And this was the input.
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And this was the input.
Here with the texture generated from the image:
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Here with the texture generated from the image:
More experiments with the Hitem 3d model generator.
I tried feeding in a small Bruce Pennington skull, and it worked surprisingly well.
First a basic texture and moving light:
I tried feeding in a small Bruce Pennington skull, and it worked surprisingly well.
First a basic texture and moving light:
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
More experiments with the Hitem 3d model generator.
I tried feeding in a small Bruce Pennington skull, and it worked surprisingly well.
First a basic texture and moving light:
I tried feeding in a small Bruce Pennington skull, and it worked surprisingly well.
First a basic texture and moving light:
I did a new version of the short video, Eagles over 2001 Moonscape.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I did a new version of the short video, Eagles over 2001 Moonscape.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
Animated version. Background from Space Odyssey, Eagles from Space 1999 flying to TMA 1.
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Animated version. Background from Space Odyssey, Eagles from Space 1999 flying to TMA 1.
Space Odyssey, "Aries 1B" flies past a crescent Moon, while extending the landing legs, by me.
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Space Odyssey, "Aries 1B" flies past a crescent Moon, while extending the landing legs, by me.
Here's an unusual one..
I extracted a moon landscape from "Space Odyssey", enlarged and cleaned it, then added some Eagles from Space 1999!
Kubrick poached members of Gerry Anderson's team, so this seems only fair...
#lightwave3d as usual.
I extracted a moon landscape from "Space Odyssey", enlarged and cleaned it, then added some Eagles from Space 1999!
Kubrick poached members of Gerry Anderson's team, so this seems only fair...
#lightwave3d as usual.
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Here's an unusual one..
I extracted a moon landscape from "Space Odyssey", enlarged and cleaned it, then added some Eagles from Space 1999!
Kubrick poached members of Gerry Anderson's team, so this seems only fair...
#lightwave3d as usual.
I extracted a moon landscape from "Space Odyssey", enlarged and cleaned it, then added some Eagles from Space 1999!
Kubrick poached members of Gerry Anderson's team, so this seems only fair...
#lightwave3d as usual.
Hello @thespaceshipper.com !
Given your expertise on all things to do with spaceship visuals, could you perhaps recommend your favourite "Art of" books, for Christmas lists?
Not just for me, my grandkids might get lucky too!
"Art and making of the Expanse" is a personal favourite.
Given your expertise on all things to do with spaceship visuals, could you perhaps recommend your favourite "Art of" books, for Christmas lists?
Not just for me, my grandkids might get lucky too!
"Art and making of the Expanse" is a personal favourite.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hello @thespaceshipper.com !
Given your expertise on all things to do with spaceship visuals, could you perhaps recommend your favourite "Art of" books, for Christmas lists?
Not just for me, my grandkids might get lucky too!
"Art and making of the Expanse" is a personal favourite.
Given your expertise on all things to do with spaceship visuals, could you perhaps recommend your favourite "Art of" books, for Christmas lists?
Not just for me, my grandkids might get lucky too!
"Art and making of the Expanse" is a personal favourite.
Hmmm. Interesting!
Hitem3d did a fairly good job of modelling the BE-4 rocket engine from one photo. If I rebuild the wobbly engine nozzle, it will make a fine generic engine.
Hitem3d did a fairly good job of modelling the BE-4 rocket engine from one photo. If I rebuild the wobbly engine nozzle, it will make a fine generic engine.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hmmm. Interesting!
Hitem3d did a fairly good job of modelling the BE-4 rocket engine from one photo. If I rebuild the wobbly engine nozzle, it will make a fine generic engine.
Hitem3d did a fairly good job of modelling the BE-4 rocket engine from one photo. If I rebuild the wobbly engine nozzle, it will make a fine generic engine.
This is the bit. Lit by Earth, but the light on the Aries is from above the craft, the angle never shifts as the Aries moves.
One photo sliding over another, no perspective shift.
One photo sliding over another, no perspective shift.
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This is the bit. Lit by Earth, but the light on the Aries is from above the craft, the angle never shifts as the Aries moves.
One photo sliding over another, no perspective shift.
One photo sliding over another, no perspective shift.
There's a bit in Space Odyssey where the Aries descends towards the Moon that just doesn't work for me.
The use of cut photos on glass plates is rather obvious.
So I decided to have a go myself!
The use of cut photos on glass plates is rather obvious.
So I decided to have a go myself!
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
There's a bit in Space Odyssey where the Aries descends towards the Moon that just doesn't work for me.
The use of cut photos on glass plates is rather obvious.
So I decided to have a go myself!
The use of cut photos on glass plates is rather obvious.
So I decided to have a go myself!
Glorious October!
Soviet Propaganda poster, with rockets.
Soviet Propaganda poster, with rockets.
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Glorious October!
Soviet Propaganda poster, with rockets.
Soviet Propaganda poster, with rockets.
Apollo astronauts & Soyuz 9 crew at a backyard party (left-to-right: Armstrong, Aldrin, Anders, Nikolayev, McDivitt, Conrad, Cunningham, Stafford, Swigert, Gordon, Schweickart, Scott, Lovell, Slayton, Sevastyanov)
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Apollo astronauts & Soyuz 9 crew at a backyard party (left-to-right: Armstrong, Aldrin, Anders, Nikolayev, McDivitt, Conrad, Cunningham, Stafford, Swigert, Gordon, Schweickart, Scott, Lovell, Slayton, Sevastyanov)
Energia M weight model on the "Grasshopper" transporter.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Energia M weight model on the "Grasshopper" transporter.
Cosmonaut cat mosaic! Dubna, Moscow region.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Cosmonaut cat mosaic! Dubna, Moscow region.
Soviet Union, November 5, 1936,
Bench tests of the ORM-65 liquid rocket engine designed by Valentin Petrovich GLUSHKO were conducted.
Bench tests of the ORM-65 liquid rocket engine designed by Valentin Petrovich GLUSHKO were conducted.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Soviet Union, November 5, 1936,
Bench tests of the ORM-65 liquid rocket engine designed by Valentin Petrovich GLUSHKO were conducted.
Bench tests of the ORM-65 liquid rocket engine designed by Valentin Petrovich GLUSHKO were conducted.
Yuri Gagarin in Brazil
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yuri Gagarin in Brazil
Sons of October, Pioneers of the Universe!
Soviet propaganda poster.
Soviet propaganda poster.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Sons of October, Pioneers of the Universe!
Soviet propaganda poster.
Soviet propaganda poster.
"They went thataway!"
Way out from my normal style, and I'm rather pleased with it.
I got the background by feeding one of H R Giger's "New York" (low res) pictures into the Hitem3d model generator. In this case the irregularities make it look more organic.
Way out from my normal style, and I'm rather pleased with it.
I got the background by feeding one of H R Giger's "New York" (low res) pictures into the Hitem3d model generator. In this case the irregularities make it look more organic.
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"They went thataway!"
Way out from my normal style, and I'm rather pleased with it.
I got the background by feeding one of H R Giger's "New York" (low res) pictures into the Hitem3d model generator. In this case the irregularities make it look more organic.
Way out from my normal style, and I'm rather pleased with it.
I got the background by feeding one of H R Giger's "New York" (low res) pictures into the Hitem3d model generator. In this case the irregularities make it look more organic.
The R1 was the Soviet Union's attempt to master manufacturing V2 type rockets. It was the first step on the road that led to the R7 that carried Sputnik 1 to orbit, and started the space age.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The R1 was the Soviet Union's attempt to master manufacturing V2 type rockets. It was the first step on the road that led to the R7 that carried Sputnik 1 to orbit, and started the space age.
Two clear photos of the Orlyonok Ecranoplan.
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Two clear photos of the Orlyonok Ecranoplan.
Here's a spin of that rocket engine.
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here's a spin of that rocket engine.