The Enterprise Project

feek61

Looking forward to seeing the Drex in action!

trekriffic

Oh boy this is gonna be GREAT!

Underdog

Can't wait.

SteveNeill

It took awhile to edit the time line and pull the footage I would use. But once that was done I could render off the live action to targa frames so I could composite them with the CGI backgrounds. This took a bit of testing and figuring but once done it’s smooth sailing from here.

This is one cut from the beginning of the film. It has full sound and sound effects. Now all I have to do is repeat this step about 50 more times with different angles, cuts, and scenes.

Don’t blink it goes by fast but the actual film itself will be around 17 minutes long.

Another News report will follow that details how I got to this. It might seem simple enough but it isn’t.


Steve

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Underdog

That was fascinating watching you do the composite work. I use Wax 2.0 as I don't have access to the higher end stuff, nor do I have the funds. Your Stardestroyer looks like it's going to be a hell of a build. Do you use some after market parts? One question... On your bridge lighting, why did you go with just the blue ceiling lights as opposed to the multicolored ones on the bridge of the Enterprise? Looking forward to the next update. BTW, Happy New Year!

Tiberius Kirk

Lovin' it Steve!

Happy New Year!

kahn1701

Steve

As allways greatness..Love your work..

Underdog

I can't wait to see the movie, really.... I love the dog! Still, why the blue lights?

SteveNeill

Because in looking at pictures taken on the old bridge they sometimes change color from show to show.

Thanks guys.

Steve

Chrisisall

LOL, looking at the beginning of the finished clip and my first thought was "Steve built a SET for this- wait....ohhhh..."
Nicely done, very nicely.

Underdog

I see, makes perfect sense. I thought maybe it had something to do with the Defiant from "Enterprise."

SteveNeill

Thanks men!

Steve

SteveNeill

Well it’s been a busy first week of the year. Lots of work done on the Star Destroyer. Got all the fiber optics finally. A 1000 ft and so many holes my eyes have gone cross. I’ll be hooking up the actual lighting tomorrow. I’ll be doing another video report the end of this week.


On the film I’m sorry to say that we lost our camera rig that would have helped us get some nice dolly shots of the big model. I guess it wasn’t in the stars. Paul Gentry and I both agreed without proper conditions to shoot the model it would lend itself well or match to the CGI we are doing.



So it was scrubbed to a later date on the next TOS 1 hour movie called “Star Trek Sirius” more on that later. It’s a drag because the whole idea behind doing this short movie was to shoot the model I spent 47 videos making. But in “Sirius” she will live in space!


Moving on I’m getting comps of the live action on the bridge done on a daily basis. Here is a frame grab from one of the most recent. We have many different angels and close ups in the film and I’ll post some frame grabs as we go along.


Shortly as soon as I get a few effects shots I will cut a teaser trailer to get you all going.


Steve

Tiberius Kirk

Can't wait Steve!

Underdog

Awesome composite work Steve, not to mention the detail on the CG bridge. I showed my wife the youtube video yesterday and went back and showed her the video of you doing the composite work. She was indeed impressed, she really thought that you had built a full scale mock-up of the bridge. Kudos!
Can't wait to see more. If you can come up with a beauty shot, I'd love to do a sketch, or some poster art.

SteveNeill

Thanks roger and thanks Joe I'll have a trailer in a few weeks and some such things. I appreciate that Joe.

steve

SteveNeill

The latest. Well this Star Destroyer has been taking a lot of time but I have been keeping up with the star Trek movie equally. I’m about to finish the Star Destroyer and move on to the Nautilus and less time consuming project and another 66 inch Enterprise kit to get out to a customer. So in a couple of more weeks I’ll be able to spend full time on the movie and developing our Star Trek sip off series, “Star Trek Sirius.”
The VFX crew is hard at work on the effects for the film and with any luck in a few more weeks the first trailer will be made.
Here’s a short news report to explain and show you more.

Steve
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SteveNeill

BTW I have been working on the bridge a bunch more and have many improvements especially over the turbo lift area lighting that was wrong before.

Here's a couple of frame grabs to show the difference.

Steve

greatwazoo42

Except for that slight line blur between the back of the captain's chair and the communications station chair and the 3D effect being a hint off at the corner of Scotty's engineering station where it meets the turbolift alcove (and these are screamingly minor nitpicks that I had to look really, really hard for) in that last picture I could swear that you really are sitting on the actual bridge set and not a 99.9999999999999999999999999% dead on simulation.

Bravo, sir! Bravo!

SteveNeill

These single frame grabs are full sized so yes if it can be seen it will. However when reeling by at 24 FPS it's clean as a whistle.

Thanks so much for the kind words!

Steve

trekriffic

Thanks for the uopdate Steve. You mention the Drexler being destroyed, will we see the explosion in the final video? I noticed what appears to be a small Constitution class model hanging up behind you in the dark and was wondering if that was the Drexler and was going to be blown up but that's just wild speculation on my part.

SteveNeill

Go to my Blog and you can see the USS Drexler. you will see it get blown away.

Steve

trekriffic

Hmmm... I went to your blog but couldn't find it Steve.

SteveNeill

Steve scroll down and even go back a few pages. Click on the images for larger pictures and read the hull markings.