menuBarBack
Beam Up News | Join | Your Account
Home
Advanced Search
boxBottom
News Tribblets
boxBottom
Stardates Calendar
News Story

Features

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

Features

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

Beam This Story to a Friend
Complete the form below to e-mail a link to this story to a friend.

Your Name:
Your E-Mail:
Your Friend's Name:
Your Friend's E-Mail:
Subject:
Message (optional):

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



More Top StoriesComments
Nov 22Exclusive Digital Content Now Available With New Star Trek Movie on iTunes
1
Nov 22No J.J. Abrams Version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the Star Trek Online MMORPG 0
Nov 21Faran Tahir on His 10 Minutes as Captain Robau in J.J. Abrams Star Trek Movie2
Nov 21J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman on Shatner and Nimoy7
Nov 21Roberto Orci on the Status of the Star Trek XII Script and the Possibility of Producing a New Star Trek TV Series17
Story Archives...Browse:   

Talkback

9 comments Post New | Help
View:

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!!!

Image

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

Image

LL&P!

Image

--------

...."Throughout history "compassionate" minds have pondered this dark and disturbing question: what is society to do with those members who are seen as a threat, valid or not to society?

What of our Libertys?, or are we going to allow those malcontents and misfits whose behavior is "questionable" to takee away and destroy the foundations of civilization...free speech, and or normal agree-to-disagreeable... discourse?

Different ages have tried different answers.
So called misfits and outcasts have been burned, branded and banished!

Current trends on the planet named Earth...show usually the unwanted of Society are if fortunate....left to shuffle along pushing carts , or get "a room with a view" incarcerated into so called humane institutions, or if not, they are executed with malace.

Unless they are blessed with a fortune of the wealthy or connected in some way to the powerful.
___

..."Before long we'll be where it would've taken mankind millions of years to reach.."


Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote

Why's it run down | Report this post to moderator
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!! :)

--------

-----
"Who are you, and how did you get in here??"
"I'm a locksmith, and... I'm a locksmith".
- "Police Squad"


Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote

RE: They had this up at AICN | Report this post to moderator
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 :)



--------

--Gabriel C. Koerner Getting the Cheese to Sickbay in Style.


Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
  • RE: They had this up at AICN | Report this post to moderator
    By: falcon (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:42:25 on Jan 11, 2007

    Well, yeah, but is it really lazy or is it simply trying a creative way to beat a deadline?

    I don't do broadcast TV, and many times our deadlines are more than a few days, but we find ourselves doing much the same thing for overlay effects (not so much matte paintings, although, damn, wouldn't that be cool behind a fighter jet?). It actually helps us advance beyond the "what effect can/should we use here" stage to the "let's make sure the client loves it" stage.

    --------

    A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. -- Robert Heinlein

    PCLinuxOS

    falcon


    Reply
    Reply
    Quote
    Quote

They had this up at AICN | Report this post to moderator
By: Brikar (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:06:45 on Jan 10, 2007

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

Image

--------

"Serenity" is the movie "Star Wars" prequels wish they could be.


Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
  • RE: They had this up at AICN | Report this post to moderator
    By: GabrielCKoerner (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:52:19 on Jan 10, 2007

    Looks amazing. I'm always surprised at the rift in quality between the matte paintings they've been doing and the ship shots. So far everything they've done in the matte painting / environmental regard has been terrific.

    --------

    --Gabriel C. Koerner Getting the Cheese to Sickbay in Style.


    Reply
    Reply
    Quote
    Quote
  • RE: They had this up at AICN | Report this post to moderator
    By: Tupperfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:33:20 on Jan 10, 2007 | Edit History (1)

    Strangely, there's a few buildings that look like futuristic versions of Montreal skyline. The most obvious is the Habitat 67 building on the bottom left and the Place Ville-Marie style building just above Kirk's head.

    I guess similarities could be found with a lot of other cities, but I thought it was worth pointing out as Montreal is Shatner hometown...

    --------

    "Gods drunkenly cried juvenile acne, lop ears, the Lafontaine park, retirement at 60, disappointing love, public washrooms and raging toothaches"

    tupperfan.blogspot.com


    Reply
    Reply
    Quote
    Quote
Promenade










TrekWeb Merchants
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.ca
Amazon.de
Barnes & Noble

Get Firefox!
Privacy Policy | About Us | Legal Notice | Contact Us | | Get Firefox!
© 1996-2009 TrekWeb.com and Steve Krutzler. All rights reserved.