Here is my attempt at the apartment building in Ghostbusters. Ever since I First saw the movie in 1986 I have always been fascinated with this building. I have made it a little taller. It was kind of stubby in my opinion. Here is what I started so far.
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Update:
Sides finished on the main body and added the first terraces. I need to adjust the spires. Some are sticking out more then others.
Thank you. Yes those are bump maps. I hope they look alright. I will be adding the different shades when I get done with the modeling. The bricks start out as a dark purple at the bottom to a light tan at the top. Speaking about the bottom. I haven't started on the first floor yet. I want to give it multiple entrances. Original entrance and my entrance.
Hehehe, yeah I know better then that. I thought about it for a minute or so but I didn't want to spend extra money on booze. Plus I am bald so no hair to pull out.
Thank you Juvat. Not crazy like that anymore. Other projects are on limbo until I figure out how to work on them correctly. Hell I don't even think I'm doing this one correctly, LOL
Can't say that I have. Though, there's a good possibility I saw it and just don't remember.
Your not missing much Evil. Just stuff that I was working on that is way over my head.:argh:
Yeah, you pay a lot for space in NY, especially if you want to be high above the city noise.
I used to have the film on VHS, but I traded up to the DVD. Does the Blu-Ray have a large enough picture improvement to make it worth buying?
Thanks Evil. The blu-ray looks pretty good for how old this movie is. It's almost 30 years old. There are some details I haven't seen on the DVD and can see in the blu-ray. The only bad thing about it is the film grain. Like the library scene. A dark scene with a bunch of film grain is no bueno. The sound is also pretty good. Always shakes my place when I crank up the volume when they cross the streams.:thumb: All in all its worth buying. Heck I only payed $10 for my copy at Half Price Books.
Here is a quick update before I start digging into the base. Tall spires and obelisks finished.
The movie's digital quality will vary based on how good of shape the original was in before it was remastered and on who is doing the remastering. Whoever did the remastering for a lot of the Star Trek DVDs did a great job and they may have had a better film master to work from. So, it's not surprising their Blu-Rays look good too. Some movies aren't preserved well enough and whoever does the remastering does what they can with them.
You couldn't be more wrong. Older films, when properly mastered, benefit more from Blu Ray resolution and colour reproduction than most new movies do. The older Ghostbusters blu ray release was a bit hit and miss, but even at its worst it is many times clearer, sharper and deeper than any previous release. The newly remastered edition, struck from the original negative at 4k res, apparently looks nearly flawless. I haven't watched this disc though but it has got very good reviews for image quality.
ST:TMP blu ray looks very good, so does Trek II. But all the films have had digital noise reduction applied to some degree or another. Star Trek III is passable but it has heavy digital noise reduction which makes faces look waxy. In the case of Trek III at least the detail levels haven't been that badly affected by noise reduction. But the rest of the films look terrible. Star Trek IV and VI look like they've had a photoshop paint filter applied - most fine detail is totally wiped away, faces even lose mouths and eyes at times! V is marginally better but then again, who wants to watch it anyway? The classic Trek movie blu rays were done on the cheap.
Only the first two recieved new hi definition transfers, the rest used existing high-def masters that were prepared for the DVD releases. These were done with a view to downscaling to standard definition so not much attention was paid to removing small pieces of film damage as these wouldn't be readily visible on a standard def display. Similarly they had a lot of artificial sharpening and edge enhancement applied as this gives the picture the illusion of greater clarity when seen on a standard def display.
Ironically, the best looking Trek material on blu ray is the oldest. The original series' original film elements were obviously quite well preserved and clearly, a lot of effort was spent on erasing film damage, because they look fantastic. They also show the benefit of an entirely film-based production pipeline, unlike TNG which though shot on film, was entirely post-produced on video at standard def res, which meant many effects shots have had to be redone for the blu rays - with extremely variable results in terms of quality. I personally don't care for the CGI effects that were done on TOS HD however but at least on the blu ray releases you can choose which version to watch.
LOL well I still had pictures off the net but Google has some nice HD pictures. Really wanted to use those in Street View. My biggest problem was the large brick work. Some how they didn't come out right compared to the smaller bricks. Besides that's not the interesting part. The temple and the weird thingy (roof cap?) on top is.. I can't wait to start on that bad boy.
Get the devil dogs up on the roof stat!
Great work!
It's about time you showed up! Yeah I know I really want to start on those terror dogs. I'm actually kind of scared of doing them. I never attempted to model something organic.