Yes, the batteries were included.

[ST-One]

I took a picture of my desk yesterday
This still fantastic model was, of course, built by Dennis Bailey.

 

[Gepard]

Wow. Thats nice. I had no idea Dennis was so handy with a model kit.

Is that a modification of an existing kit, or a scratch-build, or what?

Cool catch no matter what!

 

[TheSeeker]

I think someone is just very good at compositing...

Nice work!

 

[ST-One]

Gep Malakai said:
Wow. Thats nice. I had no idea Dennis was so handy with a model kit.

Is that a modification of an existing kit, or a scratch-build, or what?

Cool catch no matter what!

Thank you so very much!
You just made my day.
Thank you!








But, this (the ship) is indeed a CG-model composited into a picture of my desk .
I wish it were a real model.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Nice render. Of course, it's a little blurry... was that a "cheat" to help with the compositing, or just an issue with JPG-ing it for the net?

 

[Venardhi]

Very nice. The blurriness may be helping with the composite but it also looks much more realistic that way. Props.

 

[ST-One]

Thank you

No, no cheat. The original image was already blurry (I used the camera on my mobil phone [HTC-Touch ]). So, I just tried to match that...

 

[Cary L. Brown]

ST-One said:
Thank you

No, no cheat. The original image was already blurry (I used the camera on my mobil phone [HTC-Touch ]). So, I just tried to match that...

AH... so you had to match the blur of the phone's camera... Given that, that's a remarkably nice job!

 

[Kaiser]

Nice job mixing CGI with Real life Photo of your desk :thumbsup:

 

[ST-One]

Cary L. Brown said:

ST-One said:
Thank you

No, no cheat. The original image was already blurry (I used the camera on my mobil phone [HTC-Touch ]). So, I just tried to match that...

AH... so you had to match the blur of the phone's camera... Given that, that's a remarkably nice job!

I thank you

 

[Harry]

http://ds9itsafake.ytmnd.com/

Nice job though

 

[ST-One]

Harry said:
http://ds9itsafake.ytmnd.com/

Nice job though

 

[Professor Moriarty]

That's one of the best photo composites I've seen in a LONG time! The only thing that gives it away (besides the fact that I instantly recognized Dennis's Phoenix model) is that the lighted nacelle caps should have caused at least a faint diffuse reflection against the woodgrain of the desk.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Really, really nice job.

 

[TK421]

Holy cow. I was convinced that was a real model!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Both the model and the fake out composite photo are frighteningly impressive. Ben Finney himself probably couldn't spot the fakery.

 

[Horizon]

Brutal Strudel said:
Ben Finney himself probably couldn't spot the fakery.

Y'know, the fact that I instantly knew the reference frightened me. Then I realized where I was reading....

Great photo! I definitely had to do a double take.

 

[ST-One]

Professor Moriarty said:
That's one of the best photo composites I've seen in a LONG time! The only thing that gives it away (besides the fact that I instantly recognized Dennis's Phoenix model) is that the lighted nacelle caps should have caused at least a faint diffuse reflection against the woodgrain of the desk.

Thank you

I had the reflection set to 1,5 % or 2 % (not sure right now). At first I had it set higher, but that looked far to fake, to me at least...

Could we (well, that we means 'I') see more of your 'Doomsday' project? A new thread, some preview images? Please.

 

[ST-One]

Starship Polaris said:
Really, really nice job.

Well, I had to work with what I had... which is a lot (namely your mesh).
Are you planing on building a new ship? I haven't seen you in quite a while at SFM or LWG (now Foundation3D).

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

ST-One said:

Starship Polaris said:
Really, really nice job.

Well, I had to work with what I had... which is a lot (namely your mesh).
Are you planing on building a new ship? I haven't seen you in quite a while at SFM or LWG (now Foundation3D).

Thanks, but it's your composition and lighting and rendering work that really matters there - it's excellent. I've been working on "Starship Exeter" pretty steadily for a while, and doing designs for sets for a micro-budget movie that a few of us hope to get into production next year. I do have a finished mesh floating around on my hard disk for this old thing: http://shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/cruiser_phoenix.jpg but I haven't gotten to texturing it yet.