Light Works video game ships and Vanguard flyby

[JD]

Earlier this morning I was looking around fellow poster 8of5's blog and I found a entry about some artwork he found that was made by the CG art company The Light Works. The biggest standout here for us Trek Lit fans is an awesome fly by of an incredible CG Vanguard station.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

You've got to fix that link; it points back to here in an odd way. lol

ETA: And that was my 1,000 post. Wow.

 

[Sho]

Fixed link: http://8of5.blogspot.com/2012/04/light-works-pretty-ships.html

 

[JD]

^Thanks. I must have forgotten to change tabs before I did the cut and paste.
ETA: Here's the link directly to that post.

 

[captcalhoun]

station looks too 24th century to me, but it's damn good.

 

[Lonemagpie]

station looks too 24th century to me, .

Dunno about that, but it certainly looks movie-era

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

Great find, thanks JD It would be cool to see the USS Sagittarius flying by the station too

 

[Fer]

Very nice!!!

 

[Christopher]

station looks too 24th century to me, but it's damn good.

Architecturally, it's very similar to K-7 and the ST III spacedock, so it's very 23rd-century. What you're reacting to is the difference between 1960s and modern special-effects technology and shot design. It's not the in-universe technology that's anachronistic, just the real-world interpretation and presentation thereof.

 

[Sho]

^ FWIW, I'm pretty sure that's what he meant to say: The presentation isn't in line with what we're used to for TOS-era designs.

For my part, I rather like it.

 

[Christopher]

But that doesn't mean it looks 24th-century, it means it looks post-1960s. The difference is between eras in the real world, not in-universe.

 

[Sci]

station looks too 24th century to me, but it's damn good.

Architecturally, it's very similar to K-7 and the ST III spacedock, so it's very 23rd-century. What you're reacting to is the difference between 1960s and modern special-effects technology and shot design. It's not the in-universe technology that's anachronistic, just the real-world interpretation and presentation thereof.

The only thing that struck me was that the hull color looked like the deeper blue-ish tone they used for Spacedock in the TOS films, rather than the lighter grey they used in TOS itself (and in later episodes featuring TOS-era ships and stations).

 

[captcalhoun]

^ yes. it's also the surface detailing (aztecing, i think it's called) looks more like the stuff you see in/on TNG ships, stations and so forth.

it's not that it's CGI, i'm not a complete numpty, i know CGI is going to look different to a model. it's the actual hull on the (CG) model itself.

i mean, look at the remastered TOS effects or ENT's use of the CGI Defiant, it looked 23rd century because it had the right look to the hull, this looks more like a TNG/VGR style base.

 

[8of5]

What I really like about this little clip is that it feels like it could have come straight out of the editing suite of Star Trek: Vanguard the TV series. This could have been one of the stock establishing shots, chopped down by the editors to show the right bit of the station between scenes.