over the last couple of years a few people had said to me I should try and get an image in the star trek calendar, so a few months ago I came up with a test render, anyway it wasn't the sort of thing they wanted so now I'm posting it here
I'm sorry the forum added some really awful compression when I uploaded it, that really needs to be fixed
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Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
something is wrong with the points of interest. there are 2. one is the enterprise saucer, and the other one is the right escape pod.
they are about the same importance, and the eye is just switching from one to the other, ignoring the rest of the image.
- a foreground element would help, e.g. a closeup of one of the escape pods. If you have one big in the front and others very small in the back, you give the image the needed depth.
- we canAât see why they are deploying the pods. So you need some damage to the ship or some other threat.
- the planet looks a bit too clean, not sure what it is, it looks a bit like a smoothed photo of earth.
- a more dramatic lighting to give it a dangerous atmosphere.
I could be wrong, but I think the scene is supposed to be the one from First Contact.
I assumed it was the scene from First Contact. Where the Enterprise-E was still very pristine on the outside.
IRML - The interesting thing about this image is that I think it looks like concept art that I'd see in a "making of" book for a (later) finished scene. I don't know if Drexler has rejected it for all time, but I think you have the makings of a terrific image buried in here.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
there's been some nice comments here, maybe I'll return to this image one day
You should really come back to this one.
Yeah, the big problem with the calendar is that they want ships (of the line