Craft Interior Material Absorbs Light in Ways That Defy Conventional 3D Rendering

What was said

"You put any light in there, it's beautiful, it's great. All right, okay, it's lit. But that's not how it was. The only thing they had in there was big industrial tripod lights, two of them. Turn them on and it gives you—Can't see anything. It's like you could see it reflecting brightly where it's at. But it's not transmitting light. It's not lighting the room. And Bob says, no, it was dark, darker than this. He kept saying it was very dark in there."

While recreating the S4 craft in Blender, Venditelli discovered the unpolished metallic material absorbed halogen light rather than reflecting it, making the interior nearly invisible despite eight high-powered lights—exactly matching Lazar's decades-old description. The filmmaker argues this is an obscure detail a fabricator wouldn't include, as conventional thinking assumes bright industrial lights would illuminate a metallic space. The light-absorbing behavior only became apparent through accurate 3D modeling and rendering physics.