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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not originally how I envisioned this scene going but honestly I think I prefer this. Got one more shot to go before I return to the character modeling trenches! #3dart #characterart #scifibooks #animation #blender

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Getting next shot lit and some of the basic stuff in it all blocked in. Gonna work on texturing and a few shaders tomorrow then should be a quick job to do the camera work! #blender #animation #scifibook

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Things are coming together faster than I anticipated, which is great! Struggled a bit with animation, which is to b a expected. I have no doubts that I'll come back to this shot and tweak it a dozen times before this project is over. #animation #blender #scifibooks #characterart #3dart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

First three characters added to the opening! There are three more characters who are supposed to appear in this shot but before I get around to MAKING them, I'm gonna go ahead and do a lil work on some of the other shots that have just these three. #characterart #scifibooks #blender #animation

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's always rigging problems. Thankfully it's all looking good now so let's get to work! #animation #blender #scifibooks #characterart #3dart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

These last couple of character models certainly posed their own unique challenges, from making and rigging wings, to getting rigs to play nice with each of the new models, but we finished them up! Next few have their own problems for me to face but I'm certain I'm up to the task! #blender #scifibook

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Finished up the second character model for this animation. Been getting side tracked by work and some other stuff, but HOPEFULLY should be able to focus some more time toward this over the next few weeks. #blender #charactermodel

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

First character rig is complete! Excited to move onto the rest and get this animation really underway. #blender #scifibook #retroanime

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

First few character heads sculpted (and bodies too but those aren't seen anyway). Heading into the first rounds of retopology for them a lil bit tonight and into tomorrow! #blender #blenderrender #scifibook

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

VERY early sneak peak at the trailer for my next book. Still some stuff that I need to add to this scene but I'm so happy with how it's come out so far! #blender #blenderrender #scifibook #retroanime

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Remaking my book's logo from scratch just for a single trailer? More likely than you'd think #scifibook #digitalart #graphicdesign

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Another couple of test renders before I hop into some animating today! Working on the opening scene of my sci-fi trailer for my book! #blender #blender3d #scifiart #scifibook

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Test render for some "foliage" I made for a little animation I'm working on. Final version's gonna use more of a toon shader, but I figured it'd be nice to see it in it's full glow #scifibook #3dart #blender

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Been putting it off for some time but finally got this piece done! Really excited for the release of Rondo of Revolution! #rondoofrevolution #scifibook #scifiart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The original map for Rondo of Revolution was a lot more difficult to read and bloated with scifi-technoclutter. Decided to strip that all away to make something that both felt like it fit the world, and was easy to read! #mapart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A complete remake of 5028's galaxy map. I wanted to increase the readability and add some more clear color coordination between the governments and their systems. I also wasn't a fan of just using stock Milky Way assets and so set out to draw the galaxy by hand! #scifibook #galaxymap

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Hey y'all my next book is coming out hopefully later this year, and with the first draft finished it's time for a cover reveal! Thank you once again to the lovely @luhuala.bsky.social for some outstanding work!

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I realize that I never posted an update on my last picture before I dipped for vacation. Haven't worked on this as much as I should have been but here's a current progress pic! #conceptart #artwip #rondoofrevolution

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Lineart WIP for some promo art :) Really happy with how a lot of the characters and backgrounds are turning out! #conceptart #artwip #lineart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Genuinely insane the difference a couple months of practice makes. Given it's been a year since Nocturne of Souls released, I wanted to redraw Dalia and Y'ALL??? I knew I'd gotten better but seeing these two pics side-by-side made me a little emotional ngl #conceptart #artpractice #scifibook

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I was never happy with William's hair post Sonata, so I decided to go back and redesign it! In the end, I made it slightly longer, a little messier and overall just more fluffy! (also new rendering style practice!) #conceptart #characterdesign #5028books

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It's sticker time! (Or at least it will be soon!) Thanks to the lovely artist @kayspnart.bsky.social we have some adorable chibis of some of our lovely book characters! Now I just need to go and get them printed 😅 #scifibook #scififantasy #chibiart #stickers

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

More new concept art for my last scifi book, 5028: Nocturne of Souls: Nine. One of ten Soulless Commanders, specializing in weapons RnD. Once a close friend of Dalia Fitz, how will she fare when her closest ally turns coat on the faction she's given her life to? #scififantasy #scifibook #conceptart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

New concept art for my next sci-fi fantasy book, Rondo of Revolution: The Stormtrailer. A boogieman of Draen mythos, lovingly (and horrifyingly) brought to life by the Soulless! How will the Sparrow Crew contest a being that controls the winds of magic itself? #scifibook #scififantasy #conceptart

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Y'all if you haven't yet you should check out (and back) this lovely game on Kickstarter, especially if you love CRPGs and Starfinder/Pathfinder! It's closing in on some of the last days and the team at @epictellers.bsky.social is really cool! www.kickstarter.com/projects/epi...

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Starfinder: Afterlight 💫

Gather your crew and save the galaxy in this party-based RPG featuring Starfinder 2e ruleset where magic meets technology.

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NPR @npr.org · 12/10/2025

Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

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Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag

Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

So I'm probably jumping the gun on this, but with me working so tirelessly on my next book, I got a rush of inspiration to make the main theme. For a story about strife and tyranny, of manipulation and freedom, I present the Rondo of Revolution! #5028book #composer #maintheme

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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The constitution is officially out the window...

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I've been working on my next book, Rondo of Revolution, since late 2023. It was supposed to be a fun little book about opposing tyranny, ending human trafficking and freeing a nation from strife. Then 2025 hit and it wasn't fun anymore

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Indicreates Art🖌️ @indicreates.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Hello everyone I’m an independent artist & illustrator! I do whimsical book art & emotional oil paintings :) Doing my best every day.

A whimsical painting with sun and moon elements

An oil painting of a rising angel from the dark

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hey y'all been doing some daily art practice, wanted to post some of the pieces I've made over the course of the first month!

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

With the audiobook for Sonata of Fate having been out for a while, I felt it pertinent to drop this! Find the original book and it's sequel, Nocturne of Souls, at the link below! grmbooks.com #GrandSymphony5028 #scifibook #scififantasy #newadultbook

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

New art for my book 5028 Nocturne of Souls from brilliant artist seki_07 on Twitter! Find the book on Amazon and at grmbooks.com #scififantasy #fantasybook #scifibook #GrandSymphony5028

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

So excited to be writing my next book, Rondo of Revolution! Drawing in the scope a bit to explore the precarious race relations on a planet on the brink of all out civil war! Time for a revolution! #scififantasy #5028books #scifibooks

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First page of my WIP: 5028: Rondo of Revolution
Blackwater System: Draenica
Galactic Date: 00:00:000 5028
There are nights when a wind blows that holds on it the omen of disaster. Off somewhere distant in the galaxy, war waged. Ships fucked through smoke, guns white hot as super concentrated light shot in wide arcs, colliding with the wing of a fighter. Explosions rained over a helpless village and the people in it found their fears to come true as beasts invaded their homes, some wearing the faces of loved ones, other mindless, formless.
But suffering comes in more forms than one. The night that foul wind blew across Draenica holding that omen, it carried with it a different kind of suffering. A suffering that festers and burns even past when it is nothing but brittle embers. A suffering, of which, followed me for much of my life.

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hey everyone! After a long two years, production on my full cast audiobook, 5028: Sonata of Fate has concluded! You can find it on www.grmbooks.com #audiobook #scifibooks #newadultbooks

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Have been having a fantastic vacation in #tenerife with my wife's family who lives here. Got this GORGEOUS picture of #teide while we waited for the stars to come out.

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Maybe pizza wasn't the best idea the night before flying :/

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Been considering building a new PC. Current one is about six years old, and though I've swapped out parts, it feels like it's reaching it's limit. Pro tools keeps dying, games are starting to get choppier. She probs has a couple years left but she's getting up there.

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Finished up the first half of my audiobook the other day! Gonna be taking a month long vacation away from music writing and other major work, and am excited for the brief bit of respite.

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Had a genuinely incredible time at Music Expo last weekend. Unfortunately, caught a cold immediately after and haven't been able to mess with Atmos as much as I've wanted, but I look forward to attending more of these! #audioproducer #audiobooknarrator #audioeditor #musicexpo

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Took a look at my old concepts of the Olympus Crew from my book, Nocturne of Souls, and... wow they've changed over the past decade. These two had the least amount, tho Dalia became less... whatever that face was, and Lux went from drunkard to ball of sunshine. (1/2)

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

When you get that transition timed perfectly to the music and it just hits THAT much harder Anyways look out for a new trailer coming soon! It's early in the works, but I'm SO excited for y'all to see this #booktrailer #newadultbooks #nabooks #scifibooks

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Love my three lil doofuses Can't wait for y'all to meet them this Halloween when their book comes out!

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Garrett Melick 🛸👽Scifi Author👽🛸 @moofmiser.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Tendrils reach into your mind calling one word. Unity. They offer power. All you need to do is give in. Will you?

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