THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK miniature effects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK miniature effects. Patrick McClung and Lorne Peterson talk about the miniatures made by ILM for the Star Wars sequel. Upgraded Sense of Scale segment. Photos: Industrial Light and Magic, Chris Casady, Lucasfilm, Apogee, Disney?
very cool. and what a beauty shot that is at 2:10 .
3:02 Wow!!... That is a huge Star Destroyer bridge model!!
The Star Destroyer scale is amazing!👍😎🥁🎥🎞🎬💫🤩
Man, such amazing insight.❤
There is no one in the industry that consistently turns out pure gold like you. Miniature work is gaining new ground, so this is even more valuable now. Miniature work has its own culture quite different from the other Art Department specialties. The access you get speaks to the esteem the industry obvious holds you in. Thanks yet again for this.
Thanks for watching!
I love your work. You guys sent us to other planets over the years.
I noticed that film turns the models into a different luminance, color and less shininess. do you think if they shot the miniature with digital, that it would look as real?
Hard to even imagine a follow-up to Star Wars was up for debate. I think because Empire was the biggest indie film due to Lucas getting financed with BofA and money wasn't assured.
I don't mind another cycle of these, and you put in some nice new photographs I didn't see before so I'm not complaining.
The one thing that always surprises me about the anecdote of the melting Stardestroyer was that it was obviously the camera crew that screwed up and they still had the audacity to demand the model shouldn't be moved and that it had to be fixed in place. How wat that not a case of: you ruined the shot, we're taking the model back to the shop and you'll get it back when it's done? Work on another shot in the meantime?
A number of people complained about the low res quality of my original uploads, so I decided to upgrade them. The good part is I have found many more photos from the model makers over he years to include in these new versions. Makes it fun to go back and redo them!
@@piercefilm Indeed worth the rewatch for those alone. I've seen your entire catalog by now - and because they're nice and short, I even tend to watch some of them again when they inevitably show up in my feed again (TH-cam algorithm correctly figures I'm likely to click on them again 🙂), but I'm always eager to check the new ones as well for some small new gems.
I get the impression you do some re-editing as well, is that correct? Some new shots, longer takes, combine from other clips, things like that?
@@berendharmsen Yes, when I first posted these segments they were very rough, and meant to generate some interest in my DVD. Now, I have time and can go back into the many hours of footage and add more of the interview with new stories.
@@piercefilm Well, keep doing what you're doing - I love it!
I discuss moviemaking with some regularity on Quora and I often find reason to link to your material.
It shows you who has the power in this industry, model makers are clearly not treated with the respect they deserve. The reason they didn't complain and fixed it in place is because they don't want to annoy their clients.
Not one bathroom on the Death Star not one
nearly destroying a fantastically expensive model prop because you dont like a hiss
Or building a fantastically expensive model without a cooling system that could be run on a sound stage without a loud hissing. My experience in collaborative projects is that there is no shortage of "shortsightedness".
@@charlie-obrien it was 1979, nobody had done anything like that before they were still learning as they went. The hiss in no way affected the filming they were just being prissy about it and so are you acting like it was some sort of oversight.
The aspect of movie magic you seldom hear about: not enough bathrooms!
I love it! I had a model of the star destroyer with the fiber optics. I spent 2 days drilling the holes into the shell for the fiber optics. but when I was done my lights test showed the light coming through the plastic hull, someone suggested spray painting the inside black. Then, of course, I realized the paint filled in all the holes I drilled and I had to start over. So I can feel the pain of these unforeseen problems ha ha.. it came out looking amazing though. unfortunately the tungsten bulb blew out and I glued it inside of the model. Might have to crack it open and install and LED. Man I love this stuff, these clips are great. thanks and have an awesome weekend.
I completely pulled my Legacy Falcon apart drilling tiny holes to install interior lighting through out. I blacked out the backsides of the hull. I even added down lights next to each landing gear and it looks awesome. I totally aged my Falcon with extra rust streaks, black soot in places with a cigarette lighter, hoses on the landing gears. She looks like a real beat-up Corallian freighter but when I turned the lights on in the half-dark there is light spilling through the side of the cockpit. That was heartbreaking. But I'll fix it somehow...
@@gecko-sb1kp dam man that sounds awesome! but we're not industry level model makers and these are the things that happen. youll figure it out, wish I could see it. sweet
@@flipnap2112 The legacy Falcon is huge. It's beautiful. It's so good you just want to add more. Thanks for the reply. Cost me a thousand bucks which is ridiculous but she's mine to do 'a few modifications'...lol...
*Empire is one of the best movies of all time!*
Loving these videos, it’s absolutely fascinating.
I'm enjoying watching these again - keep 'em coming! Cheers
To be a fan of the first film to get the job to work on the next. And meet the Living legends who brought your favorite movie to life.
Feeling genuine annoyance at the cameramen for something that happened over 40 years ago.
Same here; just made a similar comment about that. I've seen the anecdote before and every time I think: how dare they even insist that the model shouldn't be moved after screwing up like that.
Try working with ‘em every day, you’ll know what feeling annoyance really is.
Some of those photos!
I saw lots of the og sw ships in an exhibition in the uk, but too see them again as a "builder".
Too see a studio viper would blow my brain!!!!
It was the original Star Wars Trilogy which inspired me to become the model maker I am today. I'm still doing it in retirement as well.😁
Galactica, Vipers, X-Wings, Deathstar...all in the same universe...
Absolutely fascinating!
I grew up on a farm and my brother and I spent all our time making things and adapting Airfix kits into new objects, blissful days....and then these guys get to live this into adulthood! Today I would have gown up in front of a screen. I count myself lucky.
love the channel. way better than light and magic on disney plus
I kinda like the new Mandalorian series... the volume... its a nice gimmick but now you cant unsee it when they shoot with it, nice backgrounds but all the actors walk towards or from the camera on that stage, instead of walking towards a meeting spot on a huge stage!
The real stars of star wars
CGI should be outlawed.
ILM is the best special effects studio. Without it, there would be no Star Wars anthologies, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Hunt for Red October, etc. They are the masters of special effects.
The Empire Strikes Back(1980) was the first Star Wars film I ever saw in 1992. We had to read the novelization first.
👍👍
These guys are legends
So many happy places with the films that you helped create
Never get enough of these guys talking about blade runner, aliens, terminator, and star wars 😝❤️💯
That 'starting from scratch' anecdote!
"Okay, first on the job list: we have to build a 1:1 scale working replica of a model-making workshop in this empty building. Everything from the walls down to the smallest detail. Let's go people! Time is money."
I am listing carefully and it is still so interesting. Models, fiberoptics. Melting plastic. So many different problems to deal with. Thank you for your upload. Keep up the good work.
Imagine being the guy to go down in history as damaging the star destroyer because you didn't like the noise lol
Oh, there are many more stories of the motion control camera crashing into models causing damage.
I can see the Tamiya logo all through our these episodes
or Airfix... or Revell...
@@piercefilm i wonder if they bought out the model shops