Bird-of-Prey Arrives at a Mysterious Planet (WIP)

[@fling-asia]

The ST II-IV-era warp effect and cloak effect combined with the modern planet render are so beautiful. I wish Discovery had went with this kind of retro aesthetic rather than the generic frenetic dystopian shlock they went with.

[@ShannonCarter55]

New trek since 2009 has treated warp travel as being like hyperspace from Star Wars. But it isn't.

[@MariusFusariu]

want to see real scholck besider the new trek abomination, see how everyone is holding their mobile devices vertically oriented and you will understand how everyone became so brain dead

[@EBrown-cr1gr]

It's far from schlock but if you want to blame anyone, blame Bryan Fuller. It's well documented he didnt even want rounded nacelles on the Starfleet ships

[@EBrown-cr1gr]

@@ShannonCarter55 the effect from Beyond is the best of all Trek warp effects. It's the only actual "bubble"

[@ISAF_Ace]

that cloak is majestic

[@chichiboypumpi]

B’rel class BOP, my favorite ship in Star Trek

[@Crossbones6732]

The Klingon Bird-of-Prey is my all time favourite ship of any space franchise, I’ve rewatched Search for Spock dozens of times solely for all the scenes of it.

[@starfighter1838]

STIII was peak Trek aesthetic. Space Dock, BoP, Grissom, and Excelsior are top tier space designs.

[@ThePete7499]

Kinda sounds like a Tie fighter

[@HowieDay82]

The Disruptor cannons SFX in Star Trek V are just complete ripoffs of TIE laser cannons. :P

[@frogbonegames5175]

Looked ok at the beginning, but the smoothness of the invisibility effect truly made it outstanding.

[@incredimazing]

"Work in progress" he says, while still looking better than any official production. Love it.

[@HowieDay82]

I'm a perfectionist tweaker. The cloak VFX aren't bang-on yet, The planet has some stuff that needs doing, the background could use something else, like a moon or something, maybe some *very* sparse dust. Yeah. Work in Progress. :D

[@hosswindu166]

"Sir, a ship appeared on the plantewide defense sensors for a moment and then disappeared. It may be a glitch."

[@Techrat3D]

Your WIP is better than a lot of peoples Final presentation. Even the small details on the planet were wonderfully done.

[@grishg9536]

So awesome

[@EBrown-cr1gr]

Always been obsessed with the Klingon cloaking soundfx since StarTrek3!!!

[@camerontyler1386]

Voyage home effects and musical scores. I do truly wish we could see more of your Star Trek material in duration because it'd be epic!

[@themintytoaster273]

Damn that looks so cool 😎

[@adrianteague3403]

Excellent work. Well done.

[@Juice-chan]

Amazing. The way you render this effects brings back all the good memories. Fantastic job!

[@ajt_channel]

One of the few channels that I can press the thumbs up icon before playing the video and never be disappointed. Great stuff. Wish we could get the ultimate crossover and have some of these ships take on the imperials and rebels.

[@paulaburrows8660]

You always leave me wanting more.

[@Aikurisu]

Too cool for words. Love how it warped in like that!

[@EvanG529]

Wow that seriously looks like it belongs in a ST III deleted scene.

[@HowieDay82]

That's what I'm going for!

[@LazarusRemains]

New Star Trek abandoning past aesthetic is a big mistake; it had a visual style as unique as Star Wars

[@EBrown-cr1gr]

Discovery is literally the only show that abandoned it and that stemmed from Bryan Fuller.

[@davidsa2047]

Always thumbs up for your work.

[@alexandercain8904]

Hold on, let me watch this a dozen more times..

[@HowieDay82]

Right-Click > Loop is yer buddy

[@pixelforge4858]

wow

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

They have some serious solar storm going on there it seems. Looks Beautifull! :D

[@4eversquidsisters266]

That’s some cool ass warp effect

[@TheWeldingPanzer]

Damn that cloak was smooth.

[@AggressivelyMediocre]

I love how you get the warp effect spot on.

[@carlmahnke6256]

Absolutely stunning

[@wetzles]

Cool. Do Dooku / Darth Tyranus solar sailer next!

[@HowieDay82]

Oof - honestly? I never liked that design. It's the equivalent to having the big bad of a Bond movie leave his lair in a rowboat. Just...makes no sense that it'd be tech that's used in a universe of ION drives and hyperspace.

[@James-lh7rj]

That's what I've been missing in Star Trek!

[@andrewgilbertson5672]

That was AWESOME!

[@cardwizard]

Oooh, very slick.

[@danieldb631]

"I can see you Kirk. Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior, you do prefer it this way, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. Once more unto the breach...dear friends."

[@jessepitcherband]

Chef’s kiss as always man.

[@scorpioncoreuniverse8981]

Very awesome . I'd like to when it came out of warp and it and started cloaking that was very awesome great job as always.

[@aTADtoofar]

NICE!

[@serginhoyamabuchi2004]

Amazing!!!!

[@jediknight2983]

It looks like Preybird Fighter from Star Wars...

[@HowieDay82]

I mean... a little? This thing is *much* bigger, tho.

[@tornado_3244]

Nice one

[@CaptainPositron]

*sharp lip smack* Nice.

[@Dyundu]

Qapla’!

[@WintersWar]

I'm going to guess you'll add 4 moons.

[@HowieDay82]

There are 5.

[@ram64man]

No at all bad, but the warp entry noise seems oddly off and way to loud , it would send your average star fleet cadet scrambling “Klingons off the starboard bow “ from 10 forward, plus the cloak used to make a Synthesised buzz and down when activated

[@HowieDay82]

I'm pretty sure I have fixed this in the more recent versions I'll post next. :D Thanks!

[@charleyboy74]

You so need a do a Tutorial on your Methods mate. your proper skilled.

[@sulljoh1]

If TNG had this clip, they'd reuse it 30 times over a few seasons

[@HowieDay82]

Hahahahah! NGL, I've given some thought to re-doing the Generations BOP explosion - I still cant believe they didn't make something new rather than reusing the exact same footage from the last movie. Blows my fucking mind.

[@starfighter1838]

@@HowieDay82 you should. it should be a brawl like yesterdays' enterprise. Duras sisters and several support craft hitting the enterprise. Lets see all those phaser arrays going to work.

[@sulljoh1]

@@HowieDay82 We 90s Trekkies got used to the scale and quality jumping around like it was Dragonball Z XD But seriously nice work on this one! It looks like a movie

[@HowieDay82]

@@starfighter1838 I was mostly thinking *just* the destruction effect, not the entire sequence - the rest of it is just fine - it just really bothers me that they reused that explosion.

[@starfighter1838]

@@HowieDay82 I know what you meant. Just dreaming :) can't think of any battle less exciting than the Ent-D vs a single bird of prey

[@curtiswho4720]

Rad friend

[@MrMullerMachine]

Qapla'

[@MathewWoodard]

I don’t understand. WIP? It’s already perfect. What more is there to do?

[@HowieDay82]

General tweaking and revision - the cloak effect isnt perfect yet, but it *is* close. I had some complaints about how bright the dark side of the planet is, etc. Just minor stuff. :D

[@ProvVFX]

Dang! That looks very loyal to the films. I love the sound effects too, specially after the BoP drops out of warp there's a "clank" sound that's very mechanical and fits the appearance of the bird very well. Btw, are you using a camera plugin for the cam animation or using max's keyframing animation? I'm tempted to get camera studio for Max as it's driving me nuts how utterly complicated it is to animate anything in max.

[@HowieDay82]

Oh, thanks! No, this is just normal 3dsmax animation. If I had one item of advice for animating in 3dsmax - the curve editor is awesome.

[@ProvVFX]

@@HowieDay82 Thanks Howard, I'm gonna check the curve editor out then.

[@HowieDay82]

@@ProvVFX The other thing you can look into is "list" controllers. They allow you to "Stack" animation components like layers in Photoshop. For instance, the camera look-at point in this animation is hand animated to follow the BOP, but *also* has a little bit of procedural noise jitter on top to make it feel less CGI/mathematically exact. It's an older link, but this really gives a good rundown of the process: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKbIZ2eijdOJobM

[@ProvVFX]

@@HowieDay82 Appreciate the info. I´ve been using Lightwave for animations and work, but been a 3dsmax user since 5.0 and just done basic keyframing on it. Hopefully I can get some more advanced animations now as I like the arnold rendering capabilities. Thanks man

[@mickeyholding7970]

Planet supposed to be khitomer?

[@HowieDay82]

Nope, just a general interesting planet. :)