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( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, interior colored photographs) Sketch test renderings of the cargo bay in different configurations were done by Andrew Probert, some of which featured long range shuttles. Matte paintings were also used to optically enlarge such areas as the air tram station in San Francisco and the Enterprise's cargo bay. The set was built without a ceiling, and the visible lighting necessary to film the scene was replaced by the matte painting in post-production. The ceiling of the recreation room in the scene where the ship's crew was assembled was also a matte painting. ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p.В 212) For the director's cut of the film, these matte paintings were replaced by CGI digital mattes. The film's 'wing walk' sequence involved a matte painting of the Enterprise's saucer section. ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p.В 212) The latter was reused as stock footage in VOY: ' Non Sequitur'. ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p.В 212) There were two particularly major examples of the matte paintings created for the film: as two backgrounds for planet Vulcan, which were combined with live-action footage filmed at Yellowstone National Park and Paramount's B Tank, (X) and a skyline for San Francisco, including Golden Gate Bridge and Starfleet Headquarters. Yuricich creating a matte painting of the air tram stationДЇor Star Trek: The Motion Picture, approximately one hundred matte paintings were used. TOS: ' The Devil in the Dark', ' The Gamesters of Triskelion' Films

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Similarly, the painting of the Delta-Vega Station inspired the cover of the magazine Galaxy from DS9: ' Far Beyond the Stars'. The matte paintings of Rigel VII, the Delta-Vega Station, Eminiar VII and the underground colony on Janus VI were all reused to depict other locations (namely, Holberg 917G, the Tantalus Colony on Tantalus V, Scalos and caves housing the Providers on Triskelion in the original versions of ' Requiem for Methuselah', ' Dagger of the Mind', ' Wink of an Eye' and ' The Gamesters of Triskelion', respectively). ( Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p.В 329) Also, various matte paintings were created for Starbase 11 (for both ' Court Martial' and ' The Menagerie, Part I'). Underground colony on Janus VI (' The Devil in the Dark')Д¬louds surrounding the city of Stratos in ' The Cloud Minders' were also represented with a matte painting.Delta-Vega Station on Delta Vega (' Where No Man Has Gone Before').Rigel VII (' The Cage' and ' The Menagerie, Part II').11/12, p.В 72) The scenes that the paintings represented include: He noted, ' I only had about a week to do each one, mostly futuristic architecture.' ( Cinefantastique, Vol. (' The Menagerie, Part I' text commentary, TOS Season 1 DVD) All the matte paintings for TOS were done by Albert Whitlock. ( Trek: The Unauthorized Story of the Movies, p.В 42) Even they were too costly for frequent use in the series, though they always increased visual scope to an episode. 3.2 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine matte paintingsДЇor Star Trek: The Original Series, matte paintings were usually on glass and were backlit.3.1 Star Trek: The Next Generation matte paintings.1.1 Star Trek: The Original Series matte paintings.

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