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Fun stuff. I worked on True Lies and The Dark Knight miniatures. One of the other considerations is physics. Materials , material weight and how those materials respond to impact has to all be researched and tested. For example, the Dark Night garbage truck was built in such a way that the cab would crush like metal and the safety glass would shatter like real windshield material. A lot of experimentation went into that. In the end the cabs were made much the same way we did the engine cowlings for the XF 11 for the Aviator. Thin layers of urethane resin brushed into the mold and then once its cured enough a bi weave pattern using layers of 2" aluminum foil tape (adhesive backed) were hand applied. Once the part was de-molded and painted it looked identical to the full size truck. Upon impact the cab crushed like metal because it was in fact made of combination of aluminum and resin. In True Lies there was A LOT of testing of different mixes of plaster to get the road ways to simulate concrete and break apart in a physical scale once detonated with primer cord. The rails along the run of the bridge were cast of a flexible urethane designed for harsh weather conditions such as full sun and salt water. There was a steel rod embedded in the castings so when they were bent they would hold shape like metal railroad track which what the real 7 mile bridge uses. So physics play a huge part in all of this. Sadly its a lost art. Most of us have either retired, moved on or passed away. Its great to see younger generations taking an interest in what we did back then. Keep at it!
@@krux02 When done properly and with the right cinematographer its amazing what you can do. Now Ive seen convincing CG work , in fact the most convincing is the shots you had no idea were cg. That being said, the ease of defying physics or camera moves that are just unrealistic in the real world is what gives it away. In truth the very thing that CG is good for is also what can often give up the gag.
I agree the art is going away in favor of cgi due to cost. Some viewers (like myself) truly enjoy the wonders of miniature work and the appreciation that goes with it. #starwars #deathstar
It's hard enough to pull off (do) something like this already, and you have to do another layer of showing us what you're thinking, doing, trying, throughout. Kudos, Paul! 🙌🏻
It's so good, I believe a lot of it. I think if he were going to do this again I'd try and tell him to give the cars a bit more motion when they're "driving." Even when cars are going in a straight line they bob up and down a little but from imperfections in the road, and giving them a bit more body roll when doing hard turns. Along with that the camera needs just a bit more motion to sell that it's not locked off or handheld because the camera on a bigger set would be connected to a car also dealing with all those forces of gravity, even with a million dollar jib arm to balance it, they're fighting bumps in the road and G forces.
@@presleypeters5284 Playback at half speed is a technique used broadly on TH-cam to get the desired suspension rates. And my experience at all scales & surfaces is that more weight is always more ‘realistic’. The higher the better. Run time penalty notwithstanding.
Maybe to could do that with magnets from underneath? The static revving part would have been believable if there was the rocking and vibration that you get from the twisting of the torque. Also maybe a little exhaust plume here and there. I know muting about movie making or models but I think those things would add realism
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the way you built your narrative around the fact they you hadn't knew nothing what you were doing. The trials and mistakes, alternate pathfinding, increasing complexity. All this makes me feel like I'm listening to a weekend story from a friend of mine, who's passionate about filmmaking
My dad walked in when the car chase just started. He kept asking what film is this ‘…is it Fast & Furious’ 😂 Goes to show how well you pulled this off!!
1995 in high school A.V. club we did a car chase with 2 rc cars. We painted lane markers on my mom's treadmill to have them moving and painted buildings on posterboard for the back ground. It didn't look anything like this lol. My mom was mad about the paint on her treadmill for years. This is fricken amazing! good job 1000%
ha, you're not the first to do that. I wanna say mythbusters did it but I don't think it was them. They had the cars held with a rod from behind out of the camera shot. They used a canvas "belt" and treated it with a textured paint. It was actually pretty good if I remember correctly. it's amazing what you can come up with if you have an imagination.
I made the highlight video for my high school soccer team in 1994. So I can vividly picture everything... The Super 8, the "mini"cam, the VHS Tape Adapter, the awful editing equipment that was literally just start-stop the tape, the carpet, the treadmill, I bet you had one of those rear projection big screens sitting in the lower family room in front of the flower wallpaper...🤣🤣🤣
Hello Paul! As someone who works with cars and animation productions, I gotta say you did an excellent job, but you forgot the most important part of a car's behaviour: it's torque and suspension. When a car accelerates, the front, ever so slightly, lifts up. And when the car brakes, it's front will dip. Now, while this isn't as obvious on some modern sports cars while they're traveling at higher speeds, it is still an excellent way to exaggerate the power of a car, to show that the engine has a lot of torque, so much so, that the front raises a little bit. And when a car collides with anything, another car, a dump in the road, or even when it experiences just lateral g-forces, the suspension will compress, causing the car to lean a little bit. What would improve these scenes of yours a lot, would be to push the back of the car a little bit down when shooting a clip of it's front as the car accelerates and have the El Camino's rear lift up a bit when the Challenger collides with it's rear bumper, by pushing the front down. For the powerslides, you could compress the RC car's suspension, by tying down the side where the car is traveling toward, with zip ties. This would give the appearance of leaning in towards the direction of travel, as real cars do when powersliding. As for selling the closeup shots better, definitely introduce more smaller scale camera shake for scenes where you want to convey pure power for the audience. Having a closeup shot of the driver with shaking camera, followed by a smooth closeup shot of the cars traveling and roaring, with a swaying camera motion, will pull the viewer out of the moment and give it all away, that it's not real. This is something that the crew behind the Fast & Furious films had to learn the hard way for scenes that involved CGI cars. A scene with too smooth of a camera motion won't convey enough intensity or power for the viewers. Like my mentor once told me: "It's the small details that help you sell the shot". Other than those things, I think you did an excellent job!
Agreed with the guy above me. These all seem legitimately good ideas. One thing I noticed was when you had them spin the tires and take off. Normally the tires will continue spinning while you start moving until it catches grip. Here the cars went from spinning to immediate launch. I have no idea how to solve that problem, I'm NOT nitpicking, this is an amazing production... maybe lubricate the ground to at least get the shot of the tires struggling for grip? I don't know, I know nothing, I'm just offering thoughts. Well done!
Not in that industry, but one with car chases and such... the compression of the suspension and torque movements were missing for me. It's a nuance that only a few would miss.
Just reading this is inspiring me, with no video experience (besides making a rip off of Steve Irwin with my sister in the early 00's when we were probably 8 and 7, accents and exotic wildlife because our dad was a reptile breeder) to go out and try something in the video realm even if it's absolutely horrible. People tell me all the time that I have an eye for photography even though it's just a minor hobby but maybe it's time to grow a bit and branch out.
I love that you actually show the struggle. The trial and error. Most people dont show that and its frustrating and discouraging when you yourself try and do what they did
i always wondered what they do with a lot of these miniature film sets and props afterwards, i know that a lot is auctioned off to collectors, or left to rot outside. but i can't help thinking that a lot is just scrapped or thrown away for some reason. completely gone to waste in the long term. wish it wasn't like that.
Mate, you are a genius. You have a good future in the world of cinema. Cheap and effective. Imagine what you could do with a Hollywood budget. Fan Request: A little extra effect of sparks and car damage every time the cars collide to add a realistic impression.
@@Fetidaf Yeah, that squat when they launched (which I assume to be them actually being dropped back down so that the spiining wheels actually launched them) was the chefs kiss the whole scene needed, but regardless it's amazing work.
I learned to drive on a 1968 Chevy El Camino nearly identical to your RC car. A year later, my first car was an ‘81 El Camino. I loved every second of this video. Thank you!
That was a lot of fun and genuinely informative. I had to stop myself from nitpicking about some of the details in the final result, because there's no way I could ever achieve it. It does bring into sharp relief just how complex and expensive these effects are. Bravo!
yeah it's almost in this case he should have showed the video first or atleast half of it that way we weren't constantly seeing things that otherwise I never would have noticed. It was amazing tho I loved it.
This video is phenomenal. From the editing, sound mixing, filming, and the amount of dedication you put into this is absolutely insane. Get this man his millions of subscribers already.
Sensational undertaking and idea. It illustrates very well how important wide shots are in car chases. The limitations of your DIY method meant that you had to operate mainly with close-ups, which not only externalizes the imperfections of the car models, but also makes the chase seem very airtight. There is a lack of spatial relationship for the whole thing, which would be possible to establish with wide shots. IMO the tricks used here are more interesting than the end result, but still - awesome job! Very entertaining and informative. Thanks.
Very true. Would of loved to have had a few ‘aerial shots’ to create some spacial context. I was actually physically constrained by my ceiling as it determined how far away the projector could get from the floor and therefore how big the projector’s image could be.
@@paul_et It's probably impossible to make a whole, realistic chase sceen with this method, but some inserts? Sure! You have shown that a lot can be done this way at low cost. The thing that amazed me the most was how great the projector at the top imitating the street traffic worked. I thought the projection on the car (not just the road) would make it look bad, but it worked out really impressive. Great idea.
Totally agree! Next time he should get in touch with rc drifting youtubers: They often have scale tracks and they definetly have the skillz to do some awesome driving. That way he could get some wideangle shots to make the thing lots better and more real looking IMO!
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds I thought about that too! But there may be other difficulties with lenses and frame rate in order to give proper "weight" to the cars in post. But I definitely want to see that tried as well.
Definitely one of the most impressive projects i've ever seen. There is one thing you forgot, the cars you're using are both meant to be left-hand drive in real life and your interior shots incorrectly imply that they're right-hand drive and it kinda ruins the believability of the scene. The obvious solution is to flip the driver shots horizontally and in order to make sure the buttons aren't mirrored, you'd just have to do the gearshifting shots while sitting in the passenger seat instead. But of course, it's still awesome and it really deserves the praise.
I can't imagine the amount of work that went into creating this short movie, but I have one thing to say: "if I were you, I'd be really proud of myself because you created something really breathtaking"
I almost never comment on videos (it’s just not a habit), but I genuinely couldn’t stop myself from leaving one here. You are absolutely phenomenal man. The creativity, the storytelling, the way we’re glued to our screens from beginning to end - every video. Bravo 👏
It was pretty convincing for the most part, I thought, especially considering the limitations. What was missing in some shots is the weight of the car, especially when it abruptly changes directions or stop. That's when it would normally slightly sway from side to side or back and forth, and I suspect RC cars may not have the suspension system to pull that off. Not sure I would even be able to notice that without knowing exactly how it was done, though, so well done!
suspensions aside, the cars aren't moving most of the time so even if they had weight and suspension there wouldn't be the effect you expect. But with better props and editing i think you could tecnically push the cars up/down/side to side (using a hidden rod idk) to have that effect and edit the shots in a way that makes sense
Exactly what I was thinking, the weight and the weight shifting is a crucial part of a car chase realism and it's almost impossible to reproduce with miniature cars sadly. Nonetheless he did a pretty good job considering what he had.
I race 1/10th scale rc cars just like these for a hobby and I can sure you that suspension systems are as high tech and real as the race track stuff in real use, fully adjustable oil filled shocks , adjustable sway bars etc, however its all only good during actual driving and would require some external input to simulate the effects while stationary.
The fact that there is less to nitpick about this short film versus the F&F series is amazing considering the budget and time. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Cool! Another tip: you can eliminate the body clips on the RC by cutting them shorter and then purchase magnetic mounts. RC enthusiasts use magnetic clips to make them look mounted on the chassis than clipped
This worked better than I expected! Great problem solving skills Paul. The little marks on the ground were constantly trying to break the illusion for me as well as the projector's pixelation. Also the slo mo drift shot was easily the best, beautiful timing on that one. Lovely result. Really glad you worked it out. Audio worked well too, took me a minute to realise oh yeah this is the GTA sounds 😂
This needs more views. Not even necessarily for the end product, which given the budget is mindblowingly good, but for the story of the process of getting there. I'm not in the film business whatsoever, but I appreciate a good story and I think you're a good story teller.
That was fascinating. I'm not the least bit interested in the behind the scenes of movies as, for me, it ruins the wonder of the movie. But this was amazing. What you were able to accomplish was fantastic. Had it not been for the cheesy mustache and the occasional clip where you could the RC car body pins this was on par with a lot of Hollywood movies. Amazing display of your skills.
This is one of the greatest videos ever made, the fact that you were able to use some really complex filmmaking techniques on a budget of a few thousand dollars is astonishing.
@@paul_et I'm going to need an explanation of the shots at 22:35 to 22:40. My first guess was that you did the same technique but followed the background and projection so that the camera was moving, rather than the cars but I don't think that's right. Or maybe it is. If it is, you've matched the speed perfectly. And I guess you could do that If you just shot it on a tripod and added the camera movement later to follow the background but something tells me the cars are actually moving in those shots. I'll wait for the BTS on Patreon
Ahh yes, the slow mo drifts. Those were actually some of the simplest shots of the whole sequence. All I did was move the entire ‘set’ or board that the cars were sitting on at a consistent pace. Everything else was locked down. If you look closely on the right of the board you can see the imperfects of the melamine board moving as a slide is over. I’ll go into more depth in the Video Commentary :)
Criminally underrated, can't believe this isn't spreading like wildfire, amazing job! I remember trying as a child to make movies like this with my RCs. Only thing i think that broke the immersion for me was that the roads appeared very smooth, as the cars obviously didn't have any bounce or wobble as they drove. Have no clue how this could be remedied though, so massive props to what you did manage to create, absolutely unreal!
despite watching the entire video and seeing the process some of the shots you managed to pull of have me absolutely stumped. the story and the intensity of some of these scenes is insane no idea how you managed to create something so captivating but my god I would watch this over and over if it was a full length film, Very excited to see where your headed with this!
Unbelievably impressive. Given the equipment used and the scale of the effect it created, I can see this is definitely viable as a means to a less expensive alternative to full scale filming. Bravo and credit where credit is due. Exceptional results.
SOUND IS THE MOST IMPORANT ASPECT OF STORYTELLING. Imagine the movie Jaws without the simple light motif of "dun nun" to tell the viewer the shark was coming! What a cool project man. It looks like you had so much fun making this video.
The immersion being broken only by the wonderful depth you went into breaking down your process leading up to the chase, and the top-down protector lighting on the cars, this was such a fun video to watch! You managed to make it a lot of fun in addition to the convincingness of the shots. If this isn’t a successful segue into a career, I don’t know what is.
You did such a great job breaking down the details of how miniature presents so many different challenges. I feel like you might have arrived at a thing about film making that doesn't seem to get much credit, EDITORS are the unsung heros! The same footage can be arranged with so much nuance, it surprises me how director and, camera operators seem to be celebrities, editors have so much power over final product , they don't get enough love
This was a genius combination of filming techniques and wildly creative problem solutions to make all of that work. The interior shots, the lighting and the sound design really sell it, been a while since I was this entertained by a randomly recommended video by a creator I didn't know before. Amazing! On top of that a flawless sponsor integration.
Wow. That's it, just.. wow. I've been building 1/24 scale models for years so I had my suspicions you'd opt for the slightly larger pre built RC cars available out there in order to have control over their movement, that said there are some dedicated enough to making RC conversion kits for 1/24 scale cars which I'd love to try out at some point. This was truly incredible though, it's awesome to see how much effort you put into making this on a rather small budget but still having the final product come out looking like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster. Incredible job on this, you've earned a new sub and I'd say it was absolutely worth it. As a side note, the moment you played the preview of the El Camino with engine sounds I knew they came straght from GTA V, so I wasn't surprised when you said such while discussing where you got the mixed sounds from lol ..Y'know I think I've played that game way too much if I instantly recognize the engine sounds alone as the source..
Wow, just goes to show the old school approach is the best approach! Crazy how good this looked on your budget. Could imagine this being a great solution to a lot of film students and Indi film makers to get the car chase they always wanted! Epic execution! You’re a talented mind!
As with anything it can be picked apart, I thought the closeup shots were more realistic. The posts and clips on the hood REALLY gave it away though. 😂 I really liked the insight as to how it's done. Good job for what it is.
Damn that was impressive as balls. How did you even have the wheels visibly spinning if the cars weren’t actually moving?! And somehow giving the cars a sense of weight!!! That moment where the guy spins his car into the final face off was world class. I think the camera shake was rlly effective at the end so I would only say that could have been used more. Also an expensive projector would probably make the road textures and all a bit more believable but that’s obvious. Nailed it mate
Truly inspiring. That top-down projector though, I know you know, put patterns on clean surfaces and made 'moving' shots look more still. Amazing video.
This is insane, the amount of work that went into this! Not just the final product but also showing all the in-between steps of making a car chase with rc cars and giving us fun cinema history bits sprinkled in too. What a gem, keep up the great work!
This was really great Paul. You're obviously a competent film-maker and you're such a good editor that your videos are entertaining throughout while still providing a ton of information. Keep it up mate
Pretty great all in all. I will say as soon as the shots of you wearing a fake mustache and sunglasses popped up, all I could think was 🎶 "I wear my sunglasses at night" 🎶 and in some close up shots you can tell the shell's don't have as realistic looking qualities as the real life cars, but im a car person so maybe that's just me. I think you should be proud of the video. I cannot imagine how much time it took to put all of this together and the way you went about laying everything out to make the scale sizing was spot on. 👍 Great job!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video! Amazing production, all of it. This is easily the best video I’ve watched in the past 3 months! The only thing close was, believe it or not, a guy building a shed in his back yard
This was amazing! Even knowing full well what was going on, the burnout/launch scene looked soooo good! Not if, but WHEN you start making feature films, I'll be there buying tickets. From someone who made a living for years doing music production, I agree with you on the audio mixing being super difficult to make sound even halfway realistic. For the budget, equipment and crew, you killed it like no other. Please keep doing what you love, it's obviously your calling.
This is so cool! You covered so many filmmaking topics that I lnew about but didnt really know how they worked, and showing that you can make your own diy version in a garage was really inspiring. The result is a weird mix of uncanny but awesome. I think what breaks the illusion for me is the fact that the car lights are like the dimest thing in every shot. Amazing work regardless
Seeing the whole time and effort you had to put into this, it was truly amazing! The anticipation of them heading towards each other, I had this feeling that one of the cars was going to hit 88mph and dissappear with the fire streaks in Back to The Future lol. Amazing job, absolutely amazing. Well done.
Amazing job. Not only the car chase, but the entire video. Loved the arranging, how you went though the ideias, the problems and their solutions. That's really hard to pull off in a catching way. Also the soundtrack was superb as always.
Such amazing results from “relatively” simple techniques! Absolutely awesome. Such a great job! I found myself engrossed in the story/action, and not in the props, which is what it is all about!! ❤
The lighting was perfect. Camera work perfect. One improvement that i see is the angle of the street on the TV is not parallel with the angle on your mat. Very cool project! 🤩
What a beautiful story! The time and effort it took to get there, just amazing. Laughed like crazy while feeling the pain of the increasing costs. Smashed the like button before the video was done. Hope you keep making amazing content!
There's a surreal feel to the cars that is reminiscent of Sin City. If the cuts were shorter, I think it would be even more dynamic. Still pretty amazing, and I will ruthlessly swipe your great ideas for my own projects. Thanks!
Had I not known what I was looking at, there were several shots that would have convinced me this was real cars. Excellent work. Goes to show what you can accomplish on a small budget. And had the models been of cars you actually have access to, could take a production even further.
using videogame engines to shoot city shots on an LED TV is pretty awesome tech to steal from the big movie industry. Kudos for the creativity and the balls to do it on your own.
That was actually amazing I only have 2 pieces of advice. When filming the fast bits of the car you shook the camera on videos of the face but not the car this made you seem like your going fast but not the car. The other thing is to add some smoke or something to make the drift scene more realistic
The real miniatures was and is always better. Even though some you could tell were miniatures. Knowing the work involved, even as a kid I felt that's what made the scene even cooler. Great film! Really gripped me in that short moment.
I was just marveling over the audio design for vehicle's in V/GTAO myself recently. The fact that its over a decade old makes it even more impressive. Thats just one small aspect too, no wonder it takes so long between games these days.
This left me speechless. At the end where everything faded to silence for a moment but then ultimately came back like a truck hitting you at high speed, it really gave me the chills. It really makes you wonder, what really happened in the end? Did any of them survive? Or did they both die for not making a decision fast enough?
This looks better than i could ever hope to accomplish! The main giveaways for me were the projector lights on the cars, the lack of suspension roll, and them driving in straight lines so often. I wonder if filming them in slow motion would help scale up the physics.
Beautiful work, as someone who drives something very much like your charger there’s a couple of subtle elements that are often lost when filmed by people who are used to only 2 and 3 litre standard engines. First, the whole car will jostle and even roll a little simply from the sheer mass of the engine being revved, and gear shifts are short and sharp but almost always if you are competing (only on the track of course) your downshifts (and you do downshift because your car will top out at over 185mph so long tracks of just consistent acceleration will lead to absurd speeds where you’ve covered an entire mile in seconds and your reaction times are equal to about 50-80 metres) *your downshifts result in a noticeable roll, ROAR of the engine, nose dive, nose lift on one side when exiting a corner and always, ALWAYS, despite your best intentions (under competition circumstances and if you’re not on your first outing ) tail slide. Also some degree of road surface interaction which is dulled at speed as the suspension components don’t have time to fully extend or compress, so they just judder. Brilliant work, I think you would have this nailed with some personal experience in a POWERFUL sports car (there are vehicles out there classed as sports cars with only 280bhp, powerful is 350bhp and up, something that doesn’t stop pushing you back in your seat until you run out of road) experience it blindfolded and not, to get you to hear, feel and see all of the elements that a real situation like this trains you to become aware of and analyse in thousandths of a second to keep the vehicle on the blacktop. Either way, good luck and I hope you get to enjoy something like I’m describing, most people cover their eyes when they get in my ride, but if you need to get to hospital faster than blues and two’s it’s good to have me around.
It’s a lot cheaper than using and potentially wrecking a classic Chevy El Camino and a Dodge Hellcat and it looks just as good! I’ve seen a lot of car movies in the making and this process always proves itself just as good as the high dollar movies that are actually trashing classic and newer muscle cars. I’ve spent my life diagnosing, repairing, rebuilding classic and modern cars and I want to see them on the road for a long time to come! That was one of the things about Dukes of Hazzard that pained me so much was all of the 1969 Dodge Chargers that were wrecked and bought just to be destroyed all over again. I loved the show but it was so destructive to the cars and trucks I love so much!
Two minor changes that would make things seem more realistic is that when you're filming the burnout scene with the smoke, slow the footage down slightly enough to where the miniature wheel matches the rpm of a bigger wheel at the same speed, and the smoke will follow along with the realism of a life size cloud. You'll just have to make sure that when you're filming the wheel spin, you use a camera that is fast enough to capture the tire rotations clearly so that when you slow the footage down to your desired rpm, you don't see that slow-motion drag effect, making it appear to spin in real time. The other tip would be, when you're panning overhead from the right to the left car in the scene right before the two cars start to drive head on toward eachother, make the projector do most of the "panning" by making the road move (like you did) but once again, slightly slow down the projector as well as the panning shot of the overhead camera, introducing the car with the speed of the projector so that it takes longer to capture the whole shot as if the car truly is life size. Other than that, the amount of work you put into everything is crazy, more than I would have the patience for. Impressive job, it plays like a movie 👌
This was both technically impressive and highly informative. The final composition looked amazing.. BUT... The thing that really sold it was the mustache.
I’d say you got 70% wright and 100% wright with the shots “you” wanted! But I’d say you could have gotten better shots with cheaper cars shot for real! But if you’re into miniature and this is your start I’d say keep at it! I’d definitely want to work with you for one of my next films if there’s a shot I need and the buget wouldn’t allow it in real scale! IF that’s something you’d do, if not great work anyway! Keep at it! Bravo!
Wow, I was not expecting anything nearly as well done as this! Very well thought out and I have to say, with just a few slight issues, that would pass for a better car chase scene than a lot "professionals" can do. Love the process and explanation behind the camera. Kudos!!
This was pretty convincing, the only thing I feel is holding it back is camera movement, roads are rarely so smooth to drive on, so maybe some extra camera shaking would make it more convincing?
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this is incredible! Amazing job, 1000%
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Ah, if it isn't the biggest fan of vehicular destruction on TH-cam! Good to see you, Pal!
Fun stuff. I worked on True Lies and The Dark Knight miniatures. One of the other considerations is physics. Materials , material weight and how those materials respond to impact has to all be researched and tested. For example, the Dark Night garbage truck was built in such a way that the cab would crush like metal and the safety glass would shatter like real windshield material. A lot of experimentation went into that. In the end the cabs were made much the same way we did the engine cowlings for the XF 11 for the Aviator. Thin layers of urethane resin brushed into the mold and then once its cured enough a bi weave pattern using layers of 2" aluminum foil tape (adhesive backed) were hand applied. Once the part was de-molded and painted it looked identical to the full size truck. Upon impact the cab crushed like metal because it was in fact made of combination of aluminum and resin.
In True Lies there was A LOT of testing of different mixes of plaster to get the road ways to simulate concrete and break apart in a physical scale once detonated with primer cord. The rails along the run of the bridge were cast of a flexible urethane designed for harsh weather conditions such as full sun and salt water. There was a steel rod embedded in the castings so when they were bent they would hold shape like metal railroad track which what the real 7 mile bridge uses.
So physics play a huge part in all of this. Sadly its a lost art. Most of us have either retired, moved on or passed away. Its great to see younger generations taking an interest in what we did back then. Keep at it!
I still think that the miniature look does look more real than CGI. Thanks for your work, the movies are still loved by many to this day.
@@krux02 When done properly and with the right cinematographer its amazing what you can do. Now Ive seen convincing CG work , in fact the most convincing is the shots you had no idea were cg. That being said, the ease of defying physics or camera moves that are just unrealistic in the real world is what gives it away. In truth the very thing that CG is good for is also what can often give up the gag.
The real deal is so much better than CGI. Thanks for your work from Brazil.
Thank you for the work you did on those 90s action bangers, the best era for action movies in my opinion.
I agree the art is going away in favor of cgi due to cost. Some viewers (like myself) truly enjoy the wonders of miniature work and the appreciation that goes with it.
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It's hard enough to pull off (do) something like this already, and you have to do another layer of showing us what you're thinking, doing, trying, throughout. Kudos, Paul! 🙌🏻
It's so good, I believe a lot of it. I think if he were going to do this again I'd try and tell him to give the cars a bit more motion when they're "driving." Even when cars are going in a straight line they bob up and down a little but from imperfections in the road, and giving them a bit more body roll when doing hard turns. Along with that the camera needs just a bit more motion to sell that it's not locked off or handheld because the camera on a bigger set would be connected to a car also dealing with all those forces of gravity, even with a million dollar jib arm to balance it, they're fighting bumps in the road and G forces.
@@presleypeters5284 Playback at half speed is a technique used broadly on TH-cam to get the desired suspension rates. And my experience at all scales & surfaces is that more weight is always more ‘realistic’. The higher the better. Run time penalty notwithstanding.
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@@sockpocketpre-alpha8258I thought about commenting on the (translation) but decided not to after seeing you done it better
Maybe to could do that with magnets from underneath? The static revving part would have been believable if there was the rocking and vibration that you get from the twisting of the torque. Also maybe a little exhaust plume here and there. I know muting about movie making or models but I think those things would add realism
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the way you built your narrative around the fact they you hadn't knew nothing what you were doing. The trials and mistakes, alternate pathfinding, increasing complexity. All this makes me feel like I'm listening to a weekend story from a friend of mine, who's passionate about filmmaking
This is what we call passion. We are willing to spend hours and money to make it looks good. Now, that is art.
My dad walked in when the car chase just started. He kept asking what film is this ‘…is it Fast & Furious’ 😂 Goes to show how well you pulled this off!!
Love that haha
I can confirm. I’m the dad
My dad walked in at the top projection chapter, heard the drums, and said, "Turn that off before you catch a virus!"
@@ArashiKageTaro I can dad. I'm the confirm
Your dad is a Walker!
1995 in high school A.V. club we did a car chase with 2 rc cars. We painted lane markers on my mom's treadmill to have them moving and painted buildings on posterboard for the back ground. It didn't look anything like this lol. My mom was mad about the paint on her treadmill for years. This is fricken amazing! good job 1000%
ha, you're not the first to do that. I wanna say mythbusters did it but I don't think it was them. They had the cars held with a rod from behind out of the camera shot. They used a canvas "belt" and treated it with a textured paint.
It was actually pretty good if I remember correctly.
it's amazing what you can come up with if you have an imagination.
Denver Matt, you just made my day! 😂
truly ahead of your time haha
White tape would have worked better than paint
I made the highlight video for my high school soccer team in 1994. So I can vividly picture everything... The Super 8, the "mini"cam, the VHS Tape Adapter, the awful editing equipment that was literally just start-stop the tape, the carpet, the treadmill, I bet you had one of those rear projection big screens sitting in the lower family room in front of the flower wallpaper...🤣🤣🤣
Hello Paul!
As someone who works with cars and animation productions, I gotta say you did an excellent job, but you forgot the most important part of a car's behaviour: it's torque and suspension.
When a car accelerates, the front, ever so slightly, lifts up. And when the car brakes, it's front will dip. Now, while this isn't as obvious on some modern sports cars while they're traveling at higher speeds, it is still an excellent way to exaggerate the power of a car, to show that the engine has a lot of torque, so much so, that the front raises a little bit.
And when a car collides with anything, another car, a dump in the road, or even when it experiences just lateral g-forces, the suspension will compress, causing the car to lean a little bit.
What would improve these scenes of yours a lot, would be to push the back of the car a little bit down when shooting a clip of it's front as the car accelerates and have the El Camino's rear lift up a bit when the Challenger collides with it's rear bumper, by pushing the front down. For the powerslides, you could compress the RC car's suspension, by tying down the side where the car is traveling toward, with zip ties. This would give the appearance of leaning in towards the direction of travel, as real cars do when powersliding.
As for selling the closeup shots better, definitely introduce more smaller scale camera shake for scenes where you want to convey pure power for the audience. Having a closeup shot of the driver with shaking camera, followed by a smooth closeup shot of the cars traveling and roaring, with a swaying camera motion, will pull the viewer out of the moment and give it all away, that it's not real.
This is something that the crew behind the Fast & Furious films had to learn the hard way for scenes that involved CGI cars. A scene with too smooth of a camera motion won't convey enough intensity or power for the viewers.
Like my mentor once told me: "It's the small details that help you sell the shot".
Other than those things, I think you did an excellent job!
I'm not in the industry but those all sound very sensible! thank you for the further insights.
- a curious fellow 🙂
Bro is defo in the industry @@john-ic5pz
Agreed with the guy above me. These all seem legitimately good ideas. One thing I noticed was when you had them spin the tires and take off. Normally the tires will continue spinning while you start moving until it catches grip. Here the cars went from spinning to immediate launch. I have no idea how to solve that problem, I'm NOT nitpicking, this is an amazing production... maybe lubricate the ground to at least get the shot of the tires struggling for grip? I don't know, I know nothing, I'm just offering thoughts. Well done!
Not in that industry, but one with car chases and such... the compression of the suspension and torque movements were missing for me. It's a nuance that only a few would miss.
Just reading this is inspiring me, with no video experience (besides making a rip off of Steve Irwin with my sister in the early 00's when we were probably 8 and 7, accents and exotic wildlife because our dad was a reptile breeder) to go out and try something in the video realm even if it's absolutely horrible. People tell me all the time that I have an eye for photography even though it's just a minor hobby but maybe it's time to grow a bit and branch out.
dedication to a scene that goes so far as to buying a new tv is insane. massive props
I love that you actually show the struggle. The trial and error. Most people dont show that and its frustrating and discouraging when you yourself try and do what they did
Doesn't matter how good enough it looks or not. The fact that you made a video essay with actually doing it is awesome
The amount of dedication in this 26 minute video is INSANE! This is amazing work🔥🔥🔥
i always wondered what they do with a lot of these miniature film sets and props afterwards, i know that a lot is auctioned off to collectors, or left to rot outside. but i can't help thinking that a lot is just scrapped or thrown away for some reason. completely gone to waste in the long term. wish it wasn't like that.
If the studios would show THAT level of cinematic prowess, maybe The Flash movie would have been better.....
Great job,Paul E.T. ❤
Mate, you are a genius. You have a good future in the world of cinema. Cheap and effective. Imagine what you could do with a Hollywood budget.
Fan Request: A little extra effect of sparks and car damage every time the cars collide to add a realistic impression.
Also slight movement to the car’s suspension while driving and revving.
They looked a little bit too static imo.
@@Fetidaf Yeah, that squat when they launched (which I assume to be them actually being dropped back down so that the spiining wheels actually launched them) was the chefs kiss the whole scene needed, but regardless it's amazing work.
I learned to drive on a 1968 Chevy El Camino nearly identical to your RC car. A year later, my first car was an ‘81 El Camino. I loved every second of this video. Thank you!
That was a lot of fun and genuinely informative. I had to stop myself from nitpicking about some of the details in the final result, because there's no way I could ever achieve it. It does bring into sharp relief just how complex and expensive these effects are. Bravo!
yeah it's almost in this case he should have showed the video first or atleast half of it that way we weren't constantly seeing things that otherwise I never would have noticed. It was amazing tho I loved it.
@@jayrodathome yeah if hed used a 4k projector i think the ground screen door wouldve been way less obivious. but again cost
its still great
This video is phenomenal. From the editing, sound mixing, filming, and the amount of dedication you put into this is absolutely insane.
Get this man his millions of subscribers already.
Sensational undertaking and idea.
It illustrates very well how important wide shots are in car chases. The limitations of your DIY method meant that you had to operate mainly with close-ups, which not only externalizes the imperfections of the car models, but also makes the chase seem very airtight. There is a lack of spatial relationship for the whole thing, which would be possible to establish with wide shots.
IMO the tricks used here are more interesting than the end result, but still - awesome job! Very entertaining and informative.
Thanks.
Very true. Would of loved to have had a few ‘aerial shots’ to create some spacial context. I was actually physically constrained by my ceiling as it determined how far away the projector could get from the floor and therefore how big the projector’s image could be.
@@paul_et It's probably impossible to make a whole, realistic chase sceen with this method, but some inserts? Sure! You have shown that a lot can be done this way at low cost.
The thing that amazed me the most was how great the projector at the top imitating the street traffic worked. I thought the projection on the car (not just the road) would make it look bad, but it worked out really impressive. Great idea.
Totally agree! Next time he should get in touch with rc drifting youtubers: They often have scale tracks and they definetly have the skillz to do some awesome driving. That way he could get some wideangle shots to make the thing lots better and more real looking IMO!
Get in touch with RC drifting youtubers. They often have cool scale tracks and the driving skillz you need for those shots!@@paul_et
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds I thought about that too! But there may be other difficulties with lenses and frame rate in order to give proper "weight" to the cars in post. But I definitely want to see that tried as well.
MUSTACHE- “I live my life a quarter mile at a time. For those 10 secs or less, I’m unglued" This was brilliantly done. Well done Paule
Definitely one of the most impressive projects i've ever seen. There is one thing you forgot, the cars you're using are both meant to be left-hand drive in real life and your interior shots incorrectly imply that they're right-hand drive and it kinda ruins the believability of the scene. The obvious solution is to flip the driver shots horizontally and in order to make sure the buttons aren't mirrored, you'd just have to do the gearshifting shots while sitting in the passenger seat instead. But of course, it's still awesome and it really deserves the praise.
I can't imagine the amount of work that went into creating this short movie, but I have one thing to say: "if I were you, I'd be really proud of myself because you created something really breathtaking"
I almost never comment on videos (it’s just not a habit), but I genuinely couldn’t stop myself from leaving one here. You are absolutely phenomenal man. The creativity, the storytelling, the way we’re glued to our screens from beginning to end - every video. Bravo 👏
It was pretty convincing for the most part, I thought, especially considering the limitations. What was missing in some shots is the weight of the car, especially when it abruptly changes directions or stop. That's when it would normally slightly sway from side to side or back and forth, and I suspect RC cars may not have the suspension system to pull that off. Not sure I would even be able to notice that without knowing exactly how it was done, though, so well done!
suspensions aside, the cars aren't moving most of the time so even if they had weight and suspension there wouldn't be the effect you expect. But with better props and editing i think you could tecnically push the cars up/down/side to side (using a hidden rod idk) to have that effect and edit the shots in a way that makes sense
Exactly what I was thinking, the weight and the weight shifting is a crucial part of a car chase realism and it's almost impossible to reproduce with miniature cars sadly. Nonetheless he did a pretty good job considering what he had.
I race 1/10th scale rc cars just like these for a hobby and I can sure you that suspension systems are as high tech and real as the race track stuff in real use, fully adjustable oil filled shocks , adjustable sway bars etc, however its all only good during actual driving and would require some external input to simulate the effects while stationary.
The fact that there is less to nitpick about this short film versus the F&F series is amazing considering the budget and time. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.
This was a very elaborate setup to buy yourself a bigger TV. I applaud this!
Cool! Another tip: you can eliminate the body clips on the RC by cutting them shorter and then purchase magnetic mounts. RC enthusiasts use magnetic clips to make them look mounted on the chassis than clipped
This worked better than I expected! Great problem solving skills Paul. The little marks on the ground were constantly trying to break the illusion for me as well as the projector's pixelation. Also the slo mo drift shot was easily the best, beautiful timing on that one. Lovely result. Really glad you worked it out. Audio worked well too, took me a minute to realise oh yeah this is the GTA sounds 😂
The technique could work even better if someone had a better projector, more time, etc.
@@Wyklephephsome more CGI effects and proper lightning would make it even better (Although he already made a masterpiece)
@@1chip I think that would actually discount it. maybe some more simple practical effects, like loose dirt away, making sparks would look great
And tire burn marks!
This needs more views. Not even necessarily for the end product, which given the budget is mindblowingly good, but for the story of the process of getting there. I'm not in the film business whatsoever, but I appreciate a good story and I think you're a good story teller.
Not only did this video show how you used model cars but also a great video on shooting techniques and cinematography!
That was fascinating. I'm not the least bit interested in the behind the scenes of movies as, for me, it ruins the wonder of the movie. But this was amazing. What you were able to accomplish was fantastic. Had it not been for the cheesy mustache and the occasional clip where you could the RC car body pins this was on par with a lot of Hollywood movies. Amazing display of your skills.
This is one of the greatest videos ever made, the fact that you were able to use some really complex filmmaking techniques on a budget of a few thousand dollars is astonishing.
More excellent work!
Only thing that kills it for me is that the interior shots are all too familiar.
Legit can't believe how well this works though.
It pains me too haha
@@paul_et I'm going to need an explanation of the shots at 22:35 to 22:40.
My first guess was that you did the same technique but followed the background and projection so that the camera was moving, rather than the cars but I don't think that's right. Or maybe it is. If it is, you've matched the speed perfectly. And I guess you could do that If you just shot it on a tripod and added the camera movement later to follow the background but something tells me the cars are actually moving in those shots.
I'll wait for the BTS on Patreon
Ahh yes, the slow mo drifts. Those were actually some of the simplest shots of the whole sequence. All I did was move the entire ‘set’ or board that the cars were sitting on at a consistent pace. Everything else was locked down. If you look closely on the right of the board you can see the imperfects of the melamine board moving as a slide is over. I’ll go into more depth in the Video Commentary :)
Criminally underrated, can't believe this isn't spreading like wildfire, amazing job! I remember trying as a child to make movies like this with my RCs. Only thing i think that broke the immersion for me was that the roads appeared very smooth, as the cars obviously didn't have any bounce or wobble as they drove. Have no clue how this could be remedied though, so massive props to what you did manage to create, absolutely unreal!
You have recreated entire 80s Hollywood set, that's a great job man. That's amazing work..
And that ladies and gentlemen is how Hollywood do what they do. Awesome job! 👌
despite watching the entire video and seeing the process some of the shots you managed to pull of have me absolutely stumped. the story and the intensity of some of these scenes is insane no idea how you managed to create something so captivating but my god I would watch this over and over if it was a full length film, Very excited to see where your headed with this!
Unbelievably impressive. Given the equipment used and the scale of the effect it created, I can see this is definitely viable as a means to a less expensive alternative to full scale filming. Bravo and credit where credit is due. Exceptional results.
It was quite strange and exciting to watching the chase after watching its long and arduous progress in filming. Paul must get an award for this!
SOUND IS THE MOST IMPORANT ASPECT OF STORYTELLING. Imagine the movie Jaws without the simple light motif of "dun nun" to tell the viewer the shark was coming! What a cool project man. It looks like you had so much fun making this video.
i love how he used gta5 sounds, its a funny touch
@@kriskrisminer I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
13:56 It's amazing what the right sound can do - even though I knew it was exactly the same shot, it suddenly felt like a real car!
The immersion being broken only by the wonderful depth you went into breaking down your process leading up to the chase, and the top-down protector lighting on the cars, this was such a fun video to watch! You managed to make it a lot of fun in addition to the convincingness of the shots. If this isn’t a successful segue into a career, I don’t know what is.
This took more to make than 99% of TH-cam videos in existence. Super cool stuff👍🏼
That moment of silence before the drift, and then the strings coming in? Oof! This was an absolute treat! Incredible work, very VERY well done!
You did such a great job breaking down the details of how miniature presents so many different challenges. I feel like you might have arrived at a thing about film making that doesn't seem to get much credit, EDITORS are the unsung heros! The same footage can be arranged with so much nuance, it surprises me how director and, camera operators seem to be celebrities, editors have so much power over final product , they don't get enough love
Fair play, the film was good ( glossing over 'mistakes' ) but the camera work, cutting, and how it was all wrapped up together, nicely done.
This was a genius combination of filming techniques and wildly creative problem solutions to make all of that work.
The interior shots, the lighting and the sound design really sell it, been a while since I was this entertained by a randomly recommended video by a creator I didn't know before.
Amazing! On top of that a flawless sponsor integration.
Wow.
That's it, just.. wow.
I've been building 1/24 scale models for years so I had my suspicions you'd opt for the slightly larger pre built RC cars available out there in order to have control over their movement, that said there are some dedicated enough to making RC conversion kits for 1/24 scale cars which I'd love to try out at some point.
This was truly incredible though, it's awesome to see how much effort you put into making this on a rather small budget but still having the final product come out looking like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster.
Incredible job on this, you've earned a new sub and I'd say it was absolutely worth it.
As a side note, the moment you played the preview of the El Camino with engine sounds I knew they came straght from GTA V, so I wasn't surprised when you said such while discussing where you got the mixed sounds from lol
..Y'know I think I've played that game way too much if I instantly recognize the engine sounds alone as the source..
Certainly shows what a fantastic art it is, and one that greatly deserves the appreciation the respect it earns!! Awesome work!!
Amazing, the only thing making this look not real is the street projection on the cars. The editing, visuals, sound was on point. Awsome
Amazing work!
Wow, just goes to show the old school approach is the best approach! Crazy how good this looked on your budget. Could imagine this being a great solution to a lot of film students and Indi film makers to get the car chase they always wanted! Epic execution! You’re a talented mind!
As with anything it can be picked apart, I thought the closeup shots were more realistic. The posts and clips on the hood REALLY gave it away though. 😂 I really liked the insight as to how it's done. Good job for what it is.
Damn that was impressive as balls. How did you even have the wheels visibly spinning if the cars weren’t actually moving?! And somehow giving the cars a sense of weight!!! That moment where the guy spins his car into the final face off was world class. I think the camera shake was rlly effective at the end so I would only say that could have been used more. Also an expensive projector would probably make the road textures and all a bit more believable but that’s obvious. Nailed it mate
The "wheels visibly spinning" part was shown in the video, the car was just slightly propped off the ground.
Truly inspiring. That top-down projector though, I know you know, put patterns on clean surfaces and made 'moving' shots look more still. Amazing video.
highly underrated video. This was an amazing journey to watch. Fantastic work!
I am in awe how well you package these learning/educational moments in this project.
Not just entertaining but also genuinely stoking my curiosity!
This is insane, the amount of work that went into this! Not just the final product but also showing all the in-between steps of making a car chase with rc cars and giving us fun cinema history bits sprinkled in too. What a gem, keep up the great work!
This was really great Paul. You're obviously a competent film-maker and you're such a good editor that your videos are entertaining throughout while still providing a ton of information. Keep it up mate
Pretty great all in all. I will say as soon as the shots of you wearing a fake mustache and sunglasses popped up, all I could think was 🎶 "I wear my sunglasses at night" 🎶 and in some close up shots you can tell the shell's don't have as realistic looking qualities as the real life cars, but im a car person so maybe that's just me. I think you should be proud of the video. I cannot imagine how much time it took to put all of this together and the way you went about laying everything out to make the scale sizing was spot on. 👍 Great job!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video! Amazing production, all of it. This is easily the best video I’ve watched in the past 3 months! The only thing close was, believe it or not, a guy building a shed in his back yard
This was amazing! Even knowing full well what was going on, the burnout/launch scene looked soooo good! Not if, but WHEN you start making feature films, I'll be there buying tickets.
From someone who made a living for years doing music production, I agree with you on the audio mixing being super difficult to make sound even halfway realistic. For the budget, equipment and crew, you killed it like no other.
Please keep doing what you love, it's obviously your calling.
Close ups of car headlights, well worth it
This is so cool! You covered so many filmmaking topics that I lnew about but didnt really know how they worked, and showing that you can make your own diy version in a garage was really inspiring. The result is a weird mix of uncanny but awesome. I think what breaks the illusion for me is the fact that the car lights are like the dimest thing in every shot. Amazing work regardless
24:50 you can hear plane engine sound but still looks good it's worth it
Should make a little series where these guys are kids toys and it looks like this when the kid is playing with them. Awesome work.
Amazing! I love the creativity that comes from limitation. You now need to create the rest of the movie around the chase 😂
Seeing the whole time and effort you had to put into this, it was truly amazing! The anticipation of them heading towards each other, I had this feeling that one of the cars was going to hit 88mph and dissappear with the fire streaks in Back to The Future lol.
Amazing job, absolutely amazing. Well done.
Amazing job. Not only the car chase, but the entire video. Loved the arranging, how you went though the ideias, the problems and their solutions. That's really hard to pull off in a catching way. Also the soundtrack was superb as always.
Such amazing results from “relatively” simple techniques! Absolutely awesome. Such a great job! I found myself engrossed in the story/action, and not in the props, which is what it is all about!! ❤
The lighting was perfect. Camera work perfect. One improvement that i see is the angle of the street on the TV is not parallel with the angle on your mat. Very cool project! 🤩
What a beautiful story! The time and effort it took to get there, just amazing. Laughed like crazy while feeling the pain of the increasing costs. Smashed the like button before the video was done. Hope you keep making amazing content!
Wow, just wow. You've taken care of so much detail and explain all these techniques so well. Awesome job, Paul. Keep it up!
Incredible work! As a model builder this blows my mind how realistic your cars and shots are. And, great job Parallel parking!
There's a surreal feel to the cars that is reminiscent of Sin City. If the cuts were shorter, I think it would be even more dynamic. Still pretty amazing, and I will ruthlessly swipe your great ideas for my own projects. Thanks!
i like how the projector also contribute not only for picture, but some texture on the road and car
JACK REACHER
Had that chase on loop while making this
Worth the wait! 😮
Solid work, man. I appreciate your skill at adapting to the limitations and unforeseen challenges of the creative process . Rock On!
Had I not known what I was looking at, there were several shots that would have convinced me this was real cars. Excellent work. Goes to show what you can accomplish on a small budget. And had the models been of cars you actually have access to, could take a production even further.
Fantastic - thanks so much for taking us along for the ride!
"No, the RC cars and 65" smart tv are for work. We could list them as a tax write off."
7:12 FREDDY FAZBEAR!?
0:11 what movie was this?
I think that's the final act of 2 fast, 2 furious
using videogame engines to shoot city shots on an LED TV is pretty awesome tech to steal from the big movie industry. Kudos for the creativity and the balls to do it on your own.
That was actually amazing I only have 2 pieces of advice. When filming the fast bits of the car you shook the camera on videos of the face but not the car this made you seem like your going fast but not the car. The other thing is to add some smoke or something to make the drift scene more realistic
The real miniatures was and is always better. Even though some you could tell were miniatures. Knowing the work involved, even as a kid I felt that's what made the scene even cooler. Great film! Really gripped me in that short moment.
That turned out pretty well. The only thing that really shattered the illusion was the driver sitting in the passenger seat.
I was just marveling over the audio design for vehicle's in V/GTAO myself recently. The fact that its over a decade old makes it even more impressive. Thats just one small aspect too, no wonder it takes so long between games these days.
HARDWORK = Movie Shots + TH-cam Video editing
Deserves more ❤
This left me speechless. At the end where everything faded to silence for a moment but then ultimately came back like a truck hitting you at high speed, it really gave me the chills. It really makes you wonder, what really happened in the end? Did any of them survive? Or did they both die for not making a decision fast enough?
This looks better than i could ever hope to accomplish! The main giveaways for me were the projector lights on the cars, the lack of suspension roll, and them driving in straight lines so often. I wonder if filming them in slow motion would help scale up the physics.
Beautiful work, as someone who drives something very much like your charger there’s a couple of subtle elements that are often lost when filmed by people who are used to only 2 and 3 litre standard engines. First, the whole car will jostle and even roll a little simply from the sheer mass of the engine being revved, and gear shifts are short and sharp but almost always if you are competing (only on the track of course) your downshifts (and you do downshift because your car will top out at over 185mph so long tracks of just consistent acceleration will lead to absurd speeds where you’ve covered an entire mile in seconds and your reaction times are equal to about 50-80 metres) *your downshifts result in a noticeable roll, ROAR of the engine, nose dive, nose lift on one side when exiting a corner and always, ALWAYS, despite your best intentions (under competition circumstances and if you’re not on your first outing ) tail slide.
Also some degree of road surface interaction which is dulled at speed as the suspension components don’t have time to fully extend or compress, so they just judder.
Brilliant work, I think you would have this nailed with some personal experience in a POWERFUL sports car (there are vehicles out there classed as sports cars with only 280bhp, powerful is 350bhp and up, something that doesn’t stop pushing you back in your seat until you run out of road) experience it blindfolded and not, to get you to hear, feel and see all of the elements that a real situation like this trains you to become aware of and analyse in thousandths of a second to keep the vehicle on the blacktop.
Either way, good luck and I hope you get to enjoy something like I’m describing, most people cover their eyes when they get in my ride, but if you need to get to hospital faster than blues and two’s it’s good to have me around.
It’s a lot cheaper than using and potentially wrecking a classic Chevy El Camino and a Dodge Hellcat and it looks just as good! I’ve seen a lot of car movies in the making and this process always proves itself just as good as the high dollar movies that are actually trashing classic and newer muscle cars. I’ve spent my life diagnosing, repairing, rebuilding classic and modern cars and I want to see them on the road for a long time to come! That was one of the things about Dukes of Hazzard that pained me so much was all of the 1969 Dodge Chargers that were wrecked and bought just to be destroyed all over again. I loved the show but it was so destructive to the cars and trucks I love so much!
Two minor changes that would make things seem more realistic is that when you're filming the burnout scene with the smoke, slow the footage down slightly enough to where the miniature wheel matches the rpm of a bigger wheel at the same speed, and the smoke will follow along with the realism of a life size cloud. You'll just have to make sure that when you're filming the wheel spin, you use a camera that is fast enough to capture the tire rotations clearly so that when you slow the footage down to your desired rpm, you don't see that slow-motion drag effect, making it appear to spin in real time. The other tip would be, when you're panning overhead from the right to the left car in the scene right before the two cars start to drive head on toward eachother, make the projector do most of the "panning" by making the road move (like you did) but once again, slightly slow down the projector as well as the panning shot of the overhead camera, introducing the car with the speed of the projector so that it takes longer to capture the whole shot as if the car truly is life size. Other than that, the amount of work you put into everything is crazy, more than I would have the patience for. Impressive job, it plays like a movie 👌
Your ingenuity is genius. The Chase and your documentary was very entertaining.
This was both technically impressive and highly informative.
The final composition looked amazing..
BUT...
The thing that really sold it was the mustache.
I’d say you got 70% wright and 100% wright with the shots “you” wanted! But I’d say you could have gotten better shots with cheaper cars shot for real!
But if you’re into miniature and this is your start I’d say keep at it! I’d definitely want to work with you for one of my next films if there’s a shot I need and the buget wouldn’t allow it in real scale! IF that’s something you’d do, if not great work anyway! Keep at it! Bravo!
Wow, I was not expecting anything nearly as well done as this! Very well thought out and I have to say, with just a few slight issues, that would pass for a better car chase scene than a lot "professionals" can do. Love the process and explanation behind the camera. Kudos!!
This was pretty convincing, the only thing I feel is holding it back is camera movement, roads are rarely so smooth to drive on, so maybe some extra camera shaking would make it more convincing?
Absolutely fantastic. Both the making of and the final product.