On Aug 7, 4:15 pm, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:


> Where the CGI in B5:TLT falls down is the background of Lochley's
> quarters

Lochley's quarters were real, we shot against a real wall (you can see
it in some of the behind-the-scenes footage where I point to it).

> , the hallways in the first story (except for the hallway in the
> very first scene, which looked better than the rest) and the docking bay
> in both stories. In all of those cases, the CGI backgrounds just didn't
> look real. In Lochley's quarters, the lamps looked almost 2D, and the
> lampshades looked like one was made and then copied to make the other,
> and both were perfectly symmetrical and sharply edged.

The lamps were also real.

> The background
> looked like an illustration in a magazine, 2D. Same for the hallways.
> They looked too sterile, with an almost "Star Trek: Enterprise" feel to
> them.

The hallway she walks down is also real. Again, you can see it in the
behind the scenes material.

jms

On Aug 8, 4:26 pm, Amy Guskin <aisl...@fjordstone.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:57:55 -0400, jmsa...@aol.com wrote
>
> (in article <1186617475.904648.108...@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > On Aug 7, 4:15 pm, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> Where the CGI in B5:TLT falls down is the background of Lochley's
> >> quarters
>
> > Lochley's quarters were real, we shot against a real wall (you can see
> > it in some of the behind-the-scenes footage where I point to it). <<
>
> Hee. I bet you never get tired of this. My favorite version is the people
> who kept pointing out how fake Don Stroud's scar looked until you told them
> it was real (and how he got it is a great story, by the way). <g>
>

We see what we look for and we look for what we think we will see.

jms