I think part of my prob with the trailer is the intercutting of Ent battle stuff Kelvin battle stuff ... mainly cuz the Kelvin stuff looks very solid in a GQ+ way, whereas the ENT stuff looks CG (that shot under E as it approaches the rom organiship looks like a SoSF calendar image.)
One CG-model represents an old, used ship - the Kelvin.
The other CG-model represents the sparkling new pride of the fleet - the Enterprise.
Neither one looks more or less CG than the other.
Wonder if this is one of those things like TPM, where they started with a miniature shot to reacquaint the audience, then depart drastically (like the past [KELVIN] is good miniature work, the future is CG?)
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TPM used miniatures throughout the film: the Radiant, the the Trade Federation's ships, the Naboo space-crafts (royal ship and fighters), the pod-race-arena...
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Yeah, but Knoll & co told me it was a very conscious decision to open with the ship and station miniatures to reinforce the old look of SW/ILM spacepics. The Rebel Mac guys did a ton of stuff on TPM, basing their look on 'mocon' even to the point of setting the sun in virtual space 30ft away to match model shots.
As for the other graph ... the KELVIN looks PHYSICAL and present, I can't pay a higher complement, whether it was done with miniatures or CG. I can say it isn't lit quite the way I would, but it looks convincing to me. The other shot I mention of the E does not.