Fire Phasers!

[Forbin]

Goofing around with my 350 destroyer bash, to see if I could do phasers with a laser pointer.
This is four photos composited:
1) The model, with internal lights turned OFF, photographed with photo flood lights.
2) The model, with lights turned ON, photographed in the dark to get just the lights.
3) The model, with lights out, shot in the dark, with a laser pointer aimed at the phaser bump, and some freon shot into the beam (or whatever comes out of an air can when you shoot it upside down).
4) A downloaded astronomical photo background
I cut out the ship and pasted it on the background in Corel PhotoPaint, then layered the lights and phaser on in "screen" or "add" mode. Then I added a little noise for a film look.

 

[Forbin]

Here's the pieces:

 

[Q2UnME]

Nicely done, Forbin. Great to see someone doing old school multi-pass photographic VFX with models. ILM would be proud.

Q2

 

[aalenfae]

Very cool! Though I'd like to see it with a more plain-star background.

 

[Atolm]

Brilliant work as per usual from a master such as you

 

[Forbin]

Very cool! Though I'd like to see it with a more plain-star background.

I agree - it was a rush job before bed, just to see if the laser pointer would work. I'll do up a better image at some point for sure. Probably change the hue of the laser to blue too.

 

[aalenfae]

Very cool! Though I'd like to see it with a more plain-star background.

I agree - it was a rush job before bed, just to see if the laser pointer would work. I'll do up a better image at some point for sure. Probably change the hue of the laser to blue too.

Eh, red TOS phasers are just as canonical as blue phasers. Don't give into the remastered "phasers are always blue" indoctrination!

You could make them pink, too! I think the phasers shot pink at least once.

 

[Sgt_G]

You need to use two laser pointers, one for each phaser emitter.

 

[Mage]

Maybe this ship can fire only one emitter at a time?

Saw the picture, thought, that's some nice CGI work and filters. Then I saw how you made this..... Stunned!! Awesome work man.

 

[Forbin]

You need to use two laser pointers, one for each phaser emitter.

Or one pointer and two separate exposures overlayed in the art program.