Beam-In Matte Shot from "Kitumba"

[Psion]

That is outstanding! You've used the location shot quite well.

I'm put off a bit by the D7s. They look awfully low in the atmosphere -- only two or three miles up. Is the atmosphere under a forcefield dome, or have you decided D7s have the same landing capabilities as the Bird-of-Preys?

But it certainly looks like a bustling space port.

 

[Rat Boy]

You guys are getting scary good at this.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

By this shot, I hope you guys are planning more planetary excursions despite the difficulties involved in shooting them. The pan down to the beam in is gorgeous!

 

[RobertScorpio]

Every time I see something done by you guys I'm truly blown away! That 30 second scene has such a cinematic scope to it. It would be amazing to be able to see these episodes on the big screen.

Beautiful work!

Thanks for the wonderful compliments. We live for them--since we can't make a dime and our only income is nice compliments.

Well, we shoot in HD now, so they actually hold up pretty well on a large screen. In fact, there's an HD button on the YouTube screen that gives you a (slightly) better picture. But nothing like it will look when it's finally all done and released for real.

We shot the live action in mid-June. So we've been doing work on that shot for about two months now. But that's not full time work, of course. It's just weekends and evenings.

Well, that's so cool. I tip my hat to you. The scene was very well done and YOUTUBE doesn't to it justice i bet..cant wait for the final product so HURRY UP!!!

Rob

 

[GSchnitzer]

By this shot, I hope you guys are planning more planetary excursions despite the difficulties involved in shooting them. The pan down to the beam in is gorgeous!

Both the pan down and the camera pushing in slightly are all postproduction CGI stuff. I believe it was just a static shot and the camera was locked down with no actual pan or push in.

But it does look great. Compositionally, it seems maybe a little too busy for my taste. But I still think it's great.

 

[Rat Boy]

By this shot, I hope you guys are planning more planetary excursions despite the difficulties involved in shooting them. The pan down to the beam in is gorgeous!

Both the pan down and the camera pushing in slightly are all postproduction CGI stuff. I believe it was just a static shot and the camera was locked down with no actual pan or push in.

But it does look great. Compositionally, it seems maybe a little too busy for my taste. But I still think it's great.

Well, it is the Klingon capital. You have to expect a little traffic during commute hours. Just don't cut off a bird of prey in the fast lane.

 

[jaksajak]

Nice work, excellent shot. I've seen some work by Tobias, quite the talent! The rest of the team also made some great contributions, as seen by the shot.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

That first version looked like the work of a very talented amateur CGI artist slaving away at his workstation for days or weeks.

The final version, though, looked like a screen capture from Star Trek: Enterprise. It's THAT good. Amazing. Freaking amazing.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

Amazing work! Thanks so much to everyone involved!

 

[RobertMfromLI]

Sexy, must raid Phase II offices so I don't have to wait for Kitumba.

LoL... the best you could get was to try to grab my 900 pound server stack... but since either my brother or I are never more than 30 feet from it at any given moment (and I am usually arm's distance away) you might find that difficult.

 

[RobertMfromLI]

By this shot, I hope you guys are planning more planetary excursions despite the difficulties involved in shooting them. The pan down to the beam in is gorgeous!

Both the pan down and the camera pushing in slightly are all postproduction CGI stuff. I believe it was just a static shot and the camera was locked down with no actual pan or push in.

But it does look great. Compositionally, it seems maybe a little too busy for my taste. But I still think it's great.

Indeed... this shot was done using a RedOne locked down, and shot at Cinema 4K resolution. Considering that's roughly 4.5X the resolution of 1080P, it gives the post production team a lot to work with.

(And the math, for those who want to understand the resolution differences):

4096x2304 (Cine4K)
1920x1080 (1080P)
Equals:
2.13x the horizontal resolution
2.13x the vertical resolution
OR
4.55x the total resolution

OR
9437184 pixels (Cine4K)
2073600 pixels (1080P)
equals 4.55 times the resolution

 

[Professor Moriarty]

You're using a Red camera? OK, I'm impressed (and jealous as hell).

 

[Barbreader]

It's great that you are making the underlying film in a way which will so readily leave you with material that is upgradable to more pixels.

 

[Pindar]

Does that mean future releases will be coming in HD?

 

[Maurice]

But it does look great. Compositionally, it seems maybe a little too busy for my taste. But I still think it's great.

I'd agree with that assessment insofar as the cityscape goes.

 

[S'kai]

Does that mean future releases will be coming in HD?

Pah. We want IMAX.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

At the rate Phase II is logarithmically expanding in scope, I expect that we'll have an interactive holographic episode by 2011.

 

[GSchnitzer]

At the rate Phase II is logarithmically expanding in scope, I expect that we'll have an interactive holographic episode by 2011.

And people will still complain about James's hair.

 

[number6]

At the rate Phase II is logarithmically expanding in scope, I expect that we'll have an interactive holographic episode by 2011.

And people will still complain about James's hair.

They're just jealous that he still has all of his!!

 

[GSchnitzer]

And as long as we're on the subject of "Kitumba," here's a little thing one of special effects guys put together--mostly just for fun. It's a clip on YouTube--a little teaser/trailer-thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Vtr8_6KbE