sorceress21

Ortho of both ships, the Okuda is top, the Scirocco is below.

Can anyone answer the age old mystery of why all Trek fan film production teams can't ever seem to make uniforms that actually fit the actors? Or why in the name of Roddenberry do they use actors who are far too out of shape to be in any military anywhere, any time who apparently don't know how to use a razor?

Congrats though Eric. This was probably one of the better fan film efforts out there.

Dorsal detail of the Okuda

psCargile wrote: »

Spoilers but not really. I like how space is a vacuum and vacuums are insulators but people exposed to space freeze anyway because I guess they radiate their bodyheat super fast, and the moisture on people's eyes and tongue don't boil off, even though Hello, vacuum, zero pressure, but we're going to run with this trope because The Fans Expect It, and there hasn't been an incident on the ISS where someone went outside without a suit to see what would really happen to compare that with scientific speculation.

That's actually not correct. A vacuum is not an insulator or a conductor, it's a heat sink as well as cold sink depending entirely on exposure to a radiant heat source. Depending on how far out in the solar system you are, the side of your body in sunlight can heat up and literally burn away in an instant while the side of your body in darkness freezes solid in moments creating a half frozen half burned hunk of meat.

For example, lunar soil in sunlight is about 253 degrees C. Step onto a patch of soil in the center of night side and it drops to about -243 C. The moon is a perfect model you can use to understand how temperature work in a vacuum. Soil in shadow behind a rock that is in sunlight will still be fairly warm as the soil itself is a heat conductor.

The scene with Naomi pushing out the airlock took place out beyond the asteroid belt. Too far out to get any useful heat from the sun. The actual unreal thing about that scene is that she would have died instantly and long before she shot herself full of a fictional oxygenated anti-freeze. She actually would have needed to have done that prior to opening the airlock door.

Vacuum in darkness is steady just about at absolute zero. Heat is radiation and it disperses in a vacuum rapidly without a constant source.

Officer's/VIP Observation Lounge both variants.

Thanks for the solid feedback, its all VERY helpful and yes, this is far from a finished product. Render time was about 8 hours.

Overall I'm going for a realistic lighting setup vs. a pretty one. The one thing I don't do with my art is practice presentation for the sake of aesthetics. In sci-fi I feel strongly there is way too much of that which spoils suspension of disbelief. For example putting a magic light source on a ship in deep space which is common place and nearly standard. I mean space is a dark place. The best IRL lighting setups I've seen in sci in my opinion have been 2010: The Year we Make Contact and The Expanse. Also look at the many images out there of Starfleet vessels inside the spacedock. Those images the ships all blend in as well and in my opinion are some of the best realistically lit scenes in scifi. That being said one thing I've going to play with is to add spotlights in the dock to better illuminate a ship that is "docked" like those spacedock scenes from trek. I'll play with global medium to get the beams to slightly show up a bit though in a vacuum unless there was dust or a gas present that wouldn't be present IRL. But one could say it was some kind of venting from the ship's ECS.

So yes, the ship is blended with the dock background a lot I agree. However, that's what it would really look like. The hull of the Destroyer is also non-reflective and has a sprayed on thermal coating. That's knocking down the contrast quite a bit.

Now along with the main dock lighting which I already know how to fix (I think), the big work lights definitely need help too and definitely look too CG insofar as the structure. Right now I'm not sure how to go about fixing it so idea are welcome. They are not just in how much I need to adjust the projected light but in the texture of the surfaces, especially the tube rails they're mounted on. I may just do away with them and go with something else as they are heavy poly anyway.

This scene is actually meant to sort of show the ship about ready to depart which is why all the running lights are on and the work lights are dimmed and turned off where there are no other ships docked.

Freak wrote: »

My God that was such a great episode.
It had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.
This show just keep get better and better.

Me too!

Didn't the whole story get really wonky towards the end after Wade stayed on Earth Prime? Human eyes..MMMmmmmmmm...LOL.

Viper wrote: »

The effect is subtle in this case. ACES lut works best on a 32 Bit image with full color range. It pronounces the bright parts so you get proper color bloom. Since the image is 16 bit, it doesn't have enough info to do it's job.

You can simulate the effect by just applying a curves adjustment and doing a slight s shape like this:


Most image editors should have that function. Some renderers also have it on the VFB. I apply the lut files directly in vray

Gimp has a color curve adjustment that looks almost exactly like that window and I adjusted it like you did with same results!..Thank you! It certainly does deepen the color sharpness..

Okuda in orbit..