▲ 62 r/podcasttheride
The most Mike-coded newsletter to ever hit my inbox
(This was in regards to the Museum of Home Video, which may be of interest to some Cliffords)
u/tomjoad2020ad — 22 days ago
▲ 10 r/startrek
The Enterprise-D 4 ft. studio model looks puffy
Been rewatching the series and it drives me a bit nutty how much it stands out compared to the elegant perfection of ILM’s initial 7 ft. model. It’s become a running joke with my partner that when its little sibling shows up, I have to just mutter, “Puffy.”
It’s as if they decided to forgo the subtle Aztecking that had given every Federation ship since the refit its sense of dimension in favor of actual sculpted relief, which on such a small model, just doesn’t work.
When I was a little kid watching the show and assumed the ship shots were 100% CGI, I thought maybe the later seasons make a poor decision to use a different digital model with more polygons just because they could now, or something.
Slightly related point, but to this day a lot of the ship VFX shots in the show look CGI to me, even though I know better now. I can’t think of any other project where practical models have that effect, I still don’t really know why. I can only chalk it up to a combination of their lighting technique and maybe that they filmed with a shutter speed that didn’t include a lot of motion blur, perhaps.
u/tomjoad2020ad — 27 days ago
▲ 52 r/Starfield
Hovercar mod has changed this game for me
Probably more than Free Lanes or any of the official additions, the GRAV-79 hover vehicle has really opened up the “fuck around and see what you find” aspect of Starfield. The rovers get stuck on every rock and nook and cranny, and boosting helps but not much. But being able to actually fly around in the big open world tiles makes it all so frictionless (pardon the pun). Absolutely worth spending a couple bucks on.
When you load into a spaceport you’re often surrounded by high walls that give the impression you’re inside an “interior cell” masquerading as exterior, kind of like Mournhold in Morrowind. But lo and behold, get into your flying car and you can immediately go over those walls and just start zooming around. I’ve already battled two Terrormorphs and several pirate outposts from the sky and had a lot of fun doing it.
u/tomjoad2020ad — 3 months ago