SpiderTrekfan616

To everyone in charge of deviantART's new "AI generator" project. I do NOT give my permission for any use of my artwork in the machine learning process involved with the AI Generator. "You didn't say no." is not an excuse to opt us into something we had no idea you were even working on. I would have thought you would have learned your lesson after the NFT outrage, now you're outright alienating your userbase by using their art without permission (Again "You didn't say no" is not an excuse)

Sorry about my lack of posting. With the whole Stolen Art NFT thing that went on, it kinda killed my motivation to post any of my artwork here. But now, I'm gonna try and start posting here a little more frequently, starting with one of my prized projects, a Saladin Class destroyer. If I get enough positive feedback and suggestions for improving the model, I'll continue working on it.

Back in 2009 The Spectacular Spider-Man was cancelled leaving many unresolved plot threads, this did not sit well with a lot of fans, myself included. However, when I heard that Marvel is going to be making an animated adaptation of Ultimate Spider-Man, I was thrilled, because I read those comics growing up and would have loved to see how the stories translated to an animated format. Once the images and synopsis started coming out, my excitement quickly waned as I realized it wasn’t going to be the type of adaptation I was hoping for, this is basically my personal list of pros and cons about the 2010 Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.

Pros:

• Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum were not adapted

• Peter Parker wasn’t killed off by the end of the show

• Brian Michael Bendis wrote for the show

• The likeness of Peter Parker bore resemblance the Ultimate comics version.

• J.K Simmons reprises his role as J. Jonah Jameson, that's always a plus in my book.

Cons:

• Man of Action insisted on forcing Spider-Man into a team of teenage superheroes

• They went overboard with the 4th wall breaks and cutaway gags

• This was the first instance of the costume being altered, in this case they removed the red stripe from Spidey’s sleeves.

• Mary Jane was left in the background a lot and wasn’t let in on Peter’s secret until late in the show’s run.

• His expanded roster of friends (The X-Men and Fantastic Four) were omitted, possibly due to Fox owning the rights to those properties, the only X-Men characters to appear were Deadpool and Wolverine, but no references to the X- Men or the Fantastic Four were made.

I may add more to this as I think of other things.

I just got a new laptop in because my old one was starting to fall apart, quite literally, at the seams. Another problem is that for some reason I couldn't remain on the site too long without a crash, Anyway now that I have my new Laptop, I'll be a bit more active, starting with version 2.0 of the Star Trek TOS/Phase II* starship parts library that I've been planning on putting together, that way I can quickly build out and texture any Ship of those two design styles. I'd also like to start figuring out how to make the Star Trek TNG Season 3 Duty jackets purely in Blender 3D, I do have a slight idea of how I'd go about it but the texture painting process will certainly be a bit of a pain, that is for sure.

Today Gene Roddenberry, the Creator of Star Trek turns 100 years old, While Gene may have been far from a perfect human being, he did give us a vision of the future that we can all aspire to if we worked hard enough to achieve it. Gene Roddenberry served during the Second World War as a pilot and would settle into a career as a Cop in Los Angeles before getting bitten by the writing bug. During his time as a cop he wrote a few episodes for several shows under the pen name "Robert Wesley" and would eventually quit the force to become a writer full time.

By 1964 he approached NBC with a series that he described as "Wagon Train to the Stars" he got permission from the studio to film the pilot and upon being screened it would be rejected, but in an unprecidented move NBC would be convinced by Lucille Ball (Yes THAT Lucille Ball) to let Roddenberry try again, this time with a mostly different cast, and Star Trek was born. I'll bet if someone went back in time to tell Gene the kind of Phenomenon he created with Star Trek and that it lasted for 55 years with the support of it's fans, he'd probably call you crazy but here we are, 55 years later on Gene's centennial and Star Trek is going strong whether you like it or not.

(Just as a side note, I will NOT tolerate any bashing of the New Star Trek shows we've been getting in recent years on my page.)