| Re: "The Ultimate Computer/Remastered" Airs This Weekend |
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Group: alt.startrek · Group Profile
Author: Steven L.Steven L. Date: Feb 9, 2008 17:40
GeneK wrote:
> The new FX for DDM made the E seem a bit too jetfighter-
> like for my taste, but I could have lived with it if the ship
> hadn't looked so much like the one in the old "Star Trek
> 25th Anniversary" computer game.
I'm not sure it's their fault, or the fault of the original Jeffries
design, on which the remastered CGI is based.
As I've said before, the original Jeffries design just doesn't have
enough surface detail for today's large high-resolution monitors. If
you watch the HD version, the Big E looks like a toy model because it's
not detailed enough.
You weren't as cognizant of it with the original Doomsday Machine
episode's effects, because most of those shots had the Big E moving past
the camera at a decent speed--frame blur obscures the lack of detail.
In remastered DDM, they had shots where the Big E is almost stationary
relative to the camera, and then your eye dwells long enough on the Big
E to see it's not that impressive.
The refitted ST:TMP model had etching representing "steel plates" and
other such details. So does the new model in the Abrams Trek XI teaser.
So did the NX-01 in ENT, as well. The camera can get quite close to
those models without giving the appearance of a toy model.
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