My name is Thomas Marrone and this is my art blog. I'm a UI Artist at Cryptic Studios working on Star Trek Online, though I'm more likely to post concept art and personal art projects here.
I also do a lot of stuff for David Weber's Honor Harrington novels, so if you're a fan of the Honorverse you should keep tabs on me as well!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
WIP art of another space ship inspired by Gerry Anderson’s Space 1999. This is a sister ship of the ZED Probe project, though this one will end up looking more like a technical drawing. In the end it will be pretty detailed and in full color, but here’s the line art for now.
One of the first things that I got to do after they moved me to the Star Trek Online team officially was to design these guys. The effects artist wanted to update the art for our “Support Drone” power with something a bit more Starfleet flavored than what we had, and he suggested Exocomps. He asked me if I could come up with an updated design for them that would be current to 2409 era of our game, and I said “Yes plz.”
This has certainly been a trip. Concept drawing for Cryptic’s Enterprise F. This is based on the winning fan design created by Adam Ihle and was passed on to our ship modeler, Adam Williams, who took the design to a whole new level. I highly recommend reading about the whole process here: http://www.startrekonline.com/node/2492
Video of all the WIP images from the Zed Probe project. Best viewed in full screen.
Holy crap. It’s done! At least, I think it is. Waiting for final assurances from the client that everything looks good. Once that’s over I’ll file this project complete, and make a little something extra as well…
