ShannonA
07-18-2007, 12:45 AM
The (hopefully) first disk of the Lost Tales is due out this July 31. I found the following story interesting:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42435
It talks about how WB lots all the original special effects for B5, and so JMS went to the fans to get new models:
"The guys in the effects department said, 'My God, how can we get this thing done in time when we have to build everything from the scratch?'" Straczynski said. "I pointed out that a lot of fans out there over the years built their own models of our ships and the station and everything else. So they went out to all these different sites to find high-resolution models and wireframes and texture mattes and so on that they could then take and start building from. So it kind of closed the loop in the sense that Babylon 5 created these images and gave them to the fans, and now the fans have given them back to us. It's a nice bit of symmetry."
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42435
It talks about how WB lots all the original special effects for B5, and so JMS went to the fans to get new models:
"The guys in the effects department said, 'My God, how can we get this thing done in time when we have to build everything from the scratch?'" Straczynski said. "I pointed out that a lot of fans out there over the years built their own models of our ships and the station and everything else. So they went out to all these different sites to find high-resolution models and wireframes and texture mattes and so on that they could then take and start building from. So it kind of closed the loop in the sense that Babylon 5 created these images and gave them to the fans, and now the fans have given them back to us. It's a nice bit of symmetry."