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The Black Hole - USS Cygnus

Bryce Science Fiction posted on Mar 08, 2006
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About The Black Hole movie: The Black Hole is a 1979 science fiction movie directed for Walt Disney Productions by Gary Nelson. Apparently Disney's answer to Star Wars (though work on the film was already underway as early as 1975), at $20 million it was the most expensive picture produced by the company to date. It was not well received by critics, although the special effects and matte work were praised. About the artwork: The Black Hole was a "not so good" movie but the USS Cygnus is arguably the most unique ship design I've ever seen: essentially, a chandalier in space (or maybe a floating cathedral), a massive frame encased in glass and lit up from the inside. The ship was designed by Peter Ellenshaw, whose artistic career spans more than six decades, as a renowned landscape artist, a motion picture art director, an Academy Award winning special effects artist and an official Disney Legend (to know more see www.piersidegallery.com/artists/ellenshaw). The HUGE, highly-detailed model with over 84,000 polygons of USS Cygnus is by John Hoagland. I've converted it for Bryce and textured it. This is my tribute to the USS Cygnus spaceship and its designer Peter Ellenshaw. BTW: Don't forget to visit (and/or link) my website at: www.innovari.it where you will find many free Bryce 3D meshes and other interesting stuff! Please buy some of my sci- fi Bryce objects on my Renderosity Shop page (they are beautiful and cheap!) just to support my website and the distribution of (more) free Bryce objects. Thanks in advance!!

Comments (8)


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onefromb5

1:42AM | Wed, 08 March 2006

This is great, but in the movie didn't the ship had an orangish glow to it before the debris field hit it. Btw where is the probe ship?

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NMDesertRat

2:01AM | Wed, 08 March 2006

Wow this pictures sure brings back some memories of when I watched the movie as a kid. Great Job.

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Black_Knyght

2:57PM | Wed, 08 March 2006

That was, and courtesy of your work is, a fantastic ship. Unique, eye-cathing, and compelling. I always loved the Cygnus.

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JohnSmall

3:05PM | Wed, 08 March 2006

I love this picture - don't necessarily agree wth your assessment of the film having been a "not so good" movie, but that's a matter of taste and I wouldn't presume to argue the point. Either way you've done a marvelous job here and I'd like to see similar pics from other such films.

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evinrude

3:00AM | Thu, 09 March 2006

Great pic! I always thought the Cygnus looked like the Eiffel tower. It was the best thing (besides B.O.B.) about the movie, which was total BS in the area of black holes---but then again, S. Hawking admitted to having been wrong about them too. Go figure....

dcmstarships

6:22PM | Thu, 09 March 2006

wonderful tribute to an unique starship design! :-) the logo is a nice touch.

rgd

8:59PM | Thu, 09 March 2006

Very nice picture - though I too recall it having a tint to the light, not white. Small point though. And it wasn't duo's assesment of the movie - he was just reporting was critics at the time felt, which I remember - and I didn't agree with the critics then either. I liked the movie - it wasn't superb, but it was good - though I was only 14 then.

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Eugenius

11:43AM | Wed, 15 March 2006

I recall seeing the movie a long time ago and thought it was cool. Nice work.


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