🟢 upcoming Media Designer 🟢 3D and VFX Enthusiast 🟢 AI 🟢 Photographer Hobbyist
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Joined January 2021
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3DDaniel retweeted
It's fascinating how much energy some people are willing to invest in arguments with complete strangers online. They'll criticize your methods, question your decisions, and sometimes even make assumptions about you as a person.
Yet when you share something you've genuinely worked hard on, those same people often have nothing positive to contribute.
I've noticed this repeatedly with my 3D work, including renders I've created entirely myself.
Of course, nobody owes anyone a compliment. But I do think there's something worth reflecting on when people are consistently more willing to criticize than to appreciate.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I simply stopped sharing my work for months, or even years. Perhaps some people wouldn't care. Others might eventually notice.
But maybe the most interesting question isn't whether people would miss my work.
It's whether they'd ever realize how much time they spent criticizing something they could have simply enjoyed.
3DDaniel retweeted
Some people are something else...
It's genuinely fascinating how some people can be so incredibly confident in their own abilities that they start treating personal opinions as objective facts.
Criticizing someone else's work is easy. Claiming to do everything much better is even easier.
But creating something and immediately declaring it better than everyone else's work? That's a whole different level of self-confidence.
And when that confidence gets questioned, suddenly the discussion becomes about semantics rather than the original claims.
There's a difference between having confidence and constantly needing to prove superiority.
A little humility and self-awareness can go a long way.
3DDaniel retweeted
Looking pretty cool!!
3DDaniel retweeted
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND. 🚀
#SpaceX #Starship #3D
A few weeks ago, I set out to explore something that seemed almost impossible:
Could AI reconstruct the ENTIRE heat shield of Starship V3, without manually modeling a single tile?
To make this possible, I reached out to @Jordanguidry6, who was immediately interested in the idea and generously provided numerous high-quality photographs of Starship V3, along with permission to use them for AI-assisted reconstruction.
What followed was one of the most challenging AI projects I've ever undertaken.
Over several weeks, I worked extensively with two AI models, GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, to reconstruct the heat shield from photographic references.
The process was anything but straightforward.
Countless iterations, failed attempts, geometry corrections, and hours of troubleshooting were necessary to overcome the complex shapes and structures surrounding Starship's flaps and other intricate areas.
But eventually, everything started coming together.
The result? An entire Starship V3 heat shield reconstructed through AI-assisted 3D modeling.
And here's the part that still amazes me:
Not a SINGLE heat shield tile was modeled by hand.
AI handled the geometry creation. My role was to guide, evaluate, troubleshoot, and continuously refine the results.
Of course, the reconstruction isn't absolutely perfect just yet. There are still a few minor imperfections and areas that could benefit from further refinement. But considering the sheer complexity of Starship's heat shield, and the fact that every single tile was modeled using AI, the overall result is nothing short of incredible.
This project has shown me just how far AI-assisted 3D modeling has already come, and how much potential still lies ahead.
Here are the results. 👇
3DDaniel retweeted
I’m curious how NASA and @NASAAdmin plan to document the construction of the Moon base in HD. Will the first robotic missions deploy cameras on the lunar surface so the public can follow the development of the base in near real time?
JUST IN: NASA says its Moon Base is running ahead of schedule, with the first element now expected to launch in December followed by near-monthly robotic missions to the lunar surface beginning in early 2027.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency expects to beat the original national-space-policy target of putting the first Moon Base elements in place by 2030.
The plan is to send infrastructure, rovers and other equipment ahead of astronauts so hardware is already operating on the surface when crews arrive.
NASA is also developing a public website that will allow people to follow construction of the lunar base as missions arrive.
“We’re leaving no doubts this time,” Isaacman said. “It’s all in HD.”
