GrahamTG

GrahamTG

@grahamtg.bsky.social

Self-taught 3D digital hobbyist with a lifelong love of sci-fi, movies and books I mostly do spaceships and stuff... mostly. Working mainly in Lightwave3D with a touch of Blender and Photoshop. UK 🇬🇧 https://linktr.ee/GrahamTG

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Introductions. Big fan of SciFi and Aviation art. But never actually gave it a go until I suffered a brain injury which left me partially sighted. Started with Bryce 5.0 before settling on Lightwave3d. I work in a mundane job so relish the escape putting together an image can provide.

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

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

QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood ⏳

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QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood ⏳

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CartoOOOOon Beardy@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Yesterday BioWare got shuttered and I was like “Fuck!” EA cancelled the next Mass Effect and I was like “FUCK!” And today the next Mass Effect trailer leaked! No prizes for what I yelled at the top of my lungs! youtu.be/WP3ieef0mpE?...

I came late to the Mass Effect universe, picking up ME2 on a whim. But have since played them through many times.Such an incredible gameplay experience one that opened my eyes to how cinematic, expansive, thought provoking and moving games could be. I'm devastated at the Bioware shut down news.

"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.

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It's #Spacetober day 17: Moon. A view of the surface of the Moon during a lunar eclipse. The Sun has passed behind the Earth, illuminating its atmosphere in an eerie red and staining the lunar landscape with the light of a million sunsets. #SciArt #spaceart

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In AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers. Edited by @ivorhartmann.bsky.social. Alt for image: Cover features Kanaga symbol from Dogon cosmology meaning "human," on what looks like an eclipsed sun with a halo around it, against a very dark sky. Title text is partly an old computer-style font.

Rachel Cordasco@rachelcordasco.bsky.social

"To Gaze at the Sun" by Clifton Gachagua- a couple receives their cloned son but they realize quickly that he is not built for the war he was intended to help fight

Well that was a first. Loaded up a recent scene in LW 2026 to find all the surfacing completely borked. Much head scratching ensued. Loaded the same scene in LW 2024 all ok. Remembered I’d installed some legacy plugins. Clean install later and badda bing, back to normal. 😊 #Lightwave3d

Looks like I was feverishly rendering ringscape planets a couple of years ago. Sometimes it's good to go full Slartibartfast 😉 #Lightwave3d #Scifi #ScifiArt

QRP with your moon art! 🌕🌙 #ArtTrain Moon - rendered in #Lightwave3d

Bru.ib⭐@bruib.bsky.social

QRP with your moon art! 🌕🌙 #ArtTrain 'A bold transmission'. #Art #DarkArt

Well looky here, it's the weekend. Early start, chores all done, home alone and unsupervised as my wife is away watching the mighty Plymouth Argyle FC. There was only ever one way this was going. Time to crank up the music and fire up #Lightwave3d #ScifiArt #Scifi Image - "Spaceman" by Marc Hempel

My yearly attempt at an Event Horizon render. Russell Tawns model in #Lightwave3d. As always banging my head against a spooky atmosphere, so gave up 😄 Here she is at Neptune preparing to tear a hole in the universe. #Scifi #ScifiArt

Seems to be the thing to do at the moment, and I'm all for it. The 9 albums that made the current iteration of me. As with all things, they'll change. Life moves on, tastes change, memories grow and fade. www.my9albums.com

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It's #Spacetober day 6, rover/robotic explorer. Exploration of Europa In the future, a probe descents into an ice chasm on Jupiter's moon, Europa. Jupiter is seen in the sky, with another moon, Io, in transit. #SciArt #spaceart

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I did NOT give Artstorm Games permission to use my ekranoplan design in , but seeing the old girl shredding warships and launching MIGS is kinda hard ngl Shame they didnt bother to ask or pay me smh. Thanks to KTGirlGaming for the clip #ModernWarships

Alex Jay Brady@alexjaybrady.bsky.social

ModernWarships by ArtStorm Games used my atomic ekranoplan design without permission or so much as buying me dinner, cmon guys don't do me dirty like this, cut me a cheque I'm broke! #Modernwarships #ArtStormGames

"This'll be fun !" I think to myself. Fires up #Lightwave3d, pours a stiff drink and loads up Russell Tawns Event Horizon model. Drops in a new lighting setup and nothing. I'd forgotten how much light this damned (or possibly cursed ?) ship drinks. I swear it's coated in vantablack. #Scifi #ScifiArt

Ahh the penny drops. The model was created in a very old version and used the old surfacing system. LW 2026 is uses a newer PBR setup. A quick and very dirty surface conversion later and now we can begin to see some of the details.

September 2026 adventures, mainly in space. Okay, totally in space!! #Lightwave3d and Photoshop. Guess as it's October I'll have to think of something spooky (eyes up the Event Horizon model). #Scifi #ScifiArt

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OK! I've made a downloadable tutorial / worked example., with all required files It shows how to applied instanced decorations to a Christmas Tree, & change the surface so that each decoration has a separate colour. drive.proton.me/urls/R5H36MF... #lightwave3d 2026, (& recent versions?)

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Thank you all for likes and comments. Much appreciated. But even more appreciated are RESKEETS. My income has been cut in half by AI and is only going to worse. Some of you have far more followers than I. You can make a difference by just hitting that share button. Please. And thank you.

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Urban Future 7. Stonemason's work is consistently exceptional, all his setting have many great viewpoints. He's the best reason to use Daz, so you can export!

Still down the GiTS rabbit hole, watching the series on Amazon( recommended) and re-reading the book. "Thermoptics" rendered in #Lightwave3d and kludged in Photoshop. Does it work ? Not really but it was seriously fun to do and that's all that really matters these days 😊 #Scifi #ScifiArt