You have to send this to ILM. This is precisely how they do miniature work and they still have an active miniature effects department. This is quality work and they would be very impressed. It's not just the detail of your diorama, but the accuracy of getting the proper shot perspective that sells it. Great job. Seriously, SEND IT.
I was enjoying the vid and I thought this guy must be abit of a Star Wars fan - then the camera panned back to reveal his collections along the wall. wow!
Very nice! Love the POV. It reminds me I need to put my camcorder on my Radio Controlled Jawa Sandcralwer lol I made a little Tantive IV shoot-em-up game out of poster board when I was a kid. The hallway design is very cool to recreate.
have you tried using that snake apparatus with camera on the end of it, its the mini camera for looking under doors or cracks in foundations. could help you when filming "interior shots" without taking your diorama apart when filming
Tantive IV battle was (and still is) my all time favorite scene in the Star Wars trilogy! I loved it more than any part of the movie when I saw in back in 1977. It's funny after 40 years I had no idea the spaceship was called Tantive IV. Good to know it now.
great job! i noticed the death star playset on the floor, that was one of my favourite toys. nothing like a tall tower of doom as a centre-piece of your battle! lol. i'm wondering if i should just go ahead and undate that playset... and the answer would be yes, yes i should.
SHIT!! This is a great job you have done! Congratulations! This scenes are very important scenes because it was the first scenes on Star Wars back in 1977!
Absolutely fantastic diorama. I'm working Vader arrives Death Star II Diorama at moment. First i'll wanted to make Jabbas Palace but it's good to start someting simple like Vader Arrives or Emperor arrives to DS II.
do you think you could post some images (not video) without figures so I could print out flat backdrops of it for stopmotion? and any other starwars dioramas you are making, I plan to recreate the whole movie. btw your diorama is realy awesome!
i'm a big starwars fan to and collecting a lot of action figures how much would you say that you have spend on everything, and how many action figures would you say you have?
Sick....Sick.... ... Sick. Sweet, accurate choice of soundtrack, too (tho YT incorrectly tags it as the Imperial March -- wow, not even the right movie).
I think about 10 rebel troopers, and at least 12 stormtroopers of various incarnations -- I tried to use as many of the most recent ones that I could -- the brand new Luke and Han figures are actually in there. Then the astromechs (2), Darth Vader (one of many), the officer, and the Leia. So that's about 25 figures for these photos!
When I first seen ur set up I wanted a legit diorama of this epic scene. Now we're getting a mass produced diorama, wots ur thoughts on it? PS I wish I had enough artistic talent to re-create it, I have to buy it lol. Oh well
JOEL! Wow... Well, I stopped keeping track of the hours after the first week -- I could only do a few hours each evening because of well, you know, wife and two kids, work, and gigs. Seriously -- I can't say how many hours -- there's planning, buying materials, computer work, nitty gritty cutting and construction, painting, gluing, fine detailing -- then setting up the figures, taking pictures, creating the video -- and oh yeah, trolling eBay for cheap Rebel Troopers! Who the hell knows by now..
@mattjew619 Those are Power of the Jedi Rebel Troops from 2001. Don't bother with them, though, there's a much better Rebel Fleet Trooper coming up in the Vintage Collection that should be in stores in a matter of weeks,.
@digitalintent I guess by hack I meant "not good" versus "good" -- you can have no experience and do great stop motion. My point is that I never set out to do stop motion at all -- just building the set took dozens of hours of my personal time -- every night for weeks. It would take a year to do stop motion in that environment that looked decent -- who has time for that?!
Hilarious that you noticed that! I just included him to round out the crew -- I put him way in the back but he ended up being kind of prominent. I guess he's the only one of those guards that is a steroid freak!
Hahahaha!! I love the POTF rebel trooper at 0:43. He's all jacked up and sex-crazed. He's like the Barry Bonds of the Rebel Alliance. Thank god they don't make Star Wars action figures like that any more... A+ vid, diorama, collection, etc!!
@andrewa714 This setup wasn't built to accommodate stop-motion; manipulating, posing, and moving figures and photographing them simply would not physically work with this diorama. Additionally, I and lots of others feel that good photography and screen accurate poses beat the hell out of ridiculously crappy ass stop-motion done by hacks with zero experience doing so.
You have to send this to ILM. This is precisely how they do miniature work and they still have an active miniature effects department. This is quality work and they would be very impressed. It's not just the detail of your diorama, but the accuracy of getting the proper shot perspective that sells it. Great job. Seriously, SEND IT.
I have to say... You are a great artist, you must be proud
I was enjoying the vid and I thought this guy must be abit of a Star Wars fan - then the camera panned back to reveal his collections along the wall. wow!
Incredible work, well done mate!!!!
dude your so awesome you made the tantive iv the best man its the best replica in vids i'v ever seen
SUPERB! You did a very good job! Excellent work and nice presentation!
Unique diorama! Markus from Germany
Excellent diorama!
looks like you have quite the collection there. Ever thought of doing a video on it? I for one would love to see it
dude you're a sick sick person!!! awesome job!!! ..... oh the humanity... how many patience!!!!
im glad some people still like starwars
My dude excellent work
Really great! Good work!
Most impressive. I'm planning to shelf part of our loft wall and tell the STAR WARS saga in figures.
Looks exactly the same as it was in the move nice work
Awesome that looks just like it
Very nice! Love the POV. It reminds me I need to put my camcorder on my Radio Controlled Jawa Sandcralwer lol I made a little Tantive IV shoot-em-up game out of poster board when I was a kid. The hallway design is very cool to recreate.
have you tried using that snake apparatus with camera on the end of it, its the mini camera for looking under doors or cracks in foundations. could help you when filming "interior shots" without taking your diorama apart when filming
Splendid idea, nice set and script! Like it :-)
awesome work
This was awesome. Really like what you did.
impressive. most impressive.
Wow! You are an ubernerd! Congratulations! That's a compliment btw.. That is one nice diorama!
That's awesome! Congratulations!
I so want one...:) great hallway dio dude!.
Absolutely fantastic job!
Tantive IV battle was (and still is) my all time favorite scene in the Star Wars trilogy! I loved it more than any part of the movie when I saw in back in 1977. It's funny after 40 years I had no idea the spaceship was called Tantive IV. Good to know it now.
great job! i noticed the death star playset on the floor, that was one of my favourite toys. nothing like a tall tower of doom as a centre-piece of your battle! lol. i'm wondering if i should just go ahead and undate that playset... and the answer would be yes, yes i should.
SHIT!! This is a great job you have done! Congratulations! This scenes are very important scenes because it was the first scenes on Star Wars back in 1977!
Your diorama is excellen you did a very good job and i like the comparison between movie scenes and the toys in action! You are great! :o)))
Absolutely fantastic diorama. I'm working Vader arrives Death Star II Diorama at moment. First i'll wanted to make Jabbas Palace but it's good to start someting simple like Vader Arrives or Emperor arrives to DS II.
Very cool diorama.
Wouldn't vacuum formed sections made with white plastic work for this?
Maybe this could be ambient lit with fibre optics or LEDs?
Nice! Now you have to make a stop-motion movie using your action figures!
great work..
Pretty cool.
Impressive most impressive
this is amazing
nice job 5/5
details are verry good :P
Awesome, Well Done.
That's so cool. Lots of stirafoam?
Excellent
do you think you could post some images (not video) without figures so I could print out flat backdrops of it for stopmotion? It's realy awesome!
nice job man :)
do you think you could post some images (not video) without figures so I could print out flat backdrops of it for stopmotion? and any other starwars dioramas you are making, I plan to recreate the whole movie. btw your diorama is realy awesome!
TFN and Rebelscum. But I hadn't posted this on a forum until your note! Then I did on both.
I'm inspired. I'll have to do a deal with you; for one of my scratch built costumes or something.
Awesome.
Awesome! Which Leia was that?
i'm a big starwars fan to and collecting a lot of action figures how much would you say that you have spend on everything, and how many action figures would you say you have?
Love it! Would love to see a how to video.
Sick....Sick.... ... Sick. Sweet, accurate choice of soundtrack, too (tho YT incorrectly tags it as the Imperial March -- wow, not even the right movie).
Wow man...thanks, I really appreciate it.
impressive
I think about 10 rebel troopers, and at least 12 stormtroopers of various incarnations -- I tried to use as many of the most recent ones that I could -- the brand new Luke and Han figures are actually in there. Then the astromechs (2), Darth Vader (one of many), the officer, and the Leia. So that's about 25 figures for these photos!
Thanks man -- it was a lot of work but I am glad I did it.
This would be awesome to do with 12" figures (like the sideshow ones) :D
When I first seen ur set up I wanted a legit diorama of this epic scene. Now we're getting a mass produced diorama, wots ur thoughts on it?
PS I wish I had enough artistic talent to re-create it, I have to buy it lol. Oh well
very cool man :)
JOEL! Wow... Well, I stopped keeping track of the hours after the first week -- I could only do a few hours each evening because of well, you know, wife and two kids, work, and gigs. Seriously -- I can't say how many hours -- there's planning, buying materials, computer work, nitty gritty cutting and construction, painting, gluing, fine detailing -- then setting up the figures, taking pictures, creating the video -- and oh yeah, trolling eBay for cheap Rebel Troopers! Who the hell knows by now..
@smithdream It definitely would! If I only knew how to do such things.
that is soooo epic please make a tutorial
Extraordinario
@mattjew619 Those are Power of the Jedi Rebel Troops from 2001. Don't bother with them, though, there's a much better Rebel Fleet Trooper coming up in the Vintage Collection that should be in stores in a matter of weeks,.
Do you mean for this display or overall?
Are you using TC-14 from TPM line as the silver protocol droid?
@digitalintent I guess by hack I meant "not good" versus "good" -- you can have no experience and do great stop motion. My point is that I never set out to do stop motion at all -- just building the set took dozens of hours of my personal time -- every night for weeks. It would take a year to do stop motion in that environment that looked decent -- who has time for that?!
has any body noticed that c 3 pos left or right leg is not gold its silver i first saw that in the empires strikes back
very nice iam also making one but mines in 1/6 scale
damn i felt like i was goin in the ship!
Hilarious that you noticed that! I just included him to round out the crew -- I put him way in the back but he ended up being kind of prominent. I guess he's the only one of those guards that is a steroid freak!
I wanna make an Indiana Jones Diorama!!!
Recant on YT diss: My bad, I guess the music tag is just an ad and not necessarily meant as identifying the vid's music track.
not bad for a first attempt...pffft just kidding .lol. that is feckin rad dude!
You even got the lighing right,lol!!!!
@johnnygun749 Pretty much everything came from Hobby Lobby or Michael's.
All I can hope is some time within the next month...!
DUDE YOU HAVE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH STAR WARS TOYS I WANT THAT MUCH IF YOU MADETHEM TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THEM PLEASE!!!!!
Hahahaha!! I love the POTF rebel trooper at 0:43. He's all jacked up and sex-crazed. He's like the Barry Bonds of the Rebel Alliance. Thank god they don't make Star Wars action figures like that any more...
A+ vid, diorama, collection, etc!!
@andrewa714 This setup wasn't built to accommodate stop-motion; manipulating, posing, and moving figures and photographing them simply would not physically work with this diorama. Additionally, I and lots of others feel that good photography and screen accurate poses beat the hell out of ridiculously crappy ass stop-motion done by hacks with zero experience doing so.
Hahaha awesome
beats my cousins model train diorama into a sh!tty hole. excellent work
doesn't anybody have any Indiana Jones dioramas? I guess i'll have to be the first
And yeah, duh, C-3PO, R2-D2 and TC-14...