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

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, September 19, 2010 17:57
VIEWED: 4058
PAGE 3 of 3

Quote:

---

Originally posted by chrisisall:

4)Best overall scope of model effects in a single series or movie

---

Toss-up between 2001 and Thunderbirds, I'd say.

I've recently got Blu-Ray, and the first "non-Pixar" movie (the Pixar stuff is incredible in HD, but I found it a bit ~meh for "real" films) that really blew my socks off in HD was 2001. You can find faults in the FX but overall stand up incredibly well.

They pretty much invented the "starship beauty shot" - and the whole "Blue Danube" segment during which Floyd travels to the moon* is, of course, immortal. Its hard to imagine that anything that came after this wasn't influenced by it (even if they stole the "stargate" effect from Doctor Who - although I think the original 60s 'Who used video feedback rather than slit scan).

Thunderbirds, is, well, Thunderbirds - but while it will bring a thrill to anybody who's ever built a model, its very obvious to modern eyes that everything is a model.

Quote:

---

5)Best animated model

---

Can I nominate "Gromit" from Wallace and Gromit? How can a lump of plasticine with no mouth be such a good actor?

Quote:

---

6)Other you can make up

---

6) Most hideous travesty resulting from an under-budgeted mid-series switch from model work to CGI.

Red Dwarf. 'Nuff said.


(*its no wonder that Pan-Am went bust if they were flying shuttles to the moon with so many empty seats... )

NOTIFY: Y  | REPLY  | REPLY WITH QUOTE  | PERMALINK  | TOP  | HOME