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Robert Rose

@robear.bsky.social

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3d artist working in games, and also on paleoart and scifi animation personal project stuff in my free time, he/him https://www.artstation.com/xiaorobear formerly https://twitter.com/RgroseA

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hey, I've still got this account on here- hope it becomes a proper twitter replacement, now that it allows video I think it should be a lot more appealing to animators. I'm gonna try to post the same mix of oscillating between mainly dino and scifi content and my own 3D art that I post elsewhere.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 9h

Some nice images of different versions of #StarCraft 2's Zerg Leviathan- let me know if you would like a little thread with some trivia on how these different versions muddled the official size...

Early concept art for the Zerg Leviathan by Peter Lee, showing a different design than the final, but also a helpful comparison to overlords and to the Protoss Mothership.

The chosen concept art for the more highly detailed cinematic model for Heart of the Swarm

The high res sculpt for the in-engine cutscene version of the Leviathan, by Joseph DeAngelis

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine if we got that 5th season of ENT with Shran joining the crew.

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 10h

Continuing with a little retopo before I clean up the sculpt

My general modeling process these days involves going hard with tris and ngons so I can retain forms more easily and avoid things like sawtooth ridges along the edges of deformed cloth

Once it's subdivided it becomes clean quads!

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 10h

Extremely extremely excellent warp animation by another Robert

Robert Wilde @misterwilde.bsky.social · 10h

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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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 18h

A fun detail that changed between the storyboards and finals, even with the ship design locked in, is that the final is higher off the ground, with a ladderlike staircase needed to reach it. This leaves height for the actors to run right up to a real ladder without needing to overlap the painting.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 22h

"'Cause holotables can't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose."

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Benji Paysnoe @benj-art-min.bsky.social · 1d

Refining my digital sculpting skills with a sauropod! Camarasaurus sp.

Thank you @tessasaurus.bsky.social for your help with integument possibilities!

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

Another shot of the ship, where you can see a funtransition between live action tree trunks and matte painting (as they cross in front of the ship). The ship is probably a painting because it was easier to paint an overgrown version than to dress up the miniature with tiny scale appropriate vines.

A screencap from Ewoks: Battle for Endor, showing a spaceship that is completely overgrown with vines. The bottom third of the frame is live action, the top 2/3rds appear to be a realistic painting.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 2d

Fun little detail in Ewoks: Battle for Endor (1985)- this first Blurrg in this procession has the usual look, while the next one has kind of an overbite. I wonder if these were two different stop motion models, or if they posed the same model 2 ways to make them feel like unique/varied individuals?

A screencap from Ewoks: Battle for Endor (1985) showing a typical-looking Blurrg and rider

A screencap from Ewoks: Battle for Endor (1985) showing a slightly unusual looking Blurrg, with a less pronounced lower jaw and a bit of an overbite.

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 2d

Some pics of an underrated Star Wars ship, Noa's unnamed starship.

A screenshot from Ewoks: Battle for Endor of Noa's starship taking off (a miniature model shot)

A screenshot from Ewoks: Battle for Endor of Noa's starship taking off (a miniature model shot with tree branch elements bluescreened into the foreground).

A screenshot from Ewoks: Battle for Endor of Noa's starship flying over Teek and WIcket's heads (a miniature model bluescreened into the shot)

A screenshot from Ewoks: Battle for Endor of Noa's starship engines firing up

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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Robert Wilde @misterwilde.bsky.social · 2d

Preview of the updated version of my little warp jump animation. It's gonna be soon on Youtube at 1080p, and at 4K on Patreon.
www.patreon.com/posts/wip-en...
#startrek #warp #vfx #b3d #tng #tmp #fanart #3dart #art #noAI #enterprise #enterprise-e #sovereign #llap #trek #3d #wip #animation #patreon

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 3d

This was supposed to be an animated gif, but, I guess posting those from my phone doesn't work well, oh well.

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a social media post saying that the earliest dragon in film history was from the 1920s, and maybe that’s true for live action, but here’s a dragon photobombing Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914 #filmhistory

A gif from Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) showing Gertie looking over her shoulder at a flying, four-winged dragon.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 3d

Surely there must be an overlap of #Mario and #Wicked fans who will think this meme I have just made is very funny.

An edited screenshot of the scene from Wicked where Galinda corrects Dr. Dillamond's pronunciation of her name in class, originally saying, "Actually, it's Ga-linda. With a 'ga.'" In this screenshot, her classmates' faces have been replaced with Goomba faces from the Mario series, while her face has been replaced with a Galoomba's, an enemy who is often confused for Goombas. And the subtitle has been changed to, "Actually, it's Ga-loomba. With a 'ga.'"

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 4d

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I remember enjoying it most when it leaned into that, IIRC Matt Smith seemed the most like he was just in it having a great time.

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 4d

Jedi Starfighter blueprint
Favourite of the prequel ships

Unfortunately not been able to find the cross-sections or top view blueprints

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GiFavetta @gifavetta.bsky.social · 5d

Nas minhas pesquisas com o @mayke-arth.bsky.social pela escolha nada coerente de adquirir um belíssimo Gurgel Carajás, eu fiquei fascinada pelas propagandas de Gurgel e de como elas parecem ter saído de algum conto Solarpunk

propaganda carro Gurgel nossa terra - nossa gente - nosso carro

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 6d

Here's also another comparison with the Star Wars: Squadrons helmet- which I'm not trying to match or anything, neither in modeling nor texturing, it's just interesting to see the differences.

A Blender viewport screenshot of the Squadrons TIE pilot helmet next to my unfinished TIE pilot faceplate.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 6d

Probably won't finish this helmet for a while, but since the faceplate is mostly the way I want it, threw some placeholder textures at it. It's also kind of intoxicating to drag around different roughness values at it. I'll probably have to try matching a movie shot to get the reflectivity right.

A Substance Painter viewport screenshot of the faceplate of a TIE fighter pilot.

A Blender viewport screenshot of an overly-shiny TIE fighter pilot helmet faceplate

A Blender viewport screenshot of a TIE fighter pilot helmet faceplate that probably has the correct amount of shininess, but with grunge and fingerprinting that is probably too uniform over its whole surface.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 7d

Always good to see the Droids one referenced! Nice work.

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 7d

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma

( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 8d

Wow! That is zany. :D

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 9d

My WIP TIE pilot helmet progress on the right, next to the model from Star Wars: Squadrons on the left. Still a lot of refining to go on the helmet parts of mine, the sides aren't really modeled at all yet, but it's fun to see how they have a different character.

A 3D viewport screenshot of two TIE fighter pilot helmets next to each other. The one on the left is from the video game Star Wars: Squadrons, and is fully textured, while the one on the right is slightly incomplete and is untextured, just all black. They have slightly different shapes/expressions, with mine on the right having some deeper, more angular facial features.

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