#Uss Voyager Star Trek Legacy Update A Few#

RobвЂ™s tenure at the franchise led him to work on all three CG-heavy Trek shows: Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, eventually becoming the Senior CG supervisor for the last seven years of the franchiseвЂ™s television run.The U.S.S. Voyager had a few great moments, but most of all it had.WeвЂ™re wrapping up Voyager Week with a very special behind-the-scenes article from former Star Trek: Voyager Senior CG Supervisor Rob Bonchune. Star Trek: Voyagers legacy is the story of ultimate opportunity paired with incompetent execution. Action figure company EXO-6 heads to the Delta Quadrant with. If youve been waiting to buy the Hero Collector hardcover STAR TREK: VOYAGER A CELEBRATION, the retrospective book is on sale now for less than 16 USD EXO-6 Unveils 1:6-Scale Captain Janeway Figure Aug 17, 2021. STAR TREK: VOYAGER A CELEBRATION for Under 16 Sep 20, 2021.

In this new column written exclusively for TrekCore, Rob discusses the history and challenges of creating a CG version of the U.S.S. Her first mission, a combat mission to disrupt the. 2371: Voyager launches under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. The current commanding officer is Rear Admiral Tuvok.

If you were ranking them, Voyager and Enterprise would probably duke it out for last place. Of the five live-action Star Trek series, Voyager is not the best. Star voyager The USS Voyager, on the other hand, is The Starry Sea 39.Twenty years ago today, Star Trek: Voyager premiered. DS9's exploration of religious faith.

Uss Voyager Star Trek Legacy Update A Few

At the time, Lightwave did not have these capabilities, although they would be added in a software update a few years later.Amblin Imaging had access to the physical miniature, and took detailed shots of the model as closely as possible вЂ“ to use the actual physical modelвЂ™s surfaces as textures on the Lightwave CG Voyager.В It turned out to be a great idea, and for the most part, it worked very well.I was working for Foundation Imaging whenВ I was finally assigned to Voyager full time, and thatвЂ™s when IВ had the chance to examine the existing Voyager CG model we had to use every week. Jones from Amblin Imaging the other was created by Santa Barbara Studios using вЂњDynamation,вЂќ their in-house design software.Dynamation was also used for the SonвЂ™a ships in Star Trek: InsurrectionВ вЂ“ but because of the softwareвЂ™s incompatibility with Lightwave, it was virtually impossible to translate those digital models into a Lightwave-ready format.A wireframe view of the Amblin Imaging model a final render, as seen in вЂњ UnityвЂњThe opening title sequence for Star Trek: Voyager had six distinct segments вЂ“ three used motion-control shots of the studio model ( here, here, and here), and three were made with Amblin ImagingвЂ™s Voyager model ( here, here, and here).В The segments done by Santa Barbara Studios where the ones that had volumetric-type effects, like the smokey nebula which Voyager passes through. I came across some CG renders of VoyagerВ in the TrekCore image archives вЂ“В I spent 5 solid years working on Star Trek: Voyager, even contributing to the practical miniatures for the pilot before moving on to the CG realm вЂ“ and I felt they were truly unacceptable, and that they didnвЂ™t reflect the quality of lighting and textures of the model I used in the show.CG was coming into play more and more on television shows during the mid-1990вЂ™s, as a way to get a faster turnaround for the money spent and to make redoing shots far easier without the high expense of repeating an entire motion control miniature shot.Although a practical filming miniature of Voyager was built for the show, the producers вЂ“ especially the VFX Producer that worked with me, Mitch Suskin (and of course Dan Curry) вЂ“ were planning to move completely towards CG models by the last few years of the series, if the technology proved viable.Two versions of the CG Voyager were scanned from the physical model, and built before the series began вЂ“ one was built in Lightwave by John Gross, Bruce Hall, and D. Star Trek: Voyager TV VoyagerвЂ™s Visual Effects: Creating a CG VoyagerIf youвЂ™re like me, nothing beats some nice orthographic views of your favorite ships from all the cool sci-fi television shows and movies we love. Commands: USS Voyager NCC-74656.

I got most of it done вЂ“ all the big surfaces and larger details made matching CG shots to stock miniature shots pretty much a non-issue with some basic lighting. I spent quite a few evenings correcting all of the image map colors to match the physical modelвЂ™s shade of blue.Mike Okuda working on the noticeably blue-tinted studio modelWith the time I had, I did my best to change all colors and textures to match the filming miniature as closely as possible. I knew that we were probably never going to use the physical model for any additional shots going forward so there was no way a fanatical, nitpicking ship perfectionist like me was going to let that color discrepancy stand. According to Rick Sternbach, the VoyagerВ hull was really a вЂњduck egg blueвЂќ color,В and when you saw the physical model in person it couldnвЂ™t be more obvious. Using both good, clear shots of the physical model, and looking at the maps that Amblin had created, I set about pinpointing the areas that needed most workвЂ¦ and IвЂ™m not sure how it happened, but those ship image maps were tinted purple!Of course, if the ship was lit correctly and not used for close-up shots вЂ“ which is how it was being utilized at first вЂ“ you didnвЂ™t really notice, but the purist in me couldnвЂ™t allow the purple hue to remain in place. (This was all new to me back then and little did I know what the future held!).