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From: John Gross <jgross@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Voyager effects
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> > I have a few questions on how a few effects were done...
> > In the intro to Voyager, the ship passes through a cloud of some sort of
> > blue space dust. The dust is scattered aside by the ship moving throught
> > it... How can that effect be created in Lightwave?!? Or can it ?
>
> I believe John Gross addressed this a few months ago when the series
> originally aired. I believe what he said was that the Voyager was
> Lightwave but the gasseous space effects were done externally by someone
> else (not using Lightwave, was it Wavefront? I can't remember...)
> Anyway, I belive that John stated that most of the shots were combinatons
> of different software and computer platforms (ie: the backgrounds being
> done on Macs etc.)
Yes, The gas was WaveFront, and mostly the background stuff was as well.
> > And the other one, is near the end of the intro to Voyager, juct
> > before it warps into that nebula. The ship is coming towards you, and in
> > behind it, there is a sun emerging from befind a planet, and the screen
> > gets really bright as the sun comes out. There is a "shadow" area created
> > by the ship itself.... How was that done? And how can I create such an
> > effect...
Again, our ship and a wavefront background, using a volumetric effect on
a stand in VGER shape.
JGross
AmblinImaging
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