Rod OK’d the shorter clip as an experiment for us to visualize a 'World of Roddenberry' for the archive. Looks like many of the viewers are picking them up on bits of the historical context used for some of the shots in the comments section 
Going back to The Cage again...
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As for viewing the sets and the captured elements in 3D, the data is being prepped for myriad future viewing options - virtual production LED walls, holographic panels from LFL, and mixed reality glasses or similar devices. We can also just navigate through the sets within a 2D window and also output normal videos as we have done for the last few documentary video clips. As for how this will be accessed or viewed beyond conventions - that is up to Roddenberry, CBS and others but I know the hope is to make it as widely accessible as possible for historical purposes - like a museum exhibit.
When QuickTime VR was still a thing, an "interactive CD-ROM" (when was the last time you heard that?) was released allowing one to tour the TNG Enterprise. I might still have that disc, but the media would have to be extracted and converted to be viewed. I don't have anything old enough to run the "Macromedia Projector" file. The images would likely seem painfully low-res now.
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literally did a ‘clean room”’ reverse engineer of director 5 / shockwave player in 2001. Brings back memories. I think Mike and Denise worked on that CD ROM
Great CGI, but those interview clips where they feel some need to have background muzak - that just says the actual spoken content can't hold a viewer's attention on its own.
Thinking too much, friend?
I think it's normal to have a bit of 'pizzazz' in the background in these kind of talking heads things? It's not intrusive and low in the sound mix.
Grace Lee Whitney thought the miniskirt was a sign of empowerment and lobbied to get it into the show, which was accepted.
Anyone who isn't a Kinsey-6, certainly.
There were apparently some men in TOS who were shoving socks down the fronts of their pants to imply some things being bigger and more revealing too. There was a book that directly claimed some actors were doing it, though it may have been for not-serious intent. Either way, objects are in many forms. Will find a couple I'd read in the past, but even the oldest professions still revolve around sex..
If nothing else, even Gene referred to men and women as objects and late-80s Trek didn't change any of that:
(Begins around the 26:02 minute mark, but it's a great bit of historical fun... especially the late-70s, which seem to be a universe in of itself, especially as he got light applause at the start but a much more lively applause once he gets to teh men... then much louder applause and laughter when he laments on how young and agile he was. Then he goes onto rail the network about ratio of men and women and the limitations imposed by the suits as they were allegedly all paranoid about everyone up there fooling around...! )
Perhaps, in all objective fairness.
Oh, maps look at me in envy and awe for my ability to be all over the place.
There's some post-coffee recursive tautology for ya...Silly quip aside, maybe it's my misophonia and/or being partly deaf (the type hearing aids cannot fix and I ain't that old yet) that led to my relative disharmony. Then again, I have read numerous similar reactions in video comment sections from others... and the chances of everyone having the same attributes as I is somewhat lesser than 100%. A lot of video makers do seem to think that throwing in any old background material somehow adds to "the experience". Then again, if most don't think the backing music is intrusive then the foreground vocal material is much higher. Unfortunately, as people grow older some hearing loss is natural, so it's just a matter of time if nothing else...
There are many interview videos and the like that don't have the music at all. Or, at least have audio that doesn't go on and on but fades out after a brief introduction. Slight stings or cues, and definitely more deft handling. It all starts to feel a little overdone, overproduced...
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She told me, in person, she wanted to look "Flash Gordon" with the short skirts. Actors stories change a lot, and they're often playing to an audience, not speaking literal truth.
Oh my dear god…blown away.
Maybe this is a bad idea, but I have said before that a way to save dead malls would be to have server farms in them…a Star Trek Bridge of X era…maybe a shop or two…a museum…and everything else game space. The server farms make you money even if no one visits.
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So glad you liked it!
Fantastic!
Any orthos on the Planet of the Titans Enterprise study model?
I think Linden labs came up with their own---maybe work with them too?
https://trekmovie.com/2018/08/07/explore-star-trek-history-with-the-roddenberry-nexus-vr-experience/
Actually Geoff from the Roddenberry Archive team made those models for Rod and Sandsar Nexus experience back 6-7 years ago.
I can render ortho’s of the Okuda’s POT ship model after we get back from Vegas next week (the team will all be there - and we have a panel Thursday - saturday). Like most assets in the Roddenberry Archive, the POT ship is an orbx model, that can be loaded and rendered in Octane from any POV - soon in a free iPad too.
Insane, insane lookalike/prosthetic work. Mission: Impossible quality.
Thank you
Jules / OTOY has posted a twitter link to some more behind the scenes stuff. Fascinating work. Casting a lookalike, adding prosthetics, and then replacing key parts of the face in real time to get us all the way to a very impressive Spock look.
https://twitter.com/julesurbach/status/1565352895440007170?s=46&t=TAco1CqbPj7fSk3M__xT5A
https://twitter.com/julesurbach/status/1565352895440007170?s=46&t=TAco1CqbPj7fSk3M__xT5A
Essentially that's it. Just like the short "flapper" dresses of the 1920s, the miniskirts of the 1960s were, at the time, considered a sign of women's social and sexual liberation. Although I don't know how "liberating" it is when you have to do contortions just to get into and out of a low-slung sports car while preserving some semblance of dignity.
It's just so dope seeing parts of the Early Voyages storyline about the Well of Tomorrows come to life. I remember loving that storyline when I was a teenager and as I got older I always wanted to try to recreate the image of the Enterprise as an exhibition at the Smithsonian from the comic and man it's awesome seeing someone actually do that!
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