What would you like to see in the 2010 SOTL Calendar?

[Probert]

Thanks for seeking fan input, Andy.

And thanks to you & everyone for such great positive feedback. If we don't know what you 'clients' want, we can't be sure we're giving it to you... (in a good way, that is).

What I personally DON'T want to see so much is (for example) the Excelsior chasing the Enterprise out of spacedock, only from a new angle. If it's "from an episode or movie" stuff I'd like to see "before or after".

Hmmm, would you consider a "new angle" exception? Here is a calendar idea I was playing with a while back, thinking it might be fun to shake things up a bit by switching to a vertical format. This is the scene from 'Relics', showing the Enterprise entering the Dyson Sphere..... from ground level.

I've always thought this was another one of those missed moments.

Oh, and I hope our input is being sought because someone wants to make a better calendar, not because someone thinks we don't like them anymore!

I initiated this thread because I can't design in a bubble. I simply wanted to know what kind of Star Trek Art you guys/gals really wanted to see. So, again,... thanks.

And I want to see more of your Ambassador class next year.

Yes, I do plan to get back to that one.

Andrew-

 

[Jon1701]

^ Thats a great angle

I always like top view shots of the ships. One of my personal favorites is the shot from The Wrath of Khan looking down onto the Enterprise as the Reliant passes below her.

The Mutara Nebula still looks great. Not sure if its been in the calendar before, but a beauty shot from inside the nebula would be my choice.

 

[USS Mariner]

Hmmm, would you consider a "new angle" exception? Here is a calendar idea I was playing with a while back, thinking it might be fun to shake things up a bit by switching to a vertical format. This is the scene from 'Relics', showing the Enterprise entering the Dyson Sphere..... from ground level.

I've always thought this was another one of those missed moments.

Andrew-

Only you could come up with something that awesome.

Here's a cookie, baked with love.

 

[Blip]

YOU LIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!

That, sir, is a store-bought cookie, specifically (if I'm not mistaken) a variant on the Maryland single chocolate chip. :P

 

[BolianAuthor]

Thanks for seeking fan input, Andy.

And thanks to you & everyone for such great positive feedback. If we don't know what you 'clients' want, we can't be sure we're giving it to you... (in a good way, that is).

What I personally DON'T want to see so much is (for example) the Excelsior chasing the Enterprise out of spacedock, only from a new angle. If it's "from an episode or movie" stuff I'd like to see "before or after".

Hmmm, would you consider a "new angle" exception? Here is a calendar idea I was playing with a while back, thinking it might be fun to shake things up a bit by switching to a vertical format. This is the scene from 'Relics', showing the Enterprise entering the Dyson Sphere..... from ground level.

I've always thought this was another one of those missed moments.

Oh, and I hope our input is being sought because someone wants to make a better calendar, not because someone thinks we don't like them anymore!

I initiated this thread because I can't design in a bubble. I simply wanted to know what kind of Star Trek Art you guys/gals really wanted to see. So, again,... thanks.

And I want to see more of your Ambassador class next year.

Yes, I do plan to get back to that one.

Andrew-

That angle would totally rock.

 

[BolianAuthor]

But I am being honest, when I say that I don't want to see "fan" designs in a calendar that is supposed to represent "canon" ships.

Since many of us contributors are trying to understand what you all want to see, generally,... what makes my Fed fighter any different from a "fan design"? Does placing it in a 'canon' (type) environment help ease the sometimes jarring effect of seeing something totally fresh, like Clawhammer's entry? A lot of you have asked to see something new but is something new automatically non-canon?

What I have in mind for my next year's entry involves a canon item in a never-been-seen setting which I am "designing", post production. Technically that would make it non-canon. Would that be acceptable if it were created by someone who did not work on the show? Would it only be acceptable because I did work on the show?

Please help us understand (in a friendly way) what really works, here.

Andrew-

well, you, Okuda, Sternbach, and others all worked on the show, so I consider your work canon, to the degree that anything any of you show us that has not been seen yet, could be considered a conjectural design, or design study, for the show, as it would /could have been applied to the show.

 

[Probert]

Well, you, Okuda, Sternbach, and others all worked on the show, so I consider your work canon, to the degree that anything any of you show us that has not been seen yet, could be considered a conjectural design, or design study, for the show, as it would /could have been applied to the show.

"SO LET IT BE WRITTEN,... SO LET IT BE DONE".

Pharaoh: Rameses II (Yul Brynner)
"The Ten Commandments" 1956

 

[MyClone]

Then there are some of the "frankenstein" kitbash models used in Deep Space 9. Some of them, particuarly the ones based off of Voyager models (the Eakins and Yeager), combine parts of wildly different scale: a Voyager model combined with F-14 fighter model parts, or parts from the Maquis Raider kit. The kitbashes were sufficient for how they were used (as ships in the background in long shots, where you don't really need more than a textured silouette), but are real monstrosities when you look at the actual model. It'd be interesting to see someone take those general shapes and mold them into something unique, not just parts of something else. (I'm also of the opinion that these would be small ships, if for no other reason than we have plenty of big ships -- Miranda-sized and larger -- so let's populate the lower end of the size scale instead: Defiant-sized or smaller.)

Mr. Probert:

What Kalan suggests here would be my top choice for inclusion in future calendars. I'd love to see you make some of these fun DS9 silhouettes really work. Thank you for asking!

Best,
--MyClone

 

[Tallguy]

Hmmm, would you consider a "new angle" exception? Here is a calendar idea I was playing with a while back, thinking it might be fun to shake things up a bit by switching to a vertical format. This is the scene from 'Relics', showing the Enterprise entering the Dyson Sphere..... from ground level.

I've always thought this was another one of those missed moments

Yowza! Ok, you've got me on that one!

 

[ST-One]

Hmmm, would you consider a "new angle" exception? Here is a calendar idea I was playing with a while back, thinking it might be fun to shake things up a bit by switching to a vertical format. This is the scene from 'Relics', showing the Enterprise entering the Dyson Sphere..... from ground level.

I've always thought this was another one of those missed moments.

And that is why you get paid to do such stuff.
Maybe an idea for the 'remastering' of TNG

 

[Brian]

Well, you, Okuda, Sternbach, and others all worked on the show, so I consider your work canon, to the degree that anything any of you show us that has not been seen yet, could be considered a conjectural design, or design study, for the show, as it would /could have been applied to the show.

"SO LET IT BE WRITTEN,... SO LET IT BE DONE".

Pharaoh: Rameses II (Yul Brynner)
"The Ten Commandments" 1956

I would like to echo BolianAdmiral's sentiment.

And the ground-level view of the Dyson sphere entrance...

 

[Forbin]

Hmmm, would you consider a "new angle" exception? Here is a calendar idea I was playing with a while back, thinking it might be fun to shake things up a bit by switching to a vertical format. This is the scene from 'Relics', showing the Enterprise entering the Dyson Sphere..... from ground level.

Oh, AWEsome!

 

[Squiggy]

I have to admit. Seeing E-D rise out of the ground as several tens of thousands of miles per hour would probably make me poop myself. Poop myself to death.

 

[lonewriter]

One that wasn't messed up. I ordered my 2009 calender and it was all messed up, with the pics printed twice and some missing and when I ordered a replacement, it was also messed up so amazon had to stop selling them until it was fixed.

As for the next version, I would like more variety from all the series.

 

[Gepard]

^Your avatar also reminds me... Nova-class. Lots and lots of Nova-class. Both original and refit. I loves me that ship.

It might also be nice to see some images take a BSG-style approach to the lighting. with a pale, soft-shadow GI fill light, a bright back-lit key light and tons and tons of Malibu-lighting to self-illuminate the ship; sort of what TMP was trying to achieve, but done with modern techniques.

 

[ST-One]

Quality-wise something like this



would be nice.

You can contact the artist as scifi-meshes.com
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-gallery/47076-tng-caps.html

 

[Forbin]

^Dark and blurry?

Haven't we all been saying that's one of the things we don't like?

 

[Brian]

LOL, that's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Clawhammer]

^Dark and blurry?

Haven't we all been saying that's one of the things we don't like?

lt's a good image to watch on a screen, lets see if we can keep the same feeling but without the dark, as for the blurry, well looks nice here, complete with color shifting.

p.s. I got 2 idea's left, both featuring a ship already seen on screen, but after many years of service.

 

[ST-One]

^Dark and blurry?

Haven't we all been saying that's one of the things we don't like?

But in this case the darkness is an aesthetic choice rather than an attempt to hide the low quality of the model (this particular model is of the VERY high-quality sort).
The image is only 'blurry' because it is a still-frame from an animation (yes, in that resolution)... motion-blur is what it is called.