@Donny thanks for the background on the TVH bridge. Learn something new even after all this time. I wonder what I'll forget in order to make room for it on my overstuffed wetware.
I don't know if it was just down to the lighting, or a deliberate design choice, but early on the screens are a mixture of blue & green, but once they reach Sha Ka Ree they look like they change and become a sort of flat pale cyan colour: It just seems a bit odd!
Perhaps they suffered changes in hue due to post-production color correction. Those were old CRT monitors - they may have been keyed in at different color temperatures and they just didn't have the time to adjust them all to be consistent.
I discussed this up thread somewhere. In the TFF commentary, Mike Okuda explains that they changed the displays after the Enterprise traveled beyond the barrier to be a washed out color to indicate that The Barrier/proximity to “God” was affecting ships systems. Not the best move as it’s a bit confusing, but I assume it was something Mr. Shatner wanted.
Thanks Between work, my projects, and gym time I apparently can’t be bothered searching through my own thread to find stuff I’ve said before
I didn't realize we'd blitzed through another 12 pages in this thread in only a month. I should have just done a search, but instead I just kept paging back, paging back...
Donny, I can hardly wait to see that version of the Bridge set, it was so brief and bright. I was wondering if a combination of Okudagrams from IV and V would work on your rendition; the Enterprise was going through a transition during TVH and TFF?
I now have reference for all the bridge station displays for the TVH bridge, so there will no need to mix and match. Besides, while they are similar, the style of the TVH displays are distinct in many ways from their TFF counterparts. When I do get around to the TVH bridge, I'll be sticking with what I know was there. Also, people of this thread. I'm having trouble deciding which of my two TOS movie era threads to keep discussion of the TVH Ent-A bridge located. Obviously, TVH would be considered a "later" TOS movie and is of the Enterprise-A, so it does make sense to discuss it here. However, because it's still of the style of the early TOS movies in terms of it's geometry, the artist in me wants me to keep discussion of it over at my Refit thread. When I originally renamed the thread "Late TOS movie era..." I was thinking of TOS movie interiors/props/ships that took place after TNG had debuted and Herman Zimmerman took charge of production design of the films, as the visual split between the first four movies and the later two + GEN is very apparent. Haha. I know this isn't that big of a deal. Just wondering what everyone else's thoughts were. I'm happy to discuss the TVH Ent-A here if it's easier for everyone, and since this is currently the more active thread. Oh yes. Back in June I rededicated myself to fitness after a long slog of ignoring that aspect of life. I'm now in the gym for an hour 6 days a week, with hour-long 3.5-mile walks every evening. Gotta stay in shape for service in Starfleet! (and, more importantly, for my mental and physical health!)
I'd lean toward keeping discussion of the TVH bridge in the other thread. The only thing connecting it to this thread is the Okudagrams; as you point out, the Mike Minor/Joe Jennings/Hal Michelson aesthetic is very different from Herman Zimmerman's.
Maybe you could ask Administration to combine your threads? It would save you the trouble to choose but I think both thread has its purpose and darn it - they're both - fun*. *Your TOS thread is my fav but I do understand it wipes you out at times. I was wondering if you had an itch to modify some aspects of the bridge like putting your interpretation of what TAS bridge of the Enterprise could look like in a 3D realm?
No, I like keeping my threads separate. I intentionally start new threads for each era I focus on. And I’m definitely burned out on TOS (the series) modeling for a long time. I will return when the mood strikes again, as I’m sure it will. But odds of that happening anytime soon are slim. From a modeling/texturing standpoint, it’s just not as satisfying and challenging, tbh.
I don't really mind which thread the TVH bridge should go in, although again from aesthetic sense and design, it would make more sense for it being discussed in the other thread. That being said, I wonder if you'll jump on it sooner due to popular demand.