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Chris2005

This last shot has to have the most layers of any shot I've ever done and it's still not done here. lol

I also need to slow down those flames... they're just a little too fast.

Chris2005

Last WIP video until the final completed video.

Chris2005

Decided to try something new...

The current planet is temporary, until I locate a decent quality texture map of Yavin.

Chris2005

Found a better Yavin texture, not HD, but it's gonna have to do.

Chris2005

I really think I need to slow down the Falcon in the last shot just a little bit.

Chris2005

I think this second version of the first shot looks so much better and closer to the original shot. Probably gonna slow Yavin's rotation down a bit.

uniderth wrote: »

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks it would be cool if they released a special edition of this episode with some of the actors at their current ages edited into the original footage. For example keep the original Q and Data, but then reinsert Picard, Worf, Riker, etc.

It would certainly be fascinating. It might require some work, since many appear together in the same shot.

Chris2005

I need to work on the planets' motion in the first shot...

BlueNeumann

These all look good. They always do.

What you gotta do is mash that stuff up: have the Falcon fight the klingons or fly with the Enterprise D. I know you don't do that sort of thing, but I can't be the only one who wants to see it.

Chris2005

BlueNeumann wrote: »

These all look good. They always do.

What you gotta do is mash that stuff up: have the Falcon fight the klingons or fly with the Enterprise D. I know you don't do that sort of thing, but I can't be the only one who wants to see it.

Thanks.

The Falcon would be a bug compared to the Enterprise D, lol. Never really looked into the scales.

Are the only weapons on the Falcon, the guns on the top and bottom center?

Chris2005

I think that looks much better.

Sanderlee

You know, that "out of the exhaust" shot of the Falcon (sequence #2 in the vid) may be my favorite sfx shot in the original Star Wars. Even above the opening shot or any of the Death Star assault. It's just so different!!

Excellent job with it!

stfanboy

Chris now I'm hoping you can do the asteroid scene in TESB. Good job dude! :thumb:

TALON_UK

Chris2005 wrote: »

Thanks.

The Falcon would be a bug compared to the Enterprise D, lol. Never really looked into the scales.

Are the only weapons on the Falcon, the guns on the top and bottom center?

As well as the quad laser cannon the Falcon has a concussion missile launcher situated between the two mandibles at the front.

Nice work on these shots by the way.

Chris2005

Thanks TALON.

If you haven't seen the finished video, here it be: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?81418-(My-VFX)-Star-Wars-Projects

However, I'm gonna be doing some TMP stuff soon, so here are a few renders of Wil Jaspers' Enterprise Refit.

I wanted to go after a really filmy look.

I had to replace all of reflection maps with the rendering engine's reflection texture, to speed up rendering with the rendering engine I use, as the default scanline reflection texture just goes on and on and the render never gets started, at least in a timely fashion.

So, by changing it to the material for the renderer I use, the renders are done much faster.

TALON_UK

Nice filmic quality to those TMP Enterprise shots, you're really capturing the lighting style they used in that movie.

Chris2005

TALON_UK wrote: »

Nice filmic quality to those TMP Enterprise shots, you're really capturing the lighting style they used in that movie.

Thanks.

Well, the lighting is what Wil created for each of the model variations.

Chris2005

I did this back in 2011, but the music made it blocked in Germany, so I had to do something else this time (no music, unless someone wants to make a derivative for me ), despite putting it in the credits, have to remove that in the next WIP video...

See my first go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPOU-AUuxKw

However, this was a lot of trouble to get out of AE, which is why it's up so late... because I finally got it all rendered out, etc. but for some reason AE kept eating up memory to the point where it kept crashing, so I rendered out bits at a time to create PNG sequences.

So instead of rendering out the effects on the passes all at once, I rendered out each pass with its effects to a PNG sequence and re-imported it into AE and set the proper transfer mode.

TALON_UK

That's one of my favorite shots from TMP, pity about the music though, as that is very much part of what makes that shot so iconic and memorable. Either way, nice job.

:thumb:

Chris2005

TALON_UK wrote: »

That's one of my favorite shots from TMP, pity about the music though, as that is very much part of what makes that shot so iconic and memorable. Either way, nice job.

:thumb:

Agreed. I can try altering the audio a little bit, but I don't know if that'd be enough.

Chris2005

Got the 2nd of 3 ships added... the original soundtrack also got ID'd... so it's just the sound.

I'm gonna see if I can find a royalty-free Klingon-ish music track from Epidemic Sound.

bosun

Chris2005 wrote: »

I'm gonna see if I can find a royalty-free Klingon-ish music track from Epidemic Sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I
Maybe a recording of Holst's Mars would work?

Chris2005

Hopefully this music doesn't get ID'd and subsequently blocked in certain places.

Not much progression considering the exceptionally long nature of this shot and the fact that it's length eats up my RAM and causes AE to crash, requiring me to render this shot out in sections, the first half then the second half.

Chris2005

The second shot gave me no problem exporting out of AE... so I think it's the length of the first shot, which still isn't completely finished.

xumucane

Nice! I love the moves. I think the uniformity of the window lights are bugging me a little, but this is fantastic work, sir.

Tralfaz

Beautiful work once again Chris. I've always loved that shot where the camera moves over top of the center Klingon ship, rotates and follows it as it passes, and you nailed it.

Chris2005

Thanks all.

I wanted to add this to a tracked shot, but it's too dark to get any good video to track.

So here's just a 3D animation itself.

Chris2005

I really don't care for the waistline of this particular model of the Alien, I prefer the more solid looking waistline of the Alien in Alien: Isolation and in the movies.

Chris2005

The model used in the game Alien: Isolation.

Unfortunately, this is the OBJ file, which isn't rigged. I haven't been able to get the DAE version, which is rigged, into 3ds max successfully. So it's not animated, it's a statue right now.

Chris2005

Finally got the Alien imported into 3ds max with bones!

Here's the static pose I made in the posing software I found before I figured out how to export it with the bones... I have full control of the model's lips, tail, jaw (inner and outer), head, etc.

It's kinda dark considering the texturing of the alien, but expect more elaborate lighting, once I get my modified textures reapplied, to really bring out the glossy look of the Alien.

Chris2005

Alien Model from Alien: Isolation, property of The Creative Assembly.