Howard Day's video: Krakatoa-Class U S S Krakatoa 4K

I give you the USS Krakatoa, NCC-5350 - lead ship of the Krakatoa Class, a variant of the Abbe Class PT Destroyer, as found in the Jackhill's Star Fleet Reference Manual Volume 1. She's designed as a Fleet Tender, not Destroyer, with her Mission Pod and launch abilities tuned to the deployment and retrieval of charting probes, astrometric sensors, subspace repeaters and relays. The space devoted in the Abbe Class to torpedo storage is instead given over to a substantial quad-hinged-door mobile drydock capable of enclosing an entire subspace relay for construction, repair, or refit. She's a workhorse of the fleet, with long deployment times in quite rural parts of the Federation and its frontier. I'm really happy with how this turned out - I am especially proud of the tropical-themed Arboretum. It took a while for this design to grow on me, as I'm not a fan of the old TMP "Fan" Star Trek designs, generally. They always felt far too "kitbashed" for my liking. I feel like we were able to make this one feel far more bespoke. Be sure to Right-click and hit Loop! Thanks to Matthew Wilkinson for the commission and design! Dimensions: Length: 270m Height: 60m Width: 142m Music is from Starfleet Command 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4d3C8jT_dM Original 4K Video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eaV3Et146MKhvzxsmroLPyjvpP6BCEAs/view?usp=sharing As always this is rendered in 3DSMax 2024.2, using VRay 6 GPU Optix. I'm using two 4090 RTX rigs - each did half the frames. Render time averages were 1m20s to 1m35s at 110% 4K rez, with about 1-2s for post effects application per frame. It's 1440 frames long at 24fps, Post in After Effects, using Sapphire by BorisFX for the lens flares, and Red Giant Looks for the color correction.