#vfx

S3E9: The Tholian Web ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ Original effects by Mike Manor:

"I projected the shots onto a white card with a rotoscope set-up and plotted pencil marks where the ship moved by tracing and advancing each frame. Then I created the cel-like cartoon animation using black lines for the grid. Each shot showed a partially completed grid with one line being animated across the field as if by the Tholians. I shot those by pulling a white card frame by frame, revealing the black line underneath. A black and white negative of all this resulted in a black background with white or clear lines on the film which was used to create an animation burn-in." -Interview with Starlog magazine, 1979

Compare these to the 2006 remaster below: