Something I did a short while ago. I haven't posted here before, but I've been on this site for a good while (also in a different username in the past), so I thought, why not?
This is a scene towards the end of
Star Trek: Nemesis - just from a different viewpoint. Shinzon's Scimitar would be 'behind the camera' so to speak.
"You heard the lady. Let's get to work." --Captain Picard
COMPOSITION: Starfield rendered in Lightwave. Nebula digitally painted in Photoshop and composited with starfield. Remaining scene setup and render created in Lightwave with FX postwork in Photoshop.
MESHES: Sovereign class by Ralph Schobert,
Valdore class Warbird by Adam Ross.
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There are some ways to do this in 3D, too, with semi-transparent, textured sphere shapes and an area light with a lens flare in the middle or something along those lines, but I prefer to do these things in post work for stills. You have more control.
I hope that helps?
Your rendering turnned out EXCELLENT, but isnAât the E-E a bit out of scale (bigger than she would be)?
As for the sizes, I've used references from the Nemesis movie, so I guesstimated. Given the fact that the D'deridex class we saw in TNG was nearly 1.5 kilometers long, I wonderered after you mentioned it.
So, I've done a little search and based on the information from the size comparison charts of "Star Trek Minutiae", the Sovereign class is 685 meters in length while the Valdore class is 603 meters in length. So they're pretty much even in size. These guys seem pretty accurate, so I guess that should be fine.
Thank you very much! Nemesis certainly was good. By far not as bad as the vast majority thought!