Most photorealistic CGI spaceship

[aemann]

On the Apollo missions, when the "liquid" was vented, it immediately turned to ice crystals, which were christened "The Constellation of Urion"!

[TorGott]

Originally Posted by aemann

I've just put out a call for more info to some folks who've "been there, done that, got the spacesuit". I'll pass on whatever they say.
I suppose the slight yellowing could be caused by the continual dumping of "human liquid waste products" out of a vent... it has to go somewhere!

There is also a lot of surface contamination from the vernier engines.

[minieffects]

Originally Posted by juanxer

Well, it was both. I'd have to re-read that Cinefex online article to see what the usage ratio was for each.

The "Honneamise" guys reinvented everything for that movie's civilizations. Remember the "coins"?

(Perhaps "Space Odyssey - Voyage to the Planets" can be found on DVD. I think it was produced and distributed by the "Walking with Dinosaurs" people)

We built a 20 foot model of the nightingale and ther was a cg model for long shots. the solar panels were combo of digital and miniature. When the panels folded or unfolded they were cg, when fixed they were miniature.

[minieffects]

Originally Posted by juanxer

I agree. Pegasus: they nailed the "NASA look" style of photography, and her design was most reasonable (even if I am not quite sure about her lack of big heat radiation panels or, say, often open per module-small ones. Did her dish double duty as fuel tank and such?).

And Icarus, probably: even if not quite it, the film's style of photography had a very organic quality that gave her an extra credibility, even if most of the sci-tech was pants (non-centrifugal artificial gravity, for a start).

I am trying to think of a third one, but it is difficult: 2001's ships come to mind, but they are not on Pegasus' level. Most films use too much fill light, and most of the ones that try to avoid that, such as "2010: Odyssey Two", aren't well rounded realism-wise, really.

The only other film that I think tried to get not a NASA look but a 2001 one was this Japanese-American one, "Solar Crisis" AKA "Star Flare": the Helios spaceship was a Syd Mead design (the guy definitely is BIG in Japan), enclosing a centrifugue section, engines ones and so inside an outer shell of electromagnet strips.

WOW! I worked on that piece of crap too. Cool models to build but whoa what a stinker of a movie

[Stev0]

Originally Posted by Andrew Boulton

The Saturn V launch scene in Apollo 13 was good enough to fool NASA...

Originally Posted by IRML

^yeah maybe a nasa cleaning lady, but you can tell it's not real

Well this is the funny part. Tech specialists from Nasa actually questioned the team where they got the footage of the launch and were surprised to find it was created.

[A2597]

I just have to say the starfury sequence in B5: The Lost Tales.

Just because I fraking LOVE that ship.

[juanxer]

Originally Posted by minieffects

WOW! I worked on that piece of crap too. Cool models to build but whoa what a stinker of a movie

Really?!!! Would you happen to have any pics of that movie's ships? They are awfully difficult to find.