Monthly Archives: February 2009

Near-Final Stills from the Film, Also The Pipeline is Pretty!

These are final, sans UI graphics.

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Update, Post-Grad App

Graduate application stuff is out of my hands now. On Thursday, I filmed several insert shots – specifically the close-ups of hands interacting with the touch screen panels. I still need to shoot about six more close up shots, but … Continue reading

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Two Shots Near-Finalled

Two cockpit shots are essentially ready to be finalled. I may incorperate swinging wires in the background to help sell the illusion that the ship is moving (and maybe add in a subtle bobbing camera move). I’m working on the … Continue reading

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Cockpit Update

The conversion was technically done on Wednesday, but I’ve since massaged the lighting and texturing in Maya (now that I’ve actually had a couple of hours to play around with it). The result is below. There are still things that … Continue reading

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Live Blogging the Lightwave to Maya Conversion

Feb 04 :: 2:24 AM Conversion done. As I had thought, re-applying the textures and surface settings took the most amount of time. There are also huge differences in the way Maya and Lightwave treat lights, so I had to … Continue reading

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Additional UI Reference Materials

Here is a quick addition on the previous UI reference material. The additional reel contains specific examples of ship-status graphics that I like – they’re all from Star Trek and look dated, but I love the different decks of the … Continue reading

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