Comments on: 2010 SOTL Closeup – Andrew Probert – “Refit At Station Gray”

By: deg

deg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:02:58 +0000

That’s just awesome, Andrew, thanks! Great lil’ presentation there too. I love the magnetic mounting of the lights, very cool, and logical. IMO. I used an anti-gravitic mounting concept on a ship John Eaves designed for a project we recently worked on, as I like that advancement/direction of technology.

Love the design take on the whole dock itself as well. Look forward to seeing the final printed piece eh!

LLP,
deg

By: ROThornhill

ROThornhill — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:41:21 +0000

I love the Warbird design, and the marauder. It’s a pity we didn’t see more or these (especially the latter). I always thought it strange that the Grand Nagus didn’t travel around in one of these, rather a a tiny shuttlecraft.

By: Christopher L. Bennett

Christopher L. Bennett — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:14:34 +0000

Intriguing discussion about the thought that went into the design process, particularly about the repair workflow affecting the dock configuration.

And I love the magnetically suspended lights. I’ve read about how magnetohydrodynamic fields could kind of “lock” free-floating (superconducting?) components into place relative to each other in microgravity, so you could really have something like this using real physics, no need to resort to technobabble energy fields. I always love space designs that are really designed with microgravity in mind. Too many TV/movie spaceships and stations are locked into Earthbound design assumptions. But for this, you don’t have to worry about getting approval from executive producers who might have narrower imaginations; you can just do whatever inspires you.

By: FSL

FSL — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:24:27 +0000

So interesting new look at this Warbird design.

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:55:43 +0000

Watching this video is like peeking into an alternate universe where Andrew Probert is working on a new Trek show – I thought this was just a one-off painting, not a fully thought-out spacedock design. And the comment about the eye of the Warbird only reminds me how little we know about that design (and the Marauder) as opposed to the Enterprises, which have been pretty well documented.

By: Scott D

Scott D — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:34:10 +0000

Very wonderful artwork.

By: Mark Gill

Mark Gill — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:55:21 +0000

Fabulous stuff, and mindblowing attention to detail! Thanks Andrew and Doug.

Already salivating at the 2011 prospects – Valdore maybe?

By: John Pearse

John Pearse — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:39:41 +0000

These videos are always such a pleasure to watch. Thanks for taking the time to make them.

By: the bluesman

the bluesman — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0000

Andrew

Another very nice piece of art. It’s seems like the Romulans dockyards are little bit more elegant than what the humans have. Thanks for the behind the scenes look at the art.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:38:28 +0000

Zat waz fan-taz-TEEK! Thank you, Commodore Probert and, our sponsor, Lord Drexler! Nothing satisfies my geeky need-to-know-new-things quite like these insights into “the process” – the how and the why and the where from that goes into a final result.

Anybody who made a Star Trek project with out a Probert at the drafting table needed their head examined.

Oh yes. I went there.