Your Calls: CGI Made it Better, CGI Made it Worse.
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So they likely just didn't get caught
This is an effects shot I did using my 1:350 (around 32") Enterprise. I wanted to remain true to the originals, with slightly better imagery.
OK. Gorgeous. But the really impressive thing is how well they matched. I'm always fascinated by how artists match existing footage. And I don't suppose you recorded any of the focal lengths you used?
You guys may or may not enjoy this one...It features my second Pilot Enterprise as well as Mr.Scott and yours truly! I did all the editing etc!
Thank you for providing specific examples. For the most part, I find the CGI episodes to be superior to the originals, but not always. The original shows with the nacelle struts winking in and out of existence due to special effects processing were fine the late sixties and the seventies, but they look pretty archaic now. How many times did we see Miri's brown planet in different episodes. The planets all look more realistic. There are way too many improvements to list. Lets just say that backgrounds and atmospheres were greatly improved. Of course, they made some odd choices too, like when they made the phasers emit beams that were...green. Huh?
I have two major gripes with the remastered cgi:
1- The Enterprise herself. While some of the shots are just beautiful, others look unfinished. There are many times where they show the Enterprise exterior and she looks battleship gray. She looks unfinished. She looks like CGI. Of course, with the original special effects, the Enterprise looked like she was light blue due to the processing, but she still looked like the Enterprise. There are too many shots where the Enterprise looks like an unfinished CG ship.
2- The music for the opening credits. In the original, the soprano was used like another instrument. It gave it an otherworldly asthetic. They also used an electric violin for that part later on. In the re-recorded opening, they made the soprano the lead, with the rest of the orchestra being a backup band. It's a nitpick, I know, but it really bugs me.
Overall, the remasters are far superior, but some of the shots of the Enterprise seem unfinished.
Other way around.
The electric violin was first, then the cello. The soprano (Loulie Jean Norman) was hired in the second season.
The AMT Enterprise saucer was seen in SPACE: 1999
As for the K-7?
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Barry Morse of 1999 was in that movie as well, as per “SPACE1970.”
I think they used a bit too much powder blowing up the miniature of Jack Palance’s cybercastle base.
BSG’s Eastern Alliance ships also had fighter parts IIRC.
I took the tops off two of the arm disks of K-7 and fashioned a mini-station with cones top and bottom.
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I never noticed the Enterprise saucer in Space: 1999. Good call out.The AMT Enterprise saucer was seen in SPACE: 1999
As for the K-7?
I *think* that was the Starstreak of THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME:
The Shape of Things to Come - model ships
The Shape of Things to Come - specifically, the spacecraft. The Starstreak and the freighter. Yes, it's an obscure movie, and possibly for a good reason. Not quite Oscar material! But, since id'ing model kit parts used on movie miniatures is what happens around here... So far, what I can...
Starstreak - H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (v1.6) | 3D Warehouse
This is a 3d build of the Starstreak, a ship that appeared in the 1979 Canadian-made sci-fi film "The Shape of Things to Come" and based on the classic H.G. Wells novel of the same name. Except for borrowing the names of characters, the film had nothing to do with the book and was just an...
Barry Morse of 1999 was in that movie as well, as per “SPACE1970.”
I think they used a bit too much powder blowing up the miniature of Jack Palance’s cybercastle base.
BSG’s Eastern Alliance ships also had fighter parts IIRC.
I took the tops off two of the arm disks of K-7 and fashioned a mini-station with cones top and bottom.
The Shape of Things to Come (1979) is in fact what I saw a publicity still of, with the AMT K-7 module so obvious. It took me ages to find the picture, because it wasn't actually in Starlog. It was in a sister publication, Future Life #10 (May 1979).
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I miss the art of the 70s-90s.
I think I saw that movie on MST3K. I could never truly enjoy it until it started being shown on streaming channels with closed captions for the Deaf. I can't read Tom and Crow's lips from behind... Sometimes the jokes are brilliant!
It'd honestly be pretty impressive if you could read Tom Servo's and Crow's lips under ordinary circumstances.
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