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I love this kind of thing. Such a simple way to do something complicated, and with a terrific result.
What a cheesy movie… I’ve rewatched it about five times.
The original starwars was all “miniature models” and “puppets”…
What is this? A castle for ants?
“It’s only a model”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
If it works, don’t knock it.
It looks better than a lot of CGI that gets churned out.
Old effects were incredibly creative. I won’t say they didn’t look incredibly wrong alot of the time but when it worked it was rock solid.
“Now let me tell you of the days of high adventure…”
Looked better and convinced me more than most of today’s completely overdone CGI crap. Stuff like this also ages pretty well. I wish they’d do more like this in recent movies.
You wanna see crazy, look up how they did the intro city scene in blade runner
Wait til OP sees the behind the scenes of…i’unno, pick any Star Wars movie.
I’m a vfx idiot, so how did they edit out the sticks holding up the prop?
So they didn’t build a castle on that mountain for the movie? That’s low effort.
Blender 1984
It’s called practical effects, and they do fall under the umbrella of special effects, so you don’t need the quotation marks.
I think the problem may have been there was a mountaintop castle on the set that was in danger of being trampled by a dwarf.
Reminds me of [this shot](https://imgur.com/gallery/Ve0u2WA) from Dune.
The top picture is the final shot of the emperor and his entourage walking down the ramp of an apparently huge ship surrounded by hundreds of troops in formation. In motion you can actually see there are definitely real people walking down a ramp. In 1984 they couldn’t CGI that.
The middle picture is the miniature used to make the shot with a crew member poking up through the hole in the center where the actors were visible.
The bottom picture is showing the miniature on location next to a soccer field. The miniature and camera were on top of that scaffolding and the actors were walking down a full size ramp built on the soccer field and visible through the cutout made to blend seamlessly into the miniature.
I wonder why special effects is in quotations……
What’s actually quite genius about it is that the lighting will always automatically match (even better if that’s a 3D shape, shadows will fall in the same direction as the real mountain).
Why “special effects” in quotes? These *are* special effects. This is how things were, and still can be, done. And it was done well – with skill, craft, ingenuity, artistry, care, and expertise.
Next thing, you’re gonna tell me the FX in John Carpenter’s *The Thing* are “special effects”, too?
If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.
Whilst this is cool and creative, it’s frustrating as a VFX artist to see everyone and their dog chime in on how modern VFX looks crap and is uncreative, or requires no effort, and that this style of film making (from this post) is far superior.
It’s not like you’re speaking an unpopular opinion, every time someone posts something like this, the comments are always plagued by the same opinion.
The truth is, you only notice the bad VFX, and that is what breaks the immersion. If I’m doing my job correctly you wouldn’t notice that I did anything at all…
Bad VFX happens just like how bad practical effects happened back in the day, by underpaying staff or not giving enough time, or changing the brief constantly and giving bad notes that drive the artists in circles wasting valuable time when many clients also refuse to change the deadline after they redo the whole brief several times.
At the end of the day, it’s just a tool. And it works best when it’s there to augment reality and not replace it. But how it’s used comes down to the filmmakers who more often then not, don’t even understand how it works.
The best special effect in that movie was Olivia d’Abo.
Boy did I have a crush on her.
Why the scare quotes? This is a special effect, and a perfectly good one.
Genius. Simply genius
what about when he punches the camel?
CAMELOT!
Now *this* is practical effects.
“It’s only a model”
Practical effects are a lost art. I wish more modern media would use them.
This is cool. Modem VFX don’t always look as good. I liked it better when CGI was used to augment practical effects instead of supplanting them.
Simple, cheap, and visually perfect. Love it
No quotation marks needed around special effects. These are indeed actual special effects.
And look at how fucking real it looks
If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.
It works
This is a very old technique dating back to the early days of filmmaking. Matt paintings on glass were used to create such effects. Let’s say the film called for a castle on top of a hill; paint a tiny castle on a sheet of glass, position the painted glass between the camera and the hill in the background, shoot the scene through the glass.
Practical effects are so cool.
How did they delete the sticks holding up the model? Was that in post-production? How would they have done that pre-cgi?
What’s with the sarcastic quotes? That’s literally what special effects are, gang.