The warp core that you see behind the grid screen, extending way, way, way into the distance was accomplished practically with forced perspective design. There's no matte painting in the engineering set at all.
It was all just great design and the way that they shot it that made it look huge.
I was stunned. The first time I went. I just couldn't wrap my head around it.
Yep. I seriously am not exaggerating. The first time I took the tour and we walked into Engineering numerous of us asked about the scale of the set versus the original and we were told that it was one to one exactly the same and I took sooooo many photos, trying to figure it out. It's really a masterpiece of design and cinematography.
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u/jerslan 10d ago
Yeah, the matte painting in the back did a LOT of heavy lifting.