It should. It was ILM. This was the movie that more or less got them fired from "Star Trek." Apparently Paramount does not have the sense of humor "Star Trek" fans had.
The first scene of the Protector leaving space dock is both funny and annoying. It shows the main section scraping against the dock. But the nacelles wouldn't have allowed that to happen. Minor annoyance in an otherwise great film.
@@cubdukat I tried to find out, but I couldn't find any information on it. I assumed it was all CGI. CGI for spaceships, cars, planes, etc - have been done quite well for the last 20 years. I'd be surprised if it was mostly practical effects because it's just expensive and cumbersome. Titanic was done with a great deal of CGI, and that was 1997. Some of the CGI from that film CERTAINLY doesn't stand up today, but most of it does. Today, any modern computer could produce models that are entirely believable for this film. You see it commonly in fan made films all the time now and their models and effects are perfectly fine. Look at Star Wreck for example.
@@richardwicks4190 Adam Savage recounts in a recent video that Grant Imahara designed a circuit board to animate the lights of the ship's engines in coordination with the automated motion control so they fluctuated and changed as the effects people wanted while they were filming. So there was a fair bit of practical effects, but I am sure they used their fair share of CGI too. The model of the ship they used for filming was 9 feet long. The docking facility was partly a practical effect as well, they made thousands of tiny cels with silhouettes on them so it looked like people were watching out the windows.
@@ikaruseijin01 I watch that too. it's mostly practical effects.thats the 9ft/2.7 m model right there with the silhouette of the alien ship builders. Each of those sections are close to 3ft/.9 m
@@ikaruseijin01 The docking bay was a model as well. Actually, more than one model. A large one with a small Protector and a smaller area one for the 2.7m hero Protector.
After all these years the special effects still hold up phenomenally well.
It should. It was ILM. This was the movie that more or less got them fired from "Star Trek." Apparently Paramount does not have the sense of humor "Star Trek" fans had.
@@cubdukat Yet this looks still 10 times more beleavable than most Picard or Discovery scenes.
Honestly that is pretty much how Star Trek should look.
That's the beauty of miniature models
@@StopReadingMyNameOrElse Aye, nothing can look more real than an actual physical objeckt.
Film came out in 1999 effects hold up, even now
It was all practical in camera models. They always look better.
Nice edits! 😊
The first scene of the Protector leaving space dock is both funny and annoying. It shows the main section scraping against the dock. But the nacelles wouldn't have allowed that to happen. Minor annoyance in an otherwise great film.
I like to think the nacelles went under the dock area...couldn't happen, but I like to think it.
I thought I was the only one!
Thank you.
1999 CGI done right unlike another film that came out that year that is well known for having bad CGI
I don't think ILM used much CGI in this. I think most of the movie was practical effects and motion control.
@@cubdukat I tried to find out, but I couldn't find any information on it. I assumed it was all CGI. CGI for spaceships, cars, planes, etc - have been done quite well for the last 20 years.
I'd be surprised if it was mostly practical effects because it's just expensive and cumbersome. Titanic was done with a great deal of CGI, and that was 1997. Some of the CGI from that film CERTAINLY doesn't stand up today, but most of it does.
Today, any modern computer could produce models that are entirely believable for this film. You see it commonly in fan made films all the time now and their models and effects are perfectly fine. Look at Star Wreck for example.
@@richardwicks4190 Adam Savage recounts in a recent video that Grant Imahara designed a circuit board to animate the lights of the ship's engines in coordination with the automated motion control so they fluctuated and changed as the effects people wanted while they were filming. So there was a fair bit of practical effects, but I am sure they used their fair share of CGI too. The model of the ship they used for filming was 9 feet long. The docking facility was partly a practical effect as well, they made thousands of tiny cels with silhouettes on them so it looked like people were watching out the windows.
@@ikaruseijin01 I watch that too. it's mostly practical effects.thats the 9ft/2.7 m model right there with the silhouette of the alien ship builders. Each of those sections are close to 3ft/.9 m
@@ikaruseijin01 The docking bay was a model as well. Actually, more than one model. A large one with a small Protector and a smaller area one for the 2.7m hero Protector.