New castle matte for "Requiem for Methuselah"
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Wow. That doesn't look faker than the original at all.
What an ignorant thing to say.
Wow. That doesn't look faker than the original at all.
Even though it DOESN"T look "faker" than the original its still designed to fit into the look of TOS, so it looks more like a traditional but 3D matte painting than sa..Enterprise's mattes. God, if I have to explain this AGAIN I'll strangle somebody.
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True, it's brightier and "campier" in respects than, say, the P'Jem monastery backdrop in ENTERPRISE. That's because the new CGI tries to imitate the old '60s aesthetics. And most of them work.
Gorgeous!
I only wish the Remastered episode would have shown the new CGI matte more than twice.
Damn that's beautiful.
Can't wait to see the new Stratos cloud city coming up in a week or two!
Yeah, I expect them to come up with a really cool Stratos. I'm also hoping the new planet Excalbia in "The Savage Curtain" next week will have an interesting look.
Let's see, beyond those, we have "Spectre of the Gun," "The Empath," and "Turnabout Intruder" left. I'm trying to think what material there could be for the FX crew. Well, there's the Melkotian buoy, the planet Melkot... hmm, I doubt they'd replace the original shots of the Melkot itself with a CGI creature, and I don't think they should. There's virtually nothing they could do in "The Empath," just a couple of planet shots and the Minaran sun. Maybe a punch-up of the forcefield effects or jump-cut disappearances, but lately they've been leaving the original cel animation alone.
As for "Turnabout Intruder," there's virtually nothing there FX-wise. But I think it would be cool if, instead of replacing the opening planet-orbit shot with a new planet-orbit shot, they instead replaced it (or at least part of it, depending on its length) with a new matte painting of the Camus II ruins.
Let's see, beyond those, we have "Spectre of the Gun," "The Empath," and "Turnabout Intruder" left. I'm trying to think what material there could be for the FX crew. Well, there's the Melkotian buoy, the planet Melkot... hmm, I doubt they'd replace the original shots of the Melkot itself with a CGI creature, and I don't think they should. There's virtually nothing they could do in "The Empath," just a couple of planet shots and the Minaran sun. Maybe a punch-up of the forcefield effects or jump-cut disappearances, but lately they've been leaving the original cel animation alone.
As for "Turnabout Intruder," there's virtually nothing there FX-wise. But I think it would be cool if, instead of replacing the opening planet-orbit shot with a new planet-orbit shot, they instead replaced it (or at least part of it, depending on its length) with a new matte painting of the Camus II ruins.
I'm thinking the new Excalbia in "Curtain" might have an Io-like quality with lots of erupting, sulfurous volcanoes and molten lava. Perhaps even a bit like Mustafar in STAR WARS EPISODE III.
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This works because it's a case of changing something that didn't make sense in the original--that of Flint's castle happening to look exactly like the fortress on Rigel VII seen in "The Menagerie."
It also seems to fit the aesthetic of the interior sets seen in the episode.
And we know that "Mr. Brack" isn't a fan of classical Rigel VII architecture and didn't buy and move "The Cage" fortress from there to Holberg 917-G how?
An early, but rejected design for Flint's castle.
SULU:"That's odd.
I get the feeling that...somehow...I've been here before."
ST-One
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Complete with the sea, the same moon and the same bright star in the sky?
The re-used matte-painting was replace with a new one (a better one).
The world isn't going to end because this far to apparent money-saver was changed - TOS wasn't diminished because of this.
FLINT:"2004...New Jersey, Earth...Neil Patrick Harris stole my car...we spent hours in the woods...avoiding psychopaths...
the rats. The RATS."
the rats. The RATS."
Apparently, Mr. Flint's immortality was brought about in part by the preservatives inside overrated take out burgers.
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