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SETH MACFARLANE". The coolest thing to me that we're doing
is we are doing model work.
Seth really wanted a subconscious feel
of a real model as opposed
to a computer-generated one.
We put the best of both worlds together--
designed it on the computer, being able to print it out,
lit it from within, and then we have this actual object that we can shoot.
- That's not bad, right? - GORDON: No, it's good.
You paint some flames on the side,
maybe like a rainbow unicorn, you got something.
The more complex shots of the Orville are CGI,
but when you see the Orville fly by, or if it's a close shot,
or if it doesn't have to do something really acrobatic...
those are models. We built an actual model of the Orville.
There's something that still feels...
artificial and cartoonish about a CGI spaceship.
Even now, there's nothing that really...
smells like a model that's real and has been designed by human hands.
As a sci-fi nerd, that's probably the--
might be the biggest thrill for me. (laughs)
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