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For some reason, (I’m not sure why…)  I wasn’t asked to contribute to the next Ships of the Line Calendar this time…  even though I’ve done all but the first 2 of them… so, I guess that’s how it goes.  Here’s what I would have done… boring yes… but god, I love it.

After all this chat about TMP, I wanted to integrate that into my “modo-izing” of older model files…

so I present a preview of what’s coming up.

An early attempt at integrating the augmented key art, the New Title logo, and a tag line...

Believe it or not, it’s been nearly 10 years since we got the greenlight to work on the Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture with the great Robert Wise.  For Producer Dave Fein, Restoration Supervisor Mike Matessino, and myself, it had already been 8 months of prep and dealings with the studio to get the project approved.  For those of you who haven’t gone through my personal website at www.darendoc.com, I invite you to take a look at this page I put up that gives you a little taste of what went on…

TMP:DE

Been super busy over the last couple months, you know… just taking care of things and trying to stay busy work-wise…   but just thought I’d break the silence with a little clip I did while playing around with a great new plugin from videocopilot.net called Optical Flares… it’s great, and really updates the kinda stuff you can do…

So I thought I would take one of my shots that I did for Star Trek New Voyages and “futurized” it more in keeping with the Abrams movie that so many of the kids like these days…

Oh… maybe that was a bit over done…

On Sunday, September 27th, I was pleased to have been the moderator for a panel given by the Art Director’s Guild at the amazing Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.  That evening, I talked with Trek Art directors and designers John Jefferies (set designer for TOS, and brother to Walter “Matt” Jefferies), Joseph Jennings (Art Director for the Star Trek – TMP and production designer on Trek II), Herman Zimmerman (TNG, DS9, Trek V-X), and Scott Chambliss (Trek 2009).

The Art Director’s Guild has put up video from the event… Go on over to artdirectors.org and take a look.

STAR TREK: 45 YEARS OF DESIGNING THE FUTURE