There and back again; One fan's 1701 obsession...

[Chrisisall]

he found a Star Trek artifact while visiting the Land of the Giants.

His little legs were kicking in the giant's hand, too... until my Son vapourized him, heh heh!
Tuck & rollisall

 

[Warped9]

^^ I wonder. IF someone had a good large scale model perhaps like the scratchbuilt ones I've heard of on the order of about 60" or so, with good lighting and photography could they not fashion something of what we're discussing?

Of course.

Indeed, could it also be fashioned with devoted cgi work?

More expensive IMO due to the man hours, but it *could* be done. I guess.
My ultimate pick would be shooting a model & green-screening the CGI backgrounds. A good blend that would have weight & still be not TOO expensive to achieve. They did it in Zathura & to a lesser extent in Independence Day...

One of my little wishes is if I could afford a Master Replicas TOS Enterprise to light and photograph myself and then use Photoshop for the backgrounds. I'd love to try video as well for motion shots. The next best thing would be a well made model in the 1/350 scale, something that's supposed to be coming from RC2...whenever that happens.

Just like what's been done with "The Doomsday Machine" (only with cgi) I'd be interested in taking an original episode and redoing the space sequence with a new model. It could be fun.

 

[Chrisisall]

Just like what's been done with "The Doomsday Machine" (only with cgi) I'd be interested in taking an original episode and redoing the space sequence with a new model. It could be fun.

An expensive, time-consuming & painstaking project- but totally gratifying in the end!

CGI is a relatively inexpensive tool in the visual toolbox. But other tools should not be displaced by it IMO.

 

[caisson2delta]

Well built miniatures look far better than a lot of cgi stuff, IMO. It's too bad that we will be seeing less and less of it in years to come. Don't get me wrong, I have seen some awesome cgi stuff but I still prefer the physical models. I always think they give more of a sense of volume and the lighting, when done well, just can't be reproduced by cgi.

 

[Chrisisall]

Well built miniatures look far better than a lot of cgi stuff, IMO. It's too bad that we will be seeing less and less of it in years to come. Don't get me wrong, I have seen some awesome cgi stuff but I still prefer the physical models. I always think they give more of a sense of volume and the lighting, when done well, just can't be reproduced by cgi.

^^^THIS.

 

[Mary Ann]

Tell that to my Wife...

Actually, I think it would be more convincing if my wife told that to your wife.

Could we make that happen, LOL???

Also, my Son is learning Klingon.
And he has a REALLY big phaser....

She's surrounded.

Made. My. Day.