It took nearly 6 days for the dry dock scene to render. 1000 frames can do that. Now I’m doing a series of shorter shots of her leaving space dock and the Earth. Currently rendering 250 frames this time.
Here’s a frame grab.
Steve
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I’m on frame 707 out of 1000. Down from 17 minutes a frame to 9 minutes and falling. The longer the wait the better the shot.
Here’s a frame grab. Notice that there’s shadows now. Dummy here forgot to turn on ray tracing last time on reflection and shadows last time.
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Steve
Got this Friday at the LHS. Finished it today. Always loved “When Worlds Collide” as I have all George Pal movies. Great fast build and a very nice Model from Pegasus!
Steve
Well at a 1000 frames it’s going to be awhile. Here’s another screen cap from the render.
Steve
I’ve done one shot so far of the Enterprise in space at warp. The test came out well and is based on the images displayed below. But today I started on the second shot. This was one of the I always wanted to see. Haven’t you? The Enterprise meshes and textures are mine. So is the Earth and the star dome. But I found on STMC and great dry dock mesh made by Nico Weigand in Germany. The Lightewave version was reworked by MattC. It was so good I just had to use it. Here’s the basic setup for the next scene. There’s still work to do but my first render was breathe taking so I thought I’d put it up for those following along.
Also a screen cap from layout in Lightwave. As you see I’m not doing a full comp but rather have all the objects in the same set up with my lighting set to only target specific objects.
Steve
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Started working on the first scene today. In HD 1080 and hi anti alias it will take awhile to render. But here’s a couple of test frame grabs. Still a couple of things to adjust but I will start the render tomorrow morning.
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Steve
I’ve gone over her a bunch and added more missing details, windows, parts and corrected the domes. Especially the lower saucer dome and modeling around it. I added maps to the domes and the NAV and white clear lights under the saucer. Made too different maps for the impulse engines, red and blue although the blue are only seen here. Today I have some location scouting to so no work on her today. But here’s how she looks at this point. 99% done I think. Animation next. Question is what. I will think on it today. I’m also open to suggestions. That one shot you always wanted to see. Hmmm…
Steve
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It took me the better part of the day to simulate the nacelle effect. What I did is actually build a Lightwave model of the mechanism they used back then with a rotating cage in front of 25 Christmas lights and a reflector. Then a lot of experimenting with motion blur, cage speed and vector blur. Oh and a little bit of Digital fusion. I changed the windows from just glow to actual images inside the windows and adjusted the textures some more. Tomorrow I have to add a few more missing parts and change the NAV light that aren’t NAV lights on the under side of the saucer to just clear.
Here’s a couple of more interesting images. It’s getting there.
Steve
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A couple of more hours and she’s done. She has every single marking and color of the original model. Still there are a few adjustments.
I’ll get some brightly lite 3 views tomorrow.
Steve
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Well I went to Doug Drexler’s Blog today and got inspired once again to finish this CGI model I made from scratch in Lightwave and do some animation with it. I’m finishing off the markings and texture. Got about another day and then it’s time to decide what to animate and make it fun.
Stayed tuned….
Steve
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