Persephone (Patreon)

This is the 3D project I've been working on for the past month or so. It's been taking a while—maybe longer than I'd hoped, haha. But I wanted to show an update on the progress.

I've always been captivated by the 1980s to 90s NASA concepts of the future and I wanted to do something in that style. As I was doing some research for this, I realized I also don't think I've ever seen non-concentric gravity rings on a spacecraft. When I sketched it and then mocked it up, I really liked the way it looked. So that became the visual design that I built the rest of the craft around.

I also found out recently that humans are returning to the moon('s orbit) on Artemis II in April. Currently the launch is scheduled for April 1st, but it's already been pushed back once, so it may be later.

Anyway I thought it would be fun to put a little more time and effort into this project as a celebration of the upcoming launch—which will also mark the first time NASA has put people into space with their own equipment since 2011 when the Shuttle was retired. So despite this possibly not being the best use of my time, at least as far as the portfolio work goes, I'm going to do a little animation with it later this month.

The above render is 1k and there's a larger 4k version attached.