Poll WARP-CORE motion design?
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The movie one looked really cool until someone compared it to a lava lamp.
The TNG one always looked kinda cheap to me.
I think my favourite is the real-life fusion reactor (or whatever it was) that was used in Into Darkness. No pulsing or glowing, just a very real piece of very high tech machinery.
The TNG one always looked kinda cheap to me.
I think my favourite is the real-life fusion reactor (or whatever it was) that was used in Into Darkness. No pulsing or glowing, just a very real piece of very high tech machinery.
Agree, the vertical traveling blue light rings make me think of neon signage that I have seen with a stack of light rings.
I like the Next Generation Warp Core effect- it looks like energy being brought together in a controlled fashion. I do not care for the neon ring look of the Enterprise-E and DS-9 Defiant at all.
The swirly glow look on the Refit looked OK until the tech began to be defined- OK for an intermix chamber elsewhere, but if you are bring matter and antimatter together from below and above the swirly tube does not makes sense to me. Logically for me you would have the strong light pulse from the two elements arrive in the center, then have the swirly light appear there and travel down the distribution system to the engines and such...
The swirly glow look on the Refit looked OK until the tech began to be defined- OK for an intermix chamber elsewhere, but if you are bring matter and antimatter together from below and above the swirly tube does not makes sense to me. Logically for me you would have the strong light pulse from the two elements arrive in the center, then have the swirly light appear there and travel down the distribution system to the engines and such...
It's ironic to me how TMP, with the earliest of warp plasma flow designs, ended up being the most advanced looking, out of all the later versions. VOY uses it, too, but not to the same effect. It seems more simplified in that series. I can't quite put my finger on it. But TNG's neon ring/frosted permaglass warp core not only gave how it was done away, but it looked like rolls of fat on a huge gut. I've never been fond of that design, or its implementation. It looked really cheap & cheesey for having come out nearly a decade after TMP. But at the same time ... TNG's such an old show, now, so familiar to me, that I've learned to gloss over it and not notice it, as much, when it's in an establishing shot. But when it's giving loving close-ups ... I hate the look of it.
As I understand it, TMP's plasma flow was inspired, of all things, by sunlight piercing a kitchen window and filtering through dish-water in a sink. I'm always wary of these kinds of stories, because it gives me the impression of just trying to make for an interesting interview subject. Because, looking at the thing innocently, not knowing that it was a movie prop, someone could get that impression from it, possibly, if they saw an image of it close up. I tell you true: as an Artist, myself, I've never found doing the dishes to be inspiring, especially ... tedious, perhaps.
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