WmLambert wrote:Lucas made computer imaging very complex and shot models on A and B-roll film. I shot animation on painted acetate cels with an Oxberry Materstand (the same multiplane camera that Disney used.) That machine cost about $75,000 and animation film was considered to be cheap. Live shooting left most takes on the cutting-room floor, so one often shot a mile of film for a few usable feet. The main cost was creating the art to be shot.
In the 80's, animation software cost over a million dollars, for what now is basically freeware. The paradigm changed from mostly model work to computer graphics, (except for efforts like Fury Road). The new way uses multiple artists using cheap computer programs that can be layered infinitely. Since it is the labor now, more than the machine time, I can see how donated efforts from many people can make a movie on the cheap. Even the live stuff is digital now.
What I get out of it other than the wow factor is that the original animosity and state of war between the Federation and the Klingons is being revisited. Of course, change through progress happens. Long ago in my life as a diehard trekkie and in another post on this forum I stated how sad I had been when the Kingons became allies with the Federation. As a reader, it was more fun without. IMO. Confrontation makes good storyline - grist for the mill. The Klingons were always better adversaries. IMO.
And it can't be argued that the Havenites, in comparison to the League, were worthy opponents, whereas I voiced that same concern when the Havenites became allies to the Manticorans. Sure, it is good for the naval officers but I feared it as a reader. Of course, the Honorverse series nears its end and it is good for it to culminate on a positive high. But, like in the Startrek world, if the Honorverse series
were to continue, would the GA dissolve at some point in the future, for lack of good storyline?
After all, from the viewpoint of the reader, what good is all the tech that comes out of Bolthole if after the defeat of the MAlign there's no one to aim it at?
Will it mirror what happened with the development of the Federation ship that teased me,
Voyager, that was supposed to be so badass - yet, the only way there could be found someone for it to fight was to lose it in a faraway quadrant?
Well, I like epic space battles. I have been harping on another League-GA battle that many of you said wouldn't happen. Well, with Hutch's spoiler post, seems I may get it anyways. "Oh ye of little faith."
