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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