Here's the latest installment of my NASCAR + Star Trek series. After much being said about the unlikelihood of a Galaxy-class starship safely performing a flyover, I opted to go with a vessel we know for sure is capable of atmospheric flight. And has a helmsman who would feel right at home at a NASCAR event. Enjoy!
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Small nitpick: The registries on Voyager's nacelles should be black text outlined in red, not red text and outlines. I don't know if that model was created in Blender or if it was a conversion, but sometimes wonky things can happen with materials when you convert models.
I was super thrilled to find the rock version of the Voyager theme, I think it works way better than the standard orchestral version used in the show.
The crowd is actually done in-render, I used a procedural crowd generator add-on. Looking back, some other method may have sped up the rendering speed, as those crowds really added to the time. But I'm happy with the result so maybe it was worth it. I added a few other details that may not be noticed on first watch (or first listen) so I hope there are some fun surprises in there.
Yeah, as I said, it was a small nitpick. It's definitely not worth going back and redoing hours of animation rendering to fix it.
That's cool. I figured you'd done some compositing voodoo, but it's actually more impressive that they're rendered. Like you said, it adds to the render time, but they do look good.