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News Roddenberry Archive Panel - Thursday at ST:LV 56

How is the Roddenberry Archive intended to work? I've seen a lot of pretty, flashy videos and seen some nice screenshots, but I'm still in the dark as to how exactly a person might 'interact' with sets? Is it a VR experience, a walk around in a computer monitor or something else? It's all so vague.

Also, it's John De Lancie. ;)
 
We’re setting up demo stations at the Roddenberry booth for people to explore the Cage sets (with a controller and 4K TV - VR was not an option due to Covid restrictions). We are also working on recreating full scenes and shots that can be explored in 3D with the characters - starting with the Cage scenes we filmed with Bob Butler on set that day. We’ll show some samples of how that tech works during the panel, and in the next blog post.
 
Jules / OTOY said:
We’re setting up demo stations at the Roddenberry booth for people to explore the Cage sets (with a controller and 4K TV - VR was not an option due to Covid restrictions). We are also working on recreating full scenes and shots that can be explored in 3D with the characters - starting with the Cage scenes we filmed with Bob Butler on set that day. We’ll show some samples of how that tech works during the panel, and in the next blog post.
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Interesting.

So you built physical sets to film on and then scanned them somehow to create digital versions?
 
Richard S. Ta said:
Interesting.

So you built physical sets to film on and then scanned them somehow to create digital versions?
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The harder part is scanning the actors during their performance, and they are in physical costumes and makeup. You can see some early results from the last blog post from May.
 
Would you consider using the existing maps and models from the fan-driven Stage 9 project that recreated all the TNG sets (and had to be abandoned), updating them as necessary, and including them in this one?

I've also seen amazing TMP set recreations, but don't remember if those were from the Roddenberry Archive team or someone else.
 
TMP is coming up - lots of work on that in progress and in the future (fully new) TNG era work. Also parallel history - like the real world production versions, POT, Phase II, Literary works (Star Trek Is.., GR’s TMP Novel and the books that followed from pocket and some comic publishers that tied into the lit-verse )
 
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Wow!
 
Thanks! He worked the most insane hours to make Spock look just right - most of the make up is one time use, we had to have new ones made for every day of filming.
 
These stills on the blog all still WIP, not final and still show some of the prosthetics’ edges in some lighting (which we clean up in post). But we did polish the makeup lines out for the 3 second shot in the concept video, and with more time won’t need to do that as much or at all, we finished most of the near final prosthetics just days ago. Anyway, I am glad you like it, it’s truly a labor of love, and hopefully a good way to move the archive forward as we aim to get a few scenes volumetrically rendering by next year’s STLV as we promised on stage.
 
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