The Prime Alternative

[Santaman]

Nice work. great model and design.

 

[Q2UnME]

Holy crap. The videos were simply stunning. Please, please, please take this to the next level and go hi-rez. Your work could easily be movie quality.

Awesome!

Q2

 

[BillJ]

Beautifully done. But the slanted warp-nacelle pylons never worked for me on the original ship, they just look out of place.

 

[Sarvek]

Me again... videos are up.

http://www.madshipyard.com/ThePrimeAlternative/theship.htm

They look pretty good... Vimeo didn't chop them down too much. My favorite is the middle one, where you can watch the model just spin around forever.

I did these just for fun... The 3D showcase one was basically a test of the specular textures and the navigation lights, but turned out so cool I had to finish it. The TV Intro one is just a bunch of test clips that I made, edited together.

Later guys,

-Ricky

Wow. This is amazing. Could this be a Internet movie done sometime in the future because this would be great. I can not wait to see more. Fantastic work.

 

[MadMan1701A]

Thanks guys.

The original videos were 720p, and look a lot sharper than these. I might try to upload them to youtube instead.

The idea we had with the wallpapers, were that they were storyboards for what would become a movie at some point. I wanted to actually have an animation for each one, but I just ran out of time.

-Ricky

 

[STRenegade]

Thanks guys.

The original videos were 720p, and look a lot sharper than these. I might try to upload them to youtube instead.

The idea we had with the wallpapers, were that they were storyboards for what would become a movie at some point. I wanted to actually have an animation for each one, but I just ran out of time.

-Ricky

Actually Youtube compresses vids horribly so you might not want to

 

[Shawnster]

I like it, but it wouldn't work in a modern movie. No matter what one does to the TOS ship, it's too simply functional and dated.

Now see, I totally disagree with this. I think this design would work very well. I much prefer this to what we got in Abram's movie.

This shows respect, I don't know what that abomination we got on screen showed.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Awareness.

 

[Santaman]

I like it, but it wouldn't work in a modern movie. No matter what one does to the TOS ship, it's too simply functional and dated.

Vektor and deg3D have proven otherwise countless times already.

Hmm.. might wanna nag at deg for some updates...

Madman, just continue to work on this thing, it will be awesome.

 

[1701TPA]

PRIME ALTERNATIVE E Animation fly around :> http://www.mediafire.com/file/54wybly9vowxxe3/PrimeAlternative_HD.wmv

 

[1701TPA]

PRIME ALTERNATIVE E Animation fly around HD http://www.mediafire.com/file/54wybly9vowxxe3/PrimeAlternative_HD.wmv

 

[1701TPA]

 

[sojourner]

Loved the videos. The use of the Tron:Legacy soundtrack is great. I always thought it would work well for Trek.

 

[1701TPA]

Beautifully done. But the slanted warp-nacelle pylons never worked for me on the original ship, they just look out of place.

We Agree 100% : ) ... that's why we altered the Pylons just enough, in the hopes they would look like the design followed the NX01 pylons design but still a design predecessor to the TMPE pylons.

 

[sojourner]

Oh, out of curiousity, how long did it take you to render those scenes? what kind of hardware setup did you use?

 

[1701TPA]

ALL Prime Alternative ORTHOS, WALLPAPERS, VIDEOS LINK HERE >
http://madshipyard.com/ThePrimeAlternative/index.htm

 

[MadMan1701A]

Oh, out of curiousity, how long did it take you to render those scenes? what kind of hardware setup did you use?

It depends... most of it was rendered on my PC that I built around mid-2010, when the model was finished up. It's an AMD Phenom II hex-core 1090T, which does pretty well. I've also got 8GB of RAM in there, with a couple of GeForce 9800GTs.

I was doing all of this with Blender 2.45, too, which renders a little slower than the newer versions. The still pictures only take about 5-10 minutes to render out, but then I do all of the compositing and effects in Photoshop for about 3-5 hours.

The videos take longer, of course... for a 30 second clip it was taking around 3-4 hours at 720p. I would then take all of that into After Effects, and add flares and things, taking another 2-3 hours.



-Ricky

 

[Starship]

Ricky, all other meshes built by you were great, but this one is simply your masterpiece! Ten stars bro!

 

[sojourner]

Cool stuff. Does Blender use the graphics cores to do the rendering, or still using the cpu?

 

[MadMan1701A]

Ricky, all other meshes built by you were great, but this one is simply your masterpiece! Ten stars bro!

Thanks.

It is by far the model with the most time in it, for sure. I did V6 of my Enterprise in about 2 weeks... this one took more like 4 months.