Re: CGI up the Enterprise further, add airlocks, extra phase
This is getting Way out of hand. Is this an emulation of ST:Pimp my Ride?
This is getting Way out of hand. Is this an emulation of ST:Pimp my Ride?
CGI up the Enterprise further, add airlocks, extra phasers..
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Re: CGI up the Enterprise further, add airlocks, extra phase
In space, no one can hear your air horn.
In space, no one can hear your air horn.
Re: CGI up the Enterprise further, add airlocks, extra phase
George Lucas begs to differ.
For the last time, TAS is not canon.
No, just subtle stuff
I like the Enterprise pretty much the way she is, but in building my first detailed model of her years ago, I noted there wasn't really that much detail. I had photographed the original shooting model at the Smithsonian long before the Marecki work was done on it, and was really surprised to see that it was basically just gray. Except for the top of the saucer (the long-disputed grid lines), some different shade of gray on the dorsal neck and a little bit of numbering, etc., that was too small to read, it was just one big expanse of gray.
I theorize that little detail was added when the model was built simply because Matt Jeffries knew little would show up on screen. And, given the films and matting processes of the day, he was right.
I like the CGI Enterprise in that it shows panels and lines and subtle weathering. I can imagine what it would look like if I had an HD setup. If you look at a modern aircraft carrier hull, it's gray, but there are variations. The same should be true of the Enterprise.
I would like to see a few more phasers, though!
I like the Enterprise pretty much the way she is, but in building my first detailed model of her years ago, I noted there wasn't really that much detail. I had photographed the original shooting model at the Smithsonian long before the Marecki work was done on it, and was really surprised to see that it was basically just gray. Except for the top of the saucer (the long-disputed grid lines), some different shade of gray on the dorsal neck and a little bit of numbering, etc., that was too small to read, it was just one big expanse of gray.
I theorize that little detail was added when the model was built simply because Matt Jeffries knew little would show up on screen. And, given the films and matting processes of the day, he was right.
I like the CGI Enterprise in that it shows panels and lines and subtle weathering. I can imagine what it would look like if I had an HD setup. If you look at a modern aircraft carrier hull, it's gray, but there are variations. The same should be true of the Enterprise.
I would like to see a few more phasers, though!
Re: No, just subtle stuff
If I were to make a "more detailed" version of the TOS Enterprise, I'd use TMP, not TNG, as the reference. Basically, try putting the sorts of details that were on the TMP model on the TOS ship, but keep the actual shapes as they were on TOS. So, for example, more detailed panelling, docking ports, etc. But the hulls, nacelles and pylons, bridge module, etc. would retain the shape and proportions that they had in TOS.
If I were to make a "more detailed" version of the TOS Enterprise, I'd use TMP, not TNG, as the reference. Basically, try putting the sorts of details that were on the TMP model on the TOS ship, but keep the actual shapes as they were on TOS. So, for example, more detailed panelling, docking ports, etc. But the hulls, nacelles and pylons, bridge module, etc. would retain the shape and proportions that they had in TOS.
Re: No, just subtle stuff
If you really want to see what you're missing, check out this review of the HD-DVD season 1 box set at trekmovie.com... Matt Wright has somehow managed to hack into the HD-DVDs and posted some gorgeous full-resolution 1920x1080 screencaps from the discs.
Not really. I have a 10-foot-wide screen and an HD projector, and it looks just as blurry to me as it does to you. No TV stations that I know of are broadcasting the syndicated "remasters" in high definition.
If you really want to see what you're missing, check out this review of the HD-DVD season 1 box set at trekmovie.com... Matt Wright has somehow managed to hack into the HD-DVDs and posted some gorgeous full-resolution 1920x1080 screencaps from the discs.
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Re: No, just subtle stuff
I visited the Smithsonian a few times. I saw the original Enterprise Studio model first when I was in High School. That that was actually the Enterprise was enough to make me stare staright at it for 10 minutes. I saw it again in early 1993 all repainted and altered. I saw the other studio models too on exhibition, the 1701 from ST-TMP, the Klingon Cruisers from the films and tv, the original shuttlecraft, Botany Bay etc. There were props from the original show and costumes and even the original helm console from the original series. I had to peer at Sulu's Video gadget that used to pop out of his Console. That should have been thought of in the first season.
I have all the pictures I took. They came out very, very, well.
I visited the Smithsonian a few times. I saw the original Enterprise Studio model first when I was in High School. That that was actually the Enterprise was enough to make me stare staright at it for 10 minutes. I saw it again in early 1993 all repainted and altered. I saw the other studio models too on exhibition, the 1701 from ST-TMP, the Klingon Cruisers from the films and tv, the original shuttlecraft, Botany Bay etc. There were props from the original show and costumes and even the original helm console from the original series. I had to peer at Sulu's Video gadget that used to pop out of his Console. That should have been thought of in the first season.
I have all the pictures I took. They came out very, very, well.
