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  1. Skiffy

    From AquaTec 8615 to Babylon 5

    I made a little progress today to familiarise myself with the styles of set dressing used in the series. An awful lot of 'floating' pieces were used, like the overhead beams, pillars, even doors. There are no detailed materials in the following screenshot but I've added some very rough...
  2. Skiffy

    From AquaTec 8615 to Babylon 5

    So, one of my first jobs is mapping out how the three sound-stages fit into the available space, along with the offices, prop stores, workshops etc. The images here are collected from material uploaded to the Internet Archive - drawings produced by John Iacovelli and his team. These are...
  3. Skiffy

    From AquaTec 8615 to Babylon 5

    Thanks Dusty Satai. It's interesting to me so hopefully to a few others too. :) Here's an image from a very similar space in the same compound to help illustrate what the team started with.
  4. Skiffy

    From AquaTec 8615 to Babylon 5

    This thread will cover what I learn about how a manufacturing warehouse in Sun Valley, California became the home of Babylon 5 in the early nineties. I'm an old-hand 3d modeller with a keen interest in (and some practical experience of) set design. I plan to show how John Iacovelli, John...
  5. Skiffy

    B5 Episode Title font?

    I know that all of this will be common knowledge elsewhere on here but there's a 'Babylon 5' font out there online, the one seen in a lot of the on-set signage. Other signage (and the on-screen credits) uses the 'Serpentine' font.
  6. Skiffy

    Welcome new members

    Thank you Antony! Here's a potted list of whoo I am in relation to B5: Saw The Gathering on first release and loved it (what a breath of fresh air). Loved the entire series though I haven't seen much of the estended universe (Crusade etc). Retired now but was a 3d modeller / animator by trade -...
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