CG Society Production Diary Part 2

[Mr_Bester]

CG Society has the second part of the production diary online now. Beware of spoilers, maybe

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4102

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[Sanfam]

Gotta love that "mysterious library" ;)

[Freejack]

That is awsome, especially the composite of NY!

It is nice to know we finally have flying cars by the 2260s, of course it also looks like Honda is still using the same design studio...

Jake

[Messiah]

They took the scale from B5tech? Oh I hope the scales there are more accurate than the rest of the site (considering the author made almost everything up)..

[JackN]

Gotta love that "mysterious library" ;)

:vorlon: YES... :vorlon:

[Sanfam]

I wonder if I could ever manage to serve as a mirror for this "mysterious library" in the event of, say...an apocalypse or two? People in the future want new B5, too!

[Mungrel]

They took the scale from B5tech? Oh I hope the scales there are more accurate than the rest of the site (considering the author made almost everything up)..

Hope so too ;)

[Space Ghost]

B5Tech's author should be a little more clear as to what is canon and what is "fiction". Perhaps he could take a lesson from http://www.ditl.org. He at least puts canon information in yellow and his fiction in white.

With that said, however, B5Tech does seem to be very good at scaling. The author provides fairly detailed articles and visual evidence to back up those claims, at least.

[Sanfam]

the Daystrom Institute is a wonderful site and a perfect example. Some articles have as many as five distinct coding techniques to indicate the various levels of canon that can apply to the content. Damned near perfect.

[HuntSmacker]

Built entirely in LightWave, the finished interior consists of 1,177,000 polys

[David of Mac]

With that said, however, B5Tech does seem to be very good at scaling. The author provides fairly detailed articles and visual evidence to back up those claims, at least.

Except for when he inexplicably changed his mind and decided the 500 meter White Star was perfectly sensible. Now we're going to be stuck with it forever, won't we?

Personally, I go with Fabio's scaling study, (http://meshweaver.com/Craft_Comparisons/Craft_Comparisons_1.htm) since it looks right.

[Messiah]

That looks great, and he did a great job hypothesising the different lengths and proving his theory. Even if they are a theory, its proven, rather than the baseless hypothesies made by the guy at B5tech..

[Mr_Bester]

At least Fabio did the station, so it's scale will be right :)

[Space Ghost]

Except for when he inexplicably changed his mind and decided the 500 meter White Star was perfectly sensible. Now we're going to be stuck with it forever, won't we?


I never said he was perfect. ;)

[Stingray]

Awesome!!

'nuff said. :D

[ShadowDancer]

no no no......that is fracking awesome!

[Falcon1]

Very cool. Its nice to know that people working on the models were fans of the show.

[Falcon]

That looks great, and he did a great job hypothesising the different lengths and proving his theory. Even if they are a theory, its proven, rather than the baseless hypothesies made by the guy at B5tech..

I can't say if the scales at b5tech.com make sense, because I never intensely dealt with this topic, but there are explanations how achieving the scale informations at b5tech.com, too. Footers on the ship description sites or http://www.b5tech.com/science/scale/scale.htm

[Messiah]

Im impressed, he has finally started proving his hypothesies, rather than just stating they are correct, and it looks so much better than it did only 2 - 3 years ago. Maybe he did something right this time around. :)

[Mr_Bester]

The last (part 3) production diary is up at cgsociety.org now. You should be able to follow the link on the front page.
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