Personal Concept: Star Trek Star Ship

I'm a big fan of all things Star Trek and recently, after finishing Strange New Worlds on Paramount +, I felt that I had to take a stab at designing my own starship (something I've wanted to do for quite some time anyway).

The goal of this personal project was to try and stay within the confines of the Strange New Worlds design aesthetic while bringing some of my own design choices into play. I've always been a real fan of the Excelsior class star ships so I thought "How can I bring that look into the universe, arguably a couple of decades before it would show up in the 3rd movie The Search For Spock?" So what you see here is me trying to riff on those designs and add some additional curved structures that I had going through my mind.

For those that are curious, the rough block out was done in Blender, with additional sculpting, details, and Booleans in Zbrush. Lighting and basic materials were added in Octane Render and then I went to photoshop for some of the more 2D looking sketch representations and the final Keyframes. Total time for this project from sketching out ideas to 3D modeling and final key frames was approximately 41 hrs.