Greetings from Professor Moriarty.

#1

Hi everyone. My name is Scott Gammans, but my online moniker is “Professor Moriarty”. I’m a regular poster over at lwg3d.org, scifi-meshes.com and trekbbs.com, but up until today I’ve only been a lurker here at cgsociety. Today I decided to become a dues-paying member.

 I’m an amateur hobbyist when it comes to CGI, and yeah, I’m one of those [i]Star Trek[/i] geeks... but please don't hold that against me! My current project is a “reimagining” of the special effects for the classic [i]Trek[/i] episode “The Doomsday Machine”, and you can see what I’ve been able to accomplish so far [here](http://www.scottgammans.net/doomsdaymachine).

 The software I’m using for this project is LightWave 9 for the CGI, POV-Ray for some of the texture image maps on my models, and the Adobe Video Bundle (AE 7, PP 2, etc.) for the post-production work. You’ll very likely see me haunting the After Effects and Premiere Pro forums quite a bit in the months ahead as I get into the more complicated scenes in “The Doomsday Machine”.

This is a great website and I look forward to learning a lot and (hopefully) contributing something in return. See you around the cgsociety forums!

#2

Great work there Scott,

Welcome to cgsociety. :slight_smile:

I followed the links to your site, very impressive stuff and quite an intersting idea you have. :thumbsup: can i ask? has this sort of thing been done before?

best of luck with your Star Treking

GingerDave

#3

Thanks GingerDave. An online friend of mine did “Balance of Terror” a couple of years ago, and Daren Dochterman (who worked on Star Trek:Voyager and Star Trek:Enterprise) did a “Doomsday Machine” proof of concept in 2003 that you can find on YouTube (look for “Star Trek Enhanced”). Digital Stream also did a couple of demos back in the 90’s–you may have seen bootleg copies floating around the 'net. But to my knowledge no one has ever completely, 100% replaced the F/X in “Doomsday Machine”, so I’m angling to be the first.

#4

AH! Man after my own heart. I attempted this project several years ago with Balance of Terror. Your work is much better [go figure]. But then again I didn’t know squat about what I was doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HSYC6Wlbv8

Have you ever seen this footage? It’s from the mid 90’s

Great work! Hope to see more soon.

Thanks
Daniel

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