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Skriven 2007-02-27 14:27:50 av Mac Breck (16184.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: http://www.babylon5scripts.com/Shot-From-Lost-Tales.jpg
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JMS,

Regarding this photo:
http://www.babylon5scripts.com/Shot-From-Lost-Tales.jpg

Is the photo an actual frame of a CGI scene from "Babylon 5 - The Lost
Tales," or instead is it a picture that somebody put together in
software like Photoshop?  The reason I ask is because some of us have
been seeing some possible ship relative size issues.  e.g. The Hyperion
appears to be in front of the Vree saucer, because the top of the
Hyperion is in foreground compared to the Vree, yet the Vree is so much
larger in the picture.  The Hyperion, if in foreground, shouldn't look
*that* small.  It's a similar case with the Centauri Primus and the
Minbari Sharlin.  Admittedly, it is hard to get a feel for the
correctness of relative sizes in one still frame, but it feels "off."

The thing is, the models are supposed to be built *to scale*, and
placing them in a 3D scene, the software (Lightwave, Maya, or whatever.)
*ought to* take care of the relative sizing. So, if this was a frame of
a scene, and the models were built to the scale they were in "Babylon 5"
& "Crusade" we should not come across this relative sizing problem.
HOWEVER, if it was a photo that was made say in Photoshop, that kind of
error *could* come up, if somebody was just trying to slap something
together to show the fans five months before the DVDs are to hit the
streets.  I think it's the latter, and therefore is *nothing to be
concerned about*, because it is a problem we're not likely to encounter
on the "Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales" DVDs *if* the models were built to
the same scale they were on Babylon 5 & Crusade.


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