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Star Trek XI’s USS Enterprise Wallpapers
by Thorsten Wulff
 In
December
TrekMovie.com featured some amazing
‘fan made’ images of the new USS Kelvin from the upcoming Star Trek
movie, by German CG Artist Tobias Richter. Since then Richter has
been at work on the new USS Enterprise, and today we bring a first look
at what he has come up with. Check out his stunning Big E desktops
below.
Do
it yourself Enterprise
Tobias Richter is a big Trek fan who also happens to be a veteran
CG artist and owner of
The Light Works graphics studio in
Cologne, Germany, which does visual effects for games, TV and film.
Although he has done some work on DVD covers for Paramount Home
Entertainment, the following images are 100% ‘fan made.’ His model of
the Enterprise is based solely on reference material available (the
official image release, the three trailers and even the toy images).
Since the total source material is limited, some areas of Tobias’
version are conjecture, however he feels confident it is ‘fairly
accurate.’
And here they are:
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It took Tobias about three and a half weeks of total time for modeling,
texturing and lighting, all done using the Autodesk Maya software. The
Enterprise features 150 light sources, more than 30 texture maps, and
even has some furniture inside and blinking running lights to add a
lifelike feeling. Tobias says that he still prefers the shape of the TMP
‘refit’ Enterprise, but feels this new one will grow on people. While
working on the model he was impressed at how many references to previous
Enterprises were worked in to the new ship, such as the color scheme on
the neck area (the green and red stripes).
More
to come at FedCon
Tobias will be doing a more elaborate animation video showing the
Enterprise and the USS Kelvin together, which will be premiered at the
big FedCon convention in Bonn, Germany in May. Although he is pretty
certain they don’t interact with each other in the actual film, he
thinks seeing them together ‘looks cool’…indeed.
For
more on Tobias, visit
The Light Works.
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