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Gaaaahhhh! Do not visit this thread before bedtime! Do not visit this thread before bedtime! Do not visit this thread before bedtime! Ok, I'm cool now.

Okay, I'm taken with the Betelguesean Lynx with its owlish face and talons. Does it use that ruffle of feathers/fur to channel sound the way some owls do? Barn owls have arrays of facial muscles just for adjusting their feathers to fine-tune sound capture. I'd guess it isn't a very large...

Forget the little girl, grab the cannolis!

Atolm ... have you ever done a timelapse of your work? Something close in showing your workflow would be amazing to study!

Yesss! YESSS! Give in to the temptation! Yield to your ... desire!

As always, I look forward to all the work you produce. Your designs are always fascinating and so clean. And inspirational, too! In thinking about my own approach to doing hypothetical Lyran ships, I came up with a new way to model some of these shapes in Blender. I might have to dust off my old...

"People of Kahless?"

Atolm, I love these! But they're not like the original straight-line CATamarans, so I have to hate them. But the originals are bland and boring, and these look so alien! Have you done any Kzinti yet?

Scott, the effort you're putting into these renderings shows, and I'm grateful you're sharing so many test renderings with us! My takeaway is that you are bracketing the sweet spot in lighting and gamma without hitting it. Without gamma, your renderings come out too dim. It's probably a bit...

I think it was Jesco von Puttkamer who put the kabash on that idea. He explained that any light or sound effects created by warp drive would indicate a waste of energy and engineers work hard to eliminate such inefficiencies. Nevertheless, we were still left with that dramatic entry into warp...

My first reaction was it was an old picture from Stardate Magazine (remember that?) ... you nailed the style!

Honestly, I've always seen the lack of robots in Star Trek to be something of an oversight. Sure, there were the evil "guest stars" like Nomad, M-4, V'Ger in the original series. And maybe there's justification for workbees to run in autonomous mode. And then there's Data and the exocomps (Oooo...

He's Flint. "Oh, Flint was dying ... Dr. McCoy said so," you say? What was Flint's M.O.? He'd pretend to age, fake his death, and then move on. With the right equipment, it was probably a simple thing for such a long-lived being to fool McCoy's instruments.

Not to distract from your incredible work, but I thought you and others in this thread might enjoy it if I shared a yearly treat from my local neighborhood. A few streets over from my house, there lives one of those neighbors who tend to get totally whack-o when it comes to one of the holidays...

I recommend Krita; it's open source and platform independent. It even supports animation. Good luck!

That's interesting. I bought a huge serial-interfaced tablet for my Amiga back in the late eighties, and it took me a while to get over that very problem. But eventually, I took to it as soon as my eye coordinated with the screen pointer instead of the stylus. I continued to use that big thing...

I 'liked' that, but -- just to be clear -- I'm not celebrating your troubles. You're my favorite of the current crop of Trek authors. On the subject of screen savers, do you remember Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? Who am I kidding? I'm sure you do! Do you remember how all the 'computer'...

Well-done Kaiser!

Thanks for the insight into your technique!

If I may? Find something well outside of the work you usually do. I assume you do a ton of SF-related stuff for your job, right? Fine, go somewhere else. Make a valley, put a creek into it and a log cabin near the creek. Put snow on the mountains and procedural trees. Back in the old days...