Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales Trailer Posted

Space writes "The trailer for the upcoming movie Babylon 5: The Lost Tales — Voices in the Dark has been posted at the official Babylon 5 site. The movie's pre-production was mentioned in a previous discussion. For more on the creation of the film, the CG Society has an ongoing series of articles about the production's effects development."

Re:Babylon 5 - The Straight to DVD Tales

[Kooshman]

Agreed. Much of the "cheesiness" can be explained through various routes. The Minbari ship prominently showed will definitely look cheezy at that resolution and compression. Each race has its own style in B5, and the Minbari's have a "lifelike" appearance, often compared to fish. Their exteriors have a skin-like sheen, and that definitely came across looking fairly ass in the trailer. The more standard metal exteriors weren't given much screen time, but you could see it on the Star Furies (human personal fighters).

Speaking of which, that seems to be another note that many people find odd about B5. Straczynski (the writer, usually called JMS) was always very good at making sure he and the other directors of the show kept a good reality check on the show. B5 had some of the first realistic space combat ever showed on a screen. Proper respect towards conservation of momentum in zero gravity and all. It leads to interesting, original, and even elegant combat. Many people brought up on Star Trek and Wars have a wonky idea of what space combat "should" look like. So as towards the Star Fury-- the design was made in consultation with aerospace engineers, and designed so well that when NASA was looking into a "space forklift" design for the ISS, they discovered that the Star Fury was already a correct design. JMS allowed NASA to use the design for free as long as they called it a Star Fury. It's amazing how close that piece of sci-fi came to being up in space...