When I was 8 I thought this sequence was fantastic. 50+ years later I can see as an adult how preposterous it all was. I still love it...

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't stop Elon Musk ripping it off! ;-)

@jyvben1520

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, moving a building and then still roll out the body ...

@David_J_B

2 жыл бұрын

It's not as preposterous as you might think, plane based launching systems have genuinely been considered and tried on test vehicles, but technical issues have gotten in the way :)

@michaelbrett2760

2 жыл бұрын

@@David_J_B It's not necessarily that that I think preposterous, its the infratructure: huge doors sinking into the ground, concrete hangers sliding about when the vehicle is obviously mobile, seated crew being slid into place (I realise that's more a limitation of the puppetry), huge lifting mechanisms etc.

@carlosnayager1719

2 жыл бұрын

Richard Bransons Virgin Galatics first flight used a lift body.

I’ve been a fan of Thunderbirds since Sept 1991 (the BBC 2 generation) and this was easily the greatest Thunderbirds animation I have ever seen. Congratulations on all your hard work, this was F.A.B!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. It's always nice when a long-term Thunderbirds fan appreciates my work on this! (I've been a fan since the late 60's !!)

@GerryAndersonTV

Жыл бұрын

😁

*Whenever I watch an Anderson Supermarionation production, I still see it through the eyes of my childhood days.* 👍👍👏️

@lucylouise4922

2 жыл бұрын

As do I..64 years old and still going strong on Supermarionation

@suecollins3246

Жыл бұрын

Life would be better and easier if we saw _everything_ through the eyes of our childhood ..

Thats insane, absoloutly amazing. Looks like Thunderbirds in the G1 Transformers art style.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Nice compliment!

@gouryg4774

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing piece of animation

I’m 34 years old and this still blows my mind goes to show how clever these people were

A fantastic re-animation for a fantastic craft with a fantastic theme, everything about it is just fantastic.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! So glad you liked it!

I was half-expecting Stirling Archer to make a cameo. That would make for a crazy cross-over production.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Now there's an idea! ;-)

@timthewarlord2304

2 жыл бұрын

yea!

THANK YOU - See there is a little memories in all of us remember Gerry Crew.... As I am 65

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

That was beautifully done! Love the cel-shaded style!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

@anthonyevans7718

2 жыл бұрын

The cartoon with never got

I've enjoyed this show and others like it as I was growing up 😃

I remember the Zero X model some 49 years ago! When the Co-op was in Fairfax Street in Bristol. This is a great reminder of that to me!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear!

I remember I was 10 (1968) and I wrote a letter to Werner von Braun as to whether this design would actually fly. I actually received a letter back ("go ask your science teacher" )along with a lot of cool NASA literature and photos.

I started watching Thunderbirds when I was a kid back in the late 80's/early 90's and the Zero-X is still hands down my favourite craft of the series. I've always loved the design and just the idea of a spacecraft like that. I still watch the movie sometimes and just watch the Zero-X bits. Nice to see another rendition of this. Would like to have seen the mission be successful and see the Zero-X actually land.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Already considering that! :-)

@HansBezemer

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only idiot doing that ;-) That scene has been run in the ground by most critics - and I could never figure out why. It's fascinating!

@waseemchady2562

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusanimation100 make it happen bro!! I LOVED this!

Zero-X was popular enough that it got it's own comic strip in Century 21. As indeed did Lady Penelope. It's a wonderful sequence, an absolute classic that combines the genius of Derek Medding's model work and the glorious triumphal sound of Barry Gray. "Zero X" is one of my all-time favourites of his, alongside "White As Snow" from Captain Scarlet.

That God Bless them my friends. That Names and that Iconic Titles/Classics. Is Impossible Not Recognize this Names and his Works. That R.I.P. Thanks.

When I was a kid this was the coolest thing ever, but just imagine having a hanger move away from the air/spacecraft that has wheels and it ends up moving anyway...LOL the utter pointlessness of the whole thing now is just absurd, but it was for kids, and I ate it all up!

I love that animation. A fitting tribute. Though the Zero X wouldn't be feasible IRL, as a sci-fi vehicle, the cool factor is off the charts. Watching this and hearing the music gives me chills to this day.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

@ChattahoocheeRiverRat

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusanimation100 you're quite welcome. Funny, the Zero X music has been stuck in my head all morning

How did I not know about this for a year? This is a brilliant tribute to a British classic. I have no idea how long it took to create this, but you certainly get a standing ovation from me.

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

That's very kind. Thank you very much!

@mdsf01

Жыл бұрын

LOL! I thought the same thing + 4 weeks.

I've wanted something like this for more than half my lifetime. Thank you so much for this. I've actually wanted it so badly that I actually started working on remaking it about 1.5 years ago. However I've been starting from scratch on all levels so the progress is very slow. As someone who's spent weeks staring at images and diagrams of Zero-X I wanna say your colorations are spectacular, and the nosecone shape are dead on (it's given me some trouble) and the extra scene where the wheels retract is awesome (I was planning to add one as well) The interior shots of the crew and the external shots of the landscape are probably entirely beyond my ability. The sound mixing is also fantastic and the animation sections are extremely smooth. Three _extremely_ nitpicky details: - The rear landing wheels on the Main Body stays retracted after it gets lifted up by the jacks (very subtle, easy to miss) - The nose gear has different numbers of wheels on the first and second axels; 4 on the first and 6 on the second - The rear section of the lifting body has 5 more nozzles (it has actually been extremely hard for me to model it, so I understand not doing it)

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words, glad you liked it! Well spotted on the fine details. In my defense, the original has a few errors too. Rewatch the original and take a look at the vehicles parked on the nearside of the Sliding hangar - They change at least 3 times! ;-)

Love it, especially the landing gear retracting, brilliant.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Gerry Anderson was a genius who, wrote, designed and produced tv shows using poppets and minitures years before CGI was even invented.

If I remember properly it took Derek Meddings and his team over 6 weeks to build the Zero X craft for the movie (and only 2 days to destroy it). I'll chalk that up to how impressive Zero X was and still is. Zero X and the Fireflash - the two most impressive non Thunderbird crafts designed, built and seen.

@macwyll

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh! Fireflash was my number one choice of factious vehicles! Grew up watching TB in the mid 60's. Good times!

That was really moving and well made,superb many thanks .

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thank you!

Watching this now, made understand why I loved this so much - all those moving, retracting and sliding parts really hit my imaginary as a child, at a time when you got a miniature car with opening doors was something amazing :-) Good job Morgan!

I had a Zero X as a kid... Wish I still had it now, 50-odd years on.

La he vuelto a ver. Es magistral y hermoso tributo. Y pensar que los Anderson con su equipo hacían todo en maquetas. Una maravilla. 👍👍🇨🇱

This is simply awesome work. I saw 'Thunderbirds Are Go!' at the cinema in 1966 - I was three. I went with my mum and gran, and loved it, although the 'Rock Snakes' scared the bejeezus out of me. I still have the TV21 book of the movie that gran bought me at the time. Your animation brought me out in goosebumps. It's that beautiful. Thank you for this. Oh, and Barry Gray's 'Zero-X Theme' is still magnificent.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! It's fans like you that I made this for!

@allenjones3130

Жыл бұрын

Barry Gray was a great composer. His scores for Gerry's films and TV shows were brilliant.

@TheSmart-CasualGamer

11 ай бұрын

As a kid I always skipped the bit with the Rock Snakes on rewatches.

The full film appears on the UK channel Film4 when the school holidays are on, still takes me back to my childhood, I'm 60 now.

Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Space X has been one of my all time favourite Gerry Anderson vehicles. Bravo!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it!

Having seen all of this the first time round your work is a fine tribute to Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and the majestic Zero X theme by Barry Gray, wonderful stuff.

Like a lot of comments below! I went to the cinema to see it and it was then magical to a young lad! I loved every bit of that wonderful film and to think we are now close to that era ourselves! To say thank you to all involved doesn't do them justice as they all made it seem feasible to us young kids back then and I suspect a few adults too 😉 Sadly, like I suspect some others have also like me have lost there parents, but! I have magical memories of that time back in England watching Thunderbirds on TV in black and white and then! Getting Century 21 magazine each breakfast and reading it before going to school! I know Gerry and Derek cannot hear us all say thank you, but it is all we can do, is say thank you for the magical childhood you gave us all! R.I.P 😢

Really well done. I have never used the Toon shader in Blender, so it was interesting to see it in action, quite literally 😃. Brought back some good memories of seeing this in the cinema when the movie first came out in '66 and in glorious colour.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, and I'm glad it brought back good memories!

Genius - pure genius.... my favourite model sequence of all the Supermarionation shows.... Thank you! This when the future truly was fantastic!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it!

Superb video. Zero-X and Fireflash are my two favourites, with a Sidewinder lumbering ungainly in a close third. I wish there had been a little more Zero-X in Scarlet and Black's Mars mission, though.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and yes, yes and yes! 🙂

I've never seen this movie, but gosh I want to.

I still watch these episodes 🙈

I'm old enough to have seen the original film when it came out. Still enjoy it. I may have got older but I never really grew up.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Likewise!

Wow, it's the pinnacle of aeronautical engineering.

That was incredible. You really gave the components a feeling of weight.

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

*Very well done indeed! Thanks for sharing with all of Anderson Addicts!* 👍👍&💯👏️

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

They must have loved that model. Everyone goes on about the Enterprise fly round in ST TMP but when I saw this in the cinema as a kid it seemed to go on forever.

Preposterous the Zero-X launch may be, but looking back on it now it perfectly captures (for me) both the otherworldly wonder of an Apollo launch and the somewhat more mundane excitement of my first trip on a 747. And the carefully rotoscoped animation also brings back fond memories of Jonny Quest in his prime!

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

No rotoscoping. Just lots of source referencing!

@seanbigay1042

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusanimation100 Okay. Still looks like vintage Jonny Quest to me!

I'm sure someone could model just the main body of the Zero X. But modeling the entire airfield and launch sequence in an animated style is amazing!! I was also impressed by the CGI recreation of the takeoff scene with the rotating belt. Zero X号の機体だけなら、モデリングする人はいそうだけど、 飛行場と発進シークエンスのシーン全体をアニメ調でモデリングしているのは凄い！！ 回転ベルトを使った離陸シーンも、CGIで再現されていて感動しました。

Wow! All I can say is... absolutely fab!

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

this takes me back, still love the shows. great work on th eanimation

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This should be made into a series for tv, brilliant.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

That's very kind of you to say! Thank you!

Very well done.Oh the memories!!👍👍👍👍

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

😁

Fabulous work dated makes it better

Just beautiful and very fantastic

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Nicely done.

Outstanding stuff ! superbly choreographed with the the original with nicley thought out rediting ! well done a great sequence.👌👌👍👀

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for noticing the minor changes!

@PaulAFulcher

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusanimation100 Your most welcome sir .👍

Excellent recreation of the film and they managed to edit out all the puppet scenes while keeping the music going,

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou! And thanks for noticing the edits!

A very nice piece of work

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Beautiful!!!!!

My favorie Thunderbird aicraft/rocket. Well done.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too! Glad you like my tribute!

It's always funny to me how "future tech" in the 70s, 80s and even 90s involved combining several planes, vehicles, robots with parts retracting into spaces they would never have fit :) all the while ignoring the simple fact that even in the future you don't want unneeded extra points of failure in a craft of any kind. Still "rule of cool" rules :)) and for a young lad it was awesome to see.

When it zoomed out I just saw the logo fly forwards and under it would be ‘Copyright MCMLXVII Century 21 Films’ It was just too perfect

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

ha ha , thanks!

Cell shading works really well for these…

That's so cool!! Thank you :-)

I loved Zero-X because it was so easy to build as a wooden model.

This fantastic!

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is great stuff!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.!!! Please do more of these. The whole movie perhaps???

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The whole movie? Maybe not!

Pretty Great.

I nver saw anything this beautiful in my life :,)

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, but you should get out more! 😁

This is amazing, stick at it.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I intend too! ;-)

Awesome! Simply Awesome!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Genial. Qué recuerdo!! 👍👍🇨🇱

Luv it. Great memories :)

Takes the absolute biscuit for the most elaborate launch sequence EVER! (And this is Gerry Anderson we’re talking about here..) Absolutely BRILLIANT! Musk EAT YOUR LIVER!

I can't unsee the name of the photocopier brand name and it makes me wanna pronounce "Zero-X" differently, lol!

Beautiful tribute. The movie was wrongfully panned. It wasn't perfect, but it had all the action that GA was known for. My favourite bit from the movie ( apart from the gargantuan explosions at the end ) is when the sky turns to a star field [ 9:20 ] as seen from inside the cockpit and you've captured the essence beautifully.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Next time you watch the movie, freeze frame the crash landing explosion and have a look at the building fragments! ;-)

As ludicrous as that design is, it is still totally in keeping with the future that the Anderson's showed us back in the 50s through the early 1970s.

The depth of field is great.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Excellent work!

just amazing

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very good!

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very well done sir

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ianmitchell4231

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusanimation100 You are most welcome i hope you do more Thunderbirds.

Brilliant!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is quite good I do like the animation style

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

This is a truly wonderful piece of work and looks to have been a real labour of love. My only feeling as to how it could be even better is that the shadow of Zero X that is visible at the point of take-off could have been shown throughout as there is clearly strong sunshine present. But this is only a minor point and doesn't diminish my admiration for your work.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Good point, though I was getting a bit blind to it all by the end of it! I'll contact you for QA next time around! :-)

Classy!

The music was always just right

This is an Earth timeline where Man continued to explore Space after the moon landings.😎👌 Amazing animation.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I love Thunderbirds . I love Battle of the planets . This was Great! 💥👍

@marcusanimation100

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Splendid

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Retro Cool thxs again;)

man, i remember seeing this episode as a kid, but sadly i don't remember all the details...

WOW.

This was so amazing! Thank you for taking the time to do this :)

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

technical questions, if you watched the original... 1. What was the purpose of the upper and lower boosters? They just fired up for a moment, before the rocket began to move... then all that (no dead)weight was lofted??? 2. What was the nose cone for?

even though my inner engineering side is saying everything is wrong... well... this shit gud

This is very good. Pretty much as I remember it from childhood - how did you do the animation? Is it Blender?

As much as I loved Thunderbirds and these models and all, I always wondered why this scene was sooo drawn out?

What a marvellous job-you must have spent ages on this.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yes, quite a while!

I watched the Thunderbirds edition of this in the 60s there was a comic which featured zero x it's a pity they did not produce a series of this

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

The comic was called TV21

Great work Mate! NZ approves(yes, I did ask Everyone down here!)

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Good to know, thanks!

I'd LOVE to see the various Thunderbird Launch Sequences rendered in this style, and even the Female Moonbase Officers from UFO, just because it would make them look even HOTTER!

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me, my version of Gabrielle Drake would NOT be hotter than the real thing! 😁

@edwardmcirvin8342

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusanimation100 True THAT! I met Gabrielle a few years back and she is a Lovely Lady! I guess i was thinking Stylized Hotness, sort of how the CGI Animated Angels of New Captain Scarlet are Hotter than the Marionette Angels of Captain Scarlet Classic. I'm pretty sure your Animation Style would make the Purple Wigs and Silver Uniforms Pop!

I have wondered how the crew of Zero X can see where they are going with the nose cone on. Great video.

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Monitors? Like in the SPV?

@datathunderstorm

2 жыл бұрын

Both the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft utilised nose cones during their respective launches - indeed, I believe SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule has one too - all jettisoned once they’re relatively clear of the atmosphere - just like Zero-X. Here’s a thought…..Elon Musk must be a fan of Thunderbirds. Zero-X……..SpaceX…….anybody seeing a pattern here? 😜

landing gear retract not shown in the actual movie this animation makes up for that

@marcusanimation100

2 жыл бұрын

Well spotted! Thanks!