What an amazing labour of love this is. I can relate, I built my own HAL control panel with HAL sound bites programmed to the analog controls. We are so lucky this film was made at all. The amount of time and money it took, no studio would ever risk again, let alone any director have the deep attention to craft as Kubrick did.
Wow, all the gaps left from seeing only the movie sets are all filled. I appreciate your project as a 2001 fan and somebody who struggled my way through two terms of Lightwave. Thank you!
Martin Amer of BBC 12 could not have shown the Discovery better. Seriously, Steve, you have done a wonderful job on this. Thank you. I was not expecting much from the headline, but I was dazzled! It is totally immersive. Love this!
You’re welcome…. Btw, you wouldn’t happen to be related to the unfortunate Dr. Hunter, who along with colleagues Kimball and Kaminski were flatlined by HAL, would you?
The pod bay is effectively zero gravity so in 2001 they showed movement while always holding onto something and with Velcro footwear, in 2010 they forgot this and just walked ‘normally’.
Starlog Spectacular (1990 Series 2) has the complete exterior/interior plans of Discovery One, but THIS comes very close to what the plans look like. Great job!
For some reason I thought for the longest time that the centrifuge was in the "equator" of the command module even tho deep down that didn't make any sense. You followed the official schematic and placed it wedged against the back of the sphere. Awesome job on that flythrough.
Brilliant work ! You showed me a connection I'd not realized and an area I'd overlooked. Great job taking the known ship layout and using it to interpret the visuals from the film. Of course where the film skipped something we're still stuck scratching heads. I noticed you glossed over one unanswerable question-- "Where was the fifth spacesuit stored?"
@@ado1937 The first time I saw the movie, many, many years ago, I observed that there was a major error in the proportions of that spaceship. The size of the EVA capsules are the key to perceive this disproportion. It's a movie with few glitches or mistakes, but this mistake is huge, very big. (I suspect that all technicians in production design were fully aware of this ...)
Actually, my big unanswered 2001 question came in 2010....how is there still a spacepod left in the Discovery launch bay?...think about it....There were 3 pods on board. Poole's was lost in the collision that killed him. Bowman's was lost when he went EVA without a space helmet, and the third disappeared with him through the stargate...so WHERE DID THAT POD IN 2010 COME FROM?!?!?!?!?
There is a VR rendering of the centrifuge section I use with my Valve Index. I assume it is available for other VR headsets as well. It is not super-detailed or interactive but gives a good idea of how difficult walking around the deck would have been. I don’t have any idea of the financial practicality, but I would think there is great potential in re-creating movie and TV sets for VR platforms.
Great job! We want more now. Reconstruction of parts of the film that have not been shown. Say, preparations for the discovery spacecraft to depart from earth orbit.Better yet, an alternative ending to a film where Dave would actually arrive in an alien world rather than a nursing home.
Dave didn't arrive in a nursing home at all. He was inside the Jovian monolith all along - it reduced his mind into a pattern running on a sort of computer. The whole weird kaleidoscope and then aging bit was just the intelligence in the monolith acclimating Dave's mind to the change before he becomes the Star Baby entity which is basically just an avatar of the monolith capable of interacting with manking.
@@mnomadvfx Of course I understand that. However, in the visual sense, after interstellar travel, the viewer of the film 2001 rightly expects to see something more imaginative than some hotel room.
Just an amazing video! Wonderful. I noticed that you bypassed the centrifuge completely. I've built a table top rendition of the centrifuge. I think of it as the primary set for the film. I believe it is rarely rendered because of its complexities. Seeing what you've rendered here, I know you would do wonderful work with the centrifuge. And, it would complete the areas filmed for all interior shots on the Discovery.
This is a great piece of work. I’ve waited to explore the Discovery for 53 years. Is there a centrifuge video ? I wonder if there were any living spaces behind the main sphere around the dishes ?..ie lifeboats etc but you got the detail quite right.
A number of topographical errors here, based on observations, stills and the actual blueprints from Adam Johnson’s book 1. The hublink is not situated on the same level as the flight deck. It’s much lower down sitting on the ship centreline 2. Where is the Bridge breaker panel situated behind the right seat?This reconstruction is based on the mirror gag used to give the impression of weightlessness, a picture that was used in the Life magazine article back in the 60’s. The padded area directly behind the command flight area and the breaker room/HAL Logic Centre vault is only about 2 feet wide. 3. The ladder access to the staging area/breaker room/flight control deck is much further back in relation and actually doesn’t open straight into the staging area.
Starlog Spectacular (1990 Series 2) #5 has the complete exterior/interior plans for Discovery One, as well as an article on the changes made for Discovery One on 2001 and 2010 films. A great piece.
There are some blueprints online that illustrate the hublink access exactly how it is illustrated in this video. I think it was changed later when someone realized that it did not make sense geometrically to have the centrifuge offset that high.
The padded area behind the pilot seating is too big, this is the mirror gag to give the impression of weightlessness.What is actually behind the right hand pilot seat is the Bridge breaker panel then the rest of the breakers and access to HAL’s brain room. The embarkation area is not at the same level as the Hub Link, as this would put the command deck on the ship centreline and off centre too. The Command deck is above the hub link you climb down to access it. Also you don’t access the embarkation area straight from the lladder from the Athena room, you have a linking corridor to the embarkation area.
Yes I know that area behind the pilot seating is too big (in order to achieve the zero gravity gag) I left it in because it was included in the original plans.- Steve Hunter
Good work. As an improvement, add captions to identify the rooms and their function. Also overlay a small map displaying the position relative to the ship.
A brilliant creation. I take it the gravity area of the ship won't actually fit into the ball section? If you ever update this it would be interesting to see some transparencies of things like the memory core from the outside...
nice work, but there’s a number of topographical errors. The Bridge doesn’t sit on the ship’s centreline, rather above it. This walk through is based on the sets being linked up. The huge padded room behind the bridge is only around two feet wide and the Bridge breaker panel is behind the right hand seat looking into the Command sphere window aft. Shame I can’t load pictures here.
I noticed you avoided the dreaded Centrifuge. It never fit into the ship because there were huge amounts of confusing between Kubrick and the Makers of the time. In the end Stanley didn't feel audences pre-moonlanding would be sophisticated enough to notice the spacial issues. So, they just moved forward with this flawed exterior design.
Was there ever an explanation as to the weird orientation of the command deck seats? They don't look like are in the right position to resist acceleration forces (and I'm not sure the Discovery to generate that many g's under thrust anyway)
The design of Discovery 1 is so fun and fascinating and a childhood fave! But the centrifuge section never really works out not to mention it would’ve never provided gravity at best it would’ve been like a dizzying ride at the carnival Don’t get me wrong I love the film and your representation here is wonderful
I see one major desgn flaw, I´ve somehow missed before. If the pod bay doors, for whatever reason, stays open. Then the crew would never be able to rertieve their spacesuits. They are in the pod hangar as well. In the vacuum of space..?
I appreciate the effort put into making this. Thank you. The designers of the ship wasted a lot of space I noticed. Some connections and support rooms were badly designed,for real functionality. I had always wondered about the layout of the Discovery,now I have a better idea.
Outstanding work! Two things, if I may. One: A map of the ship with a "You are here" indicator would be a welcome addition. I kept losing track of where I was inside the ship, in relation to the exterior. Second is only loosely related to the ship. The circular corridor that rotated to generate artificial Gs. If you jogged AGAINST the rotation of the corridor at the right speed, you would negate the rotation and remain in one spot in relation to the rest of the ship. Wouldn't you then return to Zero G and float?
It is my opinion that the design for the Discovery might have been influenced by Matt Jeffries' early sketches for the Enterprise. Also...Trek Veteran Gary Lockwood was featured in "2001"!!!!
Because it doesn't actually fit within the confines of the main sphere of the ship if you also put in the bridge and the flight deck....unless the Discovery was built by the Timelords, then it could be bigger on the inside and it would fit.
