I love Army of Darkness and its creator’s confidence of making wonderful things on low budget.

@bernhardtsen74

2 жыл бұрын

stupid company though for Not using the Evil Dead 3 title, very few fans knew it was about the Evil Dead universe!Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi is a good combo!

I worked on Army of Darkness as the Best boy grip on the VFX unit at Introvision. I liked working there but the owner was a PITA. Introvision was a co-producer on the show. Every day was a new challenge and problems to solve. One day towards he end of the show the owner and Sam Raimi's producer got into a fist fight in the parking lot. I have no Idea what over but it provided for good gossip!

Great shot in my Japanese widescreen laserdisc of the movie it looks auseme god bless you guys

Many thanks, I can’t begin to tell you how fascinating and enlightening these are to me. Their talents provide a window into another world.

@piercefilm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. More segments coming up soon!

I love this channel

@piercefilm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

You’ll be delighted to know that here in the U.K. that destroyed London ending was used. It’s the one I saw as a kid and had on VHS. Ash wakes up and realises he overslept by several millennium 😂

At 5:05 I'm working on a miniature cave entrance set where I rigged a cave-in effect. It was part of the original ending with the post-apocalyptic London set. Some DVDs have it as an extra.

@calessel3139

3 жыл бұрын

You and your colleagues did superb work! Particularly when factoring in the budget.

@hefflesniggener

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. For me, this was a "big budget" production. Everything I'd worked on previously had microscopic effects budgets compared to AoD. That little bit of extra money helped immensely because it allowed them to hire more experienced artists.

@calessel3139

3 жыл бұрын

@@hefflesniggener I loved the film, it's one of my favorite movies, and I'm just amazed what you guys can do with basically cardboard, papermache, yard clippings, glue and some paint. I dont think people appreciate what great things you guys accomplish with so little at hand. Thanks for your work!

@Clay3613

3 жыл бұрын

You have Twitter or Social Media?

We got the cool model shot ending in the UK and now it's available on the DVD it's a much better ending.

@Abaddon3x7

2 жыл бұрын

That's right, we did get the darker version in the UK, sometimes they have two different versions of films, a happy ending for the US market and the darker ending for I presume everywhere else. Books are the same, when UK authors sell their books to the US they have to make a happy ending or one with everything all wrapped up at the end for the US market. The UK fictional crime writer Ian Rankin talks about some distributor/publisher asking for it to be done, not sure if he obliged.

Low budget? Well it looks better than many big budget movie effects. Incredible work!!!

Awesome !!!

amazing channel! wouldn't mind to get longer versions, super interesting stuff :D

@piercefilm

2 жыл бұрын

There aren't really any longer versions. Each of these segments is part of my Sense of Scale doc where model makers talk about their work on different films.

@yellowhorse1

Жыл бұрын

@@piercefilm Thank you for all the cool uploads, very interesting :)

Now I really want to know if the guy who ordered the models destroyed kept his job or not!

@piercefilm

3 жыл бұрын

Gene went on to do many films like Titanic, Apollo 13, Godzilla, Team America. He's a legend in the business! Introvision went under soon after...

@Clay3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@piercefilm I love the Introvision process, abandoned way too soon in favor of rather dodgy greenscreen. Unless it was ILM, chances are the compositing looked obvious till the mid-2000s.

@scottgamble7767

3 жыл бұрын

@@piercefilm : Yes I was sorry to see Introvision go under. I thought the results of their process were truly amazing looking... and no matte lines. There was a shot in a Cinefantastique issue years a go where a of Introvision VIP (An owner? Anyone know?) was composited in a shot of Dorothy on the yellow brick road from *The Wizard of Oz* as a test and it looked perfect. In the finished shot Dorothy was looking at him while he shook a finger at her. These days, kids can do a shot like that on any PC, but back in the day (what was it, 35 or more years ago?) it was ground breaking and I think all done in one shot in camera, right? Like a live action version of Ray Harryhausen's Dynamation strip printing, but done with front projection. Yes?

@kentallard8852

3 жыл бұрын

@@Clay3613 often still does

@richardkilroy3010

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottgamble7767 The owner of Introvision was Tom Naud. He was a New York game show developer in the sixties and ran this unique f/x studio for a healthy run during the early 80's in to the 90's. His concept is still unique: the director can see a finished f/x shot on set through the camera lens.

windmill, gargoyles, nice.

Destroying the prick's buildings, and not using the shot in the movie in the end... priceless! 😂👍

@piercefilm

Жыл бұрын

The European version did use the shot, so it got seen.

Yeah but we got to see that ending 👍😉

He's got a Bigelow Aerospace shirt on. He must have worked on the mockup models for their space habitats.

@piercefilm

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

What type of paint do use to paint the Miniatures

Where can I get this whole documentary on DVD?

@piercefilm

2 жыл бұрын

It was on Amazon, but is sold out. Maybe some used copies around. But the DVD is a trailer for my channel. I am uploading 12+ hours of the doc in segments. Much better than the DVD!

@hatakashi1900

2 жыл бұрын

@@piercefilm oooo that's great, thanks for your efforts . Would u kind enough to put one complete video up?

@piercefilm

2 жыл бұрын

@@hatakashi1900 One 12 hour video? Sorry, can't do that.

nice malicious compliance story

@piercefilm

3 жыл бұрын

As long as it's under budget!

:)

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Nothing wrong with enjoying the art but if you short your worth because of it you will starve

Hated Army of Darkness, easily the weakest in the series, and having watched loads of vids on miniature making for various films, this stuff seems pretty poor quality- none of it looks convincing especially that mess at the end depicting Ash in the future. No disrespect to the modellers, the windmill scene is nice, and I'm sure they've done excellent work elsewhere.

@scottgamble7767

3 жыл бұрын

Hey... for the money production had to spend on this I think they were very successful Peter. You can't compare it to other larger budget shows due to the shoe string they had for the VFX budget. $4 K for a setup as involved at that unused end shot was? Fugettaboudit !! These people deserve some love for their efforts. I didn't realize that the budget was so low. With that in mind, I think the miniatures looked great for what they were. What are you comparing it to? *Evil Dead 2*? I suppose you could say that one was the better of the two movies, but there is no comparison between them... considering the ambitious amount of specialty work done for *Army* when stacked next to *ED2*. Neither of them are in my top 10 pictures of all time, but I saw *Army* at the theater it's first week out and the audience there on the evening absolutely loved it. Thanks for this video. Some really great footage here and excellent stills that look even better that the miniatures did in the final film.

@nagualdesign

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottgamble7767 By that rationale, if they had a budget of $1 so they just painted a cardboard box you could say it was very successful. A more sensible way to assess its success is to say it wasn't great and it shows, and that's what you get with underfunding.

@piercefilm

3 жыл бұрын

I see it as another Dino De Laurentiis overkill production that had to be huge, and yet had money problems like Barbarella, Danger Diabolik, King Kong, Flash Gordon, and Dune! They're all fun to rewatch. Can't take the Three Stooges style of AoD too seriously. ;)

@scottgamble7767

3 жыл бұрын

@@nagualdesign : You obviously aren't in the biz are you? Many people "armchair quarterback" movies that have never worked on one. Your comment about $1 is ridiculous. And, yes... some folks do things for no money... or with no money to spend... and they should be applauded for getting any decent results at all, because all movies are hard work. When you guys can match this quality on this kind of schedule and that "little money" you can talk. If you have, please post a link to your work as I would really like to see it. But, don't talk to me if you work on Weta or ILM budgets, as that is not a fair comparison.

@scottgamble7767

3 жыл бұрын

@@nagualdesign : Speaking of card board boxes... check out the videos on *Escape from NY*. That's all they had to work with!