rock video shot in vancouver with miniatures

	cmdurham wrote:
	Return of the Jedi looks a hundred times better than any of the prequels.

Amen. Return of the Jedi looks better than ANY other space movie. Just look at the star destroyer in the opening shot, compared to the one in A New Hope (and that was pretty cool).

These miniatures posted here (and in the space thread) are just my favorite thing on the internet today, I'm totally freaking out over it. (and I'm a CG guy)

- Jonas

I’m in to making this happen, so i hope others here have pic’s too or will start to try it. I feel there sort of two school on this in one corner that clumsily ham fisted idiot Michael Bay pushing the CGI better then Lucas in to a photo real with ILM being a CGI only shop and their mouldings the look in the last few years almost more then Lucas, but some how it comes out cold, and Peter Jackson with the WETA team who do both. The vinyl idea is not far off. I shot digital but love the tactile of minis.

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Also im not trying to be perfect in the look its like a drawing or painting i want personality to show in them. I love the idea of a sort of film comic book. Not like xmen or iron man which in a sense are very real looking i love those movies but im interested in a different look more like a heavy metal comic...

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I love the look of these!

I've always wanted to do some model work.

	Faldor wrote:
	I love the look of these! I've always wanted to do some model work.

Do it, build them! and post the pics here if you can...

also different look for possible colour step on video..

model WIP
can you spot the spoll from a interact paper holder?

another city view...

the models raw and unpainted in the wrong light....

heres the models being shot on set we had a old sckool DOP who had shot miniatures on freeking "the right stuff" !! how awsome is that??

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	Also im not trying to be perfect in the look... I love the idea of a sort of film comic book.

Interesting that you say that, because when I look at them I dont see "reality". I expect to see Wallace and Gromit walk through. Now that you mention your style origin, it kinda makes sense.

Very interesting.

	Gage wrote:
	Interesting that you say that, because when I look at them I dont see "reality". I expect to see Wallace and Gromit walk through.

Yea, but a *dark* film noir Wallace & Gromit, right?

- Jonas

Gage wrote:

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	Also im not trying to be perfect in the look... I love the idea of a sort of film comic book.

Interesting that you say that, because when I look at them I dont see "reality". I expect to see Wallace and Gromit walk through. Now that you mention your style origin, it kinda makes sense.

Very interesting.

I loooooooove all of the aardman stuff!! Those guys rule. But yeah the idea here at rebel is to make it yours and keep it cheap, this is my version of that mantra. most of the model parts are doll house bits for say newpapers and dishes and dollar store stuff if you knew the budgets on these sets your head would hurt, we got 1/40th what CGI got and we did 50 percent of interiors for that cost.
If you think you can do transformers on a shoestring you will fail. period. but if you come up with some thing else you may have better luck.
were trying puppets right now for a robot thing, we also tested using migets and kids in costumes in giant model sets AKA godzilla style for this idea...

this cost about 2 dollars in supplies its got toothbrush boxes, old model parts , styrene and my newst fav material fun foam from the dollar store [got that idea from http://www.jedielfqueen.com/ her suff rocks!!

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one of the first miniatures i built was this one, i saw lotr and got really jazzed on them and taught myself building 40 k warhammer game terrain like this stuff

lotr orc tower....first movie style model

game terrain to learn...

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wow, very nice

Outstanding sets. Even your whole workplace looks like a perfect filmlocation.
Specialy love the helmet 23 and the orc tower.
Actors have to be keyed in I presume.
Love that sixties-seventies stuff...lol.

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-Pierre

Must...resist...temptation...to...turn...living room....into...miniatures...set...

Great work. I always wanted to learn how to build miniatures sets. Does anyone here have suggestions for books and ressources for a beginner in that field ?

Eric

theres a ton of model books out there, for tanks planes etc. Old school pre digital cinefex, [ i have cinefex issue 29 star trek 4 for sale if any ones looking for it just PM me.] the lotrs and strangly enough the phantom menace cinefex is one i use all the time for reference. Also the awsome book "Sculpting the galaxy". This book is a must have for any miniature builder.

http://insighteditions.com/product_info.php?products_id=54

I taught myself as mentioned by building game terrain for warhammer 40k.

Also buy or rent the LOTR special editions and watch the effects and model segments. This was what i did to make the orc tower.

So to start go to home depot or rona and buy a sheet of thin pink or blue foam Insulation [under 15 bucks] and try building some thing...

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Monkey, this is terrific work. Extraordinarily inspiring.

Model building, itself, isn't that hard -- it's having a comprehensive production design, the capacity to select the necessary details and skip the rest, and as for faux finishes etc., it's more of an attitude than a collection of techniques. Your work shows what care in building, and care in shooting, can do.

Bravo!!!

-- Paul