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USS Voyager Set Recreations

Tate Meyer

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Hey there, I'm Tate. Been a big fan of Star Trek since I was a little kid. I think the first Trek I saw was The Search for Spock, and the first series I watched all the way through was Voyager.

About 7 years ago, I found Blender, and started trying to create 3D objects and environments. This year, I've been putting some of my free time into recreating sets from Voyager.
It's proving to be a really fun challenge; I'm probably learning more from this project than any I've done before.

I plan to post finished renders as well as work in progress updates here.
 
The Turbolift
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Tate, these are unreal! Incredible work on these recreations, thanks so much for sharing. Most of these are downright photorealistic, like you were actually able to sneak on the Paramount lot in 1997 and snap some high-res photos. Love all those little imperfections you included, like visible fingerprints on smooth surfaces or the texture of painted wood on the walls. These take me back to being a child, seeing the awesome Voyager sickbay set for the first time and being wowed by stuff like the hologrid behind the biobed.

One of these days you guys will get me into trying to learn how to do these kind of virtual sets as well. :)

These are my favorites of the shots you posted …
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Love all those little imperfections you included, like visible fingerprints on smooth surfaces or the texture of painted wood on the walls.
Thank you so much, man! You saying that means a lot, with all the time I put into making custom textures for this stuff.

Wow, that's a LOT of detailed work. Well done :techman:
Thanks! I'm a real stickler for detail. I've amassed nearly 20,000 reference shots for sets from Voyager; over 1000 of those are of sickbay.
 
Nice to see you post over here! As I've said on ArtStation, I absolutely love your work, some renders just look like photographs, and that's not something I say lightly.
That's really awesome to hear from you, since you're what inspired me to try this. Your work was like the bar I set of what I could achieve with enough practice.
 
Boy, I sure haven't posted anything in a while.
This year has been very busy, both in terms of my day job, as well as a few creative projects I had a part in. Now with my part in those slowing down, I have more free time to put into the personal projects I do for fun.

So here are some renders of the corridor just outside the mess hall:

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So glad to see you’re still around and working on this, @Tate Meyer! As usual your work is superb. I have yet to grow tired looking at these kind of virtual set recreations.

By the way, I *love* your avatar! So simple and yet brilliant.
 
These are AMAZING. I've built some of these sets myself (turbolift, mess hall, corridors) and it is NOT easy to get this level of detail. Reference material for the back area of Neelix's kitchen in particular is scarce (I can only remember seeing it in full in "Infinite Regress"), and I like what you did with the residential corridors too, particularly the area aft of the mess hall area that we never really saw on-camera. Keep up the good work! Have fun with the bridge when you get to that...lots of reference material for that set fortunately but there is a LOT of detail you don't really think about until you go about building it.
 
@tnpir4002 Thanks for the kind words! I'll be finishing the mess hall next, and you're right, it's fairly rare we see the back of the kitchen. After scrubbing every episode of the show, I have abt 800 screencaps of the mess hall that I'm using as reference.

And when it comes to set dimensions, @Redgeneral 's collection of official blueprints has been incredibly helpful for this whole project.

I'm looking forward to tackling the bridge eventually. No matter how much I study a set beforehand, once I start working on it, I'm always surprised by how many details there are I'd never noticed.
 
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