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Fan Made Trek CGI

Knight

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Great stuff, I like the Andromeda videos, and the Stargazer battle was awesome. Shows off the Constellation class wonderfully... fantastic stuff!
 
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yep I thought that was that eras Romulan ship
 
Starfox1701

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Their is nothing "cannon" so it's still up in the air for some conjecture and debate. I prefer the other version as it reminds me more of the KA Egale DN and the Apoc King Condor which would be the previous designs and not the TNG Warbird which came later like that version does.
 
Majestic

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Technically the Melak Warbird is a TMP era design, as seen in the game New Worlds. However like many I see it way too advanced for the TMP era, and so feel it makes a better 2340-2350 design.

But as Starfox says it's all open to interpretation and using the designs he has doesn't take away from the overall enjoyment of the video.
 
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On second glance though, the warbird he used bears a striking resemblance to the Fleet Ops Cehaler lol
 
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Outstanding video, really excellent work.

I have that warbird in my install, actually I've used it in TLE screenshots before lol, nice to see someone else working with it.
 
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Every time I see videos like these, it reminds me of how depressed I get when I see my models... :p

Maybe I should continue the tutorial, or buy 3dsMax? I've always wanted to create CG like that, and that may help for the fan film I'm going make in a distant future (if I ever make one...) :p
 
Jetfreak

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A couple more updates guys,

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Here is VSFX's remade DS9 intro, there's even some easter eggs here and there lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAQxC9jU0I


Uuris' try on a reboot warp using a Prime ship, pretty interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63h5FizGOqk


TOS effects by Uuris, using Madman's meshes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5QM5bbR1c


A TOS Battle by CJ, geared for the purists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0vVRHPo-I


Beauty shot of the Enterprise-E by CJ, looking great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBCi4j20XEw

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I'll be searching for more, Uuris is definitely worth subscribing to if you have a YT account. His work is really pro grade.
 
Majestic

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The DS9 re-opening is by far my favourite. :)
 
Adm_Z

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Those are excellent. I loved the Big-E warp.:shock:
 
Borg_Queen

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Beautiful videos and I 'specially loves the Andromeda ones + the Enterprise-E warp. :)
 
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This has become one of my favorite threads. Thanks, Jet!
 
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In terms of CGI I am not nearly as far as those guys. But anyways I thought I could contribute something:
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It cuts of a bit quick at the end but a great start:thumbsup:
 
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FahreS said:
In terms of CGI I am not nearly as far as those guys. But anyways I thought I could contribute something:

Sounds are from Legacy
My old Laptop needed ~9 hours for this video, lol
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Very nice indeed Fahres, what programs did you use? I want to one day get into 3D animation like this. :)
 
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Starfox1701 said:
It cuts of a bit quick at the end but a great start:thumbsup:
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Yeah right.
Im also not so happy with my camera movement. The camera follows the ship for a short while, I thought that might look cool with the moving stars, but it looks like the ship stops although it doesnt...

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Very nice indeed Fahres, what programs did you use? I want to one day get into 3D animation like this. :)
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Thanks, i used 3DsMax 8.
Its very tricky. while you can understand MS3D without tutorials, you definitely need SOME for max. I also noticed that you cant edit sounds with max, maybe with newer versions but not with my version. So best is to create the audio file first and render the video after the sound. As you can hear the sound while you navigate with the cursor through the animation that would be pretty easy.
But ive lots of problems with max, sometimes if I move the ship, the lights keep there or i do an animation but nothing moves! I dont know why, its dumb.
So the 9 hours render time arent the problem. Just let your PC work through the night, but not in your bedroom ;)
You definitely need more time to set the animation up and the ship's light effects.
 
Majestic

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I'd probably use lightwave since I scored myself a copy of one of the latest version a while back before the PC decided it wanted a 2 week holiday. :lol:

Yeah my PC along with Kat's is in the lounge room, in our old house it was in the bedroom and boy were they noisy and heated the room up that in winter we were sweating and in summer well we had to turn them off to avoid heat stroke. :lol:
 
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Majestic said:
Yeah my PC along with Kat's is in the lounge room, in our old house it was in the bedroom and boy were they noisy and heated the room up that in winter we were sweating and in summer well we had to turn them off to avoid heat stroke. :lol:
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yeah very comfortable in winter. you dont need a heater at all :lol:
 
Adm_Z

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That was pretty excelent.:thumbsup: Props to the Author.
 
Majestic

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Pretty good Starfox, thanks for posting. I see he ran out of pictures for the credits. :lol:
 
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