Resurrection of the Daleks with New VFX (updated version) (Classic Doctor Who)
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It's been well over a year since I started doing these so I decided to revisit some of my earlier efforts and render them in 1080p rather than 720p (for some reason I thought 720p was fine, since the source material was DVD, but some effects look a bit pixelated and even worse after going through KZread's shit filter). Just to clarify though, the source material is NOT upscaled in any way, it's still the OG DVD resolution, it's just the rendering that's HD.
Since this was the very first one I ever did I also wanted to add some of the things I'd learned over the last year, and I wasn't too happy with how this looked when comparing it to my later efforts.
So, once again, here's Resurrection of the Daleks, one of the bleakest Dr. Who stories ever, with some shiny new VFX!
0:13 - I added some extra muzzle flashes just to see how it would look. Jury is still out.
0:22 - It's a bit blink and you miss it (it's only three or four frames I think), but I added bullet holes to the guy's coat and a bit of smoke.
0:29 - I added a few more bells and whistles to the teleport effect. It's a little bit Star Treky now :-)
0:41 - As this shot of the Dalek cruiser was shot on film, you get a duplicate frame every 4 or 5 frames, and this makes it look weird if you add new effects that don't have the duplicate frames. So I removed the duplicates which gives it much smoother movement, and doesn't look too jarring with the new effects.
0:56 - I didn't make many changes to my original time tunnel other than adding a little extra glow and glare.
1:22 - Other than rendering these shots in a higher resolution I also tried to make the Dalek ship look less like a cut-out (which it is). I think it was moderately successful!
1:42 - For the battle scenes I redid the Dalek lasers to match the style I used in subsequent efforts, but I didn't make much change to the goodie lasers other than perhaps speeding their animation up a bit.
2:23 - Before I did this work (the first time) I don't think I'd ever noticed that it's the same three people getting shot twice. Unlucky.
2:53 - For many of the scenes I added new Dalek laser effects, and accompanying sounds, because it just felt like it needed it in some places. Here, for example, the blinded Dalek shoots randomly a couple of times, which feels like a natural reaction for a death machine that's just been blinded.
3:45 - This is a scene where I added a few more shots from the goodies (particularly Zena, who is basically spamming her fire button), and also added the correct sound effect for the weapons over the top of the wrong ones.
4:34 - When I did this originally I added flashes of colour to the whole screen (I didn't quite get how masking worked on layers yet), so for any laser blasts I've localised the flashes of environmental light, which I did for all my later work.
4:40 - No, that's not Lytton that gets shot (he feigns death just behind this poor guy)
6:00 - I didn't want to overdo or obscure the original model explosion too much, because it's pretty great, but I tried to add a bit more oomph to the explosion.
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2:49 That guy was determined to compensate for all the half assed deaths from the other actors
Bleak story where everyone practically ends up dead. Love the new effects
@andiholman2543
Жыл бұрын
Famous for having a higher kill rate than The Terminator of the same year. Mary Whitehouse must’ve been furious 😂
@ethanstoeckel3901
Жыл бұрын
Wow but davros is back baby
@richardbuckley1232
Жыл бұрын
Genecidal Insanity of the Daleks! Lol
@robotx9285
8 ай бұрын
The Hired Guns get clapped. The Daleks get aids and die. Davros spent to much time consuming his own supply, thus also got aids and died. The Gurads were given mall security levels of training and weopons, and thus were all clapped go death. And Tegan is traumatized to the point of never having fully recovered by new who. Even with the help of Ace, Mel, K-9 or Sarah Jane.
The TARDIS in the time corridor sequence is exceptional.
I love how from _Genesis_ ~ _Revelation,_ to be hit by a Dalek’s weapon is _particularly_ excruciating, and even after the green-blue irradiation fades away the victim can still remain alive and standing for quite a few seconds as they stare in shock and disbelief before they drop down dead . . . It’s even a sort of plot point here in that although Stien is blasted by the Daleks in front of the now-primed station self-destruct controls he still has enough time and composure to launch himself onto the module to active it.
@c0nvict_pleb174
Жыл бұрын
I’m remembrance of the Daleks, the seventh doctor said that to be shot by a dalek and what happens it that your “insides get scrambled” which… is f*cking gory
@th8257
4 ай бұрын
I suspect it's more to do with that generation of actors, many of whom primarily worked in the theatre of that era and as a result had developed a style that might politely be called "theatrical"
Always laughed at the trooper who is exterminated and let's out a giant "Owwwww" as if he's just dropped something on his foot!
They couldn’t have chosen a bleaker location for this shoot. Shad Thames in 84 is a whole world away from how it is now. In fact, an apartment there in Butlers Wharf is still my lottery win residence of choice.
Someone needs to do a Kill Count on this episode! Just a stupid amount of death, as highlighted in this video. As of 2021, Resurrection of the Daleks has the highest on-screen body count of any televised Doctor Who story, with 76 deaths.
Now this is truly exceptional. Only real critique is the muzzle flashes of the guns at the beginning being a bit too OTT
Brutal and bleak battles in the end of this story, it's no wonder you'd want to leave like Tegan did, if this was real.
Excellent work, really elevates which is an already amazing story! Fingers crossed this gets picked for updated special effects when Season 21 comes to the collection
@stephaniepage4334
Жыл бұрын
I agreed
I recall this episode also missing a lot of audio elements, as in you'd see the flash for the Dalek's disruptors, but no sound, and random soldiers just going "Aiee!" and falling over.
@aqacefan
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, pretty obvious to see how the tuppence budget was originally allocated.
Just a tip. At the start the submachine gun has a silencer on it which would eliminate any muzzle flash. So adding that in makes it look unrealistic.
I always liked Rula Lenska's take on a medical officer... Interesting effects upgrades from the originals. So easy to see why Tegan left...
Great work esp the time corridor. One criticism is the muzzle flashes for the police look silly because those weapons wouldn't produce them.
@cunningmunki
2 жыл бұрын
yeah I wasn't convinced by them either, I'll probably take them out
@mekhimays9599
Жыл бұрын
@@cunningmunki kzread.info/dash/bejne/hGxnxdCFh9m4o5s.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqSqtal8k5nSaM4.html
2:58 my vision is impaired i cannot see
Amazing. Well done. Excellent work. The body count😱😉 Love the design of the DALEK battle cruiser in this and the Space Station. Top notch.
Brilliant. The BBC Should give you a job. This is fantastic.
Excellent work 👍👍, I love the brand new Special Effects, They’re Fantastic and Awesome.
Great work. I love this episode. It’s eerie and still haunts me. Like Earthshock
This should make a great updated effects for Doctor Who: The Collection Season 21 Blu-Ray set mate!
Excellent work, shame you can't remaster some of the acting! :D
Always astonishes me just how much some well done effects can transform a lesser Who story into a much more exciting one.
@cunningmunki
Жыл бұрын
This is why Dr Who is in dire need of an updated version like Star Trek. And I don't mean just "optional" effects, they should be the standard. The old effects should be the DVD extra! Trekkies were up in arms about replacing the effects back when they first did it, but now no one cares and Star Trek TOS is all the better for it.
@Lumibear.
Жыл бұрын
@@cunningmunki if we could all wish it upon you I’m sure we would Munki, but unfortunately the BBC seem deliberately trying not to let the fans get their hands on their old cash cow too much, intermittent and patchy quality special editions only, my theory being it’s for fear the audience might be so happy with what they last got that they’ll stop buying the next overpriced under-improved boxset that mostly only slightly tweaked the contrast a bit.
These are great! Deserve to be on the real thing.
LOVE this! A great deal of time and effort is all up there on the screen. Thanks for this!
Great work as always! Thank you for this.
I love your new rendtion of the warehouse battle!
I think the Dalek ray deaths are fantastic sddo
Great work. I like how the shaving cream was left alone. Can't improve upon that! 😂
Brilliant video!
Very impressive...
Give the classic Dalek episodes a CGI upgrade, and they are so much better than the modern series.
The new effects really enhanced this old classic.
absolutely brilliant!!!!!!
TEGAN: DOCTOR I CAN'T HOLD MUCH MORE. THE 5TH DOCTOR: HOLD ON
Amazing!
Great job.
Trial of the Time Lords new fx
I hope we will.have this version on season 21.
excellent
2:33 *Worse aim than a Storm Trooper*
I first noticed this style of updated ("overlaid") VFX on the 6th-7th Doctor regeneration … which is fine for personal experiments, but on a professional product for sale I want to see something that's not 100% adding luminance to the picture. Sometimes the new effect has to darken the image too, not just lighten it. (I have a theory that the images are always displayed "darker" on SDR LCDs and OLEDs than they were originally designed to be seen on CRTs, since TVs got less contrast for a decade after flat panels were introduced … so the "original" footage looks darker than it truly did when it was first seen).
@cunningmunki
22 күн бұрын
@@whophd I don't fully understand what you mean, but these effects are not just "100% adding luminance to the picture". 90% of these are entirely new VFX. Perhaps you might need to watch the original again 🙂
@whophd
21 күн бұрын
@@cunningmunki Hmm what about if I say "the new effects are usually brighter than the ones they replace"? Or maybe I'm thinking of certain examples like the glow effect, which is probably always used without reducing the overall picture exposure. This gives away the anachronism maybe.
@cunningmunki
21 күн бұрын
@@whophd yep I see what you mean. Often the effect on the whole frame depends on the scene, for example, the light from the "laser gun" should realistically alight it's surroundings and unless that's done in-camera you're left with few options but to lighten, or partially lighten the surrounding frame. This can sometimes result in some artifacting or an unrealistic increased exposure, especially in dark scenes, of which there are many in this story, but without the ability to add HDR it's unfortunately unavoidable and only fleeting. But I take your point about the rest of the frame becoming underexposed due to the increased points of light, so I might experiment with that in future, so thanks for the tip!
@whophd
21 күн бұрын
@@cunningmunki In fact were you thinking about how the camera lens would REACT to the brightness, and after a split second the exposure would DUCK! That's going to look quite realistic. I've been thinking more about how to describe my frustrations that were mostly subconscious: When a super bright object glows (think of the Silver Nemesis statue in Season 25), a real camera with a real object would tighten its lens right down, to reveal details and the face. It would still SEEM bright of course, and clearly the glowing light would be spilling into surrounding areas of the image - a familiar technique. But my frustration is when the image details get smudged into a whiteness-nothing, with no more headroom for brightness. In fact these "white" images were intended to be viewed more brightly when we had CRTs, because the contrast and brightness went down once the revolution of flat panels started (until HDR, but that's still starting slowly). Take a look at the new videos on my channel in the past week ... I've done some careful grading and mapping of the 1988 vision, and adapted it for my very modern HDR display (1600 nits, a fairly high standard right now). What you specifically are going to find incredible is that when I was working on each scene - naturally I had to validate the mapping scene-by-scene - I discovered that the new CG sequences didn't fit the brightness curves of the original. The new material is calibrated to what is now "SDR" 100 nits, so I can't grade it with anywhere near the same strength as the original 1988 video material. In fact I had to change my LUT (lookup table) entirely to a film-based one, that suited it far better (I've found the same thing when a film insert has been recaptured directly to digital in the DVD or Blu-ray era), and even then I had to detune the LUT by 33%-50% to match the adjacent material. Wow.
Hello boys.
I knew this episode starred rula lensflare
Did dalek kill doctor great grandson Alex?
4:40, correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that Lytton who feigned his death? If so, then the Dalek blast shouldn't be there.
@cunningmunki
2 жыл бұрын
It is not. You can see Lytton behind him taking a dive at the same time :-) I guess he figured that was probably a good time to play dead!
@Combaticon
2 жыл бұрын
@@cunningmunki Ah, I see him now; he didn't get hit by the red bolts. I just seemed to remember watching this a long time ago and since the last one made subdued grunt I assumed it was him (not easy to tell who's whom when the weapons don't have VFXs). In any case thanks for correcting me and nice work on the VFX!
@cunningmunki
2 жыл бұрын
@@Combaticon thanks! Yeah, I really wanted to add someone getting hit by a Dalek blast in this scene, because they were in the battle but didn't seem to be shooting anyone! When I first did it I did think I'd accidentally killed Lytton, but then realised he was at the back. Phew!
@julianaylor4351
2 жыл бұрын
Lytton ended being killed by the sixth Doctor to stop him being turned into a Cyberman. Sadly the actor who played him died young.
@Combaticon
2 жыл бұрын
@@julianaylor4351 I thought he was killed by the Cyber Controller.
You giving Revelation of the Daleks new vfx sometime?
@cunningmunki
10 ай бұрын
it already has them. they're not amazing, but they're ok
horrible story