Beautiful ship. She looks great! 
What's this...? TOS.5.2
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Very Awesome fly over
Thanks, dude.
Don't follow you, TowerPower. You mean all full-framed shots? If so, no. You could not get a close-up doing that. Well, you could, if you rendered them ginormas all, and no point to that. As they are, they are rendered frame size and cropping all by design.
deg
OK- I now get that the "cropping" I was referring to is artistic license in doing close-ups of the ship. By the way, I absolutely love your work - no criticism intended at all. This is one of my favorite threads I check often.
Beautiful ship. She looks great!
Thanks very much, BA!
Ah, glad ya catch my artistic drift, my friend. And thanks for the nice words, and none taken, and glad ya enjoy her so much, eh.
And another updated shot:
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Beautiful ship. She looks great!
Thanks very much, BA!
Ah, glad ya catch my artistic drift, my friend. And thanks for the nice words, glad ya enjoy her so much, eh.
And another updated shot:
deg
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i wish i saw this in RL
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The exact reason I have always found this episode so fascinating and visually compelling. I always loved the idea of seeing E up in the sky and would spend hours sitting on our front-porch with my brother visualizing we were seeing her up in the blue sky. That, and a T=Rex lumbering down the middle of our street.
Thanks, dude!
deg
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The exact reason I have always found this episode so fascinating and visually compelling. I always loved the idea of seeing E up in the sky and would spend hours sitting on our front-porch with my brother visualizing we were seeing her up in the blue sky. That, and a T=Rex lumbering down the middle of our street.
Thanks, dude!
deg
Your welcome
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The exact reason I have always found this episode so fascinating and visually compelling. I always loved the idea of seeing E up in the sky and would spend hours sitting on our front-porch with my brother visualizing we were seeing her up in the blue sky. That, and a T=Rex lumbering down the middle of our street.
Thanks, dude!
deg
Your welcome
whose welcome? Mine, his, hers?
....or did you mean "you are welcome," abbreviated "you're" and "welcome"?
whose welcome? Mine, his, hers?
....or did you mean "you are welcome," abbreviated "you're" and "welcome"?
Sounds like the last episode of Castle.
Now tell me the rule for using, who or whom, eh. And caps to start a sentence.
deg
I'd never seen this show... but I set up my DVR to record it a couple of weeks back and have been "catching up" based upon a recommendation from a friend. It's pretty standard "TV fair" (of the 1980s Steven Cannell variety) but it's fun, nevertheless. And it's nice to see "Mal" doing something fun again!whose welcome? Mine, his, hers?
....or did you mean "you are welcome," abbreviated "you're" and "welcome"?
Sounds like the last episode of Castle.
Now tell me the rule for using, who or whom, eh. And caps to start a sentence.
deg
I pretty much just watch it for Nathan Fillion. He pretty much carries the show, like Simon Baker on The Mentalist.
Castle was basically ABC's answer to trying to clone The Mentalist and its instant success. It's interesting CBS tried the "one-man show" twice last year with Eleventh Hour also, with Rufus Sewell. I watched a couple of eps., and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either, and I like Rufus Sewell. Still, there's only so much TV one can watch and still have a life, so I had to ax Rufus by the second hour.
Last eps. of Castle was kinda starting to take on a campy spin, dumbing it down. They always F-up the shows I like, at least the ones they are trying to sell mainstream for the largest audience they can get. That's what I like about genre shows, they don't bother to rate them based on mainstream audience viewing, so they have a better chance of staying on and not turning too stupid.
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Castle was basically ABC's answer to trying to clone The Mentalist and its instant success. It's interesting CBS tried the "one-man show" twice last year with Eleventh Hour also, with Rufus Sewell. I watched a couple of eps., and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either, and I like Rufus Sewell. Still, there's only so much TV one can watch and still have a life, so I had to ax Rufus by the second hour.
Last eps. of Castle was kinda starting to take on a campy spin, dumbing it down. They always F-up the shows I like, at least the ones they are trying to sell mainstream for the largest audience they can get. That's what I like about genre shows, they don't bother to rate them based on mainstream audience viewing, so they have a better chance of staying on and not turning too stupid.
deg
Beautiful ship. She looks great!
Thanks very much, BA!
Ah, glad ya catch my artistic drift, my friend. And thanks for the nice words, and none taken, and glad ya enjoy her so much, eh.
And another updated shot:
deg
The one with the toned down lights in the windows, is far superiour looking. I looked at the one with the bright window lights first, and my intial recation was that those people inside would have to be wearing welding masks or go blind.
Then I saw the the other one. It looks fantastic against a blue sky. Though as cool as it is, she belongs amongst the stars. <sniff>
Agreed. But one question: where is the light source for the lighting on the exterior side of the nacelles illuminating the registration number?While I'm not 100% sold on every single "tweak" either you or Vektor have made on your versions, I think that both approaches demonstrate, with absolute clarity, just how SILLY the perpetual comments about how "The TOS design could never have been put up on the big screen without being laughed at."I'm pretty sure I just found my new PC wall paper!
Frakin' excellent work deg!
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Nice work.
Thanks dude, and I concur, and was already working on adjusting the bounce and fill light a touch, as well as the shadow color to account for the sky color. Good call, eh.
There are spot-light fixtures (painted red to match the stripe) on either side of the registry. I think you are looking at the first post. The exterior nacelles registry lighting has been adjusted since then, eh.
deg
Yeah, that was always a beef with me too about the port(s) brightness, and I toned them down for the original .5 version.
However, VFX are more about pleasing aestethics in the end, as reality is often too boring to bother putting on film, and thus I capitulated with VFX tradition and brightened them up.
I have pseudo reasons in my head why they would glow on the exterior like that, but I'm not going to go into it.
As to her in space, sure sure, but the image of E in the sky has always been one of thee most compelling and fascinating images of her in my mind, thus my .5.2 TIY series. I am currently working on updating my other three shots from the series, but I had to re-do my F-104C to that end. That conversion project will be done today, and the last three updated TIY .5.2 shots will follow soon after.
deg
Fixed, thanks, dude. Good to have some other eyes on it when you're "in" it for so long. Much better now, eh.
deg
darkwing_duck1
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Proof positive that the classic design only needed an update, not an overhaul.
That said, one nitpick: you left out the aft torpedoes.
That said, one nitpick: you left out the aft torpedoes.
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The exact reason I have always found this episode so fascinating and visually compelling. I always loved the idea of seeing E up in the sky and would spend hours sitting on our front-porch with my brother visualizing we were seeing her up in the blue sky. That, and a T=Rex lumbering down the middle of our street.
Thanks, dude!
deg
You realize now, that you're just gonna have to make a render of a T-Rex chasing the Enterprise...
Sulu: "AAAAAHHHHH... It's Godzillaaaaaa!"
Ya know dude, I could never figure a good place for the aft launcher that I really liked, that would be at a place on her that would facilitate a clear 180º launch trajectory off the stern, that would not change her original profile (key with me with her). So with that, see that red outlined panel under the shuttlebay, I figure a launcher could drop-down deploy from there (ala the Kelvin cannons), and I plan on building one at some point for some action shots.
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The exact reason I have always found this episode so fascinating and visually compelling. I always loved the idea of seeing E up in the sky and would spend hours sitting on our front-porch with my brother visualizing we were seeing her up in the blue sky. That, and a T=Rex lumbering down the middle of our street.
Thanks, dude!
deg
You realize now, that you're just gonna have to make a render of a T-Rex chasing the Enterprise...
Sulu: "AAAAAHHHHH... It's Godzillaaaaaa!"
Ahahaha, that'd be fun!
deg
You realize now, that you're just gonna have to make a render of a T-Rex chasing the Enterprise...
Sulu: "AAAAAHHHHH... It's Godzillaaaaaa!"
Ahahaha, that'd be fun!
deg
If you don't want to spend the time modeling a dinosaur from scratch, available at this link:
http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlscott.html
...are not only some 3D dinos, but also several versions of Godzilla. True, they are meant for Poser, but they have base .OBJ files that most 3D suites can use. Plus, Scott Ayers has a very open policy concerning the use of his models.
Sincerely,
Bill
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