Star Trek VI (TUC) Animatics

[Maurice]

I had these on an old VHS video and put them on YouTube. These are some of the effects animatics done for Star Trek VI.

View Star Trek VI "Wank-O-matic" animatics

Enjoy!

 

[Michael]

Seriously? I don't know. They look kind of fake to me.

 

[Maurice]

^^^Fake? You know not of what you speak.

Animatics aren't supposed to look real. Back before everything was done CGI, they were just quick dirty shots done on video using chromakey, often puppeting model kits on rods. They designed to show you the rough composition and length of the shot in a way that a storyboard can't, can can be cut into the edit to show where the effects will be. You don't waste a lot of time on an animatic, you whip it out, get the shot design approved, and spend your time and money making the actual shot.

Besides, this came from a TV documentary about special effects hosted by Christopher Reeve.

 

[Michael]

Well, I did not mean to offend you, really. I thought I was well aware of what an animatic is, but some effects in this one look so ... hm ... cheap, that I thought that the film industry wouldn't use them.

So, it's not a matter of me believing you (I do!), I just find it ... surprising. You must admit, some effects look like some geeks having fun with their new video cam.

 

[Maurice]

You didn't offend me. I'm still puzzled that anyone would find an animatic "cheap" looking, when that was precisely what they were.

 

[USS Mariner]

I like how close some of the shots were to the final result. Sometimes, too close.

 

[LiChiu]

That was cool

 

[SeerSGB]

DS9Sega said:
You didn't offend me. I'm still puzzled that anyone would find an animatic "cheap" looking, when that was precisely what they were.

Yeppers. All they were for was to give the director an "ideal" of what things were going to look like. They're not meant to be representative the quality of the final product, just the pacing of the scene and the camera angles they're wanting to use.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I remember seeing that special! I'd forgotten Christopher Reeve was the host.

 

[David cgc]

One of those shots seemed to be from TFF. That's weird.

 

[CoveTom]

^ Well, TFF's effects were about of animatics quality, so...

 

[Timby]

Interesting how one animatic (the POV shot of the torpedo penetrating Enterprise's hull) remained essentially unchanged from start to finish.

 

[Nardpuncher]

It looked like the most expensive episode of Doctor Who I'd ever seen!

 

[FalTorPan]

Thanks for sharing this footage! I've long held an interest in moviemaking, and it's fun to see this visualization stage of Star Trek VI.

 

[Classic Fan]

Nardpuncher said:
It looked like the most expensive episode of Doctor Who I'd ever seen!

LL

I havnt seen these before, but, that opening shot, as i have said on the youtube video comment, kinda reminds me of what Phase II might have roughly looked like, the model of the refit E exiting the spacedock doors.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I have watched way too much Robot Chicken. That's what I thought of when I saw the dolls...

 

[Data Holmes]

Peach Wookiee said:
I have watched way too much Robot Chicken. That's what I thought of when I saw the dolls...

 

[sbk1234]

I find it amazing how relatively few years it took from this film production, till people would be doing their own fx with far superior results in their own home.

I love this special fx nostalgia.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Thanks for reminding me how much I liked Cliff Eidelman's score.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

That score was great. It was very moody.