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Some progress on texturing Y-wing engine #2. Both will still need a bit more work, but it's going well.

A 3D render of 2 Y-wing engine 3D models, arranged one above the other, on a black background. They have a realistic appearance, with subtle weathering, that could fool someone into thinking they were physical models instead of CGI.

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some funky hydrothermally active terrain from mashing around a few procedural noises and color ramps in Blender. Also was a test for when I do those 90s-style remakes of a bit of that StarCraft cinematic. I will iterate more to go for that look. Also inspired by the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia

A funky 3D render of some procedurally generated terrain with rocky formations and odd yellow waterlines around green deep water. A bit reminiscent of old Bryce 3D renders with noise-displaced terrain, just a more advanced version of that. There's also a cheesy 90s lens flare filter on top.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I see your ghoulish Orodromeus-hunting Troödon and raise you another... (by Mitsuhiro Kurokawa, in Dinosaur Valley / Kyoryu No Tani [1991])

A painting of a trio of Troodon hunting for Orodromeus at night in some waist-high greenery. Their eyes glow red in the dark. The scene and colors are very artistically pleasing, but the anatomy is very questionable and rounded, with the eye placement in relation to the skull feeling almost amphibian.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shuffling around the greebles for the other side's engine so that they're unique, like the originals. (here the 2nd engine is shown mirrored so it's a more direct comparison)

An untextured viewport screenshot of 2 Y-wing engines, that are extremely similar to each other, but have a bunch of differently-placed details instead of being exact duplicates.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not super different, but they do have unique weathering and slightly different greeble arrangements, since they couldn't just 'mirror' it all. Here is an example from the ANH Gold 2 model, where both sides the same panel with a 中 shape in it, but it's on the front on one and the back on the other.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great stuff- reminds me of an analog equivalent used in Aliens (1986), where the infested ceiling was a foreground miniature, yet seemed to have flashlights from the bg pass over its surface to sell the effect. Must've just been someone just out of frame with a pen light roughly matching the actors.

An image from the movie Aliens (1986) in which a group of people appear to be in an expansive industrial room where the hallway and ceiling are overgrown with some sort of biological hardened Gigeresque covering, with a line drawn on to show where in actuality the set ended and a miniature ceiling takes over. In the movie scene, as the actors shine lights around, their lights appear to be cast on the miniature ceiling as well, selling the illusion that it is a real, full-size ceiling, but in fact it must have been someone with a pen light in the foreground passing the light over roughly in sync with the actors in the distance.

A behind the scenes set photo showing that the alien infestation ends about 12 feet up, and there is no big infested ceiling with industrial pipes.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Almost done with the one engine.

A detailed, realistic 3D model of a Y-wing engine (from Star Wars), on a black background, from a rear/below angle, with a glowing red engine.

A detailed, realistic 3D model of a Y-wing engine (from Star Wars), on a black background, from a front/below angle.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Started texturing some final geo on the Y-wing! Still a bunch more work to go with a couple more types of weathering and some little decals, but looking good so far. Textures in Substance Painter, renders in Blender.

A 3D render of a decently realistic Y-wing's engine model seen from below, with landing gear bay doors open, on a black background.

A 3D render of a decently realistic Y-wing's engine model seen from above on a black background.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Leaping Laelaps poses are the Akira slide of dinosaur art

A screenshot of a frame from The Land Before Time (1988), in which the Sharptooth does a massive 2-footed leap through the air, in a pose similar to Charles Knight's Leaping Laelaps painting.

A screenshot of a frame from The Land Before Time (1988), in which the Sharptooth lies on its back on the ground, in a pose similar to Charles Knight's Leaping Laelaps painting.

Charles R Knight's 'Leaping Laelaps' painting from 1897, depicting two Laelaps (now known as Dryptosaurus) in a fight, with one on its back with its talons raised, the other leaping through the air in a manner that suggests an active lifestyle. From its discovery Laelaps was hypothesized to possess great kangaroo-like jumping abilities, its skeleton helping with the shift away from earlier 19th century perceptions of dinosaurs as only slow and lumbering.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did some interior details for the rear landing gear bay, this is sufficient. I'm in the home stretch on the exterior of the Y-wing.

A blender viewport screenshot looking at the open rear landing gear bay doors at the retracted foot pad, showing some pipes and piston details on the inside.

A more zoomed out screenshot showing the location of that lower bay in context with the rest of the engine.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did a little very rough blocking out / kitbashing together a StarCraft 1-style version of this barracks for a future recreation of the shot...

A shot from the cinematic announce trailer for the upcoming StarCraft shooter game (2030), featuring terran barracks landing on an alien planet.

A rough blockout mockup of a similar shot but with a different barracks design, more reminiscent of the building designs from the original game. No textures or anything, just solid grays.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think I had the much lighter version of this on some sort of collectible trading card at some point

A screenshot of some sort of menu from a special featurette on concept art with a lighter version of the same concept artwork of an Imperial Shuttle flying over the Imperial City

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A while back I made this low poly Geonosian Starfighter model from Star Wars Episode II. I didn't really end up using it for anything, but it was fun to make. I like the idea of very different species/cultures having very different shipbuilding aesthetics/approaches in Star Wars.

A rear/side angled view of a Geonosian Starfighter in space. It is a small ship with 2 smooth brown catamaran-like hulls, but stacked on top of each other vertically instead of being side by side. In between the two hulls are an engine in a ball mount at the rear, and a laser gun in a ball mount in the middle. At the top is a cockpit bubble with a Geonosian pilot inside.

A side/front angled view of a Geonosian Starfighter in space. It is a small ship with 2 smooth brown catamaran-like hulls, but stacked on top of each other vertically instead of being side by side. In between the two hulls are an engine in a ball mount at the rear, and a laser gun in a ball mount in the middle. At the top is a cockpit bubble with a Geonosian pilot inside.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At some point I made this nearly-exhaustive chart/classification of Zergling designs. I could find a way to format it better, add more concept art, add some of the stuff that's been released since I made it... but also I might be the only person who cares. Still fun to see the different body plans!

A chart comparing 23 different official pieces of Zergling artwork, including concept art and 3D models, spanning about 20 years. I have loosely grouped them into 5 different categories based on body type, which also generally but not entirely correspond to chronology, as during the first game's development there were several different competing designs from different artists. There are some designs that straddle the categories a bit but I don't indicate that here.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot of people who don't look at game manuals didn't notice the hands, a misconception aided by that design not appearing in the game's cinematics, and sequel games putting the blades on the upper set of arms. So a lot of people were surprised when SC Remastered came out and kept them.

A screenshot of the zergling model used in the SC1 and Brood War cinematics, which reuses a lot of hydralisk parts and only has 4 limbs, with no upper set of hands.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Back in 2000, there was a StarCraft edition of the ttrpg Alternity, which had some illustrations of mixed quality/accuracy. Their version of the zergling was pretty great though- at the time there was no high-detail public art of what this version was supposed to look like, and this is a good take.

The Zergling illustration from Alternity: StarCraft Edition (2000). It faithfully/correctly has a bunch of the key features from the in-game sprite version, such as a tail with sideways-facing spikes, big webbed hind feet, forelimbs with scythelike claw blades, some sort of hydralisk-like carapace over its back, an extra pair of upper arms with clawed hands, and a slightly dinosaurlike head with two extra mandibles with curved bladed claws on them. There are some new artistic liberties like giving it a small spiky tongue and baraka-like teeth, but nothing that goes against the ethos of StarCraft 1 Zerg. It looks a little more like a vertebrate and not very insectoid, but still has some segmented-looking exoskeletal armor. Pretty good!

A screenshot of the low res sprite zergling design for the game

A render of the 3D model used to create the sprites, as printed in black and white in the game's manual. A lot of the body plan is visible but details are indistinct or stretched, like there isn't really much of a recognizable face or neck, because this model was not meant to be seen up close.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah I forget who it was, but someone on here had a thread a couple years ago of artwork that had a single subject looking back at the camera/viewer like that, always so much fun. :D

A flipped and cropped portion of Tissot's "The Artists' Wives" (1885), a painting depicting an outdoor gathering of well-dressed people seated at tables with white tablecloths somewhere in Paris as waitstaff are about to start serving- and a single woman in the lower left of this edit looks back at the 'camera.'

The painted box art for Doom (1993) by Don Ivan Punchatz, depicting space-suited men in a red craggy landscape being assailed by a horde of red, horned demons. And one in the lower left is looking back behind the viewer instead of at the doom guy.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can see a similar kind of relation between the toe claws and toe bones on the feet of the actual original cinematic model, where they're like a cross between bones and insect limb segments, rather than being like dinosaur talons.

A screenshot showing a closeup portion of a dead Zergling from a StarCraft 1 cinematic, tangled limbs and a bit of the body. It is mostly shiny brown and exoskeletal/arthropodal looking, rather than fleshy or dinosaurian.

A closeup crop of just the segmented toes and claws from the previous picture.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Almost thought I had the new toe in correctly, but realized I accidentally made it look like a regular vertebrate claw, where the base is sheathed in flesh. But on the StarCraft 1 Zerg, everything is like bony exoskeletal segments, so it should really be like pic 2. Subtle but important difference!

A Blender viewport screenshot looking at the feet and tail of a WIP StarCraft Zergling sculpt. Parts of the sculpt still look smooth and undetailed, but it has a new dewclaw-toe that is pretty refined- but the claw on the is rooted/socketed inside the toe flesh, making it not look insectoid/skeletal like it should.

A closeup of a revised version of the rear dewclaw toe where the base of the claw / nail is as wide as the joint behind it, instead of being socketed.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More progress on the refinement of the old Zergling model. The ankle area will be getting a much bigger change than the rest, because as I had posted before (bsky.app/profile/robe...) at the time of making the original in 2020 I misinterpreted that part of the reference I had available at the time.

a Blender viewport screenshot of part of a slightly blobby, indistinct sculpt of the rear third of a Zergling based on the in-game design from StarCraft 1

a Blender viewport screenshot of the same area of the Zergling sculpt, but with half of the parts being much more refined and purposeful.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Be careful what you ask for... I have a lot like this

An AT-ST cockpit painted with the Jazz solo cup design from the '90s

A 3D render of a long-legged AT-ST but with the head replaced by a TIE cockpit ball

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if tiltjet Y-wing... heheh

A 3D viewport screenshot showing an untextured Y-wing model from Star Wars, but with the engines rotated 90° so that they are facing the ground. As a result of their length, the body of the Y-wing has been raised high in the air, so the forward landing gear has to telescope out to a comical length.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(And of course having the external ribcage detail links it stylistically to the Hydralisk, good to have them feel a bit connected) (And the Zergling concept art that has that rib detail wears its Alien Giger influence on its sleeve)

The Zerg Hydralisk from StarCraft, posing on a pile of human skulls and in front of a planetoid spacy background, as seen in the Zerg Victory screen from the game.

A crop of a piece of SC1 concept art in the original manual by Metzen, showing a Zergling that looks halfway between the final, the hydralisk, and the xenomorph from the Alien franchise.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Little more ongoing refinement... the external ribs detail was in some of the old concept art and in the SC:Ghost version, so I did add it in there, my 2020 sculpt just didn't have the definition to show it super well. Now it will be clearer! All still WIP.

A viewport screenshot looking at the midsection of a Zergling creature sculpt. It is a bit blobby and indistinct.

A viewport screenshot of the same view of an updated version of the same sculpt, with more detail and definition being added around some ribs.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starting to put more random ceiling bullshit in... I don't know if I will be able to get the interior looking as good as the chair, we'll see what I have the willpower for, but here was the chair, too. Somehow it has to look cluttered but intentional.

An untextured viewport screenshot looking in the side window of a Y-wing cockpit to see a bunch of greebles and stuff on the ceiling.

A view from inside the cockpit at a bunch of random crap on the ceiling. It doesn't look very good yet.

A realistic 3d model of a leather bucket seat on a polyhaven hdri background

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was a single, solitary render of this model with its textures in the game's manual, that I studied for many years, but having that new second angle in 2018 was big for my understanding of it. Because of the angle I never noticed that 4th non-webbed toe, and just thought it was part of the leg!

The black-and-white render of the Zergling sprite model from the StarCraft 1 manual, showing its arrangement of limbs clearly, but with the exact shapes of the legs still a little ambiguous.

A cropped closeup of the feet and lower legs, color-coded to reveal that there was a 4th toe there all along, mostly hidden behind the legs.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In 2018 they showed the original wireframe in a GDC slide, but I didn't know about it at the time. I don't need to follow it exactly, some stuff from these like the width of the side spikes was surely exaggerated to show up in the tiny sprite. But other things I should revise/add, like the 4th toe.

A low res image of a wireframe for the original sprite Zergling design from StarCraft. It is made of a bunch of different elements of varying levels of details chunked together, some very finely-shaped like the head and carapace, others like the tail spikes very blocky.
Also I am like 95% sure the head and back carapace of this is the same exact model/object as the sprite hydralisk's head.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A bit more Zergling refining, just chip away a little bit at a time and it'll get done. (A lot of this is also trying to balance the kinds of design elements they would have had in mind in the 90s, not doing my own ideal look. Like I don't like the tail-end spike-blade, but I think it was there).

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Suddenly the box art for Phalanx starts to make more sense! /jk

A photo of a box for the Super Nintendo game Phalanx, a space SHMUP that confusingly has a photo of an old man wearing overalls playing the banjo on its cover next to the tagline "the hyper-speed shoot-out in space."

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Little test showing the mechanism. The part where the tiny cylinder at the back attaches to the big cylinder is a separate element that slides along the big cylinder, so there is no stretching or cheating. Also the parts that move up internally don't clip into the pilot/cockpit area, it does all fit

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WIP for the front landing gear foot thing for my Y-wing model. Still have to do some of the retracting stuff and model an inside to the bay, but it does all retract and fit. This is eyeballed and not exaaactly 1000% accurate to the ANH one, I will do some revisions, but it's very reasonable.

An angled front view of the front landing gear of a Y-wing from Star Wars, with some areas being detailed.

An angled rear view of the front landing gear of a Y-wing from Star Wars, with some areas being detailed.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the original Star Wars, I think the Y-wing's rear landing pad/foot is the same foot piece as the one up in the front. In different shots in the movie it appears to be rotated 180°, so I guess if you are doing your own you can just pick your preferred angle. 😅

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe an artist referencing the head of that Knight one and the pose of this 1938 Burian one, at least a bit... But that doesn't really narrow it down.

A painting by Zdeněk Burian showing a slightly elephantine, small-headed T. rex advancing menacingly on a couple of bipedal, tail-dragging trachodon. The trachodon have some bright yellow patterning over countershaded bodies, while the rex is mostly in browns and grays but with a reddish face. In the background of a natural landscape, some ornithomimosaurs are also actively running together.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An example of the kind of refinement one could hypothetically do to that model to bring it up to par

A comparison of 2 versions of the tail tip of that Zergling model, the one on the left being more blobby and formless, the one on the right having more refined shapes and detail

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not everything on there is 1000% right and I would do a couple things differently now. I preferred it to some of the new features added in the SC:Remastered version, but that one also has the body layout right and is also very good. Here are some images of that one if you want to compare.

The high poly sculpt for the Zergling for StarCraft Remastered, from 3 different angles. In the top right is also a comparison of this model with the original sprites. They don't look exactly the same but are close.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ye olde highpoly but not particularly refined sculpt of that StarCraft Brood War sprite Zergling design from when I was just barely learning sculpting. I got a couple 3D prints out of it and used it to bake to some low poly versions. Could use a refresh and texture job to be a proper cinematic model

An angled view of a high poly but slightly blobby 3D sculpt of a Zergling from the original StarCraft, based on the design from the manual, sprite, and portrait. Untextured, on a gray background.

An angled side view of a high poly but slightly blobby 3D sculpt of a Zergling from the original StarCraft, based on the design from the manual, sprite, and portrait. Untextured, on a gray background.

An angled rear view of a high poly but slightly blobby 3D sculpt of a Zergling from the original StarCraft, based on the design from the manual, sprite, and portrait. Untextured, on a gray background.

A top view of a high poly but slightly blobby 3D sculpt of a Zergling from the original StarCraft, based on the design from the manual, sprite, and portrait. Untextured, on a gray background.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did that my 9 animes thing but my picks are mostly very basic because I am a filthy casual. I'd also like to put like the first half of Frieren on here, it dropped off a bit for me after. And I'm looking forward to S2 of Delicious in Dungeon maybe continuing to elevate itself into this list.

A list of 9 anime from a website trend that's going around. It's supposed to be captioned "9 anime that shaped who I am," but for the most part I wasn't a huge anime-watcher in my early formative years, so I amended it to "9 anime that didn't really shape who I am because I'm a filthy casual, but did stand out to me." The list, in no particular order is, Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun, Princess Mononoke, Death Note, Journal with Witch, Pokémon, Spirited Away, SPY x FAMILY, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Your Name.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It'll be a bit more awkward to recreate this shot with the 90s look, with a lot of closeup time on the detailed end of the new gauss rifle... my model (right) is very much just meant to be a recreation of the 90s model's shapes, and there's not much there. But hopefully that'll be part of the charm😅

A screenshot of a long shot from the StarCraft announcement cinematic focusing on the marine firing his gauss rifle, with the end of the gauss rifle occupying a large part of the frame.

A 3D render of a recreation of the StarCraft 1 cinematic gauss rifle design, which doesn't look especially realistic. The modeling is pretty simple, and the ends of the barrels are just undetailed cylinders.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also if you're wondering why I gave it a trunk, I also never used to picture them with one, but the SC:Ghost design from a few years later had one (and so did SCRemastered). In retrospect I think they were going for a Space Jockey look, I think it'd be better if the end looped back up to the chest.

An image of the StarCraft 1 overlord portrait, showing a fleshy bulbous face with some hose-like structures. Part of the face extends downwards out of frame in a way that could look like a trunk, but could be something else.

A screenshot from the cancelled game StarCraft: Ghost showing Nova aiming at a Zerg Overlord. The design is similar to the StarCraft 1 design, but can now be seen in full from a ground level. It has a trunk hanging down from its head.

A crop of a StarCraft: Remastered loading screen, showing how the artists 20 years later interpreted what they were seeing from the old graphics. It has a trunk.

At left, the remains of a 'space jockey' creature from Alien, a large semiskeletal humanoid merged into a biomechanical seat and apparatus, with some sort of hose-like structure attaching from the front of its head along the front of its chest. At right, how a 90s comic interpreted a member of that species in life, as a humanoid with a trunklike hose going from its face down towards its chest.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For this guy I polished up the head area portion of it for use as an SC2 portrait for a mod. It's a lot better/more accurate than the head on my older lowpoly full-body version, so I'll have to cut out the better head and paste it on the body at some point. The body is still decent.

A Substance Painter viewport screenshot of the head area of a StarCraft 1-style Zerg Overlord, kind of a mutant lovecraftian elephant kind of thing with 2 large mandibles on either side of the head.

A Blender viewport screenshot of the whole Overlord's body, a bit like a jellyfish body plan but with segmented crustacean carapace over everything. A more simplistic rendition of the same head/face is located at the front.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ta da, with the old 90s Overlord design! (my model roughly pasted in)

A promo image from the StarCraft 2030 announcement cinematic, featuring a marine's view out of a barracks, looking at a half-dozen massive Zerg Overlords floating ominously as a swarm of Mutalisks and Zerglings advance out of the fog.

An edit of the previous image with the center Overlord painted out and a 3D render of my fan made model of the 90s design pasted in.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've done the old Overlord too, look at that nice gross face. A very funky design.

A viewport screenshot of an untextured sculpt of the front 1/4th of a Zerg Overlord from StarCraft 1

A closeup on the same sculpt from the side, showing the weird gross elephant-like face.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think I will try to recreate about 30 seconds of that new StarCraft trailer but with the 90s-style designs/graphics, since I already have most of them done. Fortunately the release date being 4 years away gives me time to finish all my fan projects, I'll get back to you in like 6 months with this.

A 3D render of a marine based on the design from StarCraft 1, with a similar level of detail to the original 90s models, but more realistic lighting (from a Polyhaven HDRI)

A different 3D render of a different marine with different armor textures and a different face, in a red-lit corridor.

A render of 2 3D models of different Zergling designs, the left one being the original cinematic look from the original games (which was partially kitbashed from the hydralisk), and the right being the design from the cancelled game StarCraft: Ghost

A viewport screenshot of a low-poly Zergling model based on the original in-game sprite design, which had a pair of hands on the arms coming out of its back

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With the reveal of that new StarCraft marine design, I'd also like to look back on an overlooked design you might not have seen- the updated easter egg unit made for Warcraft 3 Reforged. The outline of the design is based on the SC remaster, but it has a lot of new detail and character. By Si Seow.

3D renders of the front and back of the WC3 Reforged Marine asset, rendered in nice lighting. From: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Zl8xA8

Some process images showing the high poly model of the WC3R marine, as they adjusted some of the proportions. The model is extremely detailed, especially for an RTS unit.

Images of the WC3 and SC:R marines on the left, and then views of the WC3R marine in a static pose from 4 different angles on the right.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I saw a photo showing a bit more of the chest area and it's very new! I /think/ it's going to be a design where it looks like an external ribcage, xenomorph-style, but actually it's little pairs of mini-arms, that just can fold up flat to look like 'ribs.' Maybe something like this crappy sketch:

A closeup photo of the 3d printed statue of the new upcoming designs of the Marine and Hydralisk fighting from Blizzcon. The marine's forearm armor opens up to reveal a retractable wrist blade. The Hydralisk looks mostly conventional, except it seems to have a bunch of little mini mandible arms coming out of its chest.

A sketch of what I imagine the new hydralisk's chest might look like, with little mini rib-arm-claw things folded and unfolded. When folded they look like an exoskeletal ribcage similar to a Xenomorph from Alien, when unfolded they look like an arthropod underside with a bunch of little legs.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And also that drawing with my very old drawings of the SC1 and SC2 hydralisk designs:

3 Hydralisk drawings showing the designs from SC1, SC2, and possibly the new upcoming game, the top 2 being cleaned up and digitally colorized, the bottom just being a rough sketch.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have also done a very rough sketch of what I think the new hydralisk might look like from the side but I don’t think I have the proportions all right at all. I’ve only seen 2 pics of this statue, I’ll revise mine if more come out.

A pencil sketch of the new hydralisk design

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