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John, a CGI expert has submitted some excellent renderings of his CGI Star Destroyer, here is a sneak peek:




The goal is to 'damage' the Star Destroyer, with blaster scorch marks, impact craters, and exposed and glowing innards, along with one engine out, and another failing. In the distance, we see our little planet. John has also introduced me to some really cool CGI software. Details are:

Effects LabDV: http://www.fxhome.com this software has a built in muzzle flash effect, and beam effect. You can download the trial version for free. The cost is $115 or so. Not too bad. All you have to do, is open a video clip, add the effect, and you are done. Cool stuff. They also have a most excellent chroma key editor that looks almost too good to be true.
Particle Illusion's Wondertouch: http://www.wondertouch.com is another program you can download and try for free. Pretty neat stuff that package can do. Check it out.
Cinema 4D V9.1[ http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/cinema4d_e.html ] is what John used to render a downloaded version of the Star Destroyer CGI model. Here is a sneak peek:
All this software is for Mac OSX and Windows XP, so everyone can download the demos and play around with it. I am working on a clips page, that has the .DV format files and the clips we want to have the effects in, so everyone can experiment and try making these effects.