RommelVFX

Hey #Trek fam! I'm gonna finally move on from Xitter. If you're interested in #StarTrek #VFX stuff, and other random musings, hit me up on Threads! I'll be posting more behind the scenes VFX stuff, and the occasional Trek related render! @rommelvfx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@rommelvfx

@Vraghubir1 @johnpavlovitz @CarlaBLABLABLA Not to the polls.

@johnpavlovitz @CarlaBLABLABLA Everybody hold tf up....where did 15 million voters go ?

Yesterday mid-day, the Harris Campaign was euphoric, as early intel was great. Nancy Pelosi assured us we had the votes to take the House. Cory Booker said he believed the race would be called for Harris by the end of the night. Charlie Kirk and Stephen Miller were publicly panicking. Somehow, in a matter of hours that all completely shifted. That's the thing that really made this painful. It was a full pendulum swing into darkness. It defies understanding.

@thebigguy86 @VP @KamalaHarris @GovTimWalz A large majority of the country has repeatedly said they don't want him, but our archaic pro-slave owning system keeps giving him a chance!

@esdi @VP @KamalaHarris @GovTimWalz Hope your country doesn't vote him back in tomorrow

Falalala! VOTE! VOTE FOR @VP @KamalaHarris and @GovTimWalz to be our next President and Vice President!

Here are some test renders of the Syraprise and some close ups of the open panels. #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard #USSEnterpriseD #VFX Check out my Threads for more pics! @rommelvfx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@rommelvfx

We're back. Let's #AssembleForDemocracy. In the #ElectionEndgame, every vote counts 🗳️ #VoteBlue! Vote @KamalaHarris @Tim_Walz

@RobotSquad1 Footage is filmed first, then that's 3d tracked to duplicate the camera, and with that, we add the assets to make the shot. Sometimes we'll do a take over camera, like this one, which extends the distance the live action camera travels.

@esdi I'm a bit confused. Do you all shoot the background fp-pov shots first & then go back & do the exact same angles with the ship and composite together, or maybe something else? Either way, great stuff. Every day when I see footage like this, it feels like Christmas.

Inside Spacedock! #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard #VFX

@StarfleetDesign Yes.

Turntable! This is pretty much how we reviewed assets. And it being in space, we had a space background with some key and fill lights. #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard #VFX

@jdhattin Better not be Merrick Garland. Dude has been kinda useless. Too concerned about political optics...

@TrekDocFan I think it would be boring unless it was at a frontier station. Earth based stuff is set in a utopia, at the heart of the Federation and would lack interpersonal conflict to the level that DS9 did so well. That's why that show worked.

@esdi Beautiful! Have always wanted more scenes and stories in the space dock!

@vincent1701 @BuckAdmiral Tell me you've never built a model (or a half dozen models)/worked in VGFX without saying you've never built a model/worked in VFX. @BuckAdmiral is a god amongst model builders, but even he'd say there's no way we would have saved time if we had him build all the models here.

@esdi @BuckAdmiral could have just made a physical model of this sence and saved you so much time. Master builder

@thegeeksreviews It took probably 3-6 people to model and texture everything. 2 people to animate it. 1 person to track the film plate. 2 people to light it. 1 person to composite it. And it probably took a combined week or two to finish.

@esdi Out of curiosity how many people would work on that shot and or how long ?

@NCC1985D @LettersLegacy I mean, to be fair, they are actually real.

@JefferyK_EntH I always thought so. I mean, it's a station, its got constant power... No reason they can't have shields at the doors. I actually tossed out the idea (internally) of having the ships entering and exiting have a shield ripple occur at the entry way.

@esdi I realized a detail, there's scatter of the lights in the spacedock, but not when the ship's out in space. So it hints that there's atmosphere contaimed in spacedock right?

@acereject Tribute? This was the actual shot from the final episode of Picard Season 3. I was the CG Supervisor on this shot.

@esdi Nice tribute.

The Starbase was one heck of an asset. The talented artists at GhostVFX did a fantastic build. It was a beast of a render though! The shuttle asset was renamed a few times. Started off as the Saavik, and we had an Uhura, Gorkon, and this was the Ro. #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard #VFX

@TheTrekspert It was custom.

@esdi Was Earth a custom-build, or was it a library asset?

@itstylerchick 100% agreed. And the work that GhostVFX did was pretty awesome. They did the nebula battle and the final battle at earth between the borgified fleet and Earth.

@esdi The vfx on this season was a work of art. My only complaint was we didn’t see more 😭