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Well that was one year gone by too fast!

Thanks to everyone for their support this year!
Personally I hope to do a lot more design/3D next year! It was hard to fully focus on multiple projects because most of  the time I was busy with the new house. Amazing how much work and organizing it takes. Perhaps I want everything too precise? :-)

Anyway, I wish everybody a Happy New Year and lets make 2011 a special one! :)

p.s. before I forget: Thanks for voting on the poll! I will see if I can somehow push that poster idea forward.

p.p.s My English writing skills once again went down the drain, I will probably be spell checking this post until 2012... doh!

Last image of 2010: My first idea and "sketch" for SOTL2011. The ringship passing small space debris and pushing it out of the way with the deflector.  However I decided to go with the big asteroid idea instead, it was safer in terms of Treknology workings. :)

More winter!

(deleted the other winter post...already had enough of it lol)

Small Holiday "gift"

The full shot of the Enviropod, that is also seen on SOTL2011 center page.

Slightly more Trek

Small recap of this week:

• Enterprise F contest: I'm not participating, time is the biggest issue, a smaller issue: the contest is U.S. only. (There might be workarounds for that though.) I will design an Enterprise F somewhere in the future. I do have some ideas but I need more then a month to develop them into something believable.
  
• U.S.S. Planck: Going as planned. I'm redoing the nacelles entirely. Was not happy with the shape and length of the ones seen before.
  
• I'm hearing all these rumors about the Vesta class coming to Star Trek Online. While I have tried to contact Cryptic a couple of months ago I was unsuccessful in doing so. I'm getting a lot of emails with the same request: "Can you get the Vesta into STO?" Perhaps now we can! :-)  Just for the record: I don't play STO, I'm afraid I might get addicted as I'm very quickly addicted to games like this. (really!) Besides somebody needs to design ships. :-)
• I created a new web-album called "Aventine Declassified". It shows work in progress shots and raw screen-dumps and sketchy rendered concepts that where not yet released.
  
• Below are some small Planck updates:

Possible colors for Merian class variants. (U.S.S. Planck)

Sensor Pod in progress. (not sure if I showed this)

Small tweak

I decided to replace the sliding mini gallery with something that shows the 8 last uploads. It's a bit more dynamic. (If I would upload...oh yeah!)

What is going on!

Phew! Things are very slowly settling down for the next 2 weeks. I'm still moving from old to new home, it's taking some time, as there is still some more work to be done before I can really pack > transport > unpack.

Sadly this is also the reason that I wont participate in the Star Trek Online "Enterprise F" design contest. I cant go 100% at that, so I wont do it. Good luck for the people who do! :)

My schedule was extremely messed up, so I created a new one.

end 2010 - mid 2011:

• Finishing Merian class with 3 different modules (3 ships)
• Continuing the U.S.S. Voyager refit (yay!)
• Participating in a local electric concept car project. (new stuff!)

I get a lot of requests for more "Aventine", I can only go into that a little bit by placing some 1600x shots of it:

I'm planning on letting go of the current starship styling. I think some things have become obsolete overtime. Currently all my efforts are based on ships that where designed between 10 & 20 years ago. While this might be comfortable, it's not renewing. This means I'm going to take a lot more "creative risk" in new designs. Anti clutter I would call it. :) Time will tell I guess!