CBS Saturday Morning Cartoons Opening
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Bill Konersman, Pittard Sullivan Fitzgerald
Bill wanted to create a slick image with fun motion for CBS saturday morning, so he used Digital Arts for animation and Twin Forces RACAR for the final rendering. To give the robots a very shiny feel, he suggested a new highlight type which was added to the renderer for this project.
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Star Trek, the Next Generation: First Duty
Effects by Joe Alter, Fourth Dimension
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The academy flight trainer.
Modeled by Doug Smith and Joe Alter, the main body was a single nurbs mesh, which was then converted to polygons. Several color and bump maps were then applied to body sections and engines.
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Part of the flight log from one of the retrieved trainer wrecks. It shows the team approaching saturn, about to go into a yager loop.
This component of the image was computer generated, then composited with a practical cockpit set, and additional video processing such as static.
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Disagreeing with the story put forth, images from a security camera pick up Tom Perris's team in an unusual position for a yager loop.
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Captain Pickard shows Westly what he guesses the team was up to.
The Culvard Star Maneuver.
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NASA STS-65 IML-2 microgravity space lab
Capturing Concepts & Scantland Design
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Nasa was preparing to launch the second microgravity lab and needed a spectacular image to commemorate Japan's first female astronaut in space.
When they were done, Twin Forces had to help render the scene at 8096x6144 on equipment borrowed from SGI and Nasa to complete a single frame in eleven days. The final rendering database took 186 MB.
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Defenders of the Universe
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Mr. Film Studios
A new cable tv game show needed a flashy ninety second fly through of different worlds and times. Mr. Film used RACAR for many of the space exteriors and vehicle interiors and their path zoomed through many different spaces.
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Neolux Gallery
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Neolux's early self promotion logo treatment. Features a 1950s look with large fins and a subtle use of glass.
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Work for a music video, with geometry stretching to the horizon which is normally very brutal for anti-aliasing, and heavy use of shadows.
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A cable channel movie opening countdown, borrowing liberally from the well known icon of a european car company.
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Homer & Associates
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A point of information gradually turns into a person, catching reflections and refraction in the environment.
Notice how the red in the eye is picked up in the chin and on the back in the large image.
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Subito Studios
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Created as a theater opening for a San Diego client, a frog patiently watches his lunch flies in, and then **zap**, the movie starts.
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Miscellaneous images
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Tim Douglas created this realistic desktop for a title background.
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Interior architectual design.
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Early concept shipyard view of starship engines.
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