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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9073918" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Trek has never been super high budget. Good fantastical tv has been produced without huge budgets for decades. </p><p></p><p>this doesn’t track, to me.</p><p></p><p>Absolutely. The most recent couple shows are as visual fantastical as I’d want Eberron to be. </p><p></p><p>Eberron isn’t high fantasy. Star Wars is full of “fantastical” wide shots, models of vehicles, various kinds of sets, and a really good costume dn props teams to fill the scenes with strange creatures and small detail bits that help keep the audience in the mindset of the fantastical. </p><p></p><p>Eberron isn’t high magic. 90% of scenes would just be sets and costumes and lighting effects and stuff like the “just add water” bread from Star Wars The Force Awakens. Very minor little “magic as tech” moments no more high budget than any Trek show. </p><p></p><p>You associate an airship with the characters so that you can feature one often while reusing the same sets and wide shots, you base the characters in Sharn so you can get “fantastical” with a few wide shots heavily featuring recycled images, you build models and dioramas and other practical effects, and get a good costume department. </p><p></p><p>Like…nothing about the lightning rail requires a huge CG budget. It’s a train that hovers over its track. That’s a model and some sets and some pretty basic “add some electricity arcing for flair” effects in the exterior shots. </p><p></p><p>Why would a show try to capture all of a setting? That sounds terrible for a show set in Faerun, much less Eberron. You pick a focus and a couple secondary “flavors”, and occasionally dip into or hint at or put passively in the background the rest. </p><p></p><p>No you see Eberron has to be a constant “gonzo” high magic (even tho the setting isn’t) cgi-fest or it will suck…because reasons. </p><p></p><p>Eberron doesn’t need to be any more fantastical visually than Star Trek: Strange New Worlds or Discovery. WoT and RoP waste a lot of their budget trying to impress people rather than just tell the story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 9073918, member: 6704184"] Trek has never been super high budget. Good fantastical tv has been produced without huge budgets for decades. this doesn’t track, to me. Absolutely. The most recent couple shows are as visual fantastical as I’d want Eberron to be. Eberron isn’t high fantasy. Star Wars is full of “fantastical” wide shots, models of vehicles, various kinds of sets, and a really good costume dn props teams to fill the scenes with strange creatures and small detail bits that help keep the audience in the mindset of the fantastical. Eberron isn’t high magic. 90% of scenes would just be sets and costumes and lighting effects and stuff like the “just add water” bread from Star Wars The Force Awakens. Very minor little “magic as tech” moments no more high budget than any Trek show. You associate an airship with the characters so that you can feature one often while reusing the same sets and wide shots, you base the characters in Sharn so you can get “fantastical” with a few wide shots heavily featuring recycled images, you build models and dioramas and other practical effects, and get a good costume department. Like…nothing about the lightning rail requires a huge CG budget. It’s a train that hovers over its track. That’s a model and some sets and some pretty basic “add some electricity arcing for flair” effects in the exterior shots. Why would a show try to capture all of a setting? That sounds terrible for a show set in Faerun, much less Eberron. You pick a focus and a couple secondary “flavors”, and occasionally dip into or hint at or put passively in the background the rest. No you see Eberron has to be a constant “gonzo” high magic (even tho the setting isn’t) cgi-fest or it will suck…because reasons. Eberron doesn’t need to be any more fantastical visually than Star Trek: Strange New Worlds or Discovery. WoT and RoP waste a lot of their budget trying to impress people rather than just tell the story. [/QUOTE]
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