What’s better than admiring a carefully recreated work? StarCraft Ship models and sets? You can do this when Q himself lets you know how cool it is to do so.
That’s pretty much the premise of “Return to Tomorrow,” a new video featuring some of the latest in virtual entertainment. StarCraft Props, sets, and models are hosted by the Roddenberry Archives. Over the past few years, the archive has partnered with “holographic renderer” OTOY to create a digital StarCraft The museum has painstakingly replicated original sets from the entire series trek Contemporary programs such as Discover, Picardand lower deck People can take a virtual walk online or through an app on a VR headset.
But if you just want to relax and watch a video, this is a really good option as you can listen to John De Lancie, the man behind Grumpy Q, poetically discuss why StarCraft Design has spoken to us in many forms over the years.
Here’s a great little short film that gives you a glimpse into some of the experiences you can actually “visit” at the Roddenberry Archives (special thanks to the Roddenberry Archives replica) Cerritos‘ bridge, even rendering it into a cartoonishly rendered aesthetic to match lower deck! But Delancey’s narrative is also poignant and not just celebratory StarCraftbut for the purpose of the archive’s digital replica: a way to, in some small way, preserve the design history and legacy of one of the most enduring franchises in all of pop culture history, a bastion of sci-fi inspiration for more than half a century Over the course of the century, this has impacted not only the entertainment industry but many other areas of design and technology.
Plus, sometimes you just want to relate to a beautiful starship flying by on your screen, right?
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