What did you think of the special effects?
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My favorite effect was the new warp effect... the way that the ships simply vanish, in the blink of an eye, with only a loud sonic boom-like sound REALLY conveyed the fact that this is genuine FTL.
When they jumped to warp, that BOOM and it's gone effect conveyed the power of those warp engines.
And the Enterprise among the wreckage at Vulcan: that was impressive.
They ship felt like it was actually in the environment, rather than composited over a background the way model effects often are.
The ships simply looked real. And when the Enterprise emerged from Titan's atmosphere: really fantastic !!!
And the Enterprise among the wreckage at Vulcan: that was impressive.
They ship felt like it was actually in the environment, rather than composited over a background the way model effects often are.
The ships simply looked real. And when the Enterprise emerged from Titan's atmosphere: really fantastic !!!
the best effects I have ever seen, possibly out of any movie I've ever seen.
like, whoah.
Everything was so tangible, especially the drill and the debris field.
Nero's ship? lethally panic-inducing. awesome.
My favorite was the destruction of vulcan, because it was just..so..disturbing. Epicly disturbing. When it was being sucked into itself... :-O
also, Chris Pine.
like, whoah.
Everything was so tangible, especially the drill and the debris field.
Nero's ship? lethally panic-inducing. awesome.
My favorite was the destruction of vulcan, because it was just..so..disturbing. Epicly disturbing. When it was being sucked into itself... :-O
also, Chris Pine.
Kirk was actually CGI... didn't they do a great job? 
I noticed some things about the Enterprise today after seeing the movie again. The "fins" on the warp nacelles DO move. They actually are four or five separate components that separate and extend up and out slightly from the nacelle. Its subtle, but the blue light emanating from there really helps to convey the power and import of the engines.
I also noticed (as could be gathered from various images we've seen) that the deflector does have motion. Its hard to tell if the hardware actually moves or if its surface changes or if its just and "energy allocation" thype of thing, but it is dynamic, and between that, the bussard collectors, and the "fins" I think it does add a little more mechanistic sense of motion and dynamism to the ship's exteriror. Really neat, subtle things to look for.
I also noticed (as could be gathered from various images we've seen) that the deflector does have motion. Its hard to tell if the hardware actually moves or if its surface changes or if its just and "energy allocation" thype of thing, but it is dynamic, and between that, the bussard collectors, and the "fins" I think it does add a little more mechanistic sense of motion and dynamism to the ship's exteriror. Really neat, subtle things to look for.
There were at times were I was going, that's CGI? especialy the NU-ENTERPRISE! it really did look like a filming model.
And the interior view with the saucer becoming all warped and stuff before jumping off to warp was super-awesome as well.
All objects are being accelerated constantly toward the dominant gravitational source. Only the electromagnetic repulsion of the particles in the floor with the particles in your body keeps you from falling, which interestingly enough goes to show how lame gravity is, that the electrons in some wood can defeat the gravitational attraction of a whole planet. But the attraction is still there.
At any rate, the special effects were freakin' spectacular. The warp jumps looked badass. The city Vulcan was incredible, and even if I have some doubts about the architectural logic of suspending a skyscraper from a cliff, it looked so cool I didn't care. The Vulcan school was just as awesome, in design and execution. And dispelling my closest held fears about the new, kewl designs, the Enterprise as well as the Narada were both so much more beautiful in motion than in stills. I was only disappointed by a few things, and really, these are more criticisms of their design than the effects they used to acheive them:
The hand phaser effects. They were essentially the same as the ones in Nemesis or DS9, although I freely and happily admit they were choreographed much better. And yet, I wanted to see some dreadfully effective hand phasers--indeed, a 21st century update of the vaporization effect. Maybe it's just because the last movie I saw on the big screen was Watchmen, but damnit, I wanted to see some people explode.
The ships' insides. The Narada and Enterprise's exteriors were gorgeous, and even the iPod bridge looked awesome, but the entire interior of the Narada and the engine room of the Enterprise looked awful. At least the Narada's OSHA-noncompliant design, despite being totally retarded, I can at least interpret as an honest mistake, but surely they could've just looked at the set from TMP or TWOK and said, "Boy, that looks better, let's take that as our template and make it look crazy awesome," instead of, as someone pithily put it, emulating the set design of classic MST3K fodder Space Mutiny.
Some of the new aliens were pointless and not necessarily all that well done, particularly the woman from the Kelvin who helped deliver Kirk. It would've been nice to see an Andorian, Tellarite, Deltan, or some other familiar species, than the nurse from the planet Anime VI. This is, of course, an extremely minor point. By contrast, I liked Scotty's little pal, even though I don't know what it was (I'm actually a bit shocked Kirk didn't ask only to have Scotty reply: "It's green").
clint g said:
I just want to echo this. Might have been the best shot in the film.
The BOOM! sound effect is 110% awesome in an IMAX theater. The Enterprise just plain gets up and GOES.
Agreed. It looked about a thousand times more solid and real than the CG Ent-E in the last couple movies.
Here's hoping ILM does the effects for all the Trek movies from now on.
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