Subj : Re: Babylon 5
To   : Moondog
From : Tracker1
Date : Wed Aug 24 2022 15:07:10

On 8/23/22 12:54, Moondog wrote:
>
> Well said.  grainy, poorly rendedered (by modern standards) CGI canot be
> enhanced.  Chances are whatever the source files used to create the animation
> no longer exist or it would be way easier to start over from scratch to recrea
> te more suitable graphics.

B5 SFX was rendered at 1/2 scale (quarter screen) and enlarged and the 
original models are gone.  It's definitely not new/recreated models/fx, 
and definitely better than original... like I said probably AI upscaled, 
there are animation upscale algorithms that do pretty good, which is 
likely what was used for those clips.  There's a host of problems why B5 
didn't see a remaster before the one for HBO Max, which is why my 
assumption is it was a good AI driven upscaling.
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