Crazy how much time and effort went into these shots back then! Although the result was well worth it.

Lord.... the time put into these older movies is unreal

@Patara.

7 жыл бұрын

M&N Distribution I mean like if done well it can blend in just fine with editing software these day.

@JohnDoe-zh6cp

7 жыл бұрын

Takes even more time now. CGI artists have to render each frame indiviually

@BioClone

7 жыл бұрын

"its way easier to create a model in a modeling program and add some FX using a computer and make them move on the screen, rather than create a physical model from scratch and move it and the camera around" Not, it isnt... It allows more detail, cleaner working, reusability and less space and money on the materials... however its not, by any mean, easier... also CGI requires much more work and experience to achieve great results, while its much easier to get experience and achieve good results modeling a fisical object...

@bouchandre

7 жыл бұрын

If you only knew the time it takes to do digital stuff.. oh god...

@UnchainedEruption

5 жыл бұрын

M&N Distribution “older”

The jumping AT-AT at 6:46 is epic.

@autumn702

7 жыл бұрын

And here we see a baby AT-AT, frollicking alongside it's mother.

@user-nn5my1lc5q

6 жыл бұрын

Gryffydd David It's my firm belief that Robot Chicken saw this animatic and used it for their racing walkers

@captainrex4403

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO!!! All the years that I have watched this making of documentary I never noticed that!!! Good catch.

@lolafinch

5 жыл бұрын

That's how they move when deployed on low-g moons.

@niilo7552

4 жыл бұрын

atatat

6:44 Thank god they didn't go for that jumping AT-AT. Hilarious.

@Towert7

10 жыл бұрын

agreed! wow.

@Jakarii

9 жыл бұрын

LOL

@smw1279

4 жыл бұрын

They did in Robot Chicken

@hugejackedman7423

4 жыл бұрын

@@smw1279 Glad it wasn't in Star Wars though.

@amarolatoja2272

4 жыл бұрын

@@hugejackedman7423 pretty sure the animator was only fooling around mate

This is what I call DEDICATION!

@onionboy7099

6 жыл бұрын

Now this is dedication

Learn how blue-screens, stop motion animation, and intricately built (and destroyed) models made up the Original Trilogy's much-loved special effects.

@3ccdmike

10 жыл бұрын

Dykstra st work.

@petitlouiscoeurcarlini9908

10 жыл бұрын

très bon

@HarbourRat

10 жыл бұрын

To me, the stop motion effects looks more real than the CG effects of today.

@MrSabram07

10 жыл бұрын

This is so great. It my dream job

@9355504

10 жыл бұрын

Old fashion beats the crap out of modern day cg effects... my respect and a really big applause for those who made these films!! May the force be with them!

That is insane, 8 hours work for 1 second footage! No Wonder why Star Wars is one the best if not the best movies ever made! Star Wars FTW

@josegarcia303

6 жыл бұрын

Kent Olav Jakobsen nah not the best but its good

@UnchainedEruption

5 жыл бұрын

Kent Olav Jakobsen All animation, stop-motion or otherwise, is like that.

@justinb954

5 жыл бұрын

KevinKent, Olav Jakobsen... All the newer big budget movies with 200 million dollar budgets have credits that roll for 30 minutes. There's hundreds of people involved.

@Skankhunt-xr5lb

4 жыл бұрын

@@justinb954 credits that roll for 30 minutes...? like which movies huh

@christianlee5666

4 жыл бұрын

@@Skankhunt-xr5lb Every movie...

THAT, my friends, is the real movie making!

@captainrex4403

5 жыл бұрын

So true!!! They thought it was gonna be a flop and prepared for disaster but little did they know they created a masterpiece, a game changer in movie making, and special effects!!! And the special effects have survived the test of time and has held up well over the years!!! That my friends is talent!!!

@MegaJoojee

4 жыл бұрын

well why would you do it so slowly today wheb you can get same results in a fraction of a time. it only needs some thinking and a good blend of visual and practical effects. there is nothing "better" in this old and slow way of making things.

@markusgaul8467

4 жыл бұрын

the film tension is ten times as great as current films.

@treystephens4490

4 жыл бұрын

@@markusgaul8467 I've almost forgotten about Disney Star Wars already.

@treystephens4490

4 жыл бұрын

@@MegaJoojee it looks more real with real world creations.

Amazing! Star Wars changed my life forever, and I love these behind the scenes things.

@Joe.Joseph

10 жыл бұрын

Hey bashur, I love Star Wars too!

@Jeffgaming11

10 жыл бұрын

Same here

@1nfinitune533

10 жыл бұрын

Bashurverse hey dude I love star wars too and do u know what AT-AT stands for?

@lindseykoczalka8997

10 жыл бұрын

Bashurverse I LOVE STAR WARS TOO!!!!!!

@Justanothercrow123

10 жыл бұрын

Andrew Stewart All Terrain Armored Transport, guy.

We need a special edition of this video. A few extra rocks would do nicely.

@oldaccount409

7 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

@yuriridley8144

7 жыл бұрын

Animated Shaak Ti LMAO

@SketchTurnerZero

7 жыл бұрын

Animated Shaak Ti Not one, but three Special Editions ;)

@clevoro

7 жыл бұрын

And a few explosions if you put Michael Bay on this

@Everik-ct6pg

5 жыл бұрын

Wee need to make the Explosions more impactive, the Explosions are the key to all of this

It still amazes me how well the ages old matte painting effects works.

@bouchandre

9 жыл бұрын

Still not as well as today's digital matte painting and compositing.

@thegreatagitator4675

9 жыл бұрын

I worked with optical and digital effects during the 80s/90s and I find this still more impressive.

This is nothing short of amazing. What an achievement Star Wars was.

@captainrex4403

5 жыл бұрын

So true!!! They thought it was gonna be a flop and prepared for disaster but little did they know they created a masterpiece, a game changer in movie making, and special effects!!! And the special effects have survived the test of time and has held up well over the years!!! That my friends is talent!!!

George Lucas was extremely wise to surround himself with such talent! These guys are the "forefathers" of special effects and truly revolutionized film making. :D

@tiffysinclair7760

10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@AndyLeeChannel

10 жыл бұрын

agreed! I really love their masterpieces, their works

@georgioquestor597

9 жыл бұрын

Actually special film effects got started in the early 1900's, with short films such as A Trip to the Moon (1912). Much later in the 50's Ray Harryhausen brought his unique style of effects of which many of the SW effects people thank many times over. Star Wars is a culmination of all these SPFX techniques learned from decades past.

@johnhajdo3167

6 жыл бұрын

Tiffy Sinclair only the sith deal in absolutes

@ClasssicAri

6 жыл бұрын

The “ForceFathers”

CGI can't replicate the magic of actual models like these,

@ChrissonatorOFL

9 жыл бұрын

***** Perhaps. It depends on who is doing the CGI. This model work could easily have be crappy. I mean, ILM did the model effects for many Trek movies, for example, Search for Spock and the effects were amazing, but the same exact models used in Star Trek V filmed by another company (because it was cheaper) was less than spectacular.

@cj64films

9 жыл бұрын

***** True, but i do think that special effects and visual effects should be used together.

@yugen

7 жыл бұрын

Blame capitalism. Consider how much money it costs to pay a whole crew for 8 hours to product a single second of footage. There's no way producers are going to pay for that when they could have a single person make it in a few hours.

@Everik-ct6pg

5 жыл бұрын

But CGI Doesn't take 2 years to make

@UnchainedEruption

5 жыл бұрын

Dallas Van Winkle That’s not the fault of “capitalism,” that’s the fault of lazy Hollywood executives who care more about making money than making good art. Lucas cared about the films he made, and it shows.

I always knew the Tauntauns were stop motion. In some scenes it was kinda obvious, but the fact that the walkers were blew my mind. I guess since they moved slower it was easier to pull off. Nothing will every touch 4-6. Nothing.

@TacSon

8 жыл бұрын

+Harrison DuRant The same thing I learned from doing stop motion animation. The more frames and details you give to the model, the more realistic of the shot you'll get later. And doing stop motion animation kinda consumes a lot of time but worth it.

@JC130676

6 жыл бұрын

Do you know the internal temperature of a Tauntaun? LUKEwarm...

@BortaMaga

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't notice it was stop motion at all lol

@AyanKhan-og3sd

3 жыл бұрын

So your saying that 4-6 Are perfect are you dumb

John Dykstra's work on that motion control rig was nothing short of revolutionary. And to think that Dennis Muren would later go on to be instrumental in initiating ILM's shift to CG. Thrilling times.

This is how real movies were made.. such an amazing effort on all the smallest details.. nothing wrong with CGI but i like the old stuff :)

@yugen

7 жыл бұрын

Blame capitalism. Consider how much money it costs to pay a whole crew for 8 hours to product a single second of footage. There's no way producers are going to pay for that when they could have a single person make it in a few hours.

@JIGgameoverSAW

7 жыл бұрын

Ya ur right ;0

@ToonGohan

6 жыл бұрын

Even though we have good cgi today the problem is you can usually tell when something is cgi and these old effects really bring the battles to life

@plumtree3209

6 жыл бұрын

You really think that's how CGI works?

The guy walking into frame at 4:48 was a huge surprise.

@chrismirell2822

6 жыл бұрын

No, he told me he was going to do that.

@benjaminbenavidesiglesias52

4 жыл бұрын

True!! It looks real landscape but no...

This is what episode 7 needs to do. This concept of visual effects is still more believable than most today. Truly groundbreaking. Gravity was great too.

@HD_Simplicityy

10 жыл бұрын

I agree. Gravity has some of the best visual effects ive ever seen in a movie, but not like The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Gravitys behind the scenes was so amazing...seeing how they perfected certain methods that arent used a lot for realistic effects.

@Trevian20

10 жыл бұрын

***** I love Lord of the Rings as well, absolutely amazing visuals. You can tell when a lot of work is put into a movie and movies like that are the greatest of our time.

@BGSoccerMagic

10 жыл бұрын

Except, the lack of "gravity" in space means that when a ship explodes its parts shouldn't slow down and shouldn't fall towards the bottom of the screen,

@HD_Simplicityy

10 жыл бұрын

Well we didnt say Alfonso Cuarons visual efffects teams were perferct at replicating that kind of visual effect lol. Sure there are mistakes. We are just admiring how beautiful the effects are for a space film and a masterclass trilogy of films that are defining in our time,

@user-dx8nj7qj2g

9 жыл бұрын

Well your wrong even though no gravity in space they where still in the earths orbit so they still had some gravity although very little

4:19 The camera knocks a piece off the model. lol

@lobiankk77

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Zak I saw

@ThinWhiteAxe

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I noticed that and laughed out loud

still looks better than most of the cgi on film

@frankie2time298

9 жыл бұрын

they are all looking fake either way 

@RJrules64

8 жыл бұрын

+Jorge Rodriguez Are you kidding me? Have you ever tried to do CG? It's just as difficult and time consuming as Practical effects.

@AlexGarcia-cs9uz

8 жыл бұрын

+richard Bennett Ha ha ha ha no

@insanelook

8 жыл бұрын

+RJrules64 What ever, CGI:s will never change the charm of stop motion FX.

@bouchandre

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but Watching the original Star wars after Watching Rogue One and Star wars just looks fake. I mean it looks real enough, especially for it's time, but it wasn't to the point where you couldn't tell what was real or not. THAT BEING SAID, Models can sill look spectacular when using modern technology and digital compositing. A great example would be Interstellar. Everything felt so real in that movie because there wasn't a single greenscreen and very little CGI. Most shots of the Endurance were done with a model, as well as all the other ships. They even went as far as to project the space background outside of the windows to have it all filmed in-Camera. I think it's quite an achievement.

Hard work, creativity, and a passion for project. Something that the new movies seem to lack almost entirely.

ESB's model work is still unmatched to this day. Seriously, if the method would only come back with modern compositing techniques, it would be unstoppable. This movie has the best stop motion I've ever seen too.

To fully appreciate the genius-tier innovation generated at Industrial Light and Magic it is helpful to consider that they built the Computer Operated Motion Control Camera System *FROM THE CIRCUIT BOARDS ON UP.* The equipment necessary to complete the fluid motion control shots of Star Wars’ various spacecraft simply didn’t exist in the mid 1970s. The task required the invention of near unprecedented technology.

The sheer time invested into the smallest detail is incredible. These films are so deserving of their success!

that glass effect is amazing

This is one of the reasons why I love Star Wars. This is art

decent but it needs more CGI dinosaurs

@lobiankk77

6 жыл бұрын

GabzitoHD And more rocks

@lobiankk77

6 жыл бұрын

And more Jar Jar

@keimax

6 жыл бұрын

And more cowbell

@fedoragfx3110

5 жыл бұрын

cue recorder theme

@krhawkins91

2 жыл бұрын

This was made back in the 70's way before CGI.

Amazing details. No wonder Star Wars is one of the pinnacles of science fiction.

@JuopuneetMaakravut

7 жыл бұрын

Sakura Shy Space Fantasy. Not actually Science fiction.

@sakurashy8492

7 жыл бұрын

Juopuneet Maakravut Right. Space Fantasy

@JuopuneetMaakravut

7 жыл бұрын

Sakura Shy Epic Space Opera if we want to rub it a little more 😁

All the time and effort they put into these practical effects makes me appreciate the original trilogy so much more. Glad I grew up on the Original Trilogy.

Did anyone see that AT-AT happily hop across the screen in the hand drawn anamatics?

@paarthunax2890

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yeah. I guess that got cut cause it'd look too silly for a deadly war machine to hop like that.

@LongmireLocomotion

9 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Bussard Nah he was just evading landmines. They are pretty agile machines. I feel sorry for the snowtroopers inside though...they must be pretty shaken up.

@marbyyy7810

6 жыл бұрын

I actually want to see the entire trilogy in that paper animated style

*Summer 2019 - Still a delight! The miracle workers*

6:45 Bunnyhopping AT-AT :O

@TheMineMappers

9 жыл бұрын

MagicAccent Oh shit! They're evolving

@jesusp.8223

8 жыл бұрын

+Luke 'Caomhnóir' S-C gmod is lame stfu

@tlbower501

8 жыл бұрын

That bunny at-at was cool. I still can't get over rebel planes

@Nugcon

7 жыл бұрын

I call hax.

I remember seeing this documentary when I was about 11yrs old and being amazed! Inspired, my brother and I even made our own Super8 version of a "space epic". I still remember that Star Wars felt so real to me. Even if some scene had a minor flaw or something (ex. a faulty light sabre glow, or a funny blue screen space artifact), the visuals were amazing, and the story was so unique at the time. The best part of the movie was actually imagining what was just outside the shot. It was a fantastic jumping off point for my own young imagination.

@captainrex4403

5 жыл бұрын

These movies are the ones I grew up on and kids today have no idea what they missed out on with these originals and the toys we had that Kenner made!!! These movies were my childhood!!!

This is so amazing, to be able to do that in the 70's is incredible, I'm sure people who saw the movie back at the time were mesmerized. Maybe that's why Star Wars is Star Wars, it affected millions of people so much that it is living until today.

And honestly, it looks way more realistic and natural than any computerized attempt nowadays. I loved watching these movies back in the 80ies and I still love watching them today. No remastering, no computer - pure joy!

RIP original Star Wars effects 1977-1997

@Skyfoogle

8 жыл бұрын

+Luke 'Caomhnóir' S-C "special effects" there's nothing special about cgi, lol.

33 people believed Jar-Jar was the key to all this.

@johannespaule1515

8 жыл бұрын

47

@johannespaule1515

8 жыл бұрын

47

@edvinkarlstrom5672

6 жыл бұрын

Henry Jones Jr. No, 77 people

@JoseGarcia-mi4ig

6 жыл бұрын

Henry Jones Jr. But he doesn't appeared until episode 1

@onionboy7099

6 жыл бұрын

you arent very bright are you?

Denis Muren, Phil Tippett I whole heartedly salute your genius in this creation of Star Wars.

6:42 Take On Me: Star Wars Edition

@eventide_64

3 жыл бұрын

@@kerguelen_cabbage Lol I know I'm super late to this, but this is awesome!

It's sad how Lucasfilm has decided that we should not be able to enjoy the results of such painstaking dedication on a modern format such as BluRay. So much of that hard work was replaced with CG, and often it was lazily replaced. The model makers had designed each of the X-Wings to have a unique appearance, such as the markings on the wings, yet the CG version has them looking all the same. They could have fixed some errors through the use of CG, like inserting the R2 units in the Y-Wings during the scenes where they were neglected to be added, but instead they just wizzed it down their collective pantleg. I think it's great that they got rid of the transparency issue in the Snowspeeder cockpit, removing the matte shadows following the TIE Fighters, and correcting the parallax in the Death Star detention center corridor. That is how CG should be implemented. But what we got was the removal of much of the great practical effects, Greedo shooting at Han, and that terrible song and dance scene in Jedi.

@xGoodOldSmurfehx

8 жыл бұрын

+stevethefishdotnet yes, forget how expensive such methods would be in modern days and how CG now outclasses old physical methods both in visual and costs it was impressive for the time it was made and perhaps the Phantom Menace CG effects were somewhat poor but beyond that, i hardly see how physical effects beats CG nowadays ever since Ep2 lol

@stevethefishdotnet

8 жыл бұрын

xGoodOldSmurfehx No, our eyes can tell. Using practical effects look more real. CG enhancing practical effects is how it's used best. The new Star Wars movies are using more practical effects, real models, etc.

@xGoodOldSmurfehx

8 жыл бұрын

stevethefishdotnet the new movies use full CG for characters, they always have since the phantom menace O_o of course the stuff they use for ships are models which are then engineered through animation programs so they arent exactly CG yet not fully physical as for what the actors are in, naturally those are also often real models in front of a green/blue screen you get my point tho, its no longer 100% physical like they used to do it which really does make sense

@xGoodOldSmurfehx

8 жыл бұрын

stevethefishdotnet i know, that awkward moment when a character looks fake when its actually real and a "fake" character looks real when its "fake" XD im aware that Phantom Menace used completely new technologies at the time, very primitive CG techs but it was still awful overall

@RJrules64

8 жыл бұрын

+stevethefishdotnet This comment makes me cringe. You think CG is a matter of 'Oh lets just slap that on there... Ok done!' CG takes just as long, if not longer, than practical effects.

respect to those people who worked on that at that time. now its just animations that do everything :P

This here is one of the most compelling reasons to release the unaltered original trilogy on Blu Ray; not doing so is a slap in the face to such a dedicated, talented group of individuals and their hard work.

I remember being in the theater when they showed the trailer for The Empire Strikes Back. When a quick shot through rebel binoculars of the AT-AT Walkers was shown, most of the audience let out a 'Whoaaaa!! Like everything else in these films, they were extremely unique, new and fun Disney understands NOTHING about this franchise, it's original appeal, and the fan base (my peer group) who made 'Star Wars' a household name.

It's really really sad to see those models blown up =(

@JaronJon

9 жыл бұрын

Mega Bondagemon don't worry! Those were made specifically for the sake of blowing up :)

@chrismirell2822

6 жыл бұрын

You know some people lose limbs in real war, right?

@reallybiggoose9153

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Mirell I don’t think you understand his comment.

@ROCKGENERATION

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Mirell stop

@spanky6859

4 жыл бұрын

I just want to know what the concoction was

60 years later and the creativity of all the different effects still amaze me, absolutely legendary filmmaking

8 hours of work, for a 1 second film shot!

@eduardfonsek9406

8 жыл бұрын

Like the stop-motion,thousands of photos for seconds on screen

@Consural

8 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in 2016, 2 seconds of work for 15 second CGI animation. Of course it'll look worse and fake.

@YPAReviews

8 жыл бұрын

8 hours is actually pretty tame for film

@yugen

7 жыл бұрын

Blame capitalism. Consider how much money it costs to pay a whole crew for 8 hours to product a single second of footage. There's no way producers are going to pay for that when they could have a single person make it in a few hours.

@LuigiTuazon

6 жыл бұрын

CGI isn't an easy thing to do. It takes months and months of work. Plus rendering time of each frame of the models.

Can't imagine doing all this practical effects on low budgets nowadays (time, costs, planning) but this is increadible and Star Wars is definitely a shiny milestone in global cinematography.

Pains me when he says "Planes".

Amazing. I can say the same for the prequels' CGI and practical effects too.

What I love most about Star Wars is the diversity amongts the fans themselves. For instance, you have fans who love the prequels, fans who love the original trilogy, fans who love A New Hope the most, fans who love Empire! Fans who love Jedi, fans who love Star Wars because of the music, fans who love the dog fight scenes, the lightsaber duels, and then you have fans like myself who adores the practical effects and THIS! Simple, yet difficult and patient shots of models and stop motion. LOVE it!

taking the time to do a stop motion scene like that for the holochess set is something that your average viewer may take for granted, but it's also what makes your avid viewer a fanatic

I wish Mark Hamill narrated my life

@backwoodsfilms875

8 жыл бұрын

No kidding

@chrismirell2822

6 жыл бұрын

I asked him to, but he said he doesn't like you.

@albundy5228

4 жыл бұрын

And after he narrates for 5 seconds, what else is he supposed to do?

The animatics at 6:50 are cool🤗

This is incredible and is part of the true legacy of Star Wars, not just the movie itself but the making of it is a wonderful and interesting story. We can only hope that all of the amazing work that the people shown here have done will not be lost. This is a piece of history.

Wow those Model Ships, AT-AT Walkers and the Tauntauns are awesome. What's cool is that Mark Hamil narrates part of this video. May the Force be with you.

Cinema needs to go back to this actual physical models

@khango6006

9 жыл бұрын

Todd Johnson Yeah they may not look as "realistic", but this method brings back a certain charming elements to it. Love it!!

@quietdemon8138

9 жыл бұрын

Kha Ngo i know right i mean i would rather watch a visual effect that is a actual object than something digital i think digital should be used for something that is not possible to actually do

@andrewvanrhoberts

9 жыл бұрын

Todd Johnson Or at least a balanced blend of both. CGI has it's place, It just doesn't need to be overdone. When it makes the film start to look like Toy Story I think it is being overdone in my opinion.

@quietdemon8138

9 жыл бұрын

***** i agree i think practical effects and CGI should work in harmony

@erenslostarm3189

9 жыл бұрын

Todd Johnson aye, take Spider Man 2 (the good one, the original one) and take a look. only certain parts are actually CGI, the majority of the film was the actual actors on a set, and the background being a green screen. if you look at movies now, it's ALL green screen... i don't think there was a single environment that was "real" in Star Wars episode III. and take Spider Man 3 also, WAY too much CGI. it could have been a lot better. And i agree with what you said about Practical effects and CGI working in harmony Inception showed this, and so did Interstellar. The Ice planet in Interstellar was actually near volcano in Alberta, and the suits that the characters wore were actual suits created by the props department fitted with radio so the actors could talk to the producers and director, water cooling systems, and oxygen. and i'm pretty certain that the Endurance during the Docking Scene (spoiler alert kinda) was a model that they filmed and had green screens surrounding it.

I'll never complain about using Gimp to compose a picture again.

This is why these movies were amazing!!! A lot of dedication, thought and creativity were put into these films!

this amazes the shit out of me. the masterful skill and patience it takes and the sheer cleverness of it all. WOW.

I still wish productions would use these techniques, in future productions i would love to use these methods.

@Phenakite

7 жыл бұрын

Its all about who can do it the quickest and cheapest now

6:40 Never thought about the possibility of watching an AT-AT actually jumping on scene...

I miss when movies had to be made this way. It was so cool

So much love, time, and money was put into the original trilogy.

Truly impressive! I was not alive to watch star wars 4 when it came out, but I imagine it was a spectacular movie for visual effects back then. Still stands up perfectly fine today! The glass painting was a technique I never knew about. WOW!

This ends abruptly

@porkydorky

8 жыл бұрын

lol ikr

@yugen

7 жыл бұрын

I used to have this documentary on VHS.

@carloscantu6659

4 жыл бұрын

Kotor 2 :V

@yokingdom9936

4 жыл бұрын

@@carloscantu6659 haha yeah i know what you mean

@scottnash70

4 жыл бұрын

It's from an hour long TV special that was shown after the release of Empire Strike Back.

I LOVE animation and it was Star Wars that got me animating and into film making. Everything felt so real because it was...Tiny models crafted by hundreds of artists. This documentary is awesome! :D

in our search for progress we have forgotten the beauty that artists created. Are today's films really superior to such a masterpiece? Can an artist working on the computer truly surpass the passion and love that was put into these films? Did we forget what true beauty is in our search for perfection?

A lost art I'm afraid. lets hope they bring back some cool techniques like this and not just CGI from here on...

@RalphIgnacio

10 жыл бұрын

These classic techniques, awesome they still are, succeeded even older techniques, CGI of today is the next step in that evolution. Yoda: Being Obsolete (death) is a natural part of special effects (life). Rejoice for those around you who transform into the CGI (Force). Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. Anakin Skywalker: What must I do, Master Yoda? Yoda: Train yourself to let go... of everything you fear to lose.

@thepaperclipguy

10 жыл бұрын

***** cgi looks good. but it's not impressive. Models, miniatures, artwork, prosthetics, animatronics, precise camera work, real sets, are actually impressive. The fact you can pretty much just do anything on a computer just means the magic is lost. Special effects is more than just what the thing actually looks like. It's like anything on screen. Good looking actors with no soul and passion will always be worse than relatable and real actors with substance, soul and passion.

@thepaperclipguy

10 жыл бұрын

***** Oh yeah I agree, CGI can look great, especially in recent years. With Gravity I also forgot I was watching CGI a lot of the time. But at the end of the day, if they had done the effects for real, it would have been more impressive from a visual standpoint. Now obviously in a film like Gravity they couldn't have gone to space and built the shuttles and done the effects for real so they obviously had to do CGI. But my point is that when filmmakers can actually easily do something practically, yet they just choose to do it with CGI, it's a huge shame and the magic is lost.

@ryanpage2320

10 жыл бұрын

ThePaperclipGuy Are you suggesting that digital artists put no passion or soul into their work?

@thepaperclipguy

10 жыл бұрын

Ryan Page I'm saying people who craft real physical artwork, which goes to people who then photograph it with specific lighting, lenses, and camera movements, which then results in it looking like the real thing on screen, is more resonant because you can tell it's a real effect. Whether it's a real set, or a real explosion, model, landscape, prosthetic creature, etc etc. It's just more impressive because you realise that it's a real place, person, thing. It wasn't just made up in a computer. If it takes time and effort to produce CG and the artists have passion and fun doing so, then great. Good for them. I'm not ignoring that, but I'm talking about the medium, not the artists.

Fantastic

6:45 that ATAT is so adorable. This was a very fascinating video.

Can't even imagine the massive ammount of work did take to put the whole movie together... old school visual effects at its finest

I wish movies today would still use models for their ships. I think that the way star wars and other movies like 1979 alien did it just had this realistic feel. And they could still use all the modern effects to make the background space scenes look awesome but still use real models for the ships. I really want to see someone make a space movie in that fashion again.

I love young Mark Hamill’s voice.

Great video! First Star Wars movies have so much charisma and charming personality just because they were made by hands of the team of magicians! ))) No CGI!!!!) Hand - made! Nothing can beat this! Thanks for sharing!

This is absolutely beautiful. Revolutionary.

LOVE This Movie trilogy FAVORITE OF ALL TIME

RIP Carrie Fisher you will be missed. :{

@reeftheweirdboy9177

7 жыл бұрын

😢

@FinnishArmy

7 жыл бұрын

CrispCarbon Guess what, they finished taking the shots for Episode 8 with her! She'll be in the next star wars still! Wooo

@araneahighwind8796

7 жыл бұрын

CrispCarbon the only and only princess Leigh for me 😭😭😭😭

Star Wars, or the making of, never get's old! Amazing!

Much respect and love to these pioneers who paved the way for which we see blockbuster motion pictures today.

This is amazing and very inspiring

"24 frames, movements flow seemlessly" well, welcome to 2017, where PC gamers see differences between 1440 and 1441 fps

@JohnDoe-zh6cp

7 жыл бұрын

Apples to oranges. Play a game at 60 fps and then 24 fps and tell me you'd rather play at 24.

@hardikaku6652

7 жыл бұрын

alwayzstrive'n'prosperSESH well that is irrelevant, for movies even until right now 24 fps is a good settings for a smooth and cinematic effect. it also a pleasure to watch since it isnt too fast and isnt chopped, i.cant imagine watching 60fps movie on a.cinema. meanwhile in gaming you need to be fast to get better experience

@JohnDoe-zh6cp

7 жыл бұрын

I take it you've never played a game at 60 fps. I don't know if youre at liberty to comment on which is better if you've never actually experienced it. 30fps is certainly playable, but 60fps is like silk.

@UnR0ckl3ss

7 жыл бұрын

John Doe im a console peasent Lol im totally fine with 30 and 60 fps

@JohnDoe-zh6cp

7 жыл бұрын

alwayzstrive'n'prosperSESH So you've never played at 60 fps. It's not that I cant play at 30, its that 60 is so much better and lazy game devs will cap their games at 30, so we complain. And then they try to say that you can't tell the difference between 30 and 60. Yes. You can. It's like night and day.

Star Wars..this takes me back to a very magical time.

Love how they show different sized models of the Millennium Falcon.

10:37 millennium falcon asteroid.

9:04 "let her go" oh god its so hard :(

I remember watching this documentary with my brother over Christmas, it was pre video so it was a very special occasion, when an actual clip of the movie came up it was awesome

This is what we need now. This is what make fan films less expensive.

i reall appreciate the practical effects and how groundbreaking these effects were but it's faster and less work when using CG but done right CG looks better than practical. but a balance of both should be even better and that's where the force awakens will show. they used some practical effects and are going to enhance them with some CG. looks and sounds great!

@captainrex4403

5 жыл бұрын

And overall it looked very decent!!! Way better than the prequels!!!

Porkins no!

@cremnitz5345

8 жыл бұрын

He couldnt hold it :/

With the time it took to put all the special effects together, there must not have been much rest between Star Wars and Empire. And I am ever thankful.

I went to the behind the scenes star wars exhibition about 12 years ago, I was studying illustration and to see the Matte painting backgrounds for Hoth was truly amazing, they were outstanding

Way better than the Star Wars:The Force Awakens's practical effects.

@notboolin2816

7 жыл бұрын

Revive Hans lol

@danyals7701

7 жыл бұрын

Revive Hans nah

@mikelawrence1556

7 жыл бұрын

Revive Hans Um no...

@starkraving

7 жыл бұрын

Revive Hans lol no

@beeswithchainsaws

5 жыл бұрын

Did They CGI You Into Rouge One Or Where You Really There?

this is when movies were magical, all in camera effects from true craftsman and women............. now everything is pixelated.

I can watch this for hours.c'mon guys we need more

this is why star wars is one of the best movies ever

Can't believe how dirty those optical shots were, even back then.

It's not dense enough. Not every frame has millions of distractions. 0/10.

@javerygmailcom1212

8 жыл бұрын

+Cybermat47 It's gonna be great.

@Cybermat47

8 жыл бұрын

+Stocky ComdtArchive do the Jedies use their little green laser swords?

@jacobjones6748

8 жыл бұрын

+Cybermat47 Jar Jar is the key to all of this...

@PaulBrady1

7 жыл бұрын

This is partly because of the technology at the time, and partly because old movies used to have CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and some sort of PLOT to distract you.

The first voice over man (narrating the footage from Star Wars (1977)) is the guy who did the voice over for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century! So cool! Brilliant video. Thank you for posting.

3:22 The Deathstar with the Focus Lense in the middle looks great too :D