Stargate Ultimate - The Series

[nhall]

Ok. A few things here.

One, your lighting needs a bit 'o' work, there. Right now, you've got it too flat, and that gives a Cheesy CG feel. You wanna make this look real, and lighting is really the key.

Two, I'd adjust each 304's speed ever so slightly. You're not going to have them all get each other's speed exactly right if they were real, so don't have it happen in your animation. Also, take them off the same plane if you will -- change up their formation. You're in a 3d space, but as kirk said in TWOK, You're thinking two-dimensionally. Randomize their formation a bit on the Z-Axis.

Cheers,
Nick

[chevron_9]

Heh, good points there.

Sorry for the cheesy look, I'm a newbie with lighting and stuff.

[Startrek91481]

Originally Posted by chevron_9

Heh, good points there.

Sorry for the cheesy look, I'm a newbie with lighting and stuff.

Lighting is key no matter what media you are working from. It's just way harder in 3-D CG. Like it or not all images that we see are actually 2-d representations that your eye reads and your brain interprets.

As far as credits go I would always err on the side of caution, however, you could try contacting the artists to get their individual requirements for citation. Some are real sticklers and others are not. I would recommend contacting them regardless to inform them of your intentions of the use of their work just as a professional courtesy. I know I would appreciate that.

I was wondering what you were planning to do with this. Are you going to just have space battles or are you going to have actors and dialoge. In other words will this be a true fan film?

[Lord Zedd]

It is very nice I must say.

[Andrew March]

Again, there are no credits on your animations. Just to try and clarify this point.

The makers of these models release them with instructions that you include a credit for ANY work you produce using the model. It's not difficult to do and it's not much to ask seeing as you get to use the models for free.

I'm absolutely certain that the model makers could get really nasty and contact youtube asking them to take down your animations because you haven't credited to intellectual property owners.

So, please do yourself a favour and add the credits. A simple two second splash at the end of the animation will do the trick.

[farcry]

Welcome to the forums chevron_9

Your camera moves in the animations are great, especially the second movie. As stated before i think you just have to work on your lighting a bit. And yes, please do add credits into any animation you do as well as images

[chevron_9]

Sorry for not posting for so long but I have been drawing up designs for the Tau'ri fleet that will be included in the movies.

Using some base ideas I have so far come up with:

The Galiath Freighter
The Titan Battlecruiser
The Armadillo Transport Ship (Based on the Goa'uld Transport ships)

All of these new additions will be equiped with advanced asgard shields, hyperdrives and ion cannons. The titan battlecruiser is equipped with a Tau'ri supercannon, backwards engineered after an Ori invasion ship was captured.

I am modelling the basic shapes of the ships but I was wondering if anybody else wanted to help create a finalised version of them.

Also to answer some previous questions the series will mainly be space battles, with possible parts of animated actors. I have a plot for a few scenes such as a shot of the whole fleet jumping into hyperspace while the Icarus (a 304 upgrade) flies back towards the camera, jumping into hyperspace just before it passes by. I also wanted the music from that shot to be a piece that I picked from Star Wars Ep 2, when the clone army first arrives on Geonosis and they transport ships fly towards the plains, it sounds very dramatic and inspirational to me.

P.S The credits aren't on those shots because they were merely a few of the test renders that I liked and wanted to show you guys.

[captainkirk]

How is this going? You haven't said anything for a while.

[chevron_9]

I've halted the production so that I can work on my lighting skills.

I have a few clips with my lighting effects added, including a 304 fly by and a clip of leaving orbit.

However, to complete the latter I need to create an accurate Hyperspace winoow, which even after months of attempts I haven't been able to create.

Can anybody help me with this?