TFF vs. TUC Enterprise Shots

[CoveTom]

Yeah it’s truly unfortunate that despite the beauty of the model itself, it only really looked very good during TMP, and certain parts of TWOK. The iridescent paint in TMP was dulled down and they presumably had to add some pencilling and surface detail to the model due to the dulled-down look of the Aztec. Combine that with lighting conditions and it becomes underwhelming.

Just a few short years after TUC, the enterprise-d filming model looked pretty spectacular in generations, and alot of the lighting was really well done

It's probably not a coincidence that ILM was involved in the creation and initial filming of the Enterprise-D model for "Encounter at Farpoint." So they knew the model, it had been designed to their way of doing things, and they knew how to light and film it.

For the refit model, which was made by Magicam and then shot by Trumbull and his team, I don't think the ILM folks ever truly knew what to do with it. They had a very different way of working than Trumbull and, as I understand it, he would not offer any assistance to them when they were working on the subsequent films. It's a shame. The refit model is one of the most beautiful minatures ever constructed for film, and ILM certainly has plenty of talented people, but the two just didn't mesh.

 

[rizop]

It's probably not a coincidence that ILM was involved in the creation and initial filming of the Enterprise-D model for "Encounter at Farpoint." So they knew the model, it had been designed to their way of doing things, and they knew how to light and film it.

For the refit model, which was made by Magicam and then shot by Trumbull and his team, I don't think the ILM folks ever truly knew what to do with it. They had a very different way of working than Trumbull and, as I understand it, he would not offer any assistance to them when they were working on the subsequent films. It's a shame. The refit model is one of the most beautiful minatures ever constructed for film, and ILM certainly has plenty of talented people, but the two just didn't mesh.

Yeah that’s certainly a shame about Trumbull. Keeping that external dental mirror lighting rig would’ve been painful enough. It’s quite honestly amazing that they used the refit in all 6 movies considering their apparent distaste for it.