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Paul Dobson

@martocticvs.bsky.social

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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

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Robert Wilde @misterwilde.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 6d

These hexagons have been redacted

Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 15d

Mine has them! But only because you pointed them out to me 😎

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 16d

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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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 15d

Bird of Prey feet detail is basically complete now... a few more elements of the landing gear structure to flesh out inside the gear bays... landing ramps to do as well yet. Getting there!

Qa'pla!

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#StarTrek #Klingon #TNG #DS9 #Feet

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey's landing feet

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey landed

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 20d

I've said things like that before

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 21d

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

A photo of an assortment of photographs of the large Jem'hadar fighter studio model from Deep Space 9

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 22d

Wasn't the original plan for those things to come back later? Hence the last scene with the signal being sent out across the galaxy. But then they decided to do the Borg instead

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 23d

That scene combined with the excellent score always gives me goosebumps 👌

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Diogo Vincenzi @diogovincenzi.bsky.social · 24d

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...

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks. The feet on the studio model don't appear to have had any articulation, although it's clearly intended in the design. Channeling the eagle seems appropriate for this ship 👍

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 26d

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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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 27d

Render of my old realtime Zerg Hydralisk model from a few years ago, based mostly on the version from the original #StarCraft. #fanart #3d

A 3D render of the Zerg Hydralisk from StarCraft on a gradient background. The Hydralisk is an odd alien with a stance somewhat like a displaying cobra, with a long slug-like tail, large belly scales, an oddly low Gigeresque ribcage, a muscular humanoid torso with large arms ending in scythe-like single claws, and a long neck covered in brown stripey triangular overhanging carapace, with a somewhat human skull-like shiny brown face with inner and outer mandibles with sharp teeth.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 27d

The Voyage Home lump? It matches up with the name painting scene, and is probably meant to be the cargo hatch that opens under water after the splash down. Beyond that I have no idea

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 27d

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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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 23

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! 🖖🖖

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey. View from underneath, slightly forward. Looking at the stupid extra lump added to the bottom of the model for Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey. View from underneath, slightly aft. Looking at the stupid extra lump added to the bottom of the model for Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.”

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Aug 23

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*.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 19

I suppose there's an outside chance they added them for the appearances in DS9, but that seems unlikely to me.

Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 19

...scorching effect that had been applied to rear of the ship for the final shots of ST3 and all of ST4 showing the damage done by the exploding Genesis planet. The scorching was still visible in ST5, and still no panels. So it must have been either for ST6 or Generations. 2/2

Still from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier showing the Klingon Bird of Prey. The scorching effect is still present at the rear of the wings and there are still no extra panels between the 'pyramid' and the raised ridge. This means they must have been added either for Star Trek 6 or Star Trek Generations. Do you know which??

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 🧵

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey. View from above and behind. Wings in attack position

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey. View from below and behind. Wings in cruise position.

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey. View from the starboard beam. Wings in attack position.

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey. Closeup view of the extra panels that were added to the studio model either for Star Trek 6 or Star Trek Generations, between the 'pyramid' and the raised ridge separating the main wing panels from the previously plain rear inboard area. The panels were added to the top surface only.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 15

#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

Klingon Bird of Prey WIP model render, from port bow. Wings in Cruise configuration.

Klingon Bird of Prey WIP model render. View from ahead and below, wings in landing configuration.

Klingon Bird of Prey WIP model render. View from above starboard bow. Wings in cruise configuration.

Klingon Bird of Prey WIP model render. View from port wing. Wings in attack configuration. Closeup on port disruptor cannon.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 14

I think that's a good feature to show though. Maybe not ideal outside sickbay, but in general, great. With the shape of the hulls, it makes perfect sense for some deck height variation. Real ships often have weird features like this, half decks, hanging decks etc

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 14

I agree, they were actually pretty cool looking sets. But not with the lighting they went with. Soooo dark

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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Your daily dose of cosmic perspective… 🔭🧪

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ring = TNG obviously