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[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I read that as "great looking" at first.

[-] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah it uhhhh has some rough visuals lol. Works well though, and the uniforms are mostly incredible

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

๐Ÿ˜‚ that being said, is crazy to think that that was actually cutting edge CGI, pretty sure we still called them Silicon graphics at that time maybe. B5, ReBoot, crash test dummies, those three were pioneers from a tv show production CGI.

I'm curious what those first shows in other countries were like

[-] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Crash dummies is basically unwatchable hahaha. I remember watching it so many times.

B5 also notably has inertia physics in space, mostly, which was unique

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Was later on, but Space Above and Beyond handled inertia physics well iirc

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

AFAIK the visuals were designed for a 3:4, SDTV world. The problem is that when they filmed it they framed it for 4:3 but they included some content to the sides so it could be used in a 16:9 format. The problem is that the CGI was all 4:3, so when they released a 16:9 DVD they had to do something about the CGI stuff, and they made a horrible decision. Instead of having vertical black bars, they cropped and zoomed the 4:3 CGI scenes so they had a 16:9 ratio. That meant they took something that was already in SD, then cropped out 25% of the content, and zoomed in so you couldn't see the whole frame.

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