So I found this old 2D illustration of a brown dwarf that I made a couple years ago, back when I was experimenting with making digitally-painted art with my graphics tablet. Out of all the projects that I have attempted however, this is the only one that I actually had the motivation to finish.

A study on drawing a hot Jupiter's nightside. The dayside is overexposed. The nightside is pinkish from the combination of blackbody radiation and absorption from Na/K/H2O, similar to brown dwarfs. #art #astronomy #space #planet #exoplanet #HotJupiter

#DigitalPainting of #Jupiter, as it would have appeared on 1672 January 19th at 4:45 AM, based on a sketch by Giovanni #Cassini Cassini is usually seen as the discoverer of the Great Red Spot, but modern analyses suggest his Permanent Spot is a different storm and GRS appeared in the 19th century.

Digital Painting #Art #SpaceArt of #Jupiter as it would have appeared on 1927 October 2nd at 12:40 AM GMT. This is based upon photographs taken by W.H. Wright using the Lick Observatory's 36" Great Refractor.

Hi, folks. Here's an old but favourite animation I did in 2013 depicting the Earth-Moon system in infancy. This is shortly after a Mars-sized body ('Theia') hit the proto-Earth. The Earth reformed, and the Moon coalesced out of the rest of the debris. #SciArt #3Danimation #3dsmax

This is something I've had in my folder of various prehistoric Earths that I haven't gotten around to uploading a render of, that is until now:

Been a while since I posted another C4D rendering involving exoplanets, so here's my take on the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, that I did sometime last year:

Felt like rendering something today, so here's Jupiter with the inner pair of Galilean satellites.

guide to the planetary system of Proxima Centauri, 2598 revision

Another stupid NSFW account trying to follow me again. Just fucking great. That’s someone I’ll never be able to remove from my follower count. 🙄😡

Hello, what's this? Another animated remake of a scene from COSMOS you say? I've had this in my files for a few years, but I haven't gotten around to properly rendering it until now. Audio from "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" Music by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra © 2025 Planetkid32

Got bored, so I decided to make a model of Lincoln.

An updated version of Winston has been uploaded on my website. This version has been revamped with new details and a new facepack by @planetkid32.bsky.social. #ttte #stmy

(Artist of the star textures here) I remember back in 2021 when I started work on what was originally an file replacement addon that revamped the default star textures in Celestia at the time. It got to a point however where I decided to pitch to the devs that they could use my new star- (1/4)

Celestia@celestiaproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Realistic limb darkening is the next improvement to be added. Previously, limb darkening was done by drawing a sprite in front of the star which created a central glow effect, that worked but was far from being visually accurate. #space #computergraphics #rendering #OpenGL #opensource #simulator

I actually made the suggestion for the edit with how the unlit side of the rings are rendered. Before if the planet's phase angle were at 150°-180°, then they'd just look solid black like the main disk of the planet. Of course this isn't how the rings would actually look like, hence my request.

Celestia@celestiaproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Experimenting with ring rendering. Simple specular reflection, and backlighting when viewed from an angle where the parent star shines through. Here's a demonstration with Saturn. #space #computergraphics #rendering #OpenGL #opensource #simulator #planetarium #CelestiaProject

Now this is what you call a goods train.

For the new Planetarium show in Sweden's 'Universium', 'Once Upon The Moon', I made new texture maps of the Moon for their Lunar history sequence. Here is my animated presentation of those maps with added material showing milestones over Lunar Geologic time. #Sciart vimeo.com/1197028121

The Moon Over Time

The appearance of the Earth's Moon in several stages of its long history. This is established by Lunar samples provided from different regions undergoing widely separated changes over time. The main e...

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Yay it's my birthday today. 🎉🎂🎁🥳🎊

So this is a revised version of a video that I posted last month, because a paper just came out earlier today saying that Rho CrB d was actually just a false positive, so I had to re-render the system just to remove that one planet. Music by the USAF Heritage of America Band © 2025 Planetkid32

The Artemis II crew are well equipped for photography and are paying attention to the opportunities. On the outbound leg of their journey to the Moon this photo showing global scale dim light phenomena was obtained. I have removed the interior cabin lights reflections and adjusted the brightness.

Woah another new model. I've been reworking my RWS AU a bit, and given that it includes the purchase of 2 S&DJR 7F's in the early-30's, I figured that I should probably make a model of this class of engine to use at my disposal.

It's not really that common for me to upload 2 new videos in less than a week, isn't it? (Credits are at the end)

So I just left this (still WIP) set on the back burner until earlier today, when I found out about this plugin that converts parts into terrain, and now progress of this set has been moving along rather swiftly:

Planetkid32 (NO NSFW ALLOWED)@planetkid32.bsky.social · 2y ago

Janet taking a passenger train along the NWR mainline. #STMY #TTTE

I felt like making another video on my Vicarstown station set. (Credits are at the end)

Faces made by yours truly. 😉

WildNorWester@wildnorwester.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Janet is completed. I'll be doing a series of videos about how I made her, most likely after season 3 of #STMY. #TTTE

This is Janet, a new character who'll be introduced in #STMY. She's based at Barrow along with Neville and Caden, and is the NWR's current no. 11. I'm using Bandicam to record my modelling of her, and will be doing a multi-part video series showing my techniques for modelmaking. #TTTE

So after neglecting this for a month after initially starting it, I've decided to resume work on my Pluto Kuiper Express model, and I must admit that it's coming along very nicely. It's still got a few things that I need to figure out, but overall I'm pleased with how this model looks now.

Planetkid32 (NO NSFW ALLOWED)@planetkid32.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So here's something new for me. Yesterday I thought it'd be a fun idea to try and make a 3D model of a proposed mission that ultimately never was. Now I don't have any experience with modelling spacecraft in 3D, so I don't expect myself to be able to finish this, but at least I'm making an attempt.

Hi, folks! Here's one of my earliest and still favourite animations, created in 3ds Max in 2011. It's shows the hellish landscape of Earth's Hadean Eon, shortly after the formation of the Moon, more than 4 billion years ago. Who wants to go?

Omg finally they added the ability to save drafts.