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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐
@markgarlick.com
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🔭 Astrophysics Ph.D
🍩 3D illustration and animation in Blender
🪐 Space art and astronomical art specialist
✨ Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists
🦕 Also dabbling in paleoart and scifi art
🚫 AI/NFT

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · Apr 23
Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity.

Please repost! Spread the love!

Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi
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kvacm.bsky.social
Ruins of old Lighthouse (2024)
#fantasy #sea #art #painting #illustration #artwork #sunset #nature #landscape #ruins
I'm open for commissions! kvacm.carrd.co#commission
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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It's been forever since I posted any of my #paleoart. So here you are.

All modeled by me (except the Brachiosaurus) and rendered in #Blender3d
Artwork of a Tyrannosaurus with Gallimimus prey. Sunset, rocky landscape with cycad trees. A Liopleurodon leaps from the water to snatch at a low-flying pterosaur. A pair of Brachiosaurus on a rocky plateau, searching for food. The Permian extinction was the most devastating of all mass extinctions. These animals, Lystrosaurus, are among the lucky species that will survive the holocaust.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#Blender in the hands of a competent artist
veriphae.bsky.social Seth Raven @veriphae.bsky.social · 1d
Trolley scene I'm working on! Coming together

#vfx #blender #3d #art #scifi #dystopian #cyberpunk #worldbuilding
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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So glad I fled the mutated abortion that is Windows for Linux Mint. It just works. Will never go back, even if it means I can't use certain software anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I do occasionally donate to the #Blender Foundation and Wikipedia. Feels good to give something back.
makkon.bsky.social Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 6d
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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mustapipa.bsky.social
Fantastic space (etc.) artwork by @markgarlick.com:
www.markgarlick.com

I have this retro travel advert of Proxima Centauri hanging on my bathroom wall.
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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ferrutxoart.bsky.social
A couple of renders to show experiments with hair made using curves in Blender. I was very used to the particle system and couldn't quite get the hang of this, but guys, it looks like this has a huge number of options.

PS: It's a WIP, maybe the final result will look like the second image.
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Nice visualisation of the Bubble Nebula from HST data

#scicomm #astronomy
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Clouds. On MARS. #SCICOMM
philplait.bsky.social Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 9d
IRIDESCENT CLOUD ON MARS
hourlycosmos.bsky.social Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 9d
Iridescent clouds over Gale Crater (enhanced color) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qJvryP
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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pauloleiteart.bsky.social
Lythronax. Sculpted in Zbrush, textured in Substance Painter and rendered in Blender. #dinosaur #art #paleoart #3dart
3D render. Portrait of a Lythronax, the dinosaur is mostly green
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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mooneysart.bsky.social
Yessir!!

Art train, share 4, tag 4

@calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
@superactionfunboy.bsky.social
@nickcarver.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I have never listened to a podcast or an audio book, and I can't stand radio.

Continue the thread.
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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How many ppl get an opportunity like this? I feel blessed. Visit to a private cheetah sanctuary in South Africa
Photo of a cheetah lying on a raised wooden platform. I'm kissing her head. If only you could hear the purring. Photo of a cheetah lying on a raised wooden platform. Her eyes are closed. A human hand is seen touching her face.
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Hi, folks

Just finished a revamp of my space-art website. It's an on-line gallery of my most recent space- and astronomy-related illustrations and animations:

www.space-art.co.uk/index.php

Please do give it a gander. And if you would be so kind, repost this for me. :-)

#sciart #spaceart
Home | Space-Art.Co.Uk
Online gallery of illustration and animation
www.space-art.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Cute
trekcore.com TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 19d
LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today

#LEGO
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Ok, so post mine!
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Who knows what this is?
prehistorica.art Prehistorica (Christian M.) @prehistorica.art · 19d
Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax

#SciArt
This illustration shows the gas giant Saturn with some of its many satellites in front. In the foreground is Rhea, the second largest moon of this planet, after Titan. With a mean diameter of 1528 km (764 miles), Rhea is about half the size of our own Moon. Its surface is heavily cratered, with two very large impact basins and numerous fractures. Its density suggests it is made up of about one-quarter rock and three-quarters water ice. Four other Saturnian moons can be seen in the distance, close to the ring plane. From left to right they are Dione, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys. An artist's impression of Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. In this depiction, Charon's phase is new - i.e. the Sun is directly behind it. Therefore Charon is only visible by the faint sunlight that Pluto reflects onto it from the Sun. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face towards each other at all times, as the Moon does to the Earth. So if one stood on Charon (or Pluto) the other world would stay fixed in the sky - never setting or rising, but still cycling through its phases. And if one were on the wrong hemisphere of Pluto (or Charon) one would never see the other world. The New Horizons probe recently revealed that Pluto has clouds in its atmosphere, as this illustration depicts. Artwork of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries. Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm which disrupts the planet’s magnetosphere, our radio transmissions and electrical power lines. They can damage artificial satellites and cause long-lasting power outages. Humans in orbit are also very vulnerable to these events, whose high-energy particles are not shield by typical spacecraft.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
markgarlick.com
Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax

#SciArt
This illustration shows the gas giant Saturn with some of its many satellites in front. In the foreground is Rhea, the second largest moon of this planet, after Titan. With a mean diameter of 1528 km (764 miles), Rhea is about half the size of our own Moon. Its surface is heavily cratered, with two very large impact basins and numerous fractures. Its density suggests it is made up of about one-quarter rock and three-quarters water ice. Four other Saturnian moons can be seen in the distance, close to the ring plane. From left to right they are Dione, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys. An artist's impression of Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. In this depiction, Charon's phase is new - i.e. the Sun is directly behind it. Therefore Charon is only visible by the faint sunlight that Pluto reflects onto it from the Sun. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face towards each other at all times, as the Moon does to the Earth. So if one stood on Charon (or Pluto) the other world would stay fixed in the sky - never setting or rising, but still cycling through its phases. And if one were on the wrong hemisphere of Pluto (or Charon) one would never see the other world. The New Horizons probe recently revealed that Pluto has clouds in its atmosphere, as this illustration depicts. Artwork of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries. Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm which disrupts the planet’s magnetosphere, our radio transmissions and electrical power lines. They can damage artificial satellites and cause long-lasting power outages. Humans in orbit are also very vulnerable to these events, whose high-energy particles are not shield by typical spacecraft.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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It's a Halloweeny #SciFiFri! It's time to celebrate with machete murder, tooth decay, thought crimes! And... I guess... also my weekly drop of #scifiart!

Spooky Credits:

Alex Kintner
Stephen Macris
Oliver Martel
Abar Khan

#scifi
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Quick illustration of a space fountain, made in #Blender. These are seemingly impossibly tall structures made possible with a bit of physics. Think frisbee floating on a vertical jet of water. Same concept is use to hold these things aloft.

#sciart #scicom
Illustration of a space fountain.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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#Blender coolness. #SciArt
element115.bsky.social Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 27d
Lunar Liner, sometime in the 2100s. The whole ship would spin around its axis to provide some artificial gravity to the six inflatable passenger modules. The ship would be boosted via space tug to the moon, then return to pick up more passengers before being boosted again.
A spaceship consisting of a central spindle and a ring with six inflatable modules attached.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 28d
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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marcllaguno.bsky.social
Timelapse of Two Travelers —

Lemmon orbits with a majestic and dynamic tail spanning a few degrees.

SWAN silently sails with almost no tail yet proudly marks its presence with a green glowing nucleus, a signature of diatomic carbon.

#comet #astronomy #astrophotography #space
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM