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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] Seeing the pic of Okuda and the planet in it reminded me of my 1990 visit to the TNG art dept. I had the good fortune to have a personal tour of the by Mr. Okuda the week before they started shooting The Best of Both Wrolds: Part 2 (I was on the lot to interview Ronald D. Moore for Starlog's TNG magazine). A few random observations... 1. The art dept was one big room and an anteroom...no one had a specific office. 2. I noticed the planet, Jupiter, right away as I walked in. I gestured at it and said, "That's cute," and Mike replied, "It's left over from the first movie," so now you know from whence it came (at least according to Mike). I also noticed that it was only painted on one side (the back was white primer), and Mike commented, "They only filmed one side." 3. I knew I was at the Art Dept. door because there was a sign in the window that read "CAUTION: ANTIMATTER HAZARD". 4. In addition to various other greeblies there, Mike had a preserved eteched brass segment from the Epsilon 9 station, which was very cool looking. 5. I didn't get to meet Rick Sterbach per se, although he was there. He had headphones on and was working on the battle bridge console transparencies. 6. Picard's desk computer was in the art dept. for repainting, so I got to play with it. It's mounted on a cheap lazy susan, so instead of the "whish" sound when you turn it, it rattles on bad ball bearings. Rrrrrrr... The paint job was sloppy to the naked eye, but at TV rez you can't see it, so... 7. Mike loaded an animation he had done of a sensor scan for "Tin Man" where the screen shows a cutaway of the titular vessel/life-form. I scored brownie points because I told Mike I knew exactly how he'd done the cutaway (he'd placed the virtual camera so close that parts of the model ended up "behind" the screen, so as it rotated you got this sense of sections being sliced away. Unfortunately, I was there a week before shooting started, so I wasn't able to get a tour of the set. :mad: That's what I remember off hand. It's been like 12 years! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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