Firefly: Zoic Studio Saddles Up by Haken

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Firefly: Zoic Studio Saddles Up

POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Friday, July 25, 2003 19:42
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Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:14 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

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Friday, July 18, 2003 3:45 AM

MD37

That's pretty cool. I always wanted to see a "complete" view of the ship. Also would be neat to see a blueprint of the interior of the ship to get the layout.

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Friday, July 18, 2003 4:44 AM

DRAKON

One cool thing about this, if you are as geeky as me, is that this is another Lightwave show. Lightwave is a 3D computer graphics package, and its easy to use. It originally came with the Video Toaster, but they have since spawned it off as its own product.

I met one of the creators of Lightwave, a very shy man, who has an Emmy on his mantel. (Technical Emmy, but still a beautiful large statue)

For a while I was trying to get a job as a 3D artist. But the art stuff kinda eluded me. You can give a chimp the best paint set in the world and he will still paint like a chimp.

"my kind of stupid"

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Friday, July 18, 2003 5:56 AM

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Holy Hannah!

What magazine does this come from? I need to get a hold of a copy.

History repeats the old conceits

http://topshelftvshow.com

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Friday, July 18, 2003 6:21 AM

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

And may I just say for the record I have no idea how this ship's interior is supposed to be laid out? I mean... Look at the windows on the nose of the ship. Are those the windows Wash and everyone looks out of in the cockpit? Now look at the shuttle on the side and compare that to the nose section. See how tiny it is comparatively? Inara LIVES in one of those? It just don't make no sense.

History repeats the old conceits

http://topshelftvshow.com

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Friday, July 18, 2003 8:43 AM

BAMADAVE

You make a great point Cap. That shuttle is tiny. I think we are gonna have to go with suspension of disbelief on this one. Unless Wulf brings his Tardis Broom in to help explain.

You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.

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Monday, July 21, 2003 6:38 AM

JAVIDRHO

Quote:
Originally posted by Md37:
That's pretty cool. I always wanted to see a "complete" view of the ship. Also would be neat to see a blueprint of the interior of the ship to get the layout.

I like the downloadable wallpapers of Serenity from the fox site - these are very high resolution and give you some idea of what we might see in the movie. Below is the smallest wallpaper - the big one is really nice.

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SIMON: What happens if they board us?
ZOE: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing
and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.

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Monday, July 21, 2003 8:49 AM

BIOTECH

You will notice in the wallpaper, that Serenity has been mirrored, and in fact should be flying to the left.

There are two fairly big clues to this, but then I have been studing the ship closely the last few days, so I'll see if anyone else can spot them.

As for the size of the ship, the engine compartment looks huge on the outside, yet inside the same yellow sections show up and translucent panels on the inside too, and the engine room doesnt look that big, unless they have REALLY thick walls.

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Monday, July 21, 2003 1:52 PM

LERXST

I don't get it. The green light is supposed to be on the starboard side, and the red light to port, as shown.

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TRILLIAN: Arthur! You're safe!
ARTHUR: Am I? Oh, good.

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Monday, July 21, 2003 3:20 PM

LORA

But that has to be the problem then. Port is the left when standing on the deck and facing the fore (front) of a ship and starboard is the right. I don't know the convention for red and green lights, but we can't assume anything about the rotation of the planet. Shuttle one (Inara's) is supposed to be on the starboard side, can you tell them apart?

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?" Zoe, War Stories

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Monday, July 21, 2003 10:32 PM

BIOTECH

The two things I was refering two are..

The spoke windows on the roof, the one nearest too us in that picture should be nearer the back and right up against the series of rearward facing windows, the one on the other side should be further out where the one we can see is.

Also the solar panels near the cockpit, they should be on the other side.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:23 AM

JAVIDRHO

Quote:
Originally posted by biotech:
The two things I was refering two are..

The spoke windows on the roof, the one nearest too us in that picture should be nearer the back and right up against the series of rearward facing windows, the one on the other side should be further out where the one we can see is.

Also the solar panels near the cockpit, they should be on the other side.

You might be right about the window, but the solar panel near the cockpit is on the right (starboard) side, as shown in all of the images on this thread. I just went back and looked at all of the screen grabs I have of Serenity and there are no panels on the left (port) side.

Also, in aircraft and ship navigation, the port light is red and starboard light is green, and this matches the image as well. So, only the window position is debatable, otherwise, it looks like the images are not reversed.

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SIMON: What happens if they board us?
ZOE: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing
and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.

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Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:11 PM

JORGASNAROVA

Zoic Studios is also doing effects for the Sci Fi Channel's re-make of Battlestar Galactica, which will air this December. Preliminary visual effects are said to be very impressive.

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Friday, July 25, 2003 7:14 AM

ZEKE023

Quote:
Originally posted by CaptBaggytrousers:
And may I just say for the record I have no idea how this ship's interior is supposed to be laid out? I mean... Look at the windows on the nose of the ship. Are those the windows Wash and everyone looks out of in the cockpit? Now look at the shuttle on the side and compare that to the nose section. See how tiny it is comparatively? Inara LIVES in one of those? It just don't make no sense.

Well.. Inara's shuttle is just one room and a cockpit (which is really the same room seperated by a curtain). In Out of Gas, Inara and Mal walk around the whole shuttle without any acutraments... the interior can't be more than thirty feet long.
The cockpit is larger however. It's like inara's shuttle in size, but it has the large space in front of the control panels that is like an extra twenty feet (no idea what this is used for) and then the head goes all the way back to where the stairs hit the floor outside of the cockpit.

It does make general sense when you think about it. sorta... anyway.

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Friday, July 25, 2003 7:42 PM

BLUEHOOT

I have to agree that to me the images do not look like they're mirrored.

As far as the windows are concerned, I think that they just created two slighly different styles of Serenity and mixed it up a bit. If you look at Zoic's website, you will be able to find a version of Serenity that is more streamlined and has a bit different window placement than that huge wallpaper posted in this thread.

For a bit of random information relating to the FFSPT, I have taken the more streamlined version and named it Belle and am considering her an Aught Four. But this is just for the Sock Puppet Theatre purposes cause its fun!

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