Submitted 1 hour ago by cuchi@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
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Something I notice comparing pictures, how the makeup is less notable in newest entries of Star Trek.
I have the feeling Deep Space Nine was the peak of makeup effects, like nowdays is a lost art.
What you think?
It’s worth noting that they had scaled Ro’s makeup back considerably by her final TNG appearance:
I didn’t notice this, good catch.
Almost everything about TV makup has changed since then.
Those looks in the 80s & 90s were designed for SD broadcast on CRT televisions. Today’s 4K HDR TVs are substantially better in every way. You don’t need to push the makup as far for it to look good.
Also tastes have changed. In the 80s and 90s bold colorful looks were much more common and popular. Today, not so much. The trend is for natural looking makup. Shows and movies reflect the tastes of their time.
So yah, TV character makup has changed a lot over the last 35 years.
I loved PIC S3 and definitely seeing Ro Laren again, but yeah, I did notice the makeup was a lot more subtle than in her TNG appearances.
Now I wonder if it was always supposed to be that subtle but had to be “exaggerated” a bit back then to show up on older TVs. Kind of like how the Addams Family set was mostly pink so it appeared correctly on old black and white TV sets.
Not so sure about that. Actually tv in the '90s was not that bad. In terms of resolution it looked similar to 480p video, but without any artifacts. Furthermore due to the nature of how a CRT works, those tvs actually had less motion blur than flat screens.
Greg@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I don’t know why they didn’t just hire Bajoran actors for the new series
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
the visa requirements for wormhole travel are insane
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 hour ago
And how many Bajorans want to risk an encounter with ICE?
cuchi@startrek.website 1 hour ago
Warp speed is still very far.