Right before christmas I finished my new Video.
The battle in the Mutara nebula of Star Trek II TWOK. It's a combination of CG and movie elements in my personal editing.
Some known movie shots are included, also I put some new stuff in there.
My little christmas gift to the community
Enjoy the clip and Merry Christmas.
Mylex
Watching this in HD is recommended
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only thing is I was expecting to see the genesis device exploding and the enterprise warping away from it
when there's enough threads I shall come back and put this on the header
Me too.
I have to say props still to Dennis Bailey, his enterprise model was created a number of years ago, and its testament to his building abilities that it still holds up amazingly well in the hands of the animators
Kudos to you both
The nebula are great and the Warp effect its supi.
Thank you very much and have a very Chrismas and a happy new year.
(Sorry my English is not good)
Trekki
Want.
MORE.
:devil:
Seriously ... that rocked, ESPECIALLY in HD. I was most impressed by the fact that YOU GET IT. Those ships were graceful and ponderous at the same time. No 70g maneuvers like half-mile long fighter planes, no snap-pans or whip-cuts. Just graceful, elegant, lethal precision.
Muchly of the kudos and applause.
Still lovely work and thanks for such a nice gift.
Great job Mylex. How long did it take to render all of that out?
Al
Thanks Al,
the video has about 28 CG shots, the rendering time was between 4 and 8 hours for each shot. So this was not so much. For this project I spent more time in post work, the sound editing and the nebula backgrounds which were done in After Effects.
though I didn't gather a liking for the puffs in the warp streaks. The phaser fire was a bit jerky.
Suggestions:
There is no up or down in space, so having reliant 'go down" after being hit may have looked right to some people, but to suggest it was sinking may give hard SF fans a minor twinge. I'd have had her tumble off to the side a bit.
Last shot of reliant, I'd have had more sparking, plasma and such leaking from her nacelle strut.
An improvement on the movie would be to have reliants torpedo pod destroyed, but have the cloud spread out differently instead of going straight up, see first comment.
I've watched this for the 4th time now and find it more brilliant each time I watch it.
Al
The introduction is too long, though. Over 1:30 to get to some action...
Other than that, great video!
(Gawd, was Kirstie skinny back then!)
Al