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This image is composed of two real images from the Artemis II mission, one of the Orion window frame and one of Earth set.

The Starship HLS is my own 3D model which is placed between the two images, which exist as 2D planes in the scene, to create a realistic representation of a possible image that could be taken on the Artemis IV mission.

This is a render of the Space Launch System flying in front of the Moon. An image which unfortunately has never successfully been taken, so I decided to do it myself.

I used cones with a glass texture and low refractive index to refract the light from the Moon in this scene and create the effect of shockwaves coming of the rocket as it travels at super sonic speed. I looked at computational fluid dynamics sims from NASA to see where shockwaves were actully created during flight.

After watching the brilliant film Project Hail Mary, I wanted to try re-creating the planet Tau Ceti e (AKA Adrian) from the film.

The aurora and atmosphere are procedural volumetric textures and the clouds are created with a procedural texture too which uses sub-surface scattering to mimic the translucency of real clouds.

SpaceX's plans to build bases, infrastructure and mass drivers on the Moon got me thinking if it would be possible to see all that activity from Earth.

Turns out, the illuminated side of the Moon is far too bright and would outshine any city lights or satilites being launched from the surface.

Still, I took some artistic liberty and created this image of a colonised Moon seen from Earth, with satilites being launched from its surface.

When I created this render, NASA recently announched plans to change Artemis III from a lunar landing to a low Earth orbit mission where Orion would dock with one or both of the landers which may be used in Artemis IV, now the mission which is planned to have the first lunar landing.

This image shows Starship HLS seen through the window of the Orion capsule in low Earth orbit.

There has been some discussion around if Starship is the best design for a reusable upper stage.

Another company, Stoke Space, has plans to use a passively stable "gumdrop" design with engines integrated into a regeneratively cooled heatshield.

I wanted to show what Starship would look like if it had this alternative reusable upper stage design so I edited my model and made these renders.

This is a two part render with one image showing Starship in Earth orbit an the other showing Starship in Martian orbit.

I was inspired to create these by an art trend on X. When the two images are uploaded to X, the way X displays multiple images causes them to be split down the middle and connected in a similar way as what is shown below:

The render intends to juxtapose the two worlds while showing that Starship is what will connect them and bring Earth's beuatiful ecosystem to the now barren planet, Mars.

Before New Glenn's second flight, I wanted to create some renders to show what a successful landing might look like for the booster.

The launch window opened early in the morning and with partial cloud cover so I pictured golden sunlight shining through the clouds over the landing barge.

SpaceX sent out drones to take aerial videos of Starship landing in the ocean for the last few flights of version 2.

Here, I created a render depicting one of those drones watching Starship as it lowers itself into the ocean while two of Starship's raptor engines create a cloud of vapourised sea water in the process.

In 2016, SpaceX posted an image of their concept rocket, the Interplanetary Transport System, in front of Jupiter.

Nine years later, I decided to recreate that image with Starship, the rocket that SpaceX actually ended up building for interplanetary missions.

On Starship Flight 11, Starship performed s-turns on re-entry to test cross range capabilities.

This render shows Starship turning to the right and leaving a trail of plasma.

This render showings all the planets in the solar system and our moon.

It's a showcase of all the worlds humanity may explore in the next century.

This is one of my personal favourite renders which I've made. It shows Starship on the launchpad during a sunset with the Moon hanging in the sky behind it.

A destination that will have a profound effect on the future of the human race and the means of travelling there.

These are some test renders for my animation of Starship getting caught by the tower at Starbase.

SpaceX plans to test docking and propellent transfer between two ships in orbit.

Here, I created an image of the view we might get when two ships approach eachother in orbit to dock.

A render of Starship performing a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

Here, I explored using volumetrics to create a procedural steam/splash effect for the engines interacting with the ocean water.

This is one of my more artistic renders of Starship. Instead of making something realistic, I wanted to create something visually appealing which conveyed the wonder I feel for space exploration.

The red to blue gradient was carefully made to be as striking as possible and the soft glow of the stars conveys the dreamlike wonder of space. Starship rises towards those stars, the vessel that will ignite humanity's journey to visit them.

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