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	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 5:49 AM
	By:	Disco Stu (Member)

If it's new to you, you might find it interesting.
If it's old to you, you might like to revisit:

http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.nl/2014/12/magicians-of-miniature.html

D.S.


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 7:44 AM
	By:	Recordman (Member)

Great site DS
Finally, a picture of the home of FSM's Manderley.

Photo by his friend, Rebecca.


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 12:22 PM
	By:	Disco Stu (Member)

Great site DS
Finally, a picture of the home of FSM's Manderley.

Photo by his friend, Rebecca.

Interesting you mention that miniature as that led me to that site.
I never cared much for Rebecca but I always wanted to see the scenes with that fantastic miniature in it. The only thing that was not so good was the miniature car came racing in. That was the only flaw in that scene.

D.S.


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 1:25 PM
	By:	Grecchus (Member)

What a long scroll down. Excellent look back when miniatures ruled the movies.

Interesting that Gil Taylor was effects cinematographer on Dam Busters. Many of the downward looking shots in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo remind me of some of the similar POV shots looking down on the surface explosions on the Death Star from Luke's X-Wing POV. That kind of brings several things round in a circle. I wonder how Taylor appraised that subset of shots from Star Wars?


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 1:54 PM
	By:	Ado (Member)

It is a terrific site. I have had it bookmarked for quite a while. So much brilliant work, and so little of that done anymore, but there is some push to do more of it again.


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 2:25 PM
	By:	Solium (Member)

I love this stuff! Thxs for the link.
I didn't know Weta dissolved it's physical model department.


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 6:11 PM
	By:	manderley (Member)

Finally, a picture of the home of FSM's Manderley.

Photo by his friend, Rebecca.

That's me when I was much younger.

.....and a picture taken before the fire that almost did me in. I got badly singed in some spots, and most of the rest of me went up totally when the roof of the West Wing caved in.

Damn you, Mrs. Danvers!

Now the vines and tendrils and weeds have encroached on my grandeur, the gate is barred to all who try to enter---no one visits me---and I am alone except for my occasional conversations and posts on FSM.....


	Posted:	Sep 16, 2015 - 8:43 PM
	By:	Nightingale (Member)

I think this stuff is great. I was always sucked into any behind the scenes shows or magazines that covered movies FX creation. This "art" needed experts in model making, film, pyrotechnics, physics, cameras, optics and so on. Now that almost the entire FX process is done in the digital realm, I find the whole process....not at all interesting.


	Posted:	Sep 17, 2015 - 5:31 AM
	By:	Solium (Member)

I think this stuff is great. I was always sucked into any behind the scenes shows or magazines that covered movies FX creation. This "art" needed experts in model making, optics, pyrotechnics, physics, cameras, optics and so on. Now that almost the entire FX process is done in the digital realm, I find the whole process....not at all interesting.

What I love about physical effects was how the artists would use anything and everything to accomplish an effect. They were constantly experiment with various stuff, solutions and film. They were almost like "mad scientists". Reading how the latest software can add more elements into a scene doesn't feel inventive or exciting.


	Posted:	Sep 21, 2015 - 9:26 PM
	By:	Christopher Kinsinger (Member)

THANK YOU Disco Stu!

I've spent the better part of the last week, since you first posted that link, DIGGING around that AMAZING website, and I'm still going there!

INCREDIBLE stuff!

Thanks again!


	Posted:	Sep 28, 2015 - 2:54 AM
	By:	NZPete (Member)

Hi Manderley

I'm the curator of the aforementioned MATTE SHOT and you may recall we spoke some years ago of the very hopeful prospect of eventually seeing those old Fox mattes that you have in your garage. I'm still extremely keen to see pictures and if possible publish same on my site. Fox mattes are as rare as hen's teeth and the only ones I know of even still existing are with the Fred Sersen family (The Razor's Edge, etc). So, if possible, whatever you care to share would be so welcome.

Oh, and a big thanks to those FSM readers who've commented so positively about my site.... it's always appreciated as I wonder who still really cares about this traditional wizardry from way back.

Regards

NZPete

Finally, a picture of the home of FSM's Manderley.

Photo by his friend, Rebecca.

That's me when I was much younger.

.....and a picture taken before the fire that almost did me in. I got badly singed in some spots, and most of the rest of me went up totally when the roof of the West Wing caved in.

Damn you, Mrs. Danvers!

Now the vines and tendrils and weeds have encroached on my grandeur, the gate is barred to all who try to enter---no one visits me---and I am alone except for my occasional conversations and posts on FSM.....

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