• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Is this from an actual NuTrek series? The ships exploding, I mean.

    Because, um… It looks bad. It looks like a standard VFX explosion with no thought about how it’d look like in space.

    No,the explosions in TNG or the movies weren’t realistic either, but some thought was put into them at least. For instance; they’d explode an actual model, and film it from the bottom with a slow motion camera. Why from the bottom? Because of gravity. You can’t have falling particles in a space explosion, so filming the explosions from the bottom made it look like the bits and particles were rapidly spreading out.