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LightWave 2019

Not dead yet!

November 20, 2021 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment
Shuttlecraft Winfield performs a high-speed exit from the Starship Enterprise shuttle bay

Get ready for the understatement of the century: It’s been a weird 18 months. But I’m still here, and this project ain’t dead yet! This is a still of the shuttlecraft Winfield making a hasty exit from the Enterprise hangar deck. The deck sports its shortened-length so that the back wall and the enclosed elevated … [Read more…]

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

Enhance… enhance…

July 19, 2020 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment
USS Enterprise Engineering Section Interior Detail #4 July 19, 2020

Enhance… …zoom in and enhance… …enhance… …zoom in and enhance. Yeeeah, I may have gone a bit overboard with the interiors.

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: CGI Art, LightWave 2019, OCD, Starship Enterprise, USS Enterprise, WIP

So long, LightWave. It’s been aggravating.

January 23, 2020 by Scott Gammans 1 Comment
The Constellation sails towards her fate... and so does LightWave

Hi everyone! Nope, not dead yet! But as far as I’m concerned, LightWave is.   I’ve been gone for a while with no updates, so I thought I’d punch in and let you know what’s going on. After six months of battle, tonight I finally came to the frustrating conclusion that LightWave 2019 is irretrievably … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: Blender, LightWave 2019, NewTek, OctaneRender, OTOY

Back in the saddle

October 28, 2019 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment
USS Enterprise WIP #123 October 28, 2019

After a much-needed three weeks off I’m back in the saddle. The model as shown in this image does not include any new features compared to WIP video #121-A from three weeks ago; it’s just a test image that I rendered to reacquaint myself with the Enterprise model and see what’s left to do. Click … [Read more…]

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

Peek inside Kirk’s quarters

September 1, 2019 by Scott Gammans Leave a Comment

A quickie for the Labor Day weekend: a peek through the portholes into Kirk’s quarters. On the right is his desk, where our gallant captain knocked back more than a few with Bones after a long day at the office. On the left you can see the edge of Kirk’s bunk, where our favorite spacegoing … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, The Doomsday Machine 2019 Tagged: CGI Art, Command module, Depth of field, LightWave 2019, NCC-1701, OctaneRender, 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

USS Enterprise WIP #013

July 26, 2019 by Scott Gammans 1 Comment
USS Enterprise WIP #013 July 26, 2019

Work in progress #13 shows the Enterprise sporting what I hope is her final coating for the upper primary hull.

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

I’ve Joined the GPU Rendering Revolution

July 7, 2019 by Scott Gammans 2 Comments

I’ve joined the GPU rendering revolution. This 384-frame 1080p HD sequence took 87 minutes to render on my workstation using its GPU and OTOY OctaneRender for LightWave. This same sequence in 480p (DVD quality) would probably have taken over 87 hours back in 2008 on my four render computers chipping away at the pixels with … [Read more…]

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