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Subject: Re: "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales" - A Review (SPOILER Warning)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:57:55 -0700
From: "jmsatb5@aol.com" 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

On Aug 7, 4:15 pm, "Mac Breck"  wrote:


> Where the CGI in B5:TLT falls down is the background of Lochley's
> quarters

Lochley's quarters were real, we shot against a real wall (you can see
it in some of the behind-the-scenes footage where I point to it).

> , the hallways in the first story (except for the hallway in the
> very first scene, which looked better than the rest) and the docking bay
> in both stories.  In all of those cases, the CGI backgrounds just didn't
> look real.  In Lochley's quarters, the lamps looked almost 2D, and the
> lampshades looked like one was made and then copied to make the other,
> and both were perfectly symmetrical and sharply edged.  

The lamps were also real.

> The background
> looked like an illustration in a magazine, 2D.  Same for the hallways.
> They looked too sterile, with an almost "Star Trek: Enterprise" feel to
> them.  

The hallway she walks down is also real.  Again, you can see it in the
behind the scenes material.

jms