Taking nominatios for Best Model Work in SF show or movie...

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

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Originally posted by AURaptor:


It's what I do.

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That sounded suspiciously like Adam Baldwin from "Superman: Doomsday"....

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Captain Mal Reynolds, in the cargo bay, responding to River Tam's question.

Or near enough. And you'll excuse me for leaving out the 'darlin'.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

Here are the categories:

1)Best completely practical model effect
2)Best model combined with explosive effect
3)Best model combined with matte effect
4)Best overall scope of model effects in a single series or movie
5)Best animated model
6)Other you can make up

The laughing Chrisisall

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I'll be honest and say that I don't know enough about models in film or how the scenes were produced to fit my picks into particular categories so I'll just post my fave/best picks and you experts can figure out where they go.

Already nominated:
Spacefight over the Death Star II - Return Of The Jedi
AT-AT Walkers - Empire Strikes Back

And my new nominations:
Death of the Enterprise - Star Trek III
Mothership arrival - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Pretty much anything from Aliens or Star Wars OT

And for category Six I won't nominate a film but a person for a Very Honourable Mention just to move away from the plethora of vehicles listed so far.
And that person is Stan Winston for all his outstanding animatronic work - which I would class as models. Just think of the Endoskeleton from Terminator, the Alien Queen and Power Loader from Aliens, the 'real' dinosaurs from Jurassic Park and finally his never bettered work on distorting human (and dog) flesh in The Thing.



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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:

I nominate the 1/8 scale model Serenity from the BDM, used for the big crash.

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Y'know, I'd forgotten that that was a model. Yeah, it was amazing- better than the Flying Sub effects.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Stan Winston was a genius.

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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:

I nominate the 1/8 scale model Serenity from the BDM, used for the big crash.

It's a painful scene to watch, but it looks fantastic.

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You are so right!

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Stan Winston was a genius.

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Sorta off topic, but in your opinion, as WInston followed Harryhausen, does Murrin follow Winston ?

If not Dennis, who ?

Just askin'.


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Originally posted by chrisisall:
*This is a CGI free zone*

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea?
UFO?
Space 1999?
2001?
Star Wars?
Star Trek III?
Alien?
Aliens?
Independence Day?


Here are the categories:

1)Best completely practical model effect
2)Best model combined with explosive effect
3)Best model combined with matte effect
4)Best overall scope of model effects in a single series or movie
5)Best animated model
6)Other you can make up



These are my nominations:

1) Flying Sub- Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
2) Eagles 'sploding on the Moon- Space 1999
3) Enterprise shots- Star Trek III
4) Aliens
5) Walkers- Empire Strikes Back
6) Coolest attention to detail: 2001

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There can be no discussion of miniature models that includes Gerry Anderson, yet ignores Thunderbirds!

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:

There can be no discussion of miniature models that includes Gerry Anderson, yet ignores Thunderbirds!

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Agreed (and then you have to include the spoof from "Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave"...)

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