Never seen TOS scenes...again....
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That's very spiffy. I particularly like the lighting of the hull. Very dark, very realistic, owing in part to the model itself. You've done a particularly good job on the outline of the ship, it's very clean.
It's a shame a physical model aided by CGI backgrounds weren't available for use in TOS-R.
It's a shame a physical model aided by CGI backgrounds weren't available for use in TOS-R.
Thanks. I've learned how to take particular care in cutting out the original image.
If I had time and MONEY I'd love to try my hand at doing enhanced space scenes for TOS that look like '60s era state-of-the-art feature film production. I go for that look in stills, but seeing it in motion would rock.
There's something about the presence of a physical model that only the most dedicated cgi can reproduce.
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Agreed wholeheartedly. If I had the money, I'd help and finance you. 
As someone who grew up with models as the norm, only to witness the transition to CGI, I can instantly spot it. There have only been two times that I can think of that I was actually fooled. And yes, I have seen the Star Wars Prequels, and no, I was not impresed.
And for whatever reason, whenever I spot it, I know it's not 'physically' there and it just throws me completely off, to a degree relative to the importance of the thing and the quality of the CGI. Effects are one thing, but things, objects, people - those are another.
And I might point out that I'm twenty-three years old, so this isn't some fear-based feeling. It's a quality-based one.
As someone who grew up with models as the norm, only to witness the transition to CGI, I can instantly spot it. There have only been two times that I can think of that I was actually fooled. And yes, I have seen the Star Wars Prequels, and no, I was not impresed.
And for whatever reason, whenever I spot it, I know it's not 'physically' there and it just throws me completely off, to a degree relative to the importance of the thing and the quality of the CGI. Effects are one thing, but things, objects, people - those are another. And I might point out that I'm twenty-three years old, so this isn't some fear-based feeling. It's a quality-based one.
The other thread on re-used props got me to thinking. Have you ever used your photoshop skills to try to create a prop we never saw? Like maybe taking the various incarnations of Nomad and recombining them into a 'science prope' or maybe even a TOS photon torpedo casing? Or anything else you can think of, you know, like something MJ might have come up with if had a need to.
In a way, yes. Using components of the Forbidden Planet spaceship I made a Kzinti police cruiser. I've also used briefing room computer terminals as new consoles in my version of shuttlecraft.
"Boy...this day has been going GREAT!
I sure hope we don't get any distress calls from damaged cadet training ships flooded with delta radiation!"
A tense moment when a trouble-maker is taken to task for his mischief . . .
You know, I've never really timed it. But it probably takes up to a couple of hours depending om the complexity. And over time I've goten more proffecient at it.
Warped9, I was going through my Star Trek photo file, looking for some pictures of old uniforms for another thread when I came across this picture I'd saved. It looks like your work. Is it?
Spock, Pike and shuttlecraft (1000x750 version):
Spock, Pike and shuttlecraft (1000x750 version):
Yes, it most certainly is. I haven't seen that one in awhile. Hmm, seems to have come out pretty good.Warped9, I was going through my Star Trek photo file, looking for some pictures of old uniforms for another thread when I came across this picture I'd saved. It looks like your work. Is it?
Spock, Pike and shuttlecraft (1000x750 version):
Yes, it most certainly is. I haven't seen that one in awhile. Hmm, seems to have come out pretty good.Warped9, I was going through my Star Trek photo file, looking for some pictures of old uniforms for another thread when I came across this picture I'd saved. It looks like your work. Is it?
Spock, Pike and shuttlecraft (1000x750 version):
Yeah, that looks like the real shot might have had the shuttle prop been available and a different Talosian skydrop been used in "The Cage." Very true to the period and its aesthetic sensibilities!
These are great photos--nice work, Warped9!
I particularly like the idea of arranging crew members that never met during the series. You could really end up doing a "slide show" episode, a story that never made it to film...
Well then you will enjoy this. Warped9 created a series of pictures based on a hypothetical new Star Trek TV Series called "Star Trek: New Era" done in the stye of TMP. It starts here near the bottom of Page 43. Here is a link to Page 1 out of 63 pages of Warped9's thread. Warped9 started this thread in the Art Forum in 2004. The whole thread is wonderful.
Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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This pic was meant to depict a scene from a Pike era, post Cage story entitled "Neverland" I've been working on. The basics of the story are the first encounter between the Federation and the mysterious Vedala (from TAS' "Jihad" episode). The scene depicts the Enterprise crew managing to land upon a Vedala worldship (although they don't know that yet). Not seen here, though, is that in the story we meet a Federation emissary, Councillor Sarek, who is very cold and aloof from a young Lieutenant Spock and refuses to speak to him except in the most formal of terms and only in regards to their mission. In this story Pike learns what no one else does that Spock is Sarek's son and we begin to see the basis of Spock's loyalty to Pike that later becomes very evident in the two-part "The Menagerie." Ironically Sarek and Pike get along fine except for a brief moment when Pike takes Sarek to task for treating his Science Officer so disrespectfully.Yes, it most certainly is. I haven't seen that one in awhile. Hmm, seems to have come out pretty good.Warped9, I was going through my Star Trek photo file, looking for some pictures of old uniforms for another thread when I came across this picture I'd saved. It looks like your work. Is it?
Spock, Pike and shuttlecraft (1000x750 version):
Yeah, that looks like the real shot might have had the shuttle prop been available and a different Talosian skydrop been used in "The Cage." Very true to the period and its aesthetic sensibilities!
Well, that's the idea anyway.
What looks like a cloud in the background is actually supposed to be a massive land mass "afloat" in mid air. The worldship is full of them and ship's sensors cannot detect any discernible planet surface. They do conjecture, though, that the worldship is likely an artificial construct and not an actual naturally formed planet.
I have other pics depicting scenes from this story as well as lots of other imaginary Pike era scenes. I really enjoy doing the Pike era stuff because it's such a blank canvas of untold Enterprise voyages. Something of a occasional project of mine was to lay out something of an imaginary "lost" season of '65/'66 that depicted Pike era adventures before the show was retooled for the familiar TOS for the '66/'67 season.
Some other samples:
I'll dig up other pics later.
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Beautiful.
SHEER...AWESOMENESS.
You need a website all your own to display this stuff.
Beautiful.
SHEER...AWESOMENESS.
You need a website all your own to display this stuff.
They're a Photoshop Master.
At best we can only hope to be mediocre Padawans. The kind who get wiped out mere seconds after Order 66 is handed down.
At best we can only hope to be mediocre Padawans. The kind who get wiped out mere seconds after Order 66 is handed down.
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