Artisitc Merits

{{{{{ Quick get some more Cumberbumber out to keep her here- anyone got that one where he has his rosy cheeks out?}}}

I was gonna go with duct tape and hood, but that might work too.

Best I can do:

http://theangryuniverse.tumblr.com/post/35138453505/benedict-cumberbatchs-ass-for-president

Very nice, Petty.

Thats nice very real

cool

{{{Thanks everyone }}}

{{{A different perspective on things}}}

The enterprise is burning through the atmosphere. Not sure it was constructed to withstand that.

{{{She can fly inside the atmosphere- there are the episodes they go back to the 60's to stop  the rocket launch and nearly get caught by a jet fighter, they are initially no higher than cloud level. And in the animated series (written by Rodenberry) where cost was not so much an issue the ship lands a few times on planets. When the Enterprise D crashes on the surface its hitting the ground is the problem not the atmosphere and Voyager lands on planets a few times. And though not Federation the Klingon Bird of Prey also makes planetary landings (ST IV) }}}}

And in ST '09 the Enterprise is built in the middle of a field in Iowa, so it must have flown from there into space, cause that makes sense right guys?

Well I like that perspective makes a nice change from the often used scenes

{{{Abrams (and Eldo) is sort of right- some of a starship is assembled on the ground- but as far as TV ST goes that is only at Mars Utopia Planatia shipyards where the enterprise D was built- but its components only built on the ground-



-assembly takes place in orbit for obvious reasons of ease of movement and 3 dimensions to move in and as they are just hull shells waiting to be filled with stuff they are less mass to get off the ground. Where Abrams goes wrong is having it all constructed on the ground- I don't know how it would take off from how its presented- true a starship can go straight up but for fine manoeuvres they still rely on good old thrusters, and the thrust needed to get a starship out of earths gravity would be pretty significant I would imagine. Mind you its the least of that films plot issues or ST credentials }}}}

{{Hope you enjoy all 15 seconds of this- because it took me two and a half days to render, and I don't mean I pottered about it with it for a couple of hours over two and a half days, I mean it literally took over 56 hours to render And its not even true HD- I had to render it at 800 by 450 as even putting it to 720 would have near doubled that render time     but it is upscaled to 720 so there is an HD option just not as detailed a one as I would have liked }}

bloody hell 2 and a half days for 15 seconds?! well it was short but sweet.

I only just noticed after more than five years that the title of this thread is misspelled. #cannotunsee

Cripes Petty, you must have the patience of a saint ! That promises to be a great sketch I do like LOTRs music
Me also Eldo, just look at it !!

Cripes Petty, you must have the patience of a saint !- Azriel


{{{Well I didn't do much of the work in this case. I didn't have much time for doing stuff work and sleep and getting drunk being the priorities. So the set up is a basic landscape (no models of trees or houses, no special fancy shaders or rock layers, no water to render), just some simple shaders to create the effect of the rocks and snow, took longest doing the animation path and arsing about with the clouds. All in a couple hours work over two nights.
Then I just set it to render, as I was going to sleep then up for work at dawn I figured it would be done by time I got back that next day- but it wasn't so I thought, bugger it, I'll leave it overnight and it'll be done by then. But it wasn't so I left it running and went to to work and when I came back, still going.
To mangle some Shakespeare 'I was so far stepped in renders that to go back now would have been as pointless as to keep going on.' So I kept going on. }}}}

I still dont know how u have the patience But the result is fun so I guess its worth it in the end To have something to be proud of youve got to knock yourself bandy

I like that Tho I think my eye-boggles are having a problem with the left hand corner ( as you look at it ) But it definitely has a creepy aura.

{{{There was more to the left hand side, but I cropped it off as the rest was oddly offcentre and made my eyes boggle! Well was that or the buckie doing it }}}