All Our Yesterdays, Sarpeidon Portal Doorway Outdoor Landscape
- Thread starter Kei Fox
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Yes, I've always thought about it every time I watch the episode. It oddly contrasts with the sterility of the library.
It costs money to get a view like that from scratch, and the landscape is generic, so I think it was a pre-existing image that probably cost the show nothing.
The view out of the time portal is very different from, say, the view out of Tom Leighton's window in "The Conscience of the King." That was a physical painting (left over from "The Cage"):
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x13hd/theconscienceofthekinghd067.jpg
Likewise the (original fx) view of Scalos City in "Wink of an Eye" was a painting on the set:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x11hd/winkofaneyehd0024.jpg
Those views were reflecting light as best they can, and they appear a bit dim. The view out the time portal appears bright and luminous. I think it's a slide being projected onto a rear screen:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x23hd/allouryesterdayshd0234.jpg
It reminds me of the numerous publicity stills that were taken in front of projected slides, like this one:
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/behindthescenes/nicholas_uhura04.jpg
The view out of the time portal is very different from, say, the view out of Tom Leighton's window in "The Conscience of the King." That was a physical painting (left over from "The Cage"):
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x13hd/theconscienceofthekinghd067.jpg
Likewise the (original fx) view of Scalos City in "Wink of an Eye" was a painting on the set:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x11hd/winkofaneyehd0024.jpg
Those views were reflecting light as best they can, and they appear a bit dim. The view out the time portal appears bright and luminous. I think it's a slide being projected onto a rear screen:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x23hd/allouryesterdayshd0234.jpg
It reminds me of the numerous publicity stills that were taken in front of projected slides, like this one:
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/behindthescenes/nicholas_uhura04.jpg
I suppose that the backgrounds in this episode were supposed to be in the past so it was easy to get actual stock pictures. Unlike pictures/backgrounds in the future, like Scalos, the Menagery and even the City in the Sky. Sorry everyone but they all looked terribly fake to me. They did well in "Operation Annihilate" as well. Something different and realistic for a colony.
Then you looked at TNG and all I could remember was looking at backwards civilsations. Even global players like the Romulans seemed to live in caves and wear bad 80s clothing until the last TNG movie - I suppose there were still some caves in that...
The buTrek movies and The Orville with modern computer animation and much bigger budgets have been better at showing cities of the future.
Then you looked at TNG and all I could remember was looking at backwards civilsations. Even global players like the Romulans seemed to live in caves and wear bad 80s clothing until the last TNG movie - I suppose there were still some caves in that...
The buTrek movies and The Orville with modern computer animation and much bigger budgets have been better at showing cities of the future.
Source?
"Probably" is not the kind if thing one can produce citations for, you wag.Source?
It looks very much like the sort of backdrop you'd see outside a ranch house window in a western like The Big Valley.
l lol’ed. For real
There's always been something about the green meadow landscape that appears outside the planet Sarpeidon, seen outside the portal doorway in the library. I've always been curious where that scenery was used.
At least with that resize and compression, I'm almost as interested in the sloppy paint job. Look at all the edge bleed between lavender and the gray or white edges.
(it's probably due to the size shrink and compression; even season 3 TOS took the time with seams... and, of course, lighting between foreground-going-back and backlight-angled-to-the-front as well...)
