Visual effects pioneer Howard Anderson dead at 95
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Bummer. RIP, Mr. Anderson. I always thought that his SFX company worked minor miracles for ST, considering how small the budget was for this television show.
Unquestionably one of the majors players of TOS, and of course, had an impact on the film industry beyond ST. He lived a long, memorable life here, and is on to the next journey.
Rest in peace Mr. Anderson.
http://metv.com/stories/star-trek-visual-effects-pioneer-howard-a-anderson-jr-dies-at-95
I don't know where this image of the Enterprise came from, but it doesn't look like an Anderson shot. It's probably from a CBS Digital re-master as aired on MeTV.
I don't know where this image of the Enterprise came from, but it doesn't look like an Anderson shot. It's probably from a CBS Digital re-master as aired on MeTV.
That looks like CG version, or a model kit, not Anderson's work.
Yes, it's the CGI Enterprise. How ironic.
Weird. The 'NCC-1701' on the engine nacelle is reverse image.
Yes, because they made up backwards decals to they could use the one good side of the model to represent the unfinished side by flopping the shot left to right. It was almost never used in production episodes. The most notable example of such a shot being in "Mirror Mirror".
I wish they'd done more shots with reversed decals. They could have gotten me to 1977 before I realized the model was only finished on one side. That's when The Star Trek Giant Poster Book spilled the beans.
re: Mirror Mirror. Cool how 1st Enterprise model was used. Big dish, different front nacelle caps, etc Wish they'd had time to do a little more (different hull decals, ets)
I like the quite subtle implication that perhaps the mirror universe was possibly few years behind on tech.
RIP Mr Anderson
Thanks to Spockboy for the pic of the effects rig. (One I hadn't seen)
I like the quite subtle implication that perhaps the mirror universe was possibly few years behind on tech.
RIP Mr Anderson
Thanks to Spockboy for the pic of the effects rig. (One I hadn't seen)
I agree, but I think the real reason they did it was that the only reversed-decal footage they had was from before the model was "modernized."
Now I gotta go look again. Damn-
Here I had this whole thing cooked up about how the empire's progress was slowed/warped by tech growth via conquest/fear.
Well at least Mirror Kirk got the comfy chair. That's something.
Life is good when, while in your comfy chair, a bikini'd Uhura is only a 1/2 spin away.
I've often said that.
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