ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK miniature effects 

Even after looking at that shot of the glider teetering on the edge at 5:30 I still find it hard to believe that it's just a partial model plopped on top of a photo.

Little money, yes, but no shortage of creativity.

​@@Jarumo76 Now it's the OTHER WAY AROUND.... Blah.

@@Jarumo76 All of it in ten days.

Exactly. Creativity solves problems better than throwing money at it. That is why low budget sci-fi and horror are always the best movies.

@@brockbaby ''Poverty awakens the arts'' Theocritus 3rd century BC

I used to try remember the skyline and draw 'clunkers' chugging about lol

Thank you for watching!

Same, literally! Wonder if we'll get some Silent Running

Thanks! More coming soon.

Same! Gonna need to get the DVD

Me too, it's amazing. I never even knew that models were used in all these movies, after watching this channel it is completely unbelievable that I did not notice that they are models and not real places !!!

Well, eventually I will run out, but still a lot more coming! ;)

@@piercefilm They're almost always a 'drop everything and just quickly watch it' for me, so thanks for them. I really have developed my favourites; Skotak definitely one of them. Bill Pearson is probably my favourite; I love his laid-back, self-deprecating style of telling stories. Do you have a stand out favourite person you interviewed?

@@berendharmsen Tony Doublin was a blast. I have more of his work on low budget films coming up. Gene Warren Jr was also great to listen to. I enjoyed listening to them all!

@@piercefilm I like a lot of the actual model stuff better than all the CGI. Sometimes you can tell, splashing water and fire don't scale well. One day years ago, a friend's dad hands him a new video camera he bought and a fairly thick user manual. He says "I just want to know basically how to make it go". My buddy turns and hands it to me. I was working at a video production place at the time and played with a lot of different cameras. I skimmed through the book ..."oh look, it'll do do stop motion". couple or three frames at a time. I hadn't tried it before so I looked around the room for some junk to play with. Low budget? No budget. I made the epic Godzilla (lighter) vs Daishi(miniature) in a couple of hours. It's on my channel. I never added any after effects like I had planned on. Things happen.

Thanks for watching! More coming soon.

I love that shot.

No the matte at the end was by Ken Marschall who is a professional painter aside from doing movie mattes, look him up he particularly focuses on nautical scenes and recreating classic ships

@@kentallard8852 yes I discovered this on a blog about matte.

Thanks! More coming up.

There may be some used DVD´s of the doc for sale. But these segments really are the whole doc plus a lot more that wasn't included in the DVD. All 12+ hours when I am done posting all segments. Still much more to come!

@@piercefilm It's incredible, thank you

"That's not funny, Plissken."

So what u´re saying is, that today, everybody is just sitting in his booth, and magically there appears a special effect on the screen. Aight, got it.

Thanks! The DVD on Amazon is sold out. But I am uploading everything here on my channel in segments. A new one every week!

@@piercefilm much Appreciated, these are a joy to watch

Yeah, that was done by John Wash and Mark Stetson at Dream Quest, I believe. I forgot to ask Mark about those miniatures when I interviewed him.

@@piercefilm My jaw popped when I first found out how that was done. So simple, and so genius.

@@mattyboyanderson The same thing was also used for Megaforce, which I have a segment about here on my channel.

That was done by a different company. Dream Quest Images, I think.

Glow in the dark tape?

Just sections here on my channel. Must be around 20 hours or so online now

@@piercefilm Wow that is truly incredible. For the love of art form. Thank you so much.

Those scenes were done at another company.

You can find many photos of the city models that were made for the computer 3D graphics at the beginning. Google it. And there are some pics of those models in this segment. They were black and white and used to help set up design ideas before the actual miniature buildings were made.

@@piercefilm I figured that's how it was done. Sure enough I googled "escape from new york 3d simulation models" and found many photos and more. Thanks.

Not sure what you mean by 75 years? I did the interviews from 2010 to 2012.

Another company made the black and white wireframe models. These NY miniatures were for views of the city at night.

@@piercefilm Oh yeah, I completely forgot that. Thanks for clearing that up.

They used to! But CGI has hurt the business.