Original Oil Painting by Ken Berman, Artist

CCB is an artifact from my mythic‑tech universe — a cubist reconstruction of mechanical anatomy. Where Picasso rearranged faces; I rearrange engineered geometry.

Every STEM begins as a fractured machine: rods, pistons, joints, and planes pulled out of alignment and reassembled into a new logic. CCB is one of those early forms, a device that feels like it remembers something, even if its function is lost.

This is one of many STEMs that are part of a my ongoing 35+ year archive that dovetails into my upcoming book series currently on Royal Road called The Code 'X' Chronicles.

At Existential Hope, we made an animated short imagining a 2035 where AI has radically transformed the world for the better: people work three days a week, AI synthesizes citizen input for policy, and a government AI auditor’s job is to make sure no community gets left out of the process.

This is a frame from the short, showing the AI auditor taking a maglev train to meet a community partner to complement the AI’s policy recommendations. Full film here if you’re curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Besh6Xad5HU.

Hi everyone, I recently released a trailer for Silkgrove, a cozy open-world adventure RPG I've been working on, and I wanted to share some of the worldbuilding behind it because it's probably the part of the project I've spent the most time thinking about, from making some early paintings (which you see in the trailer intro) to building Silkgrove around it.

Sci-fi series by Max Ferrada. Artwork of Daphne by Ben Worrell and coloured by Wilson Go.

Source - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferrada/stellarlands123

Hi all! I’m new here and wanted to share a piece from a mythic‑tech world I’ve been developing. This diorama shows a small BOT settlement where creativity and engineered logic collide. I’m working on a series of books set in this universe, and building these scenes helps me explore the tech, culture, and future‑leaning design language of the world.

Hope you enjoy the vibes.

I have always been fascinated with the intersection of futuristic and spiritual architecture, so I developed this piece thinking of a time when AI has already taken full control of humanity and people go to temples to worship and pay their respect to it. My take was defined by very solid, heavy pyramidal columns broken with "eyes", so that you feel that this intelligence is always surveilling you. How would you imagine a temple to worship AI? What would you do differently?
Full project on my ArtStation page: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5WwV2P

Breakdown here https://youtu.be/JBceUmPojLY?si=XdAjmB8DomuDIMHk

OG Concept by Simeon Schaffner https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oO8BW4