Author Topic: TNG Remastered (Read 38340 times)

deadthunder2_0 · « **Reply #120 on:** November 17, 2011, 01:33:31 AM »

I wonder if we will be able to see how much health insurance remaining there is!

mckinneyc · « **Reply #121 on:** November 17, 2011, 03:57:08 AM »

From the look of it we won't need remastered effects as the detail was there all along, we just couldn't see it!

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #122 on:** November 17, 2011, 04:08:50 AM »

I was doubtful, but the space jelly rising from Farpoint pretty much sold me.

Morgan · « **Reply #123 on:** November 18, 2011, 08:46:25 PM »

Quote from: mckinneyc on November 17, 2011, 03:57:08 AM

From the look of it we won't need remastered effects as the detail was there all along, we just couldn't see it!

I'm inclined to agree for the most part, although I don't think the original Borg cube studio model seen in "Q Who" and "Best of Both Worlds" can hold up to HD scrutiny. They'll need to go CGI with those episodes for sure.

Darkthunder · « **Reply #124 on:** November 18, 2011, 09:24:59 PM »

Quote from: Nero on November 18, 2011, 08:46:25 PM

I'm inclined to agree for the most part, although I don't think the original Borg cube studio model seen in "Q Who" and "Best of Both Worlds" can hold up to HD scrutiny. They'll need to go CGI with those episodes for sure.

Remains to be seen ;)

majormagna · « **Reply #125 on:** November 19, 2011, 12:03:23 PM »

Quote from: Nero on November 18, 2011, 08:46:25 PM

I'm inclined to agree for the most part, although I don't think the original Borg cube studio model seen in "Q Who" and "Best of Both Worlds" can hold up to HD scrutiny. They'll need to go CGI with those episodes for sure.

Hopefully if they do go CGI with those it will be true to the original, and not a First Contact/Voyager style Cube.

Morgan · « **Reply #126 on:** November 19, 2011, 06:28:37 PM »

Quote from: majormagna on November 19, 2011, 12:03:23 PM

Hopefully if they do go CGI with those it will be true to the original, and not a First Contact/Voyager style Cube.

I wouldn't mind something similar to the First Contact version, you know before Voyager got all liberal with the green...

Bren · « **Reply #127 on:** November 23, 2011, 08:57:16 PM »

Yeah, the FC cube was imposing, a thing of stark beauty - it almost looked semi-translucent.

I have similar concerns about some of the alien-of-the-week ships, were they all built to the same standard? Or will some look visibly fake when the film is scanned?

On the plus side, there does seem to be some CGI here - the planet Qo'Nos looks new. So they may not be averse to a little CG trickery, but they might draw the line at ships. I hope some of the anomalies are usable - they did incredible things at image-G with cloud tanks.

mckinneyc · « **Reply #128 on:** November 24, 2011, 05:32:02 PM »

I don't think the Klingon homeworld was CG. If you look at the SD picture of it really hard you can make out the same seas.

Morgan · « **Reply #129 on:** November 24, 2011, 05:58:58 PM »

Quote from: mckinneyc on November 24, 2011, 05:32:02 PM

I don't think the Klingon homeworld was CG. If you look at the SD picture of it really hard you can make out the same seas.

That could just mean the CGI team has great attention to detail.

Nebula · « **Reply #130 on:** November 24, 2011, 06:43:03 PM »

or they just cged over the original matte painting

Bren · « **Reply #131 on:** December 01, 2011, 10:52:02 PM »

TBH, I didn't examine it that hard, it just *looked* cgi to me. I could very well be wrong.

Weren't most planets in TNG done with early CGI anyway? I remember a story where one of the effects guys parked his car when he came into work one morning, stepped out, and stood in dog poo. He was understandably annoyed, but when he looked at the poo, the texture his shoe had created on it was interesting. He snapped a picture, scanned it, and used it as the surface texture for a planet.

I remember spotting pixelisation on the surface maps for planets in the first and second seasons. Really early CGI work, mapping low-res images to spheres.

I'd imagine all of those will have to be re-rendered, and probably re-textured. The hunt for dog poo is on!

Morgan · « **Reply #132 on:** December 02, 2011, 07:11:36 PM »

Quote from: Bren on December 01, 2011, 10:52:02 PM

Weren't most planets in TNG done with early CGI anyway?

No, they were matte paintings like TOS...

mckinneyc · « **Reply #133 on:** December 03, 2011, 09:45:14 AM »

And according to Trekcore have been replaced.

If so testiment to the excellent work of the effects team

Tuskin38 · « **Reply #134 on:** December 03, 2011, 04:36:27 PM »

mckinneyc is correct, in the shot of the Ent-D orbiting the planet, the planet's texture is brand new

they did clean up the shots very well.

http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/index.html#analysis2

Compare the left side of this image
http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/images/tng-comparison.jpg

To the left side of this
http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/images/tnghd-ent4.jpg

This sucks

http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/index.html#missingfootage

Oh well.

Morgan · « **Reply #135 on:** December 03, 2011, 09:38:13 PM »

Quote from: Kori Barnes on December 03, 2011, 04:36:27 PM

This sucks
http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/index.html#missingfootage

At least it's only 13 seconds of Crusher and Riker talking. I can live with it personally. I'm more concerned about the possibility of other missing shots - effects heavy shots, like from "Best of Both Worlds" or "Yesterday's Enterprise."

Mustang · « **Reply #136 on:** December 03, 2011, 10:07:48 PM »

OH MY GOD.

Nebula · « **Reply #137 on:** December 03, 2011, 11:07:33 PM »

It's the mustang? o.o did you just find out about this?

Tuskin38 · « **Reply #138 on:** December 04, 2011, 12:09:47 PM »

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/blog-day/

Quote

First a little bit of news. Tomorrow I start work with Dan Curry, David Takemura, and Mike and Denise Okuda on the Star Trek: The Next Generation Remastered.
You heard right, this time around Paramount is bringing in a team that lived TNG as it happened. Dan, as I?m sure you know, was the visual effects supervisor on Next Gen. Unlike the remastering of TOS, this job will be 100% true to the original.

Neeto!

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #139 on:** January 05, 2012, 02:39:12 PM »

first preview shown here, side by side:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/05/star-trek-tng-hd-exclusive-video/

News:

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