Tutorial: Star Trek TNG warp stars
I always struggled to figure out how the VFX team on Star Trek: The Next Generation created the warp stars effect for the series. It was in 1987, and CG was still in its infancy. When I was researching for my VFX History video on the show, I discovered that this effect was actually created by John Knoll using slit scan. And so, for my other VFX History video on that technique, I figured out how to recreate the look of the warp stars using CC Particle World, precomps and the Echo effect.

