Small clip of the original lightwave files re-rendered in HD by Tom Smith on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf0ka2xJF94
s2e04 "A Distant Star"
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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrap in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
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Wait, that isn't how it always looked?
They didn't render it at this high a quality. I believe the YT channel is getting a hold of the original Lightwave project files, and rendering them at max 1080p it can output, and in widescreen format.
If they did rendering it in 1080p back in the day, it will still scanned down when transferring to the film for the show, and now upscaled back to 1080p for the BluRays after the fact.
I had understood that the old 3D files were lost when a contractor went out of business many years after the show ended. Is that not the case?