Nick Stevens

I'm a fellow of the IAAA, space illustrator and animator, specialising in obscure part of the Soviet Union space program, and unbuilt designs. Here's my showreel: vimeo.com/590515993 Available for hire, I can visualise your spacecraft designs!

New wallpaper. I've said it before and I'll say it again but if I have to stare at a screen all day at work then I'll be damned if I have to look at the corporate wallpaper - I know where I am, don't need reminding every few minutes 🤣 #Lightwave3d render of Howie Day's model. #ScifiArt #Scifi

Part 4 of the Maximilian-inspired armor modeling in Blender. Longer video coming soon. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D #armour #hardsurface

More of the Roddenberry Archive’s interview with Walter Koenig at: youtu.be/2s7bfCOlSFo

Mourning the passing of Star Trek legend Walter Koenig. He was 90. A couple of years ago, Walter gave us a nice interview for the Roddenberry Archive, directed and edited by Roger Lay, Jr. youtu.be/Z3vzNfxpgZ8

My first experiment with 3d camera tracking in Lightwave! It's very slow to build, but even at low quality settings the results are clean. (And you only build once). I then added the floating head of Yuri Gagarin. (And the base picks up reflections!)

I have to say I've found the last couple of series of Taskmaster UK distinctly disappointing. Contestants don't seem very engaged, or imaginative. However,the good news is that the NZ version, free to watch on YouTube is firing on all cylinders. Aussie version is entertaining as well.

America.

I'm posting this again, because I like it VERY much.

My animation of the LK lunar lander separating from the LOK spacecraft as it was envisioned in the Soviet L3 expeditionary project. This segment is a part of the project to document Soviet space history: russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_m... youtu.be/s3X1L_j2g8I

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Apollo 9's Rusty Schweickart! Born October 25, 1935. Here he is during his EVA on March 6, 1969, beautifully lit by the pale blue reflected light from Earth. Rusty was also responsible for another very important photograph...1/2

1925, Flight to the Moon.

My annual warning that the coming week is the one where the US is still on daylight savings time but the UK is not: UK will be on GMT (EDT+4, EST+5) not BST (EDT+5, EST+6) starting 0100 GMT tonight. Be careful when scheduling transatlantic zoom meetings!

What a great cover! The cast of 1977’s Live Stiffs Tour: Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Larry Wallis & Ian Dury. Some sat in on each other’s sets, with Dury, say, drumming for WE. For some, it was a very competitive business, with most accounts giving the crown to Dury & his Blockheads.

Lost one rendering I've hit a dry spell so time for an #ArtTrain. Show me your sci-fi. Original, fan-art, ships, planets, cityscapes, digital, traditional anything goes just no AI please. Let’s see what you’ve got. 😊 #ScifiArt #Scifi

Always an essential read to keep up with the latest developments in the space sector. Rob's editorials are a highlight. Recommended. @nick-stevens.com @markgarlick.com #space #spaceexploration #BIS #Odyssey #spaceflight

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Spin of Yuri Gagarin's head in Anaglyph 3d.

Gagarin bust now ready to use...

A Spacesuit is just a very personal spacecraft. #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

Nice free 3d printable model of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space. www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-pr...

Now that's just showing off!

Space Shopping Precinct :)

Well, that's the best example of mansplaining I have seen in a while...

US IT companies seem to be working on the basis they will continue to make money even when their customers hate them.

Hmmm. I'm looking for a cool name for a shopping area on a space habitat. The only one I can think of is the Babylon 5 Zocalo. Any other ideas please?

Breaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents Findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond” garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-n... Breaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents Findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond”

My first APOD (Astronomical Picture of the Day) in a long time... Seems the idea of green star is a hit. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender

Dune design thread:

Russia is losing as many soldiers as it admits losing in total in the Afghan War every week. This is not sustainable.

Close to finishing Careless People, and in shock by HOW corrupt Meta was/IS. Also how alike Zuckerberg, Trump, Elon all are - all kicked in the head by a horse every day of their lives, childish, tantrum-throwing billionares who get their feelings hurt so easily, yet dissociative also clueless.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered the company to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) following a trial that found it had spent years lying to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.

But you don't realize that until you're sitting in front of a pile of submissions and read them all and see the correlations. Anyway, yes, I can recognize the LLM slop in my inbox, often by the subject line at this point.

My illustration of the Martian Moons Explorer landing on Phobos

Workshop coming November 6th! I break down all the steps and let you in on my glazing secrets 🎨 Sign up here: pocosinarts.org/product/glaz...

A little bit about MMX's launch vehicle from the press kit

As you know I lean towards the more painted look. Currently enthralled by this Bob Layzell image, no where near realistic but man does it sing ! If I can get even a little bit close to look of his bare metal I’ll be happy.

"Enzmann Starships" Interstellar concept. Model by @nick-stevens.com Rendered in #Lightwave3d (LW11.6.3 ) I think this will be my next LW 2026 conversion project. Working with that huge reflective ball of frozen deuterium is going to be the challenge.

This is simply fantastic

Show me something that traumatized you as a child. Watching a child trafficker turn kids into screaming donkeys. Pinocchio should come with a “contains traumatizing body horror” warning. decider.com/2020/02/07/p...

Stratolaunch’s airborne launch platform #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

A selection of non scifi renders ! #Lightwave3d I'll have to revisit the aviation side of things soon.

"A closer look at the data reveals a brute-force guessing machine, not a reasoning intellect. Mathematics isn't dead; it's being spammed, strip-mined, and exploited by an industry that needs human creativity more than it admits." emeraldbook.org/news/oct-162...

This afternoon's orbital data suggests - subject to confirmation - that Russia's Kosmos-2612 has carried out a rendezvous with the US ICEYE X36 radar sat, within a few km. To my knowledge this is the first LEO rendezvous of two active sats where the owner of one of the sats did not give approval.

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Congratulations! I didn't know about this magazine, I'll check it out.

Congrats on the column

🔭 3D 67P Credit: ESA , Rosetta , MPS , OSIRIS - Stereo Anaglyph: Philippe Lamy and The Team ap261017