Re: Star Trek TOS Special Edition Starts Sept 16th.
I looked at a few scenes this morning of Devil in the Dark. The new CGI version of the matte painting of the mining facility with cgi people looked really good.The new Enterprise shots in Orbit of Janus 6 looked much better too. Perhaps it was the way it was rendered to reflect the light off the color of the planet. It does still look a bit cartoony, but as has been said, it does emulate the feel of low budget-ness of the original effects. I like that this week, we can actually see the glow and pulsing in the warp drive nacelle domes. That effect was originally done with Chrtistmas lights and a rotating half clear dome with lines painted on it. So they got it right this week.
The live action really pops on this show. The colors are again solid and true. The tunnels, while of course are paper and foam, look great, the colors they were painted in really shows.
I just skipped to the end to see how they do the last shot. I'll have to find time to compare to the DVD's, looked like they fade to an exterior shot of the Enterprise fly-by sooner then originally, cutting off William Shatner's reaction shot and final lines of dialogue a bit. BUt the last pan shot of the Enterprise as it fly past the camera looked quite good!
