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Another Buck Rogers matte shot
Posted on June 16th, 2009 No commentsHere is another of Syd Dutton’s terrific Buck Rogers matte paintings. Syd again used the original negative / latent image compositing technique.
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“V-The Final Battle” mothership
Posted on June 10th, 2009 No commentsThis is one of my favorite shots of the Mothership from “V-The Final Battle.” This was a gorgeous model constructed by famed model maker, Greg Jein. It was about 30 inches across and made of cast resin with neon internal lighting.
The composite was done “in-the-camera” on the original negative for best quality. The move was programmed with a repeating motion controlled camera rig. To make this shot work we had to be able to repeat the camera & saucer move over and over to capture the model, lights, matte, earth and stars. Read the rest of this entry »
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“V-The Final Battle”
Posted on June 6th, 2009 No commentsHere are two more shots from “V-The Final Battle.” The saucer was an approx. 30″ model constructed by Greg Jein. It was composited with the live action using two rear projection images with matte painting blends by David Stipes.
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Here comes another remake!
Posted on June 1st, 2009 No commentsMy son, Nathan, sent this to me with the following comment:
“Not sure how I feel about this yet…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsZelpXj-CE
Well, here comes another remake! Before the new “V” gets here I thought I would put up a few pix from the original.
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“The Emperor’s New Cloak” vfx
Posted on May 29th, 2009 No commentsJohn Eaves has published drawings of the portable cloaking device for Star Trek Deep Space-Nine episode, “The Emperor’s New Cloak” on his blog, Eavesdropping with Johnny at: http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/klingon-cloaking-device/
When this episode was photographed I was on set as the vis efx supervisor. It was decided that since the cloaking device was “cloaked” or invisible, we didn’t need to do any visual effects. I wondered if the pantomime was going to really sell that they had a mechanical device they were stealing. I kept asking if the producers were sure there would not be an effect; that they didn’t want me to take camera measurements and documentation of the set up just in case. I was repeatedly reassured there would be no visual effects.
We did set up a rectangle of string that the actors playing Rom and Quark held in their hands. This enabled them to keep some semblance of size and distance between their hands and each other as they moved along. After all, they were supposed to be carrying a rigid heavy device of a specific size together. I am so glad we did that.
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