Creative

Graphic design, fiction, and art.

Rocket Exhaust VFX breakdown

How to use Blender Cycles volumetrics to make realistic-looking rocket exhaust.

Salsa Blueprint Font

I created a font based on my handwriting. Here’s how I did it.

SpaceX Falcon 9 landing burn
Xon Wasp departing Venalis Station
Illustration for Robert Zubrin's article on Moon Direct for the New Atlantis
The Bearded Dragon

Three months later, for my birthday, my parents’ gift was a lizard – a bearded dragon. My parents had even gotten a terrarium with a layer of store-bought gravel, and my dragon looked happy to be sunning on the gray rock under the heat lamp. In a fit of giddy irony, I named her Clyde.

Heart of Gold performs its Trans-Mars Injection burn
SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing on OCISLY
SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Glide
SpaceX Red Dragon at Mars