Guys, if you are looking for cool star assets then please visit my channel, you will find here a lot of assets in very high quality, including planets, galaxies, stars, nebulls, explosions magic packs and many more
@punishedprops wait a minute... it's all starting to make sense, you're part of the Illuminati, or my cheese fell off my cracker (The Green Mile reference)
When I as ten years old, my next door neighbour friend and I made a cartoon version of The Empire Strikes Back, using custom made cardboard AT-AT's and snow speeders, as well as Lego men and a lot of flour, lol. And an 8mm home movie camera. My friend kept up the animation thing and eventually worked for ILM on The Phantom Menace as the supervising animator for Jar Jar Binks.
@@hjewkes I like what they’ve done, I am nostalgic for the old film riot but also they’ve grown as filmmakers over the years as you’d expect, getting bigger and better just as any fans may have done too. I personally became a freelance filmmaker about the same time they started so my journey has advanced as their’s have so I’m no longer wanting to know how to build light stands out of PVC pipe but am interested in how I can do things like possible use unreal engine etc. learning about different tools I haven’t consider could be in my tool kit.
I love this! This is Classic ILM techniques. I wish they did more model work. I think that using real things gives the impression that its a real world.
@@markiavelli We have many tools to make things easier today, big deal, that in no way makes it okay to compare what we do with those tools, to folks who did not have those tools, and had to actually be creative, and invent things. There is a difference. Anyone today with a computer can make better composites than they could in a studio in the old days, big deal. So no, I'm not going to compare this video to Star Wars, because Star Wars is great work on the highest level.
@@lostintranslation1957 Wow, that's such a complex answer, let me try to answer. I think modern technology is fine, and I am happy with folks being able to create amazing things with it. Being able to use technology, designs, ideas, all developed by the Star Wars people simply does not compare as equal to what those folks accomplished. This is not a knock on the work in this video, though one shot does not a movie make, it is just a fair assessment. By the way, insulting someone, with no rebuttal is not really a response. Hope this gives you something to think about. Have a nice day.
Love this! For folks following along with the latest version of Magic Bullet Looks, you won't see the (now-deprecated) Pop tool; you can use the new Clarity tool for a similar effect.
Amazing results! I've always wanted to try something like this with a large castle or a space ship from the 40k universe. Thank you for showing the entire process!
Yes, awesome shots! We also did it like ILM back in the 70s for our "Highway Violence" short. Of course on a way lower budget, but with a pretty detailed TIE fighter 👌 "This is the way"
Amazing! I've been watching you guys since the beginning in 2009! Incredible memories with those Revision3 days. I was a Senior in High School and dreaming of being a cinematographer. I was taking filmmaking, photography, and film appreciation classes at school and then coming home and watching films and you guys (also a lot of CO-OP). Thanks for continuing to be so awesome! - Mr. TSWN
This is what I'm talking about! PRACTICAL EFFECTS! Models, motion control, studio lighting and green screen. Better than CGI any day. Makes me wonder. They can do this, and make a space movie from probably $15 million dollars. This $200-300 million price tags for movies is not necessary. These people who might be "amature" filmmakers (meaning they've probably never made a full-on motion picture before) Do a better job than Hollywood. Great work! I'd hire these guys instead!
I really love shots / content created practically with little CGI instead of full cgi or God forbid full AI. I appreciate more the fun and passion of the Artists creating things like this rather than anything else.
oh man, watching it more and more becoming the movie shot, the bigger and bigger my smile was seeing my childhood memories come back to me. haha nice work.
This is one of the most fascinating TH-cam vids I've ever watched. All the technical jargon hyperspaced right past me, but I was still transfixed the whole time. That final pass of the Falcon was gorgeous! Thank you for making and sharing this! #MTFBWY
RYAN! WOW! This was so captivating and so nice to watch. thank you for sharing every step of the way! i love this. The average viewer would think this was from the movies! Great Work!!!!
Super fun. One thing I would recommend is in the shot where the falcon is coming towards camera, you should slide the stars south to north. This will make it feel more like the OT shots you are emulating.
Absolutely outstanding VFX recreation with modern/ OG techniques. However, I didn't understand a word of what you were doing but it was mesmerising to watch. Thanks
Well to be honest if you wanted a cheaper way to do the same thing I have a Came-tv 4 ft slider with a motor that's programmable with your phone just like the Kessler unit they're using here. Pick your start and stop points and select your speed, it'll repeat the same distance and speed over and over until you stop it or change it. It's on right now for $265. That's hella affordable and would definitely work for what the effect they're doing here. Don't get hung up on the gear, take the idea of what they're doing and find a way to make it happen with gear that you can afford, or rent in your area.
Looks good, although one problem that always comes with many shots like this is that the digital planets added have too high fidelity compared to the rest - a common problem I see in many movies that mix practical effects with VFX. They need to blur or lowres them more to make them more believable when used with models to make the impression that they are models too.
That was amazing. I work on film scores from time to time - something I would like to do more of, but watching this makes me want to be more involved with the entire process.
Bro it is just crazy seeing y'all grow. Like bruh I have been watching since those Harry Potter videos, and people ask do I still watch "Film Riot" and I say TILL THIS DAY!...TILL THIS DAY!
Great video and excellent breakdown as always. Cant believe i've been following you guys since i was in middle school and now i'm almost 30 years old. Thanks for all the knowledge over the year s
I think it looks actually really good. The only thing that I can think of that would make it better, imo, is actually on the practical side with the rig. If you could somehow rig the she ship to slightly rotate as the camera came in, I think it would really cement the shot in. Either that or move the camera in on more than one single axis. The biggest issue that I've always had with the original Star Wars miniature effect was that you could very clearly see that the orientation and perspective of the ship always remained consistent as it moved across the scene, even as it traveled through the observer's eye line. If the ship starts at the bottom of the screen, it's below the observer's eye line, meaning we should see more of the top of the ship. As it moves up towards the top of the screen, it would get closer and closer to the observer's eye line and eventually pass it, meaning that we should see less and less of the top of the ship and more of the bottom as it travels upwards. But that's not what we get from this effect. What it ends up looking like is having a paper cutout of the ship being slid around a matte of stars.
Funny that just yesterday I was watching John Knoll give a presentation on his own Dykstraflex and you guys uploaded this in the same night 😂 amazing work as always and congrats on the incredible results 👏
I'm just listening to you go off on the AE workflow, and I'm all like, YOU GO BOOOOOOYYYYY, nice moves brotha! Crushing it as per usual, everything to see here, stick around. Gotta say, ever since I started watching your channel, I've learned a ton of stuff. keep doing what you do man, it's totally and completely awesome! Big ups to your whole team! I'd love to see what you'd come up with something like Kaiber Ai in your workflow. I saw the MJ one, but can you guys crush a cool movie trailer using something like AI video mixed with traditional video and sick editing, my money is on yes. Now go do it and don't let me down, and don't make me lose my bet. Ya'll got this!!!
Looks so real! I think the only thing to add to make it look more cinematic would be a short full screen lens flare right when the Falcon appears on the screen
Would love to see you guys cover the Predator cloaking effect. I've tested before and the Saber plugin works really well for it, but I was never able to find the best method for a smooth cloaking transition.
Great now I have to find all of my old 80's star wars toys and get busy. Maybe next week Josh can make some pew pew sounds and space ship sounds ideas.
I Think a matte finish wash might make it look larger as the highlights on the edges would be more hidden, look sharper, thus increasing look of more scale, other than that when looking at the Imperial Starship shot right after it was still hard to tell the difference.
One hand, liked the "hint of plastic" on the surface for the final presentation for fun's sake. Other hand, you're right, it was noticeably plasticy in both specular and subsurface scattering and to take it "all the way" - that would need to be mitigated. A larger model, made with a more dense material would reduce the SSS effect. I'm not sure if a simple matte finish would alleviate it along, but it would reduce the specularity.
In episode 4 (A New Hope) I think they created the Falcon's jump to light speed as they escaped the Star Destroyer's by having a polaroid of it from behind then filming the photo being moved very quickly away from the camera. A very simple idea of conveying the jump but it worked.
looks insane, bit of an odd request, could we get a tutorial on the best way to oder a film production I.e the order you do vfx, sequencing, colour grading ect. and keep the high quality, i find a lot of my clips retain 4k quality however the cg shots have dropped in quality due to the amount of times i have to export them. would love a tutorial on the most practical way to do it, cheers guys,
You should have got the 1/44 scale MF model from Bandi and got your model maker friend to build and paint it. It was have looked almost indistinguishable from the real thing
Great episode. Did you manage to do the Kessler run in less than twelve parsecs? I'm aiming to recreate traditional-looking 70s-style starship effects for a personal project of mine, and this was a wonderful breakdown of useful techniques. Thanks, guys.
You made it look so good! It was a pleasure working with you fine humans again.=D
Fancy seeing you here Bill! Killer work man.
It's always fun seeing two channels I watch collaborating =)
@@AnthonyRose Thanks Anthony! =D
Guys, if you are looking for cool star assets then please visit my channel, you will find here a lot of assets in very high quality, including planets, galaxies, stars, nebulls, explosions magic packs and many more
@punishedprops wait a minute... it's all starting to make sense, you're part of the Illuminati, or my cheese fell off my cracker (The Green Mile reference)
Looks Amazing it’s Astounding what industrial Light and Magic were able to achieve in 1977 without today’s computers or VFX / CGi software
When I as ten years old, my next door neighbour friend and I made a cartoon version of The Empire Strikes Back, using custom made cardboard AT-AT's and snow speeders, as well as Lego men and a lot of flour, lol. And an 8mm home movie camera. My friend kept up the animation thing and eventually worked for ILM on The Phantom Menace as the supervising animator for Jar Jar Binks.
MY DUDES. 1st 4 seconds: 100% Immediately won me over, although I've been a fan for 13 years. You guys killed it with this one!
Thank you!
@@filmriot It's amazing retro visual effects you recreate here I absolutely adore this, This channel is perfect 👌
It is amazing what you can do with a little paint and a lifetime of experience
This looks so much more realistic to my eyes. While ILM has really pushed CG realism, nothing has been able to touch practical effects.
When you broke out magic bullet looks it felt like film riot jumped back 10 years. Almost felt retro. OG fans represent!
I miss OG Film Riot so much. Like I get why they don’t do it these days, its just too bad
@@hjewkes I like what they’ve done, I am nostalgic for the old film riot but also they’ve grown as filmmakers over the years as you’d expect, getting bigger and better just as any fans may have done too. I personally became a freelance filmmaker about the same time they started so my journey has advanced as their’s have so I’m no longer wanting to know how to build light stands out of PVC pipe but am interested in how I can do things like possible use unreal engine etc. learning about different tools I haven’t consider could be in my tool kit.
I still use magic bullet haha
It threw me WAY BACK! like I forgot that magic bullet look even existed!
takes me back to Revision3 days. Other gems on there like Scam School as well
Really wonderful. It also highlights how incredible it was to pull off shots like this in 1977, without the advanced tools you have today.
Those models the ILM crew made for the original trilogy were amazing!
They were, a lost art these days.
Battlestar Galactica '70's also rocked w models
Practical Models + Digital Comping = Total Win. Rock on!
I love this! This is Classic ILM techniques. I wish they did more model work. I think that using real things gives the impression that its a real world.
I can't believe this was done by one guy, a camera, a model and a computer. ILM level!
Except ILM had to make everything including the star field.
well it was not just one guy?
@@markiavelli We have many tools to make things easier today, big deal, that in no way makes it okay to compare what we do with those tools, to folks who did not have those tools, and had to actually be creative, and invent things. There is a difference. Anyone today with a computer can make better composites than they could in a studio in the old days, big deal. So no, I'm not going to compare this video to Star Wars, because Star Wars is great work on the highest level.
@@timsmythfilmsandanimationsOK Karen.
@@lostintranslation1957 Wow, that's such a complex answer, let me try to answer. I think modern technology is fine, and I am happy with folks being able to create amazing things with it. Being able to use technology, designs, ideas, all developed by the Star Wars people simply does not compare as equal to what those folks accomplished. This is not a knock on the work in this video, though one shot does not a movie make, it is just a fair assessment. By the way, insulting someone, with no rebuttal is not really a response. Hope this gives you something to think about. Have a nice day.
IMHO film making is truly an art and a science.
This is your craziest tutorial yet!! Looks like a Hollywood film! so excited!
Love this! For folks following along with the latest version of Magic Bullet Looks, you won't see the (now-deprecated) Pop tool; you can use the new Clarity tool for a similar effect.
Amazing results! I've always wanted to try something like this with a large castle or a space ship from the 40k universe. Thank you for showing the entire process!
Film riot did it again! Still has the best visual effects and special effect on the internet!
Yes, awesome shots! We also did it like ILM back in the 70s for our "Highway Violence" short. Of course on a way lower budget, but with a pretty detailed TIE fighter 👌 "This is the way"
Amazing! I've been watching you guys since the beginning in 2009! Incredible memories with those Revision3 days. I was a Senior in High School and dreaming of being a cinematographer. I was taking filmmaking, photography, and film appreciation classes at school and then coming home and watching films and you guys (also a lot of CO-OP). Thanks for continuing to be so awesome! - Mr. TSWN
Looks absolutely amazing! The bloom totally made the comp in my opinion
And the props guy. Props to him!
Very excited for this episode, I made my technical presentation in college about these effects🤓great technique!🔥
Amazing Video! Loved it!
This is amazing!!! Loved seeing this! Working on another Fortnite video and want to make the Battle Bus practically, so seeing this was super helpful!
It's absolutely ridiculous how amazing this tutorial is?? I mean WHAT!??!? SUCH a fantastic channel. This is HOLLYWOOD legit quality tuts. Thank you.
This is what I'm talking about! PRACTICAL EFFECTS! Models, motion control, studio lighting and green screen. Better than CGI any day. Makes me wonder. They can do this, and make a space movie from probably $15 million dollars. This $200-300 million price tags for movies is not necessary. These people who might be "amature" filmmakers (meaning they've probably never made a full-on motion picture before) Do a better job than Hollywood. Great work! I'd hire these guys instead!
Old school film riot
I really love shots / content created practically with little CGI instead of full cgi or God forbid full AI. I appreciate more the fun and passion of the Artists creating things like this rather than anything else.
One of the best step-by-step channels on youtube, thanks as always great video.
The talent is palpable.
I've been watching you since your movie reviews WAY back. Keep up the amazing work man!
It is mind numbing all the things you had to do to get it to look as good as you did.
How fast can you do this process after you learned it for repeat. Are you almost as fast as the video played it?
Looks awesome! We're glad our planets pack was helpful! 🪐
oh man, watching it more and more becoming the movie shot, the bigger and bigger my smile was seeing my childhood memories come back to me. haha nice work.
Mad skills as ever! Amazing Film Riot.
This is one of the most fascinating TH-cam vids I've ever watched. All the technical jargon hyperspaced right past me, but I was still transfixed the whole time. That final pass of the Falcon was gorgeous! Thank you for making and sharing this! #MTFBWY
Would love to see you try this with some of the CG shots in the modern star wars movies. Just as an experiment in overall feeling.
Great tutorial Film Riot! You really hit the Star Wars look.
I've followed you for over 10+ years love you guys!
Hell yes!!! Amazing work guys!
RYAN! WOW! This was so captivating and so nice to watch. thank you for sharing every step of the way! i love this. The average viewer would think this was from the movies! Great Work!!!!
Doh! this is hitting all the right nostalgia buttons!. I love you guys. would love to work with y'all in the future! You guys rock! Great episode.
Fab episode. Loved it
Super fun. One thing I would recommend is in the shot where the falcon is coming towards camera, you should slide the stars south to north. This will make it feel more like the OT shots you are emulating.
Your level of chops using AE is absolutely 🤯 Great presentation.
Absolutely outstanding VFX recreation with modern/ OG techniques. However, I didn't understand a word of what you were doing but it was mesmerising to watch. Thanks
"We remade Star Wars with an inexpensive model, and an insanely expensive state-of-the-art motion control rig."
Well to be honest if you wanted a cheaper way to do the same thing I have a Came-tv 4 ft slider with a motor that's programmable with your phone just like the Kessler unit they're using here. Pick your start and stop points and select your speed, it'll repeat the same distance and speed over and over until you stop it or change it. It's on right now for $265. That's hella affordable and would definitely work for what the effect they're doing here. Don't get hung up on the gear, take the idea of what they're doing and find a way to make it happen with gear that you can afford, or rent in your area.
Yes, you, too, can accomplish the same thing if you have money coming out the wazoo! 🤪
Absolutely AMAZING and inspirational work. It was both nostalgic and educational. Be well.
Looks good, although one problem that always comes with many shots like this is that the digital planets added have too high fidelity compared to the rest - a common problem I see in many movies that mix practical effects with VFX. They need to blur or lowres them more to make them more believable when used with models to make the impression that they are models too.
This is amazing. I used to be a big time Star Wars fan. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
Fantastic! Thank you so very much for sharing this.
That was amazing. I work on film scores from time to time - something I would like to do more of, but watching this makes me want to be more involved with the entire process.
Bro it is just crazy seeing y'all grow. Like bruh I have been watching since those Harry Potter videos, and people ask do I still watch "Film Riot" and I say TILL THIS DAY!...TILL THIS DAY!
Awesome work guys, looks great
I just enjoy every single moment of your videos thank you
Great video and excellent breakdown as always. Cant believe i've been following you guys since i was in middle school and now i'm almost 30 years old. Thanks for all the knowledge over the year s
I think it looks actually really good.
The only thing that I can think of that would make it better, imo, is actually on the practical side with the rig. If you could somehow rig the she ship to slightly rotate as the camera came in, I think it would really cement the shot in. Either that or move the camera in on more than one single axis.
The biggest issue that I've always had with the original Star Wars miniature effect was that you could very clearly see that the orientation and perspective of the ship always remained consistent as it moved across the scene, even as it traveled through the observer's eye line.
If the ship starts at the bottom of the screen, it's below the observer's eye line, meaning we should see more of the top of the ship. As it moves up towards the top of the screen, it would get closer and closer to the observer's eye line and eventually pass it, meaning that we should see less and less of the top of the ship and more of the bottom as it travels upwards. But that's not what we get from this effect. What it ends up looking like is having a paper cutout of the ship being slid around a matte of stars.
This is stellar
Good result guys! 🤩
Funny that just yesterday I was watching John Knoll give a presentation on his own Dykstraflex and you guys uploaded this in the same night 😂 amazing work as always and congrats on the incredible results 👏
This looks so good! Great Job!
Looks EXTREMELY ORGANIC
That is so amazing!! Love seeing how this stuff is done.
Really impressive! The whole lLM 1977 summarized in one guy, one model, one computer!
Awesome! Nailed it!!!
Pretty damn Good!!!
And that's it! The best VFX skillset! You should make another Star Wars Episode!
I love this! And it made me instantly want to try out every technique
Love your channel! superb content!!
This… Is absolutely incredible. An entire masterclass. GREAT JOB!!
Thanks!
God I love ILM
You lost me after the 47th right click. But hey, Great work!!!!
Nicely done. Loved the through AE breakdown
Old school tut, loved it!
Speechless.. Result is so so so good.
I'm just listening to you go off on the AE workflow, and I'm all like, YOU GO BOOOOOOYYYYY, nice moves brotha! Crushing it as per usual, everything to see here, stick around. Gotta say, ever since I started watching your channel, I've learned a ton of stuff. keep doing what you do man, it's totally and completely awesome! Big ups to your whole team! I'd love to see what you'd come up with something like Kaiber Ai in your workflow. I saw the MJ one, but can you guys crush a cool movie trailer using something like AI video mixed with traditional video and sick editing, my money is on yes. Now go do it and don't let me down, and don't make me lose my bet. Ya'll got this!!!
Wooowww!!! What a work on it , you are magnificent
Honestly that miniature did it, Im sure a bigger one would of looked better on big screen, but on a laptop that was glorious.
Serious props to model guy! More props - to him!
Looks so real! I think the only thing to add to make it look more cinematic would be a short full screen lens flare right when the Falcon appears on the screen
That looks so sick omg
always amazing videos. so much knowledge. appreciate. cheers
I feel like I just watched a full length advertisement.
would love to see this with a higher quality model just to see how good it can look, because this already looks amazing.
Would love to see you guys cover the Predator cloaking effect. I've tested before and the Saber plugin works really well for it, but I was never able to find the best method for a smooth cloaking transition.
Could you do this with Star Trek TOS? Would be nice to see an actually upgraded ship shots instead of that PS1 level graphics mess we ended up with...
If my mind wasn't blown before, it is now! Just hit me in the feels. #StarWars
Surprised to still see Magic Bullet... amazing results!
Looks fantastic.
you guys are my biggest inspiration
This is exactly how to do it. Well done. Much gratitude.
Great now I have to find all of my old 80's star wars toys and get busy. Maybe next week Josh can make some pew pew sounds and space ship sounds ideas.
Any short films in the works? would love to see a new series!
I Think a matte finish wash might make it look larger as the highlights on the edges would be more hidden, look sharper, thus increasing look of more scale, other than that when looking at the Imperial Starship shot right after it was still hard to tell the difference.
One hand, liked the "hint of plastic" on the surface for the final presentation for fun's sake. Other hand, you're right, it was noticeably plasticy in both specular and subsurface scattering and to take it "all the way" - that would need to be mitigated. A larger model, made with a more dense material would reduce the SSS effect. I'm not sure if a simple matte finish would alleviate it along, but it would reduce the specularity.
In episode 4 (A New Hope) I think they created the Falcon's jump to light speed as they escaped the Star Destroyer's by having a polaroid of it from behind then filming the photo being moved very quickly away from the camera. A very simple idea of conveying the jump but it worked.
looks insane, bit of an odd request, could we get a tutorial on the best way to oder a film production I.e the order you do vfx, sequencing, colour grading ect. and keep the high quality, i find a lot of my clips retain 4k quality however the cg shots have dropped in quality due to the amount of times i have to export them. would love a tutorial on the most practical way to do it, cheers guys,
This felt weirdly nostalgic, and I loved that! Also, where did you get that hoodie?? i neeeeed it!
Yeah this is just rad! You did an awesome job!
Loved it! Thanks.
You should have got the 1/44 scale MF model from Bandi and got your model maker friend to build and paint it. It was have looked almost indistinguishable from the real thing
That was better than anything from Star Wars in the last 10 years.
Great episode. Did you manage to do the Kessler run in less than twelve parsecs?
I'm aiming to recreate traditional-looking 70s-style starship effects for a personal project of mine, and this was a wonderful breakdown of useful techniques. Thanks, guys.
Kessel!
@@KaitainCPS It was a play on words (They used the Kessler Cineshooter motion control rig to shoot it)