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Sorry, I don't really even have any of those old models anymore. I make the lighting map for the 'interiors' by removing the windows, turning the environment to pure white and then baking the light that comes through the window holes. It's a super simple way to fake the look of the subsurface...

Hi Professor, /waves! Well, one nice thing I've found is that a decade of hardware/software improvements means I can much more easily use volumetrics and an overall more simulative approach to the bussards. Before I had to spend most of the time figuring out how to 'fake' everything so it...

For a smaller ship I could imagine those raised windows as a whole series of one-maned observation stations, necessary because of the sensor blackouts in early cloaking tech.

Greetings! After I'm done immersing myself in the TOS aesthetic with the Enterprise, I'm going to do one final pass on this ship and call it "finished," and then go on to alter it drastically for other purposes. Until then, here's a... very small look at 10 years of WIP; So this was an idea...

Wow... I did not expect detailed analysis about the bottom of the deflector rings. Excellent. It's a bit noisy so not everyone may have seen that I did paint a bump map for this area to give is some visible brush strokes/wear. I noticed it was gold in the Vault footage as well, but you can...

Thanks everyone. I'm absolutely using the current NASM restoration as "canon®." I think they got about as close to the truth as will ever be possible given the realities of space and time. One notable exception is that they left all the seams exposed for the major structures. During filming...

Happy New Years everyone. I'm making some resolutions, one of them is to get some creative work done that I've been procrastinating on for too long and to make an effort to put my work 'out there' again. I got my Round2 1/350th model kit on Nov.3 2012, and I've been "intending" to do this ever...

Most of the time we see it from the perspective of Starfleet officers, so it's probably based on their units (which are probably earth's units or close to them.) Also, in the future, sentiments like "Is this yet another example of the Earth enforcing a human-centric culture on everyone?" just...

One thing we know is they don't specifically pay anything for it, Trek is part of CBS's bulk licensing agreement. These deals so far have lasted for 2 years (starting 4 years ago), and there was some speculation CBS might discontinue them this Summer if their own streaming service was a hit...

HULU paid that money for *EXCLUSIVE* streaming rights, for two shows that were far more popular than any Star Trek series. These were also some of the first deals of their kind, as streaming is very much still in its infancy. There's nothing about any of that to base some magical $100,000 per...

Awakenings is rated PG-13.

...All of the MPAA ratings have become much stricter over the decades. In the 70's 'G' meant what is said... "General Audiences." It wasn't the purview of kids movies they way it has been the last 25 years. Here are some other G rated movies; 2001: A Space Odyssey Planet of the Apes (I...

In an emergency situation the Enterprise could probably safely hold... 35,000 people or so. So, the crew situation is probably on the conservative side. The Galaxy class is a big ship.

According to the poll it's more like 1.49:1 :vulcan:

Steelbooks are very popular. There must be a significant number of collectors out there because the studios have re-released hundreds of titles at this point.

You're welcome to.

I made this as a subtle but cool acknowledgement of Leonard Nimoy, and thought I'd share;

There was an aluminum Trigger on the bottom that activated the firing light. When you rotate the left dial on the Phaser I, it turns the acrylic half-rod that raises the "sight" and also extends the emitter in front. That was the extent of the prop's functions, what they 'really' did is up to...

You're talking about scenes that featured composites, transitions, or other manipulations. Any scene with a transporter effect or phaser beam or overlayed credits. These were all filmed and then the footage was re-filmed in 35mm, and it created a noticeable loss in quality. The shots you...

I don't understand the premise of the discussion. Given the numbers of the OP, over 72% of TOS deaths were Redshirts. And that's apparently including 8% from a time period that didn't even have redshirts. That means high redshirt mortality is not a "myth," it is absolute fact. So what's the...