quote:BTW, is this supposed to be a late 24th century fleet? Still with Exies and Mirandas?
For the life of me, I'll never understand why the VFX department chose those two classes to make CGI models for. Akiras, Prommies, Galaxies, sure...but these two are almost one hundred years old! And on top of that, they chose those classes to CGI over more "modern" classes such as the Ambassador and the Olympic.
If that Motion Picture Special Edition had come out before the finale, I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd have used the GGI Enterprise-nil in the fleet.
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It was a fleet from the "present" of Voyager, not 20-something years in the future. As it's a couple years after the end of the Dominion War, it's perfectly feasible to have Excelsiors and Mirandas around.
As for the glowing nacelles, I looked through shiporama.org and you're right... Looks liek thought DS9 at least the nacelles suddenly start glowing.
Anyway, I'm still looking for more screenshots! I was out this weekend, and a power outage frazzled the VCR. I've yet to see the finale!!
quote:What's that cyst growing out of the Prometheus' primary hull, exactly?
It looks like it's just part of the ship to me.
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Yup. We almost hardly see what is called an early to mid 24th century ship. Instead of Mirandas, for example, what about New Orleans classes? Or Cheyenne clases?
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We all know why we don't see the Cheyenne and New Orleans Classes around since Wolf 359, there were never any CGI created. They just put whatever they have out there. I'm suprised though no one at Foundation Imaging created other classes into CGI, even as a hobby.
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From the posts that have been published in the public domain, Foundation Imagining is a servant of the studio. This FX company adheres to the studio's requests and doesn't deviate. The mistakes that have appeared are the result of miscommunication between the studio and the FX company.
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Why don't they do New Orleanses as a hobby? Gee, probably for the same reason taxi drivers don't consider a drive around town as a nice way to spend time on their days off. I mean, they spend hours tediously putting together VFX on a tight schedule for your hungry eyes and there's suddenly an expectation to come home, start up Lightwave and do more ships? Yikes.
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And considering Foundation contributed VFX to Richard Hatch's "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" trailer, as well as doing "test shots" for the Buckaroo Banzai TV series -- all gratis...
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Tom, that's the same way I felt about homework while I was in school. Go to school for 7 hours, come home, and do more school work.
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