just wanted to say this was really cool. I think you did a fantastic job on this. Well done and thanks for sharing the talent it took to pull this off. Much appreciated. Kaplaa!!!
I enjoyed your video. I've played Starfleet Battles since the 80's and it's always nice to see a 'real life' battle that relates well to the game. Well done! :)
Excellent! Nice compliment to TOS. I think the blue compliments TOS while acknowledging the special effects style in film versions. That photon sound...that was my favorite effects sound as a kid. Borrowed from G. Pal's "War o' Worlds." Come to think of it...the energy scanner sound was from the same movie (the hiss-n-rattle sound when the Martians scan/search). Keep it up.
That's so awesome. Love the CG work on the TOS Connie she looks lovely :). In a way I think Star Trek was very much ahead of it's time. The things they could do for the effects even just in the late 70's to 80's could have made such a difference. I remember looking at the original TOS episodes with the shaking models etc and now with the remastered versions it looks so sweet :).
Thank you!!! I just downloaded Blender for my Ubuntu installation and am already doing very basic stuff - I'm not much of an artist, but it's awesome to see some of my thoughts come to life. I'll almost certainly never get to your level, but I can do stuff that I've wanted to see for years! Thank you! Orion
Oh, I realize that, and I'm still very impressed. I was only commenting on the absolute power of the Romulan weapon system. Thanks for sharing your talent!
I liked it. At around a minute in, there were several scenes in a row where the Enterprise just flew past the camera, which was a bit dull, but the actual combat was smoothly animated and done well.
The video is accurate unlike all the others produced professionally, commercially, or privately. There is no sound in space. If you want accompany music, pick something you feel will fit each scene and have at it.
In the original TOS, Balance of Terror, the Romulan Warbird fired a very powerful plasma torpedo that was able to destroy bases. The weapon seemed to be less effective and less powerful the longer it stayed out. When it fired at the Enterprise, she was avoid it long enough that it did not destroy her. There was a board game, called SFB - Star Fleet Battles - used the Romulan Plasma Torpedo as a missile type weapon and not as fast as a direct fire weapon like a phaser or photon torpedoes.
Great rendering -- great meshes into ships. Next time -- and this is your 'Director Friend' flapping his gums here: Please consider having some texture to space. Not just stars. The NASA sites -- and many others have HD images of a ton of Galaxies, Novas, etc. It would most certainly be some 'eye candy' and you can make the BG work within the battle. Also, there would be some DEBRIS left over from the Bird of Prey -- yes? In fact, it -- again -- could be part of the storyline. Bouncing off the Enterprise's shields -- parting the Red Sea, so to speak. Otherwise. Kudos! D.A
@CJCA915 That's right! :) The "warp nacelles" on the TOS Klingon D-7 weren't actually warp nacelles either, they were weapons pods (where the ship fired from). The hole in the front of the Klingon D-7 wasn't a torpedo launcher, either, it was a sensor dish (like the sensor dish - NOT deflector dish - on the front of the Enterprise). There's a lot of things people get wrong with TOS ships...
I see the effort and love that went into this piece of art. I do have an observation to state. The In "Balance of Terror", the Romulans had a plasma based pulse cannon that, when the Enterprise first encountered and was hit while in full reverse, the ship took a pretty solid hit. You may wish to redo do the plasma weapon effect on the Enterprise to be a spectacular light blast around and camera shake. Just my thoughts, and I think your effort was absolutely amazing!!!
Hey Chris... Had to watch, and enjoy most of you tos reworks to remember the warp effect, 0:37 the Enterprise jumps to warp, the stars abd the effect and colour base are the effect I am after,,, Great stuff... Plus I have many models of voyager, but you have one with good textures blobvandam, any ideas where to get it,
What I did was use a particle system, blizzard (I think) and instanced a cylinder, then applied a gradient ramp map to the particles... His model isn't public, in fact, I think I'm the only one he's shared it with.
@CJCA915 Great work. My take on the standard ordinance torpedoes is that the immensly powerful plasma bolts took too much energy from other systems so they scrappped them and used the power towards propulsion and shields. Considering that they only had impulse drive when they first met in "Balance Of Terror."
You've done a pretty good job. When they remastered the original, I would have thought they'd have given the outer hull a bit more Aztec patterns to give it a bit more life. As for the flybys, battle scenes and warp jumps. I would have done them exactly how you did it
I had guessed as much but the effect you achieve is brilliant, I will experiment but im guessing your cylinder and color variant are the key... I see blobvandam is over ad the sci fi meshes, I may see if he is up to working out something but i have plenty to do here with this now... if you manage to find the size and colour base for the gradient please let me know... Keep up the good work...
UNBEFREAKINGLIEVABLE! You have topped yourself and set a new bar. The engine ramp up to warp speed was so perfect, it gave me chills! You should contact James Cawley and work on Phase 2!
I liked it. It was fun to watch. Sound would have been nice, but I understand there are copyright issues. It was a bit short, but still a very good effort. Thumbs Up. :)
I am late to the game by 10 years. Cool effects to include the shielding that for some reason isn't in many of these type of clips. As far as sound? There is no sound in space. Highly accurate. 👍
Very Impressive!...especially the original series music at the end...TOS will always be my favorite. The Constitution Class Enterprise is the best by far in my opinion.
@CJCA915 - Although it's been years since I watched any TOS, I don't recall them having one either. You did a good job overall. Don't mind my goofy minor tech detail comment. ;)
I am involved with a large production value Star Trek TOS fan film. We have started the production to honor the 25th anniversary of the original Star Trek series. We desperately need volunteers for our post production and Visual Effects team. I was looking around at some of the people who have been doing Star Trek work, and your videos caught my eye. If you have some free time to donate to the project, we would love to work with you.
Super 3D animation work.. the ships look fab as others pointed out already better if had sound? I was wondering what are the many cone like units in lines around the Romulan Ship saucer top hull?
@CJCA915 Yes, 1954 (I think). I believe it won an Oscar for best special effects. Anyway, in the episode "Elaan of Troyius," Spock has a hand-held energy scanner that makes that "hissing rattle" sound (from War of the Worlds) when he scans the queen's necklace. I just finished watching that episode, I'm stuck in a snow storm, off work, and have been on a Star Trek "bender" this morning.
you should make more of these. and put them on youtube. and add more ships. maybe some of the designs that you can find online from various sites. VERY good work and entertaining
just wanted to say this was really cool. I think you did a fantastic job on this. Well done and thanks for sharing the talent it took to pull this off. Much appreciated. Kaplaa!!!
I love this one! Wish I could have on DVD to play on tv screen as I lounge around the house. GREAT JOB!
This is slick!! Wonderful work. I love battles!
This is a masterpiece! Amazing! I was blown away...you are an epic talent!
Great work, every shot looked superb. The TOS Enterprise going to warp like that was amazing.
@CJCA915 I would have assumed green disruptors, but I've seen very very little of TOS. keep up the great work, it's very much appreciated.
I enjoyed your video. I've played Starfleet Battles since the 80's and it's always nice to see a 'real life' battle that relates well to the game. Well done! :)
That was really cool and alot of fun to watch! Thanks for making this.
Excellent! Nice compliment to TOS. I think the blue compliments TOS while acknowledging the special effects style in film versions. That photon sound...that was my favorite effects sound as a kid. Borrowed from G. Pal's "War o' Worlds." Come to think of it...the energy scanner sound was from the same movie (the hiss-n-rattle sound when the Martians scan/search). Keep it up.
That's so awesome. Love the CG work on the TOS Connie she looks lovely :). In a way I think Star Trek was very much ahead of it's time. The things they could do for the effects even just in the late 70's to 80's could have made such a difference. I remember looking at the original TOS episodes with the shaking models etc and now with the remastered versions it looks so sweet :).
Nice work. Love the attention to detail in your modeling.
Nice work! Especially the lighting.
Thank you!!! I just downloaded Blender for my Ubuntu installation and am already doing very basic stuff - I'm not much of an artist, but it's awesome to see some of my thoughts come to life.
I'll almost certainly never get to your level, but I can do stuff that I've wanted to see for years!
Thank you!
Orion
Thank you for this! I now have something to refer to when I build and accurize the Polar Lights 1/60 scale BoP.
Nicely done. Love the attention to detail
Dude, this is excellent!
Nice! Very fun to watch. Really enjoyed the explosion at the end with the little shock wave :)
This is a great video. You've done it really well.
Cool. And that's an understatement!
This is very good can't wait to see more of your stuff
very well done and one of best warp starfields so far
very good, I especially like the romulan torpedo and the impact with camera shake effect.
Thats a beautiful vid man, E never looked so good
Very slick work, bro. Excellent!!
excellent graphics,perfect effects...WOW!
perfect. absolutely PERFECT!!
Oh, I realize that, and I'm still very impressed. I was only commenting on the absolute power of the Romulan weapon system. Thanks for sharing your talent!
You did a great job. Very enjoyable.
The space shots look so epic - the lighting is absolutely the best - better than the remastering!
And the music sounds so epic too somehow
Very nice, makes me wish for more classic Trek.
That was enjoyable! Excellent effects.
Thanks! I enjoyed it!
This is me thumbs upping your video. Interesting conversation you guys are having, by the way.
pretty cool. great detail work on the ships!
Very Good!! Thank You for the Video!!
Why is there no sound on this video?
Copyright reasons. :)
+Chris Cunningham Damn bull. :(
***** Neil deGrasse Tyson (an astrophysicist) sure praises the show's attempts at portraying real physics.
Because you touch yourself at night.
You got effed here. Alot of your other vids too. :(
I loved it. Great job.
CJC that was great nice work there bud.
Wonderful video!!!
Excellent!!! I loved it!!! That’s my favorite battle scene!!!
Great job! I hope you’ll make more videos-this was excellent!!! 🚀
Great work!
Wow...those were some very nice looking ships. Well done on the VFX too. :)
I liked it. At around a minute in, there were several scenes in a row where the Enterprise just flew past the camera, which was a bit dull, but the actual combat was smoothly animated and done well.
Great stuff, a very good watch...
Wow, nicely done!!
Nicely done! I'm impressed. :)
Great video thanks
The video is accurate unlike all the others produced professionally, commercially, or privately. There is no sound in space. If you want accompany music, pick something you feel will fit each scene and have at it.
Well, the sound in space is artistic license.
Wow...nice work!
awesome video gotta turn this one into a screen saver lol
Awesome! Well done!
In the original TOS, Balance of Terror, the Romulan Warbird fired a very powerful plasma torpedo that was able to destroy bases. The weapon seemed to be less effective and less powerful the longer it stayed out. When it fired at the Enterprise, she was avoid it long enough that it did not destroy her. There was a board game, called SFB - Star Fleet Battles - used the Romulan Plasma Torpedo as a missile type weapon and not as fast as a direct fire weapon like a phaser or photon torpedoes.
Great rendering -- great meshes into ships.
Next time -- and this is your 'Director Friend' flapping his gums here: Please consider having some texture to space. Not just stars. The NASA sites -- and many others have HD images of a ton of Galaxies, Novas, etc. It would most certainly be some 'eye candy' and you can make the BG work within the battle.
Also, there would be some DEBRIS left over from the Bird of Prey -- yes? In fact, it -- again -- could be part of the storyline. Bouncing off the Enterprise's shields -- parting the Red Sea, so to speak.
Otherwise. Kudos!
D.A
A very nice 1701 jump to warp effect, and I love the shield impacts.
Really nice job. I enjoy watching all the 3D stuff. I know how hard it is to create...lol
Thanks Boss looking forward to hearin from ya.. :-)
@CJCA915 That's right! :) The "warp nacelles" on the TOS Klingon D-7 weren't actually warp nacelles either, they were weapons pods (where the ship fired from). The hole in the front of the Klingon D-7 wasn't a torpedo launcher, either, it was a sensor dish (like the sensor dish - NOT deflector dish - on the front of the Enterprise). There's a lot of things people get wrong with TOS ships...
Would have been a lot better with sound effects and music
That was a 9 year old video he was new at that point he maybe did not even have any audio then.
It was like the real thing. No sounds in space!!!. Totally silent. No music either. I liked it.
Nice work!
I see the effort and love that went into this piece of art. I do have an observation to state. The In "Balance of Terror", the Romulans had a plasma based pulse cannon that, when the Enterprise first encountered and was hit while in full reverse, the ship took a pretty solid hit. You may wish to redo do the plasma weapon effect on the Enterprise to be a spectacular light blast around and camera shake. Just my thoughts, and I think your effort was absolutely amazing!!!
Hey Chris...
Had to watch, and enjoy most of you tos reworks to remember the warp effect, 0:37 the Enterprise jumps to warp, the stars abd the effect and colour base are the effect I am after,,, Great stuff... Plus I have many models of voyager, but you have one with good textures blobvandam, any ideas where to get it,
What I did was use a particle system, blizzard (I think) and instanced a cylinder, then applied a gradient ramp map to the particles...
His model isn't public, in fact, I think I'm the only one he's shared it with.
Well done. WELL DONE! And this is coming from a First Gen. fan!
Nice, especially the Enterprise at warp with the 'rainbow' star effect.
@CJCA915 Great work. My take on the standard ordinance torpedoes is that the immensly powerful plasma bolts took too much energy from other systems so they scrappped them and used the power towards propulsion and shields. Considering that they only had impulse drive when they first met in "Balance Of Terror."
Just saw this one... man, very good!
You've done a pretty good job. When they remastered the original, I would have thought they'd have given the outer hull a bit more Aztec patterns to give it a bit more life. As for the flybys, battle scenes and warp jumps. I would have done them exactly how you did it
Very, very well done!
Very nice! I love the Romulan ship! :)
I had guessed as much but the effect you achieve is brilliant, I will experiment but im guessing your cylinder and color variant are the key... I see blobvandam is over ad the sci fi meshes, I may see if he is up to working out something but i have plenty to do here with this now... if you manage to find the size and colour base for the gradient please let me know... Keep up the good work...
Nice work. Very talented.
wowsers - nice work
Pretty damn impressive!
UNBEFREAKINGLIEVABLE! You have topped yourself and set a new bar. The engine ramp up to warp speed was so perfect, it gave me chills! You should contact James Cawley and work on Phase 2!
Well done, good work.
Awesome!!!
I liked it. It was fun to watch. Sound would have been nice, but I understand there are copyright issues. It was a bit short, but still a very good effort. Thumbs Up. :)
I am late to the game by 10 years. Cool effects to include the shielding that for some reason isn't in many of these type of clips. As far as sound? There is no sound in space. Highly accurate. 👍
The battle scene reminds me of the episode Balance of terror. Which the Enterprise encounter the bird of prey after they destroyed federation outpost.
Very Impressive!...especially the original series music at the end...TOS will always be my favorite. The Constitution Class Enterprise is the best by far in my opinion.
@CJCA915 - Although it's been years since I watched any TOS, I don't recall them having one either. You did a good job overall. Don't mind my goofy minor tech detail comment. ;)
Nice work!!! :)
Very nice job. Keep it up.
It's always good to see Starfleet actually win a fight.
Great job.
I am involved with a large production value Star Trek TOS fan film. We have started the production to honor the 25th anniversary of the original Star Trek series. We desperately need volunteers for our post production and Visual Effects team.
I was looking around at some of the people who have been doing Star Trek work, and your videos caught my eye. If you have some free time to donate to the project, we would love to work with you.
Super 3D animation work.. the ships look fab as others pointed out already better if had sound? I was wondering what are the many cone like units in lines around the Romulan Ship saucer top hull?
Very nice!
right on man kool video
@CJCA915 Yes, 1954 (I think). I believe it won an Oscar for best special effects. Anyway, in the episode "Elaan of Troyius," Spock has a hand-held energy scanner that makes that "hissing rattle" sound (from War of the Worlds) when he scans the queen's necklace. I just finished watching that episode, I'm stuck in a snow storm, off work, and have been on a Star Trek "bender" this morning.
Very clean.
Great, I'll send you more info in time.But, your work is amazing indeed!We could really use your help to get this done right.Cheers,...John-EXETERTREK
It's interesting to see the original Enterprise flying so smoothly and in warp.
Better than the actual remastered TOS!
superb!!
I love the sound effects and music, particularly when the Enterprise goes to warp.
I just have one word to say about this: COOL
Really good job.
you should make more of these. and put them on youtube. and add more ships. maybe some of the designs that you can find online from various sites. VERY good work and entertaining
don't know what ya did or how,....but damn, thank you.
great job liked it very much howabout a DS9 bit next?
Good job!
D~