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Chris2005

I need to try to fix that little bounce the Enterprise does toward the beginning of the last 2 clips, either in AE by using a null object as a parent for all the layers or fix the camera motion in 3ds max and re-render the shot.

Chris2005

Not all of the elements are added yet...

I also need to fix the inside casing objects on the targeted nacelle on the Enterprise, the only ones that wrap all the way around are the ones that go back and around the nacelle, so the ones at the front didn't get the new material applied to them, so they don't flash like the rest.

komaro

Very good. Be sure to use and add the neck phaser...

Chris2005

Almost done with this project. Might do something a little simpler next...

I still need to work on and hopefully finish the Honshu vs. Cardassian video... the problem is, for projects like this, I use the episodes shots as a sort of a storyboard, when creating the Honshu vs. Cardassian video, there really is no storyboard to go by.

Chris2005

I need to fix the motion of the Vor'cha, so it's not doing that fast move... nothing a simple null layer in AE won't fix.

Chris2005

Almost done...

Chris2005

This time with Nightfever's newly created excellent Enterprise B/Excelsior Refit model.

I need to speed up the Enterprise in the first shot.

The first time I did this sequence was back in 2010 and can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejpSslLuPCM

Saquist

You know your work is good.
I will only say that sometimes the projection is sometimes almost parallel and doesn't give the full sense of size of this ship. Most of the time it matches the scene other times like passing the camera between the neck and engine there is a lack of enough perspective.

Secondly the running likes demarking the saucer and stardrive boundary are too bright. I always notice them on your video and never in the originals.

Chris2005

Saquist wrote: »

You know your work is good.
I will only say that sometimes the projection is sometimes almost parallel and doesn't give the full sense of size of this ship. Most of the time it matches the scene other times like passing the camera between the neck and engine there is a lack of enough perspective.

Secondly the running likes demarking the saucer and stardrive boundary are too bright. I always notice them on your video and never in the originals.

Ironically, I do a lot of motion tracking of shots, for example, in my "The Chase" video, the long pull in to the Enterprise from behind with the Klingons and Cardassians, that's motion tracked from the episode.

But the shot where the camera passes between the neck and the warp engine was placed by hand.

Likewise, in this Generations video, the animation is purely by hand, no motion tracking.

As for the lighting, I always found that they were really dim.

However, I wonder how they'd (the originals) look if they got the TNG remastering treatment, where they'd recomposite the original film elements together...

Chris2005

Someone requested that I do this one shot.

Chris2005

Almost done...

Chris2005

Addition:
Pasteur by KnightRider

I plan to do the whole battle sequence starting with the Pasteur under attack by the Klingons and this will be the last shot.

Chris2005

Since I finished the modded Enterprise D by adding the parts made by EremiticWolf, I decided to do this little segment from the show. Especially in anticipation to see the remastered version on December 2nd.

Chris2005

This shot has a lot of layers... I think the last elements I have to add are the disruptors themselves.

Chris2005

I need to fix the stars in the last clip, don't quite move properly...

Chris2005

Trying to get the bussard domes' appearance to look right is quite a challenge, since it's really hard to see in the movies.

I'm trying to figure out how the internal lighting was done, etc.

Model by Nightfever.

Chris2005

The model is created in Cinema4D and Alex (Nightfever) rigged in Xpresso, I'm doing something similar in 3ds max, tutorial can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hKK5JyVs

Chris2005

There are no shadows from the lights yet, that's why they appear to evenly illuminate the inside of the recess... the dome has an IOR if 1.3, which is about glass, either 1.3 to 1.9... there is some noticeable IOR on the dome on the studio CG model.

Unfortunately, the bussard's blades have to be animated manually, I don't know how to add a slider that acts like a speed control like one can do in Cinema4D.

Chris2005

This is probably as good as these are gonna get.

Model by Nightfever. Model Conversion/Mods by me.

nightfever

Looking good.
I personally liked most the Bussards how they were intended to be and are described in the "Art of the film" book. In the book they don't have a glass dome but some sort of force field. A red-orange light comes from glowing particles accelerated and twirled around by the blades.
Back then I tried to simulate that in C4D on my old machine, but simulation would have taken ages.

Chris2005

nightfever wrote: »

Looking good.
I personally liked most the Bussards how they were intended to be and are described in the "Art of the film" book. In the book they don't have a glass dome but some sort of force field. A red-orange light comes from glowing particles accelerated and twirled around by the blades.
Back then I tried to simulate that in C4D on my old machine, but simulation would have taken ages.

Thanks.

Interesting.

Chris2005

Sorry, I had to.

Was wondering why the render was taking so dang long... I had literally every light casting shadows, even when shadows wouldn't be be present... pushing the render to like 10 minutes... now, the render is down to less than a minute.

Model by Nightfever. Max Conversion/Mods by me.

Chris2005

Got most of the spot lights where they need to be, moving onto the strobes, etc.

Chris2005

Yea, the one flare shows through the left pylon, forgot to adjust the key frames there... also, it seems like the inner blink on the back of the pylons gets more and more delayed with each instance, need to check those key frames in Max.

Yes, I'm also still working on the AGT Klingon skirmish... now that I have the blu-ray for season 7, I can do better motion tracking for some of the shots.

Chris2005

Getting all of these layers, etc. right and stuff is quite time consuming.

Deks

Hm... the shield effect could use a bit of refinement.
Perhaps larger noise effect as opposed to the smaller one.

Chris2005

Deks wrote: »

Hm... the shield effect could use a bit of refinement.
Perhaps larger noise effect as opposed to the smaller one.

I did at one point have it larger, but it didn't look right, haha. Of course, this would be a lot of layers to have to re-render, lol.

Here's how it appeared in the show:


The remastered shot's shield effects is somewhat different.

Chris2005

Wanted to create this shot before I started on the rest of the battle between the Pasteur and Klingons...

Forgot to add this:
Enterprise D Textures by JMoney. (Based on Tobias Richter's Galaxy Class)

That will be present in the next WIP video.

Chris2005

I'm still trying to figure out how to add in those little stars that appear now and again when at warp.

PixelMagic

Chris2005 wrote: »

I'm still trying to figure out how to add in those little stars that appear now and again when at warp.

Cool. How did you do that effect?