That's beautiful, Tobias. The hull really feels real. There's a physicality to the whole thing that is just terrific. And congratulations on Arex as well. Looks like Phase II is off to a terrific new start.
Outstanding! That could easily pass for a physical model. It's all in the textures, but i know lighting plays a big part as well. Love the bussard design. I was never a big fan of TOS, but this looks pretty darn good!
As I said before, I love the work done with Arex, and seeing him in motion makes it more awesome!
The new ship also looks great, and I love the little shot where they put the nacelle pylon in place.
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I should sue you Tobias for me hurting my jaw when it hit the desk from being blown away by this! Ouch! Any, after I picked my jaw up, I watched it another couple of times and am impressed with every element of the video. Your modeling work is outstanding as always and the matching of Arex to the live action was really well done. When looking at the bridge, how much of it is actual set and how much is CG? Great little touches such as when the nacelle pylon is being attached to the secondary hull, there are little bits of debris blown out into space. Amazing attention to detail. I am looking forward to seeing much, much more of this.
Thank you for the nice comments! I havenAât made any orthos yet...
As for the bridge - that is a 100% real set. The only virtual set was the engine room with Scotty in it.
The total shot of the bridge was however a bit complicated. The left section was recorded earlier, we had already sat Arex in there, but there was a different actor in the captains chair. Now with the new actor for Kirk, we didnAât want to loose the Arex element, so the shot is basically split in half. Which wasnAât easy because the right side was shot years before, with a different camera, lens and lighting. But we found the spot to put the camera and with some composition magic, nobody noticed.
I also had to open/close the doors when Kirk comes it, as we forgot to do that while filming. Fixing those little errors are actually quite fun.
E.g. the walls of the chapel are blue on top, but they were red on set and it should be a different setting. So I made them blue. Which is no big deal, as long as no one walks in front of it, which they of course did
Indeed, but then we would have to rebuild the whole bridge set, so we stayed with one lift for now. Aside from the torpedo launcher and the additional docking port, saucer and secondary hull are pretty much the same as the TOS Enterprise.
Any chance that we might get some cool wallpapers?
I realy love that scene of the Enterprise leaving the asteroid station...Everytime I watch that scene I start drooling uncontrollably....
Any chance that we might get some cool wallpapers?
I realy love that scene of the Enterprise leaving the asteroid station...Everytime I watch that scene I start drooling uncontrollably....
I'll second that. I'd love to have a wallpaper of a shot from that sequence.
I love it too. You could say that there are several Phase IIs. The Brick Price model we saw on SyFy (profiles in History or something)
has a more TOS cast to it. The Endeavor is the earliest version, and the Constitution II closes. Tikopai was based on the Phase II version that almost made it into TMP and was seen on the cover of STARLOGs Spaceship Handbook. A more plain lower sensor dome, but everything else refit style. The Bridge was still Phase II.
One of the things I would like to see is a small escape hatch dome behind the Refit bridge. The turbo lifts are right behind the bridge, and the docking back right behind that--but that gives the bridge structure a sawed off look. Having a vertical escape hatch would echo back to the original turbolift emplacement and round off the back.
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The new ship also looks great, and I love the little shot where they put the nacelle pylon in place.
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As for the bridge - that is a 100% real set. The only virtual set was the engine room with Scotty in it.
The total shot of the bridge was however a bit complicated. The left section was recorded earlier, we had already sat Arex in there, but there was a different actor in the captains chair. Now with the new actor for Kirk, we didnAât want to loose the Arex element, so the shot is basically split in half. Which wasnAât easy because the right side was shot years before, with a different camera, lens and lighting. But we found the spot to put the camera and with some composition magic, nobody noticed.
I also had to open/close the doors when Kirk comes it, as we forgot to do that while filming. Fixing those little errors are actually quite fun.
E.g. the walls of the chapel are blue on top, but they were red on set and it should be a different setting. So I made them blue. Which is no big deal, as long as no one walks in front of it, which they of course did
ORTHOS, ORTHOS!
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Shockingly I didn't think of that.
As Jeffries intended.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
I realy love that scene of the Enterprise leaving the asteroid station...Everytime I watch that scene I start drooling uncontrollably....
I'll second that. I'd love to have a wallpaper of a shot from that sequence.
has a more TOS cast to it. The Endeavor is the earliest version, and the Constitution II closes. Tikopai was based on the Phase II version that almost made it into TMP and was seen on the cover of STARLOGs Spaceship Handbook. A more plain lower sensor dome, but everything else refit style. The Bridge was still Phase II.
One of the things I would like to see is a small escape hatch dome behind the Refit bridge. The turbo lifts are right behind the bridge, and the docking back right behind that--but that gives the bridge structure a sawed off look. Having a vertical escape hatch would echo back to the original turbolift emplacement and round off the back.