Creating Cutting-Edge Sci-Fi with Analog Effects | The Process 

They need to keep creating with this style of craftsmanship.

the videos that don't have a sponsor behind them turn out to be the best ones.

There are 3 decades of heavy-handed CGI, of which very little will be aging gracefully.

Nothing beats the practical special effects method. Great stuff.

And THAT is what film making is supposed to be.

Even knowing what is happening behind the scenes, knowing the trick, this is beautiful.

found this really inspiring. want to make sci fi films myself one of these days.

The tank reminded me of Arnold Gillespie's effect on the wizard of Oz. The witch writing was merely a needle and some black ink and the water was blue coloring almost opaque. The camera shot from below the tank . The needle was disquised to look like the witch and her broom. He placed the needle just enough into the water to not show his hand above pushing the plunger and releasing the ink as he moved it around to form the letters of "SURRENDER DOROTHY". Remember this was 1938. They did use rear projection as in the tornado scene. The tornado was filmed separately using industrial fans and a Muslin tube type sock and then rear projected on glass in back of the stage.

AWE! Big hug from Brazil!

Practical effects and minimal computer use, that's how I like it 👍

This was inspirational to say the least. I've been working on a couple sci-fi short film scripts for a while, and recently I started thinking about using miniatures instead of CG. This video is helping me make that decision. Which is cool, because it makes me feel inspired. Which is one of the steps I need to walk through to make the leap into completing a project. Thanks for this video.

This will be a masterpiece. Will see it tmrw for sure.

You lucky dog. Man, you are a man after my own heart. I wanted to do SFX for film when I first saw Star Wars in 1977. I learned who the masters were and then of course I learned among them about Mr. Trumbull and his work on CE3K (as it was referred to in Starlog magazine back then). I also learned about his work then on Star Trek TMP and Blade Runner. That you got to "play" in his studio, and with him there as a guide, makes me very envious. Finally, in 2006 I was able to begin my pursuit in filmmaking. I am still Indie but it's coming along, living the dream.

this looks like mega cool! I want to try some of that water galaxy stuff

Omg this is incredible! long live practical FX. I love the look of this stuff. I trained myself my whole life to do this stuff then CGI took over Hollywood and it was like losing dear friend. Its fantastic that people are giving practical FX a renaissance

My goodness, this was enlightening

Looks very good. There are not many people left with enough courage to show their imaginations/dreams. It is also hard work. Good luck!

Well. That was fantastic.

That was an awesome movie!

This was a super cool vid!

That is a true art. Well done to all concerned .

Amazing!

awesome video , thanks for the inspiration,

Love this. Right up our street.

Thanks for sharing this!!!! Subbed!

Amazing! I love his approach and ideals. I totally agree, and try to emulate the same in my work. I make super dark space music, and use mostly analog equipment - so this is inspiring.

great!

muy bueno ....!

Wow..

There's still hope for sci fi. This is proof. Also, there's no CGI!! That fact alone makes this movie superior. CGI has ruined almost all sci fi today. This is wonderful to see!

Where can I find/watch this masterpiece???

Wow.

What cameras did you use?

I'm building my own studio this year and deciding should I go this way or the video wall way. I prefer this. It is more human. There is an even newer technology of a black wall that is so black as in most light absorbing substance on earth that is being used wherein extraction and desperation is much better but I have only found one item on it. I prefer not building into obsolescence.

Thought this was gonna be shit but it's creative and cool looking.I wanna see this movie now.

😎👍🏻

release date?

Ex Machina and District 9 were also low budget Sci-Fi films that were amazing and were greatly enhanced through the use of CGI so what's the point?

It’s sad since there is nothing like this on the way to mars since there isn’t a nebula on the way to mars.

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This comment section is pretty weird, it's not about the tool, it's about how you use it. You have no idea how many invisible vfx movies have... non vfx movies... and you don't even notice 🤦‍♂️

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This looks like great art. But the shots don't necessary look realistic. Filming small models is a challenge. Often times the final shots look like miniature photography instead of 100 foot long ships. Good CGI can pull off anything these days with the right artist. But the point was the unpredictable gems that come out of practical experimentation, which is why this is cool.

When I watched this I saw 600 views and 60 likes guess I'm 601-61.

Heh, most can't really afford to work with Doug Trumbull... And in particular, the effects here in my opinion, especially the natural space phenomena and its abstractions, quite inferior to his work on bigger projects, such as 2001, Close Encounters, Star Trek TMP, Blade Runner, Tree of Life, etc. Also physical miniatures were in fact in common usage as late as 10 years ago, like half the non live action stuff in the Star Wars prequels is actually miniatures (and among the people who worked on them is none other than Mythbusters' Adam Savage). In fact they were even used in movies like Avatar, the Hobbit trilogy, and Blade Runner 2049, and in the shots where they appeared they often weren't hidden or misdirected from by anything. So they're really not that much of an ancient relic lost to time as many would have you believe - It's just that especially when CGI in visual effects was new it took all the attention, as it was this new crazy thing, and people often overhyped it and what it could do (even back when everyone avoided global illumination as much as possible, and everything just used the Blinn/Phong shading models and all 3D CGI had the same old Renderman look...bleugh). Physical effects have never really left us. For a time they just didn't make as good PR as CGI.

"Give me the ugliest hat you have."

1:03, have you seen the work of top VFX shops, like The Mill, Double Negative, Framestore...ILM? Seriously? Don't belittle CGI :P

I was wondering why there were space clouds. Pretty sure there's nothing between Earth and Mars.

Is it a requirement to be associated with the Creators Project that one must be a pretentious douche? That's the vibe I get from every single one of these videos.

The purists that forgive me, but there is no good reason to not use digital effects nowadays. There is no good reason to use a complicated analog effect if you could get the same result, or even a better one, using CGI. I mean, I'm sorry but this is just irracional cheap nostalgia. It's like Tarantino with his "Oh, I'll always shoot digitally, 'cause the film has the texture and feeling, and touch" bullshit. That's irracional nostalgia. I don't have anything against analog effects, but if you use analog effects to achieve a result that you could easily, with just one after effects-like program, achieve... it doesn't make sense. Especially because… in the end, people will be watching your movie in their TV and smartphones, and your movie will be encoded in a bunch of zeros and ones.