From the Earth to the Moon

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by david_blu

See I get this but think, if they are redoing cgi for everything in TNG then how difficult is it to paint out mics stage crew etc in the modern digital landscape. I don't think it would be that difficult based on everything else they have to do for an episode anyway.

You seem to think that TNG was top to bottom CG or something? Nah. They literally rebuilt the miniature stuff using the original film passes as shot, and the amount of other CG stuff was decidedly routine for the most part e.g. phasers, planets, transporters, that sort of thing.

But you only have to look at the fullap outtake shots to see how much lighting equipment is often hanging around in any given live action shot, especially the wide angles, so extrapolate that over 170-odd episodes and that's a LOT of paint work that is entirely unnecessary if people were to just, y'know, respect the way that it was originally framed.

While they did some of this painting out of flubs on, say, the 16:9 redo of The Wire, for some shots David Simon still decided to push in on the frame rather than embiggen it because the original width of the 1.33 composition was the most important thing.