Battlestar Galactica TV Film - RAZOR
In House VFX department
In the Early summer of 2007 Meshweaver was contracted to create two models for the TV Feature Film "RAZOR" - They were a Planet which a battle was to take place above; and of a ship - a freighter called the Scylla - in which the crew gets conscripted and the ship cannibalised for parts for the Pegasus.
THE ICE PLANET
I was asked to create the ice planet - above and on which young Adama "husker" takes part in a battle from the old Cylon war in a flashback re-telling by Adama himself in the film. I made up a few different variants of this planet and one was finally chosen by the staff as the one to be used for the feature. Below are images of the candidates and a few grabs from the film showing the final version and its use.
THE FREIGHTER SCYLLA
A concept sketch was provided for this ship which was developed and refined over the course of a few days - when final design and layout was approved; the model was finalised and textured along with the variants required for production such as different LOD versions and compositing specials. In the End the Scylla only made a very brief appearance in the film - however astute viewers of the show will note it makes more appearances in the fleet as time goes by. More than likely because, although the Scylla was destroyed for parts; it is probably a generic freight vessel for the colonies and there are probably a few of them in the fleet.
Altogether - from 1 single mesh - 12 variants were made in total with special versions for specific render passes for compositing
Eagle eyed viewers may have spotted that the Rising Star from the old series makes it's first appearance in the new series in this sequence!
