I decided to take a closer look at the wingart on that Starfury that buzzes the camera at the beginning of the battle scene, just to see what it was, and after hitting the freeze frame, I saw that the art was very, very familiar.
[QUOTE=David of Mac;161329]Holy shit. Holy... shit. Shitting shit that's holy.
I decided to take a closer look at the wingart on that Starfury that buzzes the camera at the beginning of the battle scene, just to see what it was, and after hitting the freeze frame, I saw that the art was very, very familiar.
Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
Heh, I think I noticed that two, although the video is such piss-poor quality that I couldn't be sure!
I decided to take a closer look at the wingart on that Starfury that buzzes the camera at the beginning of the battle scene, just to see what it was, and after hitting the freeze frame, I saw that the art was very, very familiar.
Holy shit.[/quote]
What's the wing art?
EDIT: HOLY CRAP, that's the boxing aardvark wing art I created! Awesome! After the DVD is released, I may try to get in touch with someone at Atmosphere to see if I can get a high-res version of that shot....
RubberEagleWhat's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
[QUOTE=samuelk;161352]What's the wing art?
EDIT: HOLY CRAP, that's the boxing aardvark wing art I created! Awesome! After the DVD is released, I may try to get in touch with someone at Zoic to see if I can get a high-res version of that shot....[/QUOTE]
Congrats on making it into the show ;)
Back in 2001, Slade -- who is a forum member and also an FX guru working on [i]The Legend of the Rangers[/i] -- asked for people to submit designs for FirstOnes wing art, so he could put it on a StarFury and use it in the LotR series (if it ever came to be, which it of course didn't).
My guess is that the Aardvark art was added to a library of B5 image assets which would be property of Warner Brothers. When production on [i]The Lost Tales[/i] began, WB handed over the image library to the new FX studio, and they pulled it from there.
I dunno, though...maybe Slade worked on [i]The Lost Tales[/i]? FX artists tend to jump around from studio to studio, just like in any other career.
[QUOTE]may try to get in touch with someone at Zoic to see if I can get a high-res version of that shot....[/QUOTE]
Zoic has nothing to do with B5TLT, it's Atmosphere VFX.
Yeah, we've established that. Though you're wrong about Zoic having nothing to do with TLT. They DID do some shots for TLT towards the end of production because Atmosphere was too busy.
[quote]Well since that particular Starfury plows into a Centauri Battlecruiser after being winged, I doubt... :P[/quote]
It's a dream sequence, so you never know.
But I doubt it's anyone significant. It's probably just a random fighter. I'd imagine that JMS's notes (or the director's) notes for the CGI artists would be pretty strict about the design of major character's Starfuries.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Congrats, Sam! :D
We need to make sure this all gets noted in TGM, and at midwinter as well. :)
Now for the real fun part: I wonder if any of the other submissions made it in as wingart? Oh, this will be one hell of a freeze-frame session once it comes out :D
So the work of one of our members was featured in a B5 release, as entered into it by yet another member. Does that make us famous yet? Congrats, Sam. There must have truly been an interesting expression on your face when you found out.
Sam thats uber cool dude! You must be on cloud 9 :) I do remember that call for wingart, that was quite a while ago now. I bet you'll be wearing out the pause/playback buttons once you get the dvd ;)
Nice to see GREEN on the screen even if it does get splatted onto a Vorchan :D
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Finally some new B5 to look forward to.
The trailer is good, a well done teaser for B5 fans.
And that "temp" video at the MySpace page... sad, yet uplifting.
Babylon 5, Babylon 5... endures.
I decided to take a closer look at the wingart on that Starfury that buzzes the camera at the beginning of the battle scene, just to see what it was, and after hitting the freeze frame, I saw that the art was very, very familiar.
Holy shit.
I decided to take a closer look at the wingart on that Starfury that buzzes the camera at the beginning of the battle scene, just to see what it was, and after hitting the freeze frame, I saw that the art was very, very familiar.
Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
Heh, I think I noticed that two, although the video is such piss-poor quality that I couldn't be sure!
I decided to take a closer look at the wingart on that Starfury that buzzes the camera at the beginning of the battle scene, just to see what it was, and after hitting the freeze frame, I saw that the art was very, very familiar.
Holy shit.[/quote]
What's the wing art?
EDIT: HOLY CRAP, that's the boxing aardvark wing art I created! Awesome! After the DVD is released, I may try to get in touch with someone at Atmosphere to see if I can get a high-res version of that shot....
EDIT: That's a [COLOR="Lime"]GREEN[/COLOR] Aardvark too ;)
EDIT2: Screenshot!
[IMG]http://www.bathtub-productions.com/tltscreenshot.jpg[/IMG]
Worf
EDIT: HOLY CRAP, that's the boxing aardvark wing art I created! Awesome! After the DVD is released, I may try to get in touch with someone at Zoic to see if I can get a high-res version of that shot....[/QUOTE]
Congrats on making it into the show ;)
afaik Atmosphere is doing the VFX, not Zoic
Jake
Back in 2001, Slade -- who is a forum member and also an FX guru working on [i]The Legend of the Rangers[/i] -- asked for people to submit designs for FirstOnes wing art, so he could put it on a StarFury and use it in the LotR series (if it ever came to be, which it of course didn't).
My guess is that the Aardvark art was added to a library of B5 image assets which would be property of Warner Brothers. When production on [i]The Lost Tales[/i] began, WB handed over the image library to the new FX studio, and they pulled it from there.
I dunno, though...maybe Slade worked on [i]The Lost Tales[/i]? FX artists tend to jump around from studio to studio, just like in any other career.
I think that answers that. :)
Zoic has nothing to do with B5TLT, it's Atmosphere VFX.
Thanks Slade. :)
Worf
It's a dream sequence, so you never know.
But I doubt it's anyone significant. It's probably just a random fighter. I'd imagine that JMS's notes (or the director's) notes for the CGI artists would be pretty strict about the design of major character's Starfuries.
We need to make sure this all gets noted in TGM, and at midwinter as well. :)
And you know how JMS' dream sequences can turn out :P
So the work of one of our members was featured in a B5 release, as entered into it by yet another member. Does that make us famous yet? Congrats, Sam. There must have truly been an interesting expression on your face when you found out.
Nice to see GREEN on the screen even if it does get splatted onto a Vorchan :D