raoul@lemmy.sdf.org to Babylon5@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agoJust finished the series, loved itbilder.fernsehserien.deimagemessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up143arrow-down1imageJust finished the series, loved itbilder.fernsehserien.deraoul@lemmy.sdf.org to Babylon5@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agomessage-square8linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoI went into B5 thinking it would be a cheap copy of Deep Space Nine. Well, it certainly was a very cheap production, I was able to produce better-looking graphics on a 133MHz Pentium. But the story grabbed me and I ended the series with genuine sadness that it was over. Babylon 5 is the real deal.
minus-squareNigelFrobisher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoThey rendered the CGI using Lightwave on Amiga 4000s because the Video Toaster peripheral did chromakey bluescreen effects really cost-effectively, so any Pentium chip was comfortably an entire processor generation more powerful than that.
I went into B5 thinking it would be a cheap copy of Deep Space Nine.
Well, it certainly was a very cheap production, I was able to produce better-looking graphics on a 133MHz Pentium.
But the story grabbed me and I ended the series with genuine sadness that it was over. Babylon 5 is the real deal.
They rendered the CGI using Lightwave on Amiga 4000s because the Video Toaster peripheral did chromakey bluescreen effects really cost-effectively, so any Pentium chip was comfortably an entire processor generation more powerful than that.