White-star 9 features in Elite Dangerous?

Boff'in

Boff'in
I can never let old B5 go, it's too imprinted in my brain but when I see this [1m12s]
[video=youtube_share;VKWIJ-H-WxI]https://youtu.be/VKWIJ-H-WxI?t=71[/video]

I think of this. [12 sec]
[video=youtube;ZD3KricYMOI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3KricYMOI[/video]

I know it's just some space ships swooping by, but, silly little pattern matching brain .....
Sorry but the empiral clipper always reminds me of the White-star class of ship from Babylon5.
https://www.frontierstore.net/eur/game-extras/imperial-clipper-vibrant-paint-pack.html
 
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DocLooshkin

DocLooshkin
Hello, Boff'in. :)

I always thought the Clipper looked like the White Stars. The Elite series always happily drew on other works for inspiration, so I'd be surprised if the resemblance was co-incidental. Assuming this is the case here, I can only salute FD for its good taste. :)
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
Nick Sticks said:
I don't remember Babylon 5 as being in widescreen.
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It was shot in widescreen! It just wasn't initially released that way, but the DVDs are 16:9.

unfortunately that also means there are a couple of visible flubs that we're off screen before but not now ;). But overall it's an improvement!
 

Boff'in

Boff'in
Nick Sticks said:
I don't remember Babylon 5 as being in widescreen.
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mossfoot said:
It was shot in widescreen! It just wasn't initially released that way, but the DVDs are 16:9.

unfortunately that also means there are a couple of visible flubs that we're off screen before but not now ;). But overall it's an improvement!
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Aye I got them all on DVD (and VHS).

It was filmed in widescreen but for TV-laziness, the special effects aren't.
All the composite shots with Bluescreened Actors, or even the pure CG was all 4:3.
The idea was they would just re-render the scene - but the reality of TV and changing special effects company, and waitng 10-15 years was they lost that material.

Warner Brothers pulled off a digital zoom, and so the old CGI. So the quality jumps to and from, and a few things you might rememeber are mis-framed.

I got "in the beginning" on itunes in HD, the space fighter bit looks like heavily compressed youtube footage.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Boff'in said:
It was filmed in widescreen but for TV-laziness, the special effects aren't.
All the composite shots with Bluescreened Actors, or even the pure CG was all 4:3.
The idea was they would just re-render the scene - but the reality of TV and changing special effects company, and waitng 10-15 years was they lost that material.

Warner Brothers pulled off a digital zoom, and so the old CGI. So the quality jumps to and from, and a few things you might rememeber are mis-framed.
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Yep, I just rewatched due to Jerry Doyle (RIP). And you can see every time there's a special effects shot (actually anytime there's any post processing) it reverts to Broadcast TV quality and you get funny framing as it chops things off to get 16:9. I didn't notice it as much towards the last 2 seasons though so I assumed they were broadcasting in HD by then.
 

TheSisko

TheSisko
If any ship looks like the White Star, then surely its the Imperial Courier. It has a similar hardpoint layout too.
 
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