Got some exciting news today: starting next month I'll be working full time for OTOY on The Roddenberry Archive! Of course I won't be able to share my work for them here (or anywhere else), but I will continue to work on both commissions and personal projects when time allows. I'll also be offering refunds to my current commission clients if they chose to, as this obviously changes the time frame for their completion. Anyway, exciting stuff ahead!
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Got some exciting news today: starting next month I'll be working full time for OTOY on The Roddenberry Archive! Of course I won't be able to share my work for them here (or anywhere else), but I will continue to work on both commissions and personal projects when time allows. I'll also be offering refunds to my current commission clients if they chose to, as this obviously changes the time frame for their completion. Anyway, exciting stuff ahead!
Congrats!
Looking forward to projects your work will be part of!
Got some exciting news today: starting next month I'll be working full time for OTOY on The Roddenberry Archive! Of course I won't be able to share my work for them here (or anywhere else), but I will continue to work on both commissions and personal projects when time allows. I'll also be offering refunds to my current commission clients if they chose to, as this obviously changes the time frame for their completion. Anyway, exciting stuff ahead!
That is fantastic news! They seem to be scooping up quite a few folks for the project. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of it!
Thanks for all the good wishes everyone, it's really an exciting thing to be a part of!
While I'm certainly quite busy and haven't been able to work on anything that I could show from the Roddenberry Archive, I am now able to show another project I worked on at the end of last year, as it's been publicly announced.
The people at EXO-6 contacted me about creating a 3D background for a replica of the Enterprise-E Captain's chair they were working on. Their idea is to sell the 3D background I did printed on foldable cardboard, so that you can place it behind the chair for display. It's certainly a cool idea if you ask me so I jumped at the opportunity. They are planning more chairs though I won't be working on those, mainly once again due to my commitments to the Roddenberry Archive.
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That is a pretty cool concept. How much of your existing work were you able to use for this project? Presumably quite a bit? Is this be the beginning of the Enterprise-E bridge set being added to your interior collection?
Slowly getting the hang of managing my times with the Archive work, I'm starting to get back into doing some personal projects during the weekends when I have the motivation to do so. Nothing major planned or anything, just some quick redresses for the time being to see how I'm able to handle it.
I'm tackling the Potemkin transporter room first, which is just a redress of the TNG transporter room I already modeled. I actually started this one years ago, doing stuff like the new raised platform for the transporter console and the color choices back then, but I hit a wall in trying to making it unique enough and left it there. I tried again this past week with a fresh perspective and ended up doing some substantial changes: I rotated the little side room 90°, making it slightly smaller and removing the side corridor entirely; I added some handrails between said side room and the transporter pad, to make accessing the side controls harder unless you're doing so from the transporter console area); I changed said transporter console stand to the bulkier "cargo bay" version, as I think it fits better with an older ship (plus it's a callback to the protective alcove of the 23rd century transporter rooms).
Finally, the transporter itself got a new color and pattern for the wall lights. I tried a ton of variations on the theme, and originally I had the lights pink rather than the purplish hue I ended up going for. It was hard to come up with something that still felt TNG while not just being the same pattern yet again.
Let me know your thoughts on it, I'm happy with how it's looking, but I'll give it a day or two to see if anything jumps out at me as needing changing.
For my finished Trek bridges and other works of mine, visit my portfolio
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in commissions!
You know, you might want to try going with the transporter pattern used on the Yosemite's transporter booth seen in the TNG episode "Realm of Fear," the inverted one.
@BolianAdmiral: The handrail itself isn't wood, just this design with the top painted brown instead of teal. Definitely just added to make the room different hahaha.
@Rusty0918: I tried that pattern a long while ago, but it just looks too dark on the standard transporter set (rather than the one person one used on the Yosemite). One element I did bring from that set are the holes in between each vertical light segment, in an attempt to link the Excelsior and Oberth transporters somewhat.
@richiewilch: The Archive is going wonderfully! It's great to be able to work closely with such an amazing team, including the Okudas and Daren Dotcherman, their knowledge of Trek is even greater than I would've imagined, and I now know a lot of background stuff regarding the sets that I can't wait to be made public. in case you haven't seen it there's this video released earlier this month showing the work done in the TOS and TMP era, nothing of my work yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ZtLReySGo
As far as the Potemkin transporter, I did end up making one change: I made the forward section of the transporter interior itself the same dark grey color as the exterior, instead of the light grey it was before. I think it works better this way. Here are the finished renders:
For my finished Trek bridges and other works of mine, visit my portfolio
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in commissions!
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Got some exciting news today: starting next month I'll be working full time for OTOY on The Roddenberry Archive! Of course I won't be able to share my work for them here (or anywhere else), but I will continue to work on both commissions and personal projects when time allows. I'll also be offering refunds to my current commission clients if they chose to, as this obviously changes the time frame for their completion. Anyway, exciting stuff ahead!
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in commissions!
Looking forward to projects your work will be part of!
That is fantastic news! They seem to be scooping up quite a few folks for the project. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of it!
Fantastic news my friend! CONGRATS! 🖖🏾
While I'm certainly quite busy and haven't been able to work on anything that I could show from the Roddenberry Archive, I am now able to show another project I worked on at the end of last year, as it's been publicly announced.
The people at EXO-6 contacted me about creating a 3D background for a replica of the Enterprise-E Captain's chair they were working on. Their idea is to sell the 3D background I did printed on foldable cardboard, so that you can place it behind the chair for display. It's certainly a cool idea if you ask me so I jumped at the opportunity. They are planning more chairs though I won't be working on those, mainly once again due to my commitments to the Roddenberry Archive.
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in commissions!
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Slowly getting the hang of managing my times with the Archive work, I'm starting to get back into doing some personal projects during the weekends when I have the motivation to do so. Nothing major planned or anything, just some quick redresses for the time being to see how I'm able to handle it.
I'm tackling the Potemkin transporter room first, which is just a redress of the TNG transporter room I already modeled. I actually started this one years ago, doing stuff like the new raised platform for the transporter console and the color choices back then, but I hit a wall in trying to making it unique enough and left it there. I tried again this past week with a fresh perspective and ended up doing some substantial changes: I rotated the little side room 90°, making it slightly smaller and removing the side corridor entirely; I added some handrails between said side room and the transporter pad, to make accessing the side controls harder unless you're doing so from the transporter console area); I changed said transporter console stand to the bulkier "cargo bay" version, as I think it fits better with an older ship (plus it's a callback to the protective alcove of the 23rd century transporter rooms).
Finally, the transporter itself got a new color and pattern for the wall lights. I tried a ton of variations on the theme, and originally I had the lights pink rather than the purplish hue I ended up going for. It was hard to come up with something that still felt TNG while not just being the same pattern yet again.
Let me know your thoughts on it, I'm happy with how it's looking, but I'll give it a day or two to see if anything jumps out at me as needing changing.
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in commissions!
Also, how is the Archiving going? I imagine that there's still little that you are able to share?
@BolianAdmiral: The handrail itself isn't wood, just this design with the top painted brown instead of teal. Definitely just added to make the room different hahaha.
@Rusty0918: I tried that pattern a long while ago, but it just looks too dark on the standard transporter set (rather than the one person one used on the Yosemite). One element I did bring from that set are the holes in between each vertical light segment, in an attempt to link the Excelsior and Oberth transporters somewhat.
@richiewilch: The Archive is going wonderfully! It's great to be able to work closely with such an amazing team, including the Okudas and Daren Dotcherman, their knowledge of Trek is even greater than I would've imagined, and I now know a lot of background stuff regarding the sets that I can't wait to be made public. in case you haven't seen it there's this video released earlier this month showing the work done in the TOS and TMP era, nothing of my work yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ZtLReySGo
As far as the Potemkin transporter, I did end up making one change: I made the forward section of the transporter interior itself the same dark grey color as the exterior, instead of the light grey it was before. I think it works better this way. Here are the finished renders:
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in commissions!