Wednesday, May 9

Star Trek Design: Franklin Class





Twenty years after Praetor Shinzon was defeated by Federation forces, a new starship was developed. Inspired by the recent attacks against core Federation territory, engineers at Earth Station McKinley created a new defensive battle cruiser, the first Franklin Class starship, USS Amerstein (Classification: NCC-1835-A).

Pictured above: Shape ideas/silhouettes, concepts from selected silhouettes, ideations of a preferred concept, and final design with color.

3 comments:

Leo Braz said...

Wow... did you read the books or did you come up with your own backstory? Either way, way you're a dork, but the art is very impressive!!!

The layout is nicely tied in with the series, looking like you did your research.

... hmmm... I attended a concert where the bands all had the Trek theme. They filmed the sequel to Trekkies there... That makes me the KING dork.

Martin Kau said...

sweet man. Like the trekkiness. You gonna redesign, romulans, klingons, and vulcans?

Jaime Ramirez said...

Great work on your blog Brian. I especially like the Star Trek designs and how you posted the initial silhouette designs to the finished color concepts and all on a Trekkie layout. Sweet...:) By the way I added you on my links.