To answer a question that is frequently asked about these two ships, I’ve done a scaled sized comparison chart to show the relative sizes – the Insignia Class is 560 meters in length and
the Ascension Class is 1400 meters in length…
Here are some preliminary renders of a ship I’ve been working on in between cooking too much Turkey and singing Old Lang Syne: A ship provisionally billed as the Hawkings Class because, well, that’s just what came to mind.
A little reminiscent of the Sovereign and Interpid classes, I am more using the design to test the faster creation of models and to keep the poly count down. Currently I’m not too happy with the panels and the stardrive section needs windows along with lots of other detail, but from these pics you can get an early impression:
Some highish res images of the old Insignia Class for a Star Trek sim.
It seemed I’d done a fair few orange things lately, so I thought I’d try something blue.
Done for www.stphoenix.com.
I continue to do animation work for Sonnet films for the time being, and unfortunately cannot show anything as of yet until their official release of The Incursion. Suffice to say it’s something original and I will post the final effects and development art here when I can.
In the meantime, I also continue to do stills work for Star Trek: Phoenix, any images of which I’ll post here (as above). The producer wanted to show the relative scales of the two ships in the production.
Apologies to all those that have contacted me where I am yet to reply; I am working to get round to you soon.
Turning out very differently from what I sketched out here, this is a shot for a Star Trek Sim of a ship departing an Asteroid base.
The story required a holodeck-type effect on the doors, so I added this here but I thought it might be a little hard to explain outside the storyline:
This image was created based on an idea for a Star Trek Sim storyline, where an Insignia Class ship was being constructed inside an asteroid. I posted an earlier concept image of the ship departing the base, but here it is whilst still docked.
I originally got the idea for the window affect from the following image on the net:
I then put together this rough image as a concept for approval before I worked on the final version:
Just some images of two Insignia Class Starships I did as a request for a couple of Star Trek Sims.
The USS Achilles:
…and the USS Phoenix:
Although it is just an “initial idea” concept for an image I am working on for another Star Trek SIM, thought I’d post it for anyone who’s interested even in my rough work.
Set inside an asteroid, the strange “exit” is because the base is intended to be protected by a hologrid which shields it from the outside world.
There are a few other ideas and images in the pipeline – any finished versions, or in-development work, will also be posted here.
This animation was put together last week for the unveiling in Seattle – it had to be done against a tight deadline – in an ideal world it would have been a little more polished.
A different version of the video is also at www.stphoenix.com.
