Yeah that's something we've been thinking about. Whether there's a tannoy/intercom/loudspeaker on this Bridge because people won't be able to hear the captain otherwise. Or perhaps even headsets for all Bridge crew.
@@MessyDeskInteractive One scifi move could be to have the bridge systems subtly amplify the captain's voice to everyone on the bridge without it being an overt intercom... which then gets you an opening for Orvillian comedy moments where everybody hears an embarrassing comment that was supposed to be for one person because the captain left it on the default setting.
For me as an architect and designer, this is a no-no. It's just too big to be practical. Roomy can be fine, but this is larger than a ballroom. Even on a large cruiser it would make sense to only have the main stations on the bridge, and labs and research consoles and such located near the bridge, but not on it. Also the position of the captain and exo are maybe too central, and too far from the window/viewscreen. Sitting down, they would have a very restricted view to outside. In my humble opinion this is absolutely way to big. Look at bridges of modern battleships, air craft carriers, or even cruise ships. They're made as big as needed, but also as small as efficiency and convenience require. A Captain/crew needs to be able to maintain overview, see every station, and reach every station within seconds if need be. This is impossible in this ballroom. It's just too big to be practical. This room could work as a very roomy research lab though. What could work is dividing the space functionally, but not visually, by making two zones in the space. One zone/area in the front near the screen/ window with all command and control functions (similar to the Orville but only slightly bigger) and then a second zone in the back with all the research stations, meeting table, cartography and such. Two zones, one for essential command functions, and one for secondary exploratory and research functions... And this could be done without visually and structurally separating the space in two. Maybe a height difference can accent the two areas, positioning of consoles, and so on... None the less, absolutely love the work these guys are doing!
@@MessyDeskInteractive Makes sense. It would have to work the other way around too. The captain will have to be able to hear the bridge crew too. I look forward to see what you guys come up with.
Nice modeling, and it was not taken away by capitalist interests, like it happened to the Enterprise fan experience in the past? Love it, the Orville finally shows a future that makes one hope again!!!😊
Yes. Was going to say, it reminds me of a mix between a star trek style bridge (or rather Orville's version of that kind of style) combined with a star destroyer...
Thanks! There's actually a bunch of changes we want to make to the design, and that's one of them. We'll be lowering the central platform that goes between the 2 sides of the lower pit down to be level with the rest of the main bridge, and then adding steps down in the pit to you allow you to walk underneath it. We thought we'd put a video out of this first version of the concept, but there will definitely be some changes before we're completely happy with it.
yeah, the bridge going up is pointless, it just goes back down, if the idea is for people to be able to walk under it in the sunken then make the bridge just be a path down into the sunken section and then back up to what is presumable navigation. it looks too low to walk under it any way so its extra pointless. though the rest looks great.
@@ge2719 the space underneath the walkway, in the pit is 2 meters tall, so it's enough for most people to walk under, but we do plan to lower the bridge like you've said, and just add steps down within the pit.
Yes Just Yes a splended looking bridge design. I look forward to seeing more of the Leviathan-class in the show as well as other new ship designs. Can wait to be able to shuttle over from the Orville to one of these lovelies.
@@OptimusNiaa Very interesting theory. That would be cool if that is the case. I kinda hope it is the other way though (Messy Desk to Orville set) so we can say the creators are paying attention to fans and implement some of their ideas into the show.
I like the open concept but at others have said it's too spread out to be practical. Were it me, I'd move the "standard" bridge stations forward to where helm and nav are, then have all the lower-level "pit" stations behind them.
It's pretty great but I have one major gripe about it. It's large, and it makes sense. It's a larger ship and it might act as a Command Cruiser, therefore the bridge might also be a CIC. The captain and the First officer still sit in the center, but have no way to turn around as their legs are blocked by the low table. Imho just raise the table to allow both to turn around.
1:21 I feel as though when the current Orville is destroyed or disappears, the next Orville will be a Leviathan-class ship. BTW, shout out for referencing TNG's pilot episode Encounter at farpoint
I don't know if you guys ever played Star Trek Online, but i'm getting some serious Odyssey vibes from this one; it's meant to be the flagship of an admiral, so the bridge also features a CIC at the very fore, where the Admiral can not only oversea his ship, but whatever task force he's leading. I like this a lot.
The new build is currently in testing but it'll be a while before we bring out this bridge. Keep an eye on either social media pages or discord for update news :)
This looks awesome, I love the magnitude of it. But must say I see it being awkward for Captain and XO giving orders to the two seated directly behind them.
First of all, I have to agree with the criticisms that this is a bit too big and you should probably juggle some things around to move the CO/XO stations closer to the front of the bridge where they can be closer and communicate more clearly to the main stations. Second... have you ever showed Seth or the others writers/actors your work yet? Did they say anything?
We've just posted an update about that on Facebook, Twitter and Discord. We've enabled the previous version of the project, which did have VR to be publicly accessible. As and when we're able to add VR back into the updated versions, we plan to do so :-)
@@MessyDeskInteractive Remember, there are people (idiots?:-)) out there not using any of those platforms (like me) so this is the only channel for information. Thanks for your answer and I look forward to try everything in VR. 😁
Being a science fiction fan, and a lifetime Star Trek fan. I can truly say that I don't think we will ever see a spaceship built with a humongous Bridge. There's no purpose whatsoever. This space on any vehicle is very valuable. Even a car, A passenger jet. What is the purpose of making a bridge look like a 10 star hotel ? Makes no sense at all.
Leviathan class? Wouldn't calling it Ziz class be more appropriate? He was the monster of the sky and king of the Birds. Leviathan ruled the oceans and fish.
Oh boy think of the jokes... did you just Fart up there?. No sir I'm not on fire, Zeg is smokeing down there again. How is the lower bridge Flooded? the emergency toilet down there is blocked.
I like the Star Destroyer vibe, but PLEASE move Navigation and Ops in conversational range of the Captain, don't do the same mistakes as Star Trek Online and Discovery with bridges that are just too large to make functional sense. That hologram in the middle of the Bridge, do not like, that needs a re-do. Orville does not do transparent Holograms like that (not yet anyway), look again at Captain Mercers Laptop, they have a blurred background so they are NOT transparent like this, this feels a bit too much like the generic Discovery / Picard style holograms that are just some CGI crap in mid air without any logical thought put into it, i have allergic reactions to anything that even remotely looks like those by now. Everything else, awesome as always.
For me as an architect and designer, that's a no-no. It's just too big to be practical. Roomy can be fine, but this is larger than a ballroom. Even on a large cruiser it would make sense to only have the main stations on the bridge, and labs and research consoles and such located near the bridge, but not on it. Also the position of the captain and exo are maybe too central, and too far from the window/viewscreen. Sitting down, they would have a very restricted view to outside. In my humble opinion this is absolutely way to big. Look at bridges of modern battleships, air craft carriers, or even cruise ships. They're made as big as needed, but also as small as efficiency and convenience require. A Captain/crew needs to be able to maintain overview, see every station, and reach every station within seconds if need be. This is impossible in this ballroom. It's just too big to be practical. This room could work as a very roomy research lab though. What could work is dividing the space functionally, but not visually, by making two zones in the space. One zone/area in the front near the screen/ window with all command and control functions (similar to the Orville but only slightly bigger) and then a second zone in the back with all the research stations, meeting table, cartography and such. Two zones, one for essential command functions, and one for secondary exploratory and research functions... And this could be done without visually and structurally separating the space in two. Maybe a height difference can accent the two areas, positioning of consoles, and so on... None the less, absolutely love the work these guys are doing!
You're not wrong, and it became pretty obvious early on with the design that when it comes to practicality, there's some big issues here. We could consider that the crew in the pit area are self-contained, perhaps carrying out overall fleet operations, and so don't need to be within earshot of the Captain or XO, but that doesn't solve the issue with the command crew being able to talk to the rest of the Bridge crew. You could potentially solve that with some sort of amplified communication system within the Bridge, but it's still not great. We actually had a second concept that split this space between 2 different rooms, with a smaller Bridge being at the front, and a seperate CIC being further back. The only reason we went with this approach is that, whilst being relatively impractical, retains the design scheme seen on the show pretty well, it feels familiar. In effect, we overemphasised familiarity over practicality.
@@TheGlassGods Well some tips: you can functionally separate the room, without actually creating 2 rooms. Simply by how the functions are placed you can create two areas. The pit area might be better if it's moved back, so that the command chairs can be moved forward closer to the pilots stations. If the pit is in the back of the room, and it's surrounded with more stations on the "normal" level, you automatically create two 'zones' in the space, without actually creating two rooms... You could have a more compact, Orville style lay out in front for the command staff, and a support and secondary area in the back. Same large room, yet two distinct areas that work efficiently on their own and also can work together on more peaceful exploration missions... Sorry, I'm a teacher so I can't help commenting and offering possible solutions. The current design would already be a pass in my class, I'm just convinced it could be even better... 😉👍
Since that class is a fleet command level ship, it definitely looks like it could coordinate a fleet.
I love how huge it is, I imaging the captain really having to shout
Yeah that's something we've been thinking about. Whether there's a tannoy/intercom/loudspeaker on this Bridge because people won't be able to hear the captain otherwise. Or perhaps even headsets for all Bridge crew.
@@MessyDeskInteractive or a megaphone :)
@@MessyDeskInteractive One scifi move could be to have the bridge systems subtly amplify the captain's voice to everyone on the bridge without it being an overt intercom... which then gets you an opening for Orvillian comedy moments where everybody hears an embarrassing comment that was supposed to be for one person because the captain left it on the default setting.
For me as an architect and designer, this is a no-no. It's just too big to be practical. Roomy can be fine, but this is larger than a ballroom. Even on a large cruiser it would make sense to only have the main stations on the bridge, and labs and research consoles and such located near the bridge, but not on it. Also the position of the captain and exo are maybe too central, and too far from the window/viewscreen. Sitting down, they would have a very restricted view to outside.
In my humble opinion this is absolutely way to big. Look at bridges of modern battleships, air craft carriers, or even cruise ships. They're made as big as needed, but also as small as efficiency and convenience require. A Captain/crew needs to be able to maintain overview, see every station, and reach every station within seconds if need be. This is impossible in this ballroom. It's just too big to be practical.
This room could work as a very roomy research lab though.
What could work is dividing the space functionally, but not visually, by making two zones in the space. One zone/area in the front near the screen/ window with all command and control functions (similar to the Orville but only slightly bigger) and then a second zone in the back with all the research stations, meeting table, cartography and such. Two zones, one for essential command functions, and one for secondary exploratory and research functions... And this could be done without visually and structurally separating the space in two. Maybe a height difference can accent the two areas, positioning of consoles, and so on...
None the less, absolutely love the work these guys are doing!
@@MessyDeskInteractive Makes sense. It would have to work the other way around too. The captain will have to be able to hear the bridge crew too. I look forward to see what you guys come up with.
Nice modeling, and it was not taken away by capitalist interests, like it happened to the Enterprise fan experience in the past? Love it, the Orville finally shows a future that makes one hope again!!!😊
The bridge kind of reminds me of the bridges for Star Destroyers or Ops in Deep Space Nine.
Yes. Was going to say, it reminds me of a mix between a star trek style bridge (or rather Orville's version of that kind of style) combined with a star destroyer...
@@KuraIthys Also makes me wonder what a Union battleship or carrier would look like. I can see the carrier bridge being bigger than this.
The Leviathan class is truly gorgeous. This bridge also looks really beautiful.
Absolutely stunning. Only issue I see is the hand rails maybe getting in the way of the XO and captain's view, but other than that, this is sublime.
Thanks! There's actually a bunch of changes we want to make to the design, and that's one of them. We'll be lowering the central platform that goes between the 2 sides of the lower pit down to be level with the rest of the main bridge, and then adding steps down in the pit to you allow you to walk underneath it.
We thought we'd put a video out of this first version of the concept, but there will definitely be some changes before we're completely happy with it.
yeah, the bridge going up is pointless, it just goes back down, if the idea is for people to be able to walk under it in the sunken then make the bridge just be a path down into the sunken section and then back up to what is presumable navigation. it looks too low to walk under it any way so its extra pointless.
though the rest looks great.
@@ge2719 the space underneath the walkway, in the pit is 2 meters tall, so it's enough for most people to walk under, but we do plan to lower the bridge like you've said, and just add steps down within the pit.
Yes Just Yes a splended looking bridge design. I look forward to seeing more of the Leviathan-class in the show as well as other new ship designs. Can wait to be able to shuttle over from the Orville to one of these lovelies.
Sehr gut animiert... Einer meiner Lieblingsserien. Freue mich, wenns weitergeht.
Oh man! This is awesome! The Orville set design team need to be taking notes.
What if the flow of information is going the other way? That is, what if this 3d model is based on something already built that we'll see in Season 3?
@@OptimusNiaa Very interesting theory. That would be cool if that is the case. I kinda hope it is the other way though (Messy Desk to Orville set) so we can say the creators are paying attention to fans and implement some of their ideas into the show.
@@OptimusNiaa I can confirm that this isn't the case :-P
@@MessyDeskInteractive Bummer. Still, this is excellent work.
Set phasers to STUNNING!!!
Nice warp core ;-)
"This ship is so big... if I walk... the movie would be over!" :D
wow just amazing you guys really work hard on this stuff
yes please!
Wow, that is BIG!
After reading your responses to the comments I can't wait to see how it develops
So impressive! So good!
This design is NICE!
I like the open concept but at others have said it's too spread out to be practical. Were it me, I'd move the "standard" bridge stations forward to where helm and nav are, then have all the lower-level "pit" stations behind them.
gorgeous, like the show
It's pretty great but I have one major gripe about it.
It's large, and it makes sense. It's a larger ship and it might act as a Command Cruiser, therefore the bridge might also be a CIC.
The captain and the First officer still sit in the center, but have no way to turn around as their legs are blocked by the low table. Imho just raise the table to allow both to turn around.
1:21
I feel as though when the current Orville is destroyed or disappears, the next Orville will be a Leviathan-class ship. BTW, shout out for referencing TNG's pilot episode Encounter at farpoint
I imagine this bridge as like one of those bridge in STO that brings up the captain giving order through a megaphone joke.
I don't know if you guys ever played Star Trek Online, but i'm getting some serious Odyssey vibes from this one; it's meant to be the flagship of an admiral, so the bridge also features a CIC at the very fore, where the Admiral can not only oversea his ship, but whatever task force he's leading.
I like this a lot.
I don't remember ever seeing this in the tv show but I guess theres a tech manual for it somewhere.. I hope to see this in season 3!
It's not on the show. This is purely a fan design :)
Magnificent!
Looks fantastic!
Awesome
Just wow.
WAY too large interior... somebody went nuts... command chairs would have to use comms to give a NAV or HELM order.
They'd need a deck officer to relay orders (like on a ship)
When is the expected release date for the update with the ship in it?
The new build is currently in testing but it'll be a while before we bring out this bridge. Keep an eye on either social media pages or discord for update news :)
@@Cleeeer will do
Can we at least get some seats for the bridge crew watching the hand rails?
Can you tell me what PC you have? Please 😊
Very nice
Now that Star Trek is dead, us fans of the space opera have something to look forward to.
You are gonna surpass the show with this
Will this ship be usable in the game?
Is there a HUD for the game currently? I'd like to see a map in game.
This looks awesome, I love the magnitude of it. But must say I see it being awkward for Captain and XO giving orders to the two seated directly behind them.
First of all, I have to agree with the criticisms that this is a bit too big and you should probably juggle some things around to move the CO/XO stations closer to the front of the bridge where they can be closer and communicate more clearly to the main stations. Second... have you ever showed Seth or the others writers/actors your work yet? Did they say anything?
So its "Enterprise"-sing? XD
Does it work in VR now?
We've just posted an update about that on Facebook, Twitter and Discord. We've enabled the previous version of the project, which did have VR to be publicly accessible. As and when we're able to add VR back into the updated versions, we plan to do so :-)
@@MessyDeskInteractive Remember, there are people (idiots?:-)) out there not using any of those platforms (like me) so this is the only channel for information. Thanks for your answer and I look forward to try everything in VR. 😁
EPIC :O
Being a science fiction fan, and a lifetime Star Trek fan. I can truly say that I don't think we will ever see a spaceship built with a humongous Bridge. There's no purpose whatsoever. This space on any vehicle is very valuable. Even a car, A passenger jet. What is the purpose of making a bridge look like a 10 star hotel ? Makes no sense at all.
The makes the Orville bridge seem cramped 😨🙃
So, there's a bridge... on the bridge. That's a bit odd. I mean, beautiful design, but some odd choices.
I like it. The captain can be on the bridge on the bridge.😊
Ok, I'm ready for some "not so discrete" inter-galactic warfare...
😎🌌💷💶💫
It LOOKS really nice but that bridge looks way too big compared to what you see in the show.
It's not the same class of ship as the Orville.
Leviathan class? Wouldn't calling it Ziz class be more appropriate? He was the monster of the sky and king of the Birds. Leviathan ruled the oceans and fish.
Oh boy think of the jokes... did you just Fart up there?. No sir I'm not on fire, Zeg is smokeing down there again. How is the lower bridge Flooded? the emergency toilet down there is blocked.
You’d really have to yell orders at the top of your voice...
I like the Star Destroyer vibe, but PLEASE move Navigation and Ops in conversational range of the Captain, don't do the same mistakes as Star Trek Online and Discovery with bridges that are just too large to make functional sense.
That hologram in the middle of the Bridge, do not like, that needs a re-do. Orville does not do transparent Holograms like that (not yet anyway), look again at Captain Mercers Laptop, they have a blurred background so they are NOT transparent like this, this feels a bit too much like the generic Discovery / Picard style holograms that are just some CGI crap in mid air without any logical thought put into it, i have allergic reactions to anything that even remotely looks like those by now.
Everything else, awesome as always.
For me as an architect and designer, that's a no-no. It's just too big to be practical. Roomy can be fine, but this is larger than a ballroom. Even on a large cruiser it would make sense to only have the main stations on the bridge, and labs and research consoles and such located near the bridge, but not on it. Also the position of the captain and exo are maybe too central, and too far from the window/viewscreen. Sitting down, they would have a very restricted view to outside.
In my humble opinion this is absolutely way to big. Look at bridges of modern battleships, air craft carriers, or even cruise ships. They're made as big as needed, but also as small as efficiency and convenience require. A Captain/crew needs to be able to maintain overview, see every station, and reach every station within seconds if need be. This is impossible in this ballroom. It's just too big to be practical.
This room could work as a very roomy research lab though.
What could work is dividing the space functionally, but not visually, by making two zones in the space. One zone/area in the front near the screen/ window with all command and control functions (similar to the Orville but only slightly bigger) and then a second zone in the back with all the research stations, meeting table, cartography and such. Two zones, one for essential command functions, and one for secondary exploratory and research functions... And this could be done without visually and structurally separating the space in two. Maybe a height difference can accent the two areas, positioning of consoles, and so on...
None the less, absolutely love the work these guys are doing!
You're not wrong, and it became pretty obvious early on with the design that when it comes to practicality, there's some big issues here.
We could consider that the crew in the pit area are self-contained, perhaps carrying out overall fleet operations, and so don't need to be within earshot of the Captain or XO, but that doesn't solve the issue with the command crew being able to talk to the rest of the Bridge crew. You could potentially solve that with some sort of amplified communication system within the Bridge, but it's still not great.
We actually had a second concept that split this space between 2 different rooms, with a smaller Bridge being at the front, and a seperate CIC being further back. The only reason we went with this approach is that, whilst being relatively impractical, retains the design scheme seen on the show pretty well, it feels familiar. In effect, we overemphasised familiarity over practicality.
@@TheGlassGods Well some tips: you can functionally separate the room, without actually creating 2 rooms. Simply by how the functions are placed you can create two areas.
The pit area might be better if it's moved back, so that the command chairs can be moved forward closer to the pilots stations. If the pit is in the back of the room, and it's surrounded with more stations on the "normal" level, you automatically create two 'zones' in the space, without actually creating two rooms...
You could have a more compact, Orville style lay out in front for the command staff, and a support and secondary area in the back. Same large room, yet two distinct areas that work efficiently on their own and also can work together on more peaceful exploration missions...
Sorry, I'm a teacher so I can't help commenting and offering possible solutions. The current design would already be a pass in my class, I'm just convinced it could be even better... 😉👍
Well thank the star's your ship building is way better than your music making, that noise was damn awful.