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Babylon 5 – Some new (behind the scenes) material..
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Just a heads up for those that have downloaded B5Scrolls or have been following the interviews and articles.
The next update should be in the next month or two and will include orthos of a handful of the original Lightwave 3D models used on the show. The above image has a background of the production sketches which Steve Burg sent over – and are already on the site – along with a foreground showing the original 3D Thunderbolt model made in Lightwave, with a bit of the wireframe showing through.
If you have been following the site, the current update is dated 26th October, 2014…. And includes a new section that looks at the N’Grath character and an interview with Jim McPherson who largely designed the big guy. There’s even some previously unreleased behind the scenes video from the co-founder of Optic Nerve, Everett Burrell, along with the artwork and photos. This is just a small sample of the new stuff added in the last update.
BTW. Since I’m still deciding which of the original Lightwave 3D models to add in the next update (the orthos should be very handy for anyone wanting to do an accurate scratch build of them), let me know if anyone has any preferences. Dropping a note here or better yet on the Facebook page would be handy – as the addition of the model images is a one time deal and will be limited to a half dozen or so.
As always, all the new content from the guys who worked on the show will be included in the download of the website.
B5Scrolls Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/B5Scrolls
B5Scrolls Website (free to download)
http://www.b5scrolls.com/
The next update should be in the next month or two and will include orthos of a handful of the original Lightwave 3D models used on the show. The above image has a background of the production sketches which Steve Burg sent over – and are already on the site – along with a foreground showing the original 3D Thunderbolt model made in Lightwave, with a bit of the wireframe showing through.
If you have been following the site, the current update is dated 26th October, 2014…. And includes a new section that looks at the N’Grath character and an interview with Jim McPherson who largely designed the big guy. There’s even some previously unreleased behind the scenes video from the co-founder of Optic Nerve, Everett Burrell, along with the artwork and photos. This is just a small sample of the new stuff added in the last update.
BTW. Since I’m still deciding which of the original Lightwave 3D models to add in the next update (the orthos should be very handy for anyone wanting to do an accurate scratch build of them), let me know if anyone has any preferences. Dropping a note here or better yet on the Facebook page would be handy – as the addition of the model images is a one time deal and will be limited to a half dozen or so.
As always, all the new content from the guys who worked on the show will be included in the download of the website.
B5Scrolls Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/B5Scrolls
B5Scrolls Website (free to download)
http://www.b5scrolls.com/
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It's been a long time, but I remember the insect guy looking fake as hell. I'm not disappointed they dropped him in favour of real actors in make-up.
It was the early 90s and they didn't have the $ for Jim Henson. I thought it was quaint!
Part of what I originally liked about B5 was that the aliens were NOT all rubber forehead humanoids. Gave it a hard sci-fi feel, compared to Trek.
I'd heard some mechanical bits of the insect guy puppet broke down and they just decided not to repair and keep using it.
That and the lack of technobabble. Problems not created by random cosmic particles, but genuine difference of opinion? Sign me up.
I would also give a shout out to B5 having a real score. Seems one of Berman's decisions was to cut back on the budget for new music for the trek series. Looking back the Faith of the Heart opening of Enterprise was probably the most musically adventurous as Trek has ever gotten.
When I started this I did not think it would be this complex!
Some of the movies are kinda bad, but I don't really think that my time was wasted on most of them, because I pretty much loved the characters at that point. Crusade had a lot of potential and some great characters, but got cornholed by Ted Turner, who put all sorts of restrictions on content ("okay this episode needs a bar brawl..."). The Technomage in that show got his own book trilogy, which was actually pretty good.
I need to re watch it because I barely remember some of the plot, but it still brings back the warm fuzzy feelings when I think about it.
That's pretty much where I was when I started this. Half memories of catching bits and pieces from seasons 1-3 at my Nan's place after school. At the time I watched far too sporadically and was too young to grasp the ongoing plot so the revisit has been a great mix of seeing things for the first time and wallowing in nostalgia.
My dad, who is on a very fixed income, was relieved to find out that I wanted the series, because it meant he knew what to get me for my birthday and christmas. He was able to pick up two seasons at a time for me, which surprised me somewhat.
I think Barnes & Noble still has the series for full fucking price, though.
Yes. Amazon has the series for $20 per season, but for whatever weird reason a package with all five seasons is $150.
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I do wish that they had known that they'd get a fifth season when they were doing the fourth, though, because the first half of Season 5 was so... frivolous... compared to the stuff we'd gotten before. It was like the plot dialed back to Season 1. I believe that the original plan called for the Shadow War to take up more of Season 4 and the Earth War to spill into Season 5.
Second half of Season 5, though, which deals with the characters' ultimate fates, was still really good.
Season 5
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Is there any remastering being done? Or just the same as it's been?
This is much better news.
I know that the original renders for the CG effects are lost in the void and they cannot be remastered without starting from scratch. Not sure about the original hi-res beta film masters and if the live action stuff can be cleaned up at all.
But I do know I'll be binging the shit out of it next weekend.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I mean, aren't the only main cast left Bill Mumy, Mira Furlan, Claudia Christian, Jason Carter, Patricia Tallman, and The Box? That's a 50% loss already. I don't know if my heart can handle anyone joining Peter Jurasik, Andreas Katsulas, Richard Biggs, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conway, and Jerry Doyle beyond the Rim.
Holy shit you're right! He must be laying low, hiding from the Grim Reaper.
The video masters are also gone apparently, making the shots that are a combination of live actors and CG especially hard to redo
They could just The Blacklist it.
As JMS appears to have been blacklisted by WB, he didn't even know the remasters had happened until someone told him on Twitter. Remastering the vfx is possible but expensive, of course B5 has made a fortune and any bluray/4k remaster would be very popular/profitable, but it seems like some sort of politics at WB preventing it.
Fortunately, that turned out to be a hoax.
JMS confirmed it on twitter.
I found a couple references, but mostly seems to be a hoax.
https://www.livingordead.com/content/person/mira-furlan
Guess it's hard to argue with that.
Linear progression of time.
really sad about this one. Mira Furlan was an all around awesome human being.
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