A minor settings error and a lack of time to make up for it led to todays super-tiny render. The angle was based on a common stock shot from the Original Series.
Category Archives: 100 Days, 100 Renders
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 79
Crusade had a particular look to its visual effects. Nebulas and stars were much less saturated than they were in Babylon 5, and there was a tendency for sweeping camera moves that exaggerated the movement of the starfield. I probably could’ve moved the two or three times more to get a more faithful effect.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 78
A shot from the season 1 Babylon 5 episode “Signs and Portents.” Even at a 5K resolution, the scale of the Raider fighter seems a bit small.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 77
You know, I specifically made the airlock on my Archer model consistent with the movie-era docking collar, so I suppose I should show it in use.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 76
I was hunting for inspiration for a quick render last night, and the music from the final scene of Star Trek IV came on shuffle. Probably not the best scene with my current mish-mash of lighting and surfacing workflows but, hey, it’s a picture.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 75
The E.A.S. Hyperion places itself between a Dilgar warship and a Brakiri cruiser during the first day’s of Earth joining the League of Non-Aligned Worlds in repelling the Dilgar’s invasions.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 74
I recently finished reading the English translation of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past novel trilogy (also referred to by the title of the first book, The Three-Body Problem). I thought they were really good, a bit of a throwback to the Clark and Asimov school of hard science fiction. I think going into the books cold really helped me appreciate them, so I’ll just say that this depicts a scene from one of the novels involving a device nicknamed the Droplet.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 73
I should really model the power pods that were on space-based stargates in “Atlantis.” It would greatly open up my options for Stargate renders, especially ones involving the Puddle Jumper. In this case, I got away with it by using tight framing.
Incidentally, “Tight Framing” is the name of my cinematography-themed spoken-word jazz concept-album.
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 72
I took this picture in Fairchild Gardens years ago, thinking it’d be a good place to put a Stargate. Then when I looked at it after I got home, I realized that it actually wasn’t, since you’d have to sort of sidle along it to get to the front. But, hey, maybe on this planet they just thought it was a decorative ring someone buried for some reason and only found out when someone dialed in.
(I imagine that, by acclimation, falling four feet into a pond was deemed to be the stupidest way the SGC lost a MALP)
100 Days, 100 Renders— Day 71
Much like the defiant squadron-leader Sinclair, I’m also shouting “Not like this!”
Metaphorically.
At the prospect of missing a day.
Photo finish!
This is actually a test of some of the ideas I had when building my Battle of the Line analysis. This lays out the scene based on being consistent with the live action footage (Delenn looking up at Sinclair’s fighter in the hologram chamber, and Sinclair passing into the cruiser’s shadow just before impact).