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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- In this bonus episode, JP interviews Dennis Lowe about his introduction into the film industry and his experience working as a special effects technician and model shop unit member of Ridley Scott's 1979 movie, Alien.
Check out the Alien Makers section of Dennis' website here:
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Dennis Lowe's IMDB: www.imdb.com/n...
Many thanks to Dennis for his kind permission to use video and photographic material taken from his 'Alien Makers' videos to be used within our interview.
#alien #specialeffects #space1999 #empirestrikesback #makingof
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I worked as a make-up effects artist in the 80's - early 2000's and at times did model work at Apogee. Star Wars & Alien are my favorite movies; this interview is pure gold and wonderful to see how the filmmakers from across the pond dealt with creative issues. Love your channel.
I worked with Nicky Alder in 2001 “Behind Enemy Lines” - it was my first time directing a feature and he was so kind and patient and shared the passion like kids! Wonderful man.
Wonderful man... I've known him for years and he is never too busy to talk to me... never makes me feel like I am bothering him.
Some time ago, I had the honor of conversing with Dennis Lowe, along with Jon Sorensen and the late Simon Deering, when they joined the online forum Alien Experience. They were absolute gentlemen and a joy to speak with. Dennis even generously sent me copies of his Alien Makers documentaries by mail years ago. It was a fantastic interview. Many thanks.
Best episode... Worked with Dennis years ago, pre Aliens. Great talker and very talented..
That was an absolutely wonderful conversation. Loved hearing the processes, the insights, and the problems they encountered, and how they went about solving them.
This was brilliant and very good advice Mr Lowe
As someone that works on some pretty terrible B movies more often than good ones, this was an absolute treat. Finally some good cinema and craft content on TH-cam! Thanks guys, please keep this up! I have always loved your in camera fx series even went out and got that hand held fogger that you guys showed off a couple videos back. I worked with the DP for the original TRON film but he also did some FX work on 2001 with Kubrick, and the first Star Wars film, Bruce Logan, I would love a chance to see him interviewed and someone better than I to peel back the history in that man!
Great stuff as always and I love hearing about this era of models and effects- it really was a magical time for film-making.
lovely interview and great behind the scenes footage too... more!
Love Dennis and his documentaries
I could listen to the old practical effects guys all day long. Fantastic! BTW, I came across an old documentary the other day, and I can now see how 'In Camera' has been influenced by the work of the Skotak brothers.
OOOOOH WOW! Glad YT alerting worked ( a little late though ) this is going to be great to watch tonight!
Thanks lads! Dennis Lowe such a legend.
Gascinating stuff! Great interviewee - love hearing Alien stories
Great stuff, JP!
Fabulous, interesting, and inspiring ❤
Love his taste in artwork too 🤣
Fantastic interview, golden age of FX! Anyone know where I can watch the 'Alien Makers' series you referred to at the beginning of the video. Looked for Dennis Lowe's website but looks like it's not longer available. Would love to watch this series.
Dennis recently moved his site to a different server, so his older link to his website is now retired. The web link at the end of the video, as well within the description text is a new link to his website, now hosted on a new server. If viewing video through YT's TV app, the links probably won't show, so here is the link again: dennisvideo1138-1a506.kxcdn.com/Alien.html
Motion control programmed with 16k of RAM.... 😮 👨🔬❤
I worked a few times with Dennis at Arkadon nice guy
Not gunna lie JP you gotta good narrator voice
16KB is a hell of a lot of assembly! And I think the majority of that massive amount of RAM stored the different key frame locations. Which depending on the number of steppers (degrees of freedom) can be quite a lot. And also since every stepper probably had at least 300 steps for a full rotation it would be 2 bytes per motor.
And you could pack those so you have 1 MSB byte for 8 steppers.
Yeah I still love assembly my channel has a lot of it 😂 It’s what I learned to code after BASIC.
Lets goo!