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Month: August 2019

USS Enterprise WIP #108

August 28, 2019 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment

Do you remember that scene near the end of Airplane! where Lloyd Bridges (whose character picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue) sees the stricken 707 coming in for a landing and screams “He’s coming right at us!” Yeah, that’s what I was going for here. Modeling on the lower primary hull is completed, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: CGI Art, NCC-1701, Starship Enterprise, USS Enterprise, WIP

USS Enterprise WIP #107

August 15, 2019 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment

Modeling on the upper primary hull is finally finished! Here’s a quickie test video. The main updates to look for here are the little tiny static (non-blinking) outboard running lights, a test of a revised Bussard Collector effect on the starboard nacelle, and the completed grid system on the upper primary hull. Those razor-thin grid … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: CGI, LightWave 2019, NCC-1701, OctaneRender, Starship Enterprise, USS Enterprise, WIP

304 megapixel Enterprise orthos

August 4, 2019 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment

The Enterprise is not quite ready for her closeup, but I needed to zoom in from all angles to survey the ship and compile a punch list of everything that remains to be done on the model. I’ve provided three file sizes below; small, medium, and ginormous—and I do mean ginormous; the full-size image is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: LightWave 2019, OctaneRender, Orthographic, USS Enterprise, WIP

USS Enterprise WIP #017

August 1, 2019 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment

Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloss” I can’t seem to stop fiddlin’ with the materials on the upper primary hull, but I *think* this is the right balance of shiny/dirty/glossy/not glossy. I think the main reason I keep dithering is because I know, deep down, that once I commit to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: CGI Art, LightWave 2019, NewTek, Node Editor, USS Enterprise, WIP

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