We saw it being cleaned and repaired multiple times, most recently when they escaped the MU.
Anyways, I like how space looks. Best space VFX on TV ever!
Visual Effects in Discovery
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We saw it being cleaned and repaired multiple times, most recently when they escaped the MU.
Anyways, I like how space looks. Best space VFX on TV ever!
Star Trek has always been a 'clean universe' sci-fi, the used dirty aesthetic of Star Wars has rarely been seen, even when Voyager was lost in space for 7 years it was pristine.
I'm putting in my bid for doing fx work for Discovery now. I can deliver 4 times the Paris, on time and under budget.
Why render with Vray .versus Maya? Only have LW experience. we
Because Maya's renderer is a bit old fashioned. Vray is modern and cutting edge. However, Vray is a Maya plugin, so you still use it within Maya.
Thanks for those details!
Ah, so that's what the Dustbuster phasers were for!
Of course, the "suck" setting! Very Spaceballs.
The deflector dish is basically designed to get rid of gormagander poop before it hits the hull.
And nobody wants that job when they get back to port.
I'm inclined to think it's the latter... basically a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, and effects then having to be approved on time and under budget rather than redone. Dollars to donuts, for instance, that when the writers of episode 5 included the mention of the Klingon "D7," they thought they were throwing in a fan-pleasing Easter egg, and what they expected to see on screen down the line was the shape of the familiar Klingon battle cruiser we all know and love.
The same way they owned up to misspelling "Simulation"? Oh, wait, they just flipped the graphic and hoped no one would notice. Or the wrong number of jumps on Lorca's keypad? Sorry, that one got glossed over, too. Or the total disregard for elementary physics during the Shootout at the Binary Stars Corral, and its aftermath (a ship gets rammed by another and doesn't budge or change attitude an inch; one ship loses power and gets sucked into a gravity well, but others sit unpowered for six months and don't drift at all)? Nope, gravity is a capricious mystery that works when it feels the urge.
That they couldn't even get close to what a D-7 looks like is no surprise. Just slap it in and don't look back.
it was flipped because the camera came from behind it...
That explains it, then. Their spell-checker only works when the camera is pointed the other way.
There wasn't a D-7 concept developed separately from the Klingon heavy cruiser we actually see for the show, so if there was a miscommunication in this case (which I think is unlikely) then it was between the writers and the Art Dept, not between the Art Dept and the VFX house.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The traditional "concept" for the Klingon D7 cruiser goes back years, and is a quick Google search away. The first page of results will certainly include the Memory Alpha entry for the ship, complete with images (and the show's creators have been up-front about saying they use Memory Alpha as a reference source). The writers surely assumed that if they included such a reference, the art department would get the reference. Regardless, what I posted upthread was, precisely, that the hypothetical crossed wires were indeed between the writers and whoever was responsible for the visuals.
If your main point is merely that the show operates such that that responsibility for design decisions rests on someone in an Art Department as opposed to someone who actually does the FX to realize those designs, then so noted, FWIW. Regardless, somebody seems to have dropped the ball.
Seems a reasonable explanation actually
Yeah, that's my main point: if the art department sends along a Klingon heavy cruiser design it's not only not the VFX team's job, but would be unprofessional for the team to respond by replacing that with a D7 derived from TOS if that's not what the art department asked for.
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