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[QUOTE]Originally posted by o2: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb] They don't owe you CGI ships. You may say that you have shown how you could do it with the minimum of effort, but do you know the hourly salary of the people who would design a ship? What software would be used? Whether the time it took to do that would have taken time away from another task? [/qb][/QUOTE]They don't have to do this with CGI. They can use the stock fotage they already have for the Sutherland or the Phoenix. Since the ship has to be down-sized anyway I think this could work very well. They have used stock fotage for the Excelsior over and over, so why not in this case? By the way, the software for the composition of shoots is already available. Obviously they used it for three seasons now. Regarding the costs involved: I would estimate the hourly costs with 100 Dollars. Assuing that the (stock) footage is alreday available this job should be done in 1 day, resulting in net costs of 800 Dollars. Usually this amount will be multipled by 3 to 5 to cover quality assurance, management, office equipment, etc. so that we receive a total of 4000 Dollars. I expect the real costs to be significant lower since certain synergies apply (the shot in question had been updated with a CGI planet, so all the processing steps after the shot has been finshed by the artist are already covered. The additional starship in it would only be a by-product). Your profile says that you also work in the IT business. Can I assume that your question was therefore only rhetorical? Please share your insights with us. 4000 Dollars is a lot of money and no project manager is spending this kind of money without a good reason. On the other hand: I have to spend between 60 and 70 EUR for each season (85 to 100 Dollars). This is really a high price for a show considering that no sets were build, no actors had to be paid and no film crew was employed. Don't get me wrong. I love to see TNG in HD (this is the luxury I allow myself). But every now and then I would like to see a little surprise in there. Why? Because I'm assured that this is the last release. You said I should not complain so much. For my defense I have to say that I was lured by the change of the Tsiolkovsky's registry in 'The Naked Now'. I understand this as a signal that they will indeed change thinks like that every once in the while. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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