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Skriven 2007-08-20 04:29:16 av Shabaz (4044.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 17556 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (4033.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: ATTEN: JMS TLT (No Spoilers)
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On Aug 20, 3:26 am, boojie <profe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 8:12 pm, Thunder Magnificent! <decep...@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> > Mac Breck wrote:
> > > "boojie" <profe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > >news:1187491515.066432.283530@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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> > >> 4. Visuals, they were also cheap, fuzzy and poor by B5 standard. Looks
> > >> like they gave you a whole $7.50 for your Special Effects.
>
> > > ?  We must not be watching the same title.
>
> > I don't understand why people keep saying the effects were bad--mostly
> > they were fantastic.
>
> > t.k.th
>
> Sorry, but the copy of the DVD I got they special effect looked bad.
> The entire production looked cheap.

Well, from an interview we know they spent at least over a million on
the special effects. And while I can understand people having a
different opinion on the stories, the CG in pretty much every way
looked better than the original B5. Better lighting, higher
resolution, way, way, way more polygonal detail, better texturing;
everything. Some of the compositing in the docking bay was a bit off
(though on the other hand, the starfurry stuff was spectular and way
beyond anything they could've ever done a decade ago), and maybe they
added a tad too much artificial grain, but that's all. I'm sorry, but
I find it hard to take this point seriously.

As for points 1 and 6: these were supposed to be short stories.
IANJMS, but from what I understand the entire point was to do short
character focussed stories in an anthology format so as to avoid
tackling a big story after certain actors had passed away. It wasn't a
budget issue, it was by design smaller, and while it may be to your
taste or not, it was as far as I know an intentional choice by JMS. I
wouldn't read too much into the sockpuppets, beyond the fact that JMS
has a... unique sense of humour.

As for budgets for future installments, I'll copy past that paragraph
of the last CGSociety article again:

>> And will there be any more Babylon 5 shows in the future? "Any further B5
DVDs will depend on the sales, and on Warner Brothers giving us sufficient
money to take the step of making any subsequent DVDs bigger than this one,"
says Straczynski. "This was kind of a test of the concept of making what is
essentially a series on DVD, which hasn't really been done before. But it was a
test, with a very modest budget. If we do more, they have to be done with a
larger budget so we can involve more of our cast mem
bers, do bigger FX and locations and the like. If we can't keep making them
better, then they shouldn't be done." <<

-Shabaz
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