Was the carpet really a zig-zag pattern like that?
Donny's Late TNG Era Interiors
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I usually consider the Ent-E interiors as the most "timeless" and still modern looking ones (probably because it was the first brand new ship I saw when I was a kid, to me it'll always be how the future of the future looks like), but damn if that zig zag carpet isn't dating this to the 90's.
Yessir!
It's funny you say that, as I still consider the Enterprise-E exterior/interior designs as "the new Trek hotness", even though they are over 20 years old now and three more new live-action series have been produced since.
The corridor scenes in First Contact utilized a lot of colored spotlights that didn't have an in-universe source (in fact, in some cases you can see the stage lights at the extremities of the frame). I decided to play around and add a few "sourceless" spotlights just for dramatic effect, and wow. It's the missing ingredient to my precious renders of the corridor set. Lighting goes a long way!
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Any photographer will tell you that. You can change the flavor and mood of any subject by changing the lighting.
Reminds me of how they did lighting in TOS - almost everything was gray (except the inexplicable purple transporter roomThe corridor scenes in First Contact utilized a lot of colored spotlights that didn't have an in-universe source (in fact, in some cases you can see the stage lights at the extremities of the frame). I decided to play around and add a few "sourceless" spotlights just for dramatic effect, and wow. It's the missing ingredient to my precious renders of the corridor set. Lighting goes a long way!
) and most of the environmental background colors was pure light and shadow scrim effects.Do you plan on doing the lower decks corridors with those annoying "handrails" going down the middle? Not entirely sure what those things were supposed to be.
And then there were the corridors with the evacuation doors made out of plastic snow-sleds.
Yessir!
wow, that's not a very good carpet seam considering how well it can be seen here.
Yes, the same carpeting scheme was in engineeringIt's like retro-TOS mood lightingWas carpeting also present on the warp core deck?
Yes to both. We discussed the annoying "handrails" going down the middle upthread a bit. I see them as GNDN pipes, @Maurice theorized that they are containers of some sort. Most of us find them annoying and odd, but I'll be modeling them nonetheless.Do you plan on doing the lower decks corridors with those annoying "handrails" going down the middle? Not entirely sure what those things were supposed to be.
And then there were the corridors with the evacuation doors made out of plastic snow-sleds.
Oh My God, Donny. Incredible work.
I swear to Mithras I saw this before reading the your text and thought it was a behind-the-scenes pic from just after they finished filming the scene in the film.
dJE
I swear to Mithras I saw this before reading the your text and thought it was a behind-the-scenes pic from just after they finished filming the scene in the film.
dJE
The corridor scenes in First Contact utilized a lot of colored spotlights that didn't have an in-universe source (in fact, in some cases you can see the stage lights at the extremities of the frame). I decided to play around and add a few "sourceless" spotlights just for dramatic effect, and wow. It's the missing ingredient to my precious renders of the corridor set. Lighting goes a long way!
Is that what they were? For some reason I remember John Eaves mentioning in the ST:TNG Movie Sketchbook that they were (modeled? molded?) from the hood of a Chevy Camaro. This of course recently led to me doing a dive through photos of Camaros since the beginning and not finding anything that resembled the evacuation doors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯And then there were the corridors with the evacuation doors made out of plastic snow-sleds.
Spent last night getting together a template to make LCARS from, since that will be a huge part of this project. I started with the one and only LCARS screen we see in the corridors, which is this one below:
Like many Voyager LCARS screens, the Sovereign screens had not only backlit graphics, but also brushed metallic LCARS bars (gold in the case of the Enterprise-E) added on top of the plexiglass that integrated very well with the graphics underneath. I've tried to replicate that feel here, as you can see the graphic is offset just a tad "underneath" the surface metallic bars as it appears in the reference shot above. I achieved this by utilizing a bump offset node in my shader setup, meaning that the offset appears natural to whatever angle the camera is viewing the screen from.
Colors are just as tricky to figure out with LCARS due to backlighting, stage lighting, color grading, and film, so I'm gonna try my best at replicating them.
Like many Voyager LCARS screens, the Sovereign screens had not only backlit graphics, but also brushed metallic LCARS bars (gold in the case of the Enterprise-E) added on top of the plexiglass that integrated very well with the graphics underneath. I've tried to replicate that feel here, as you can see the graphic is offset just a tad "underneath" the surface metallic bars as it appears in the reference shot above. I achieved this by utilizing a bump offset node in my shader setup, meaning that the offset appears natural to whatever angle the camera is viewing the screen from.
Colors are just as tricky to figure out with LCARS due to backlighting, stage lighting, color grading, and film, so I'm gonna try my best at replicating them.
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Well, I didn't "theorize".
I was just saying one could interpret them to be such things.
Hey Donny, did you see the new Unreal Metahuman announcement? Do you think when it becomes available you'll be able to use it to populate your sets?
They may have possibly been molded from Camaro hood scoops, but I somehow remember them being sleds - a cheaper solution by any measure. They look like them to me anyways...
Though we don't get as clear a look at them, there's also the status displays outside the escape pods, which can been seen in some of the screencaps here and here.
edit: ...one of which 137th Gebirg just posted above. It looks like the displays just to the left of the doors are probably CRTs. And for whatever reason, they've slapped the static plexi TNG door buttons right in the middle of the control panel.
