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Star Trek Online Ship Tier Revamp

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Suricata

I’ve been following Star Trek Online for many years now and have been an avid fan of coming up with solutions to in game issues. One of the issues I have with Cryptics incarnation of Star Trek has always been the way the ships tier system worked. I’ve had a few ideas brewing on how I feel it should of been handled but never really knew how to write it all down. So today I decided to make a write up of my ideas. I’ve done it as an image because I feel that diagrams and visual examples are needed to really put this idea accross properly.

(Click the image below to see it at full scale)

Old Domain Closed

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Suricata

After over 2 years of service, I’ve finaly closed down my old artwork blog hosted on wordpress. I’ve spent about 7 hours today updating links and cross checking image paths. The above chart is an analytical chart I created a few months back, I noticed that my old blog was still actually recieving a huge ammount of traffic, even though it is no longer in use!

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Enterprise Comparison Chart

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Suricata

Enterprise Comparison Chart

Over the years I have been creating vector images of all the ships from Star Trek and I have compiled several size comparison charts. The usual request I get is for charts that are printer friendly. So with the near release of the Enterprise-F in Star Trek Online, I decided to remake my Enterprise progression chart to include the new ship, whilst at the same time adjusting it so that it can be printed out.

I have also included the Enterprise-J, which I reconstructed in the Enterprise-J Case Study article a year or so ago. The ‘JJprise’ is shown at the scale that I still believe fits the progression the best (and is supported by several scenes in the film), I have also included a ‘ghost’ image of the other size the film was also portrayed at in the film as well (which is also supported by other scenes in the film!). The NX-Refit is what Doug Drexler designed and is what we would of got to of scene has Enterprise not been canceled!

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Type 83 Destroyer (Videogame Warship)

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Suricata

A few weeks ago I was given an assignment at school to create something for my portfolio, it was a very open project, but one of the things that stood out to me was an idea to create a vehicle for a computer game. I immediatly had a brainwave and thought I’d look at designing a warship for a computer game, however, things are never as easy as they seem, before I got to work I had to do some research into what exactly people expect a warship to look like.

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HMS Daring poster

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Suricata

I was recently asked to provide some images for a digital artwork exhibition. I was given instructions not to use Science Fiction, so I went about making a render of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer.

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