It's been well over a year since I started doing these so I decided to revisit some of my earlier efforts and render them in 1080p rather than 720p (for some reason I thought 720p was fine, since the source material was DVD, but some effects look a bit pixelated and even worse after going through RU-vid's shit filter). Just to clarify though, the source material is NOT upscaled in any way, it's still the OG DVD resolution, it's just the rendering that's HD.
Since this was the very first one I ever did I also wanted to add some of the things I'd learned over the last year, and I wasn't too happy with how this looked when comparing it to my later efforts.
So, once again, here's Resurrection of the Daleks, one of the bleakest Dr. Who stories ever, with some shiny new VFX!
0:13 - I added some extra muzzle flashes just to see how it would look. Jury is still out.
0:22 - It's a bit blink and you miss it (it's only three or four frames I think), but I added bullet holes to the guy's coat and a bit of smoke.
0:29 - I added a few more bells and whistles to the teleport effect. It's a little bit Star Treky now :-)
0:41 - As this shot of the Dalek cruiser was shot on film, you get a duplicate frame every 4 or 5 frames, and this makes it look weird if you add new effects that don't have the duplicate frames. So I removed the duplicates which gives it much smoother movement, and doesn't look too jarring with the new effects.
0:56 - I didn't make many changes to my original time tunnel other than adding a little extra glow and glare.
1:22 - Other than rendering these shots in a higher resolution I also tried to make the Dalek ship look less like a cut-out (which it is). I think it was moderately successful!
1:42 - For the battle scenes I redid the Dalek lasers to match the style I used in subsequent efforts, but I didn't make much change to the goodie lasers other than perhaps speeding their animation up a bit.
2:23 - Before I did this work (the first time) I don't think I'd ever noticed that it's the same three people getting shot twice. Unlucky.
2:53 - For many of the scenes I added new Dalek laser effects, and accompanying sounds, because it just felt like it needed it in some places. Here, for example, the blinded Dalek shoots randomly a couple of times, which feels like a natural reaction for a death machine that's just been blinded.
3:45 - This is a scene where I added a few more shots from the goodies (particularly Zena, who is basically spamming her fire button), and also added the correct sound effect for the weapons over the top of the wrong ones.
4:34 - When I did this originally I added flashes of colour to the whole screen (I didn't quite get how masking worked on layers yet), so for any laser blasts I've localised the flashes of environmental light, which I did for all my later work.
4:40 - No, that's not Lytton that gets shot (he feigns death just behind this poor guy)
6:00 - I didn't want to overdo or obscure the original model explosion too much, because it's pretty great, but I tried to add a bit more oomph to the explosion.
25 мар 2022
