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Remastered Matte Painting in "Wink of an Eye" Debuts This Weekend - Updated Photo

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By Steve Krutzler / 11:17, 10 January 2007 / General Star Trek

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and security officer Compton investigate an abandoned city on planet Scalos in "Wink of an Eye," an episode of Star Trek: Remastered. Unfortunately, Compton, played by Geoffrey Binney, is about to learn why one should never wear a red shirt when beaming down to an alien planet.



The background of the decayed alien city was originally a recycled matte painting first used as planet Eminiar 7 in "A Taste of Armageddon." For the remastered version of "Wink of an Eye," CBS Digital artists created an all-new digital matte painting of the Scalosian city, home to the desperate Scalosians, led by the beautiful Deela (played by Kathie Brown). The remastered visual effects shots required each film frame to be painstakingly rotoscoped separate the actors from the original background. This allowed the characters to appear in front of the newly-created digital image.

The newly-remastered version of "Wink of an Eye" will premiere nationwide during the weekend of January 12, 2007. The original episode was first aired in 1968 and was written by Gene L. Coon and directed by Jud Taylor. Star Trek was created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek: Remastered is distributed in syndication by CBS Paramount Television.



"The long-abandoned alien city of Scalos, a matte painting from the Star Trek Remastered episode, "Wink of An Eye." The remastered episode premieres in national syndication during the weekend of Janaury 13, 2007."

Episodes and air dates for Star Trek Remastered:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/25835.html

US stations carrying Star Trek Remastered:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/25835.html?page=1



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By the Gods!..I love 3rd season shows!!! | Report this post to moderator
By: Kathleen of Mordor (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:28:37 on Jan 13, 2007

Yes, Fred Freiburger made the BEST LOOKING episodes to ever appear on the original Star Trek!!!

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Cant wait for Spectre of the Gun, and The Enterprise Incident!!!

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LL&P!

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By: MikeNinNH (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:05:53 on Jan 11, 2007 | Edit History (1)

I don't understand why the city is run down - if the people are functioning 1000 times faster, the place should be spotless!! :)

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By: GabrielCKoerner (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:57:17 on Jan 10, 2007

Actually, sharing this profession, not as much time or thought usually goes into it. :)

I believe it could've very well been a Shatner homage but usually this stuff is just a matter of somebody saying, k, gotta bang out this city matte painting this week, let me just google image skylines, find ones with similar lighting, mash em together in a PSD, maybe plop on some 3d rendered blend layers, paint the overly-Earth look out of it, and voilla.

So the structures you mentioned are very, very likely to be just Google image search pics of Montreal photoshopped.

You have no idea how much shit that comes off Google Image Search for VFX. For a superbowl spot recently I was grabbing cloud and god ray pics off google and photoshopping em into nebulas. Its really the lazy production way of doing things :)



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By: Brikar (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:06:45 on Jan 10, 2007

Looks pretty cool... good "deathly" mood to it.

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