Blade Runner opening scene

i wondered about this scene just the other day, thanks internet!

lovely old school film making.

edit: damn, this site is awesome, lots of blade runner and 2001 stuff. jazz?

maybe jazz, but who cares, it's blade runner!

If you get the Director's Cut on DVD, the latest version, it should come with a bonus DVD describing in detail, visually, how they constructed a lot of the technologically futuristic scenes (including the excellent opening). Such an amazing film. I always come back to it, time and time again. Never get tired of it.

Fucking old school special effects... how do they work?

Great stuff data, I'm going into 2nd year of Model Making and special effects, starting back next week, so this was really insightful to see.

  On 9/13/2010 at 1:57 AM, Bread said:

If you get the Director's Cut on DVD, the latest version, it should come with a bonus DVD describing in detail, visually, how they constructed a lot of the technologically futuristic scenes (including the excellent opening). Such an amazing film. I always come back to it, time and time again. Never get tired of it.

shit I just realized I have the directors cut on blu-ray, should probably have a gander at the aul special features.

  On 9/13/2010 at 1:59 AM, Billov said:

shit I just realized I have the directors cut on blu-ray, should probably have a gander at the aul special features.

  On 9/13/2010 at 1:57 AM, Bread said:

Such an amazing film. I always come back to it, time and time again. Never get tired of it.

  On 9/13/2010 at 1:59 AM, Billov said:

Fucking old school special effects... how do they work?

 

Great stuff data, I'm going into 2nd year of Model Making and special effects, starting back next week, so this was really insightful to see.

this is something very interesting to do.

i always get kind of fascinated with special effects and i recall watching a specific scene in a movie over and over again, trying to dissect the process of making it. that and get the bonus discs of a lot of movies.

people commonly think that good special effects are all about technology, but it's just a matter of intelligence and pragmatism. the greatest scifi classics have proved that already.

i hope to see you on movie credits one day mate

Wow, the trailer for the making fun of 2001: A Space Odyssey is recent, it's not out yet! *Drools*

epic poster Troon...

aw man, I think its time I got the old Blade Runner out again.

Leon: A tortoise, whats that?

...brilliant

  On 9/13/2010 at 2:08 AM, ruiagnelo said:

i hope to see you on movie credits one day mate

I hope so too, but who knows... I'd also like to learn a bit about directing/script-writing too, but I have the same fascination of dissecting scenes and understanding how they were created.

great site. looking forward to the 2001 documentary.

you gotta love old school sci-fi films

i'm halfway through judge dread, not exactly epic, but the feel of the megacity in that film is like some half formed aborted clone of Blade Runner, so that's why i mentioned it.

I was wondering as i was sitting through that film, what it would have been like if it was made 5 years later. When computer effects took over. I felt like i was watching the last gasp of the old sci-fi film techniques, you know.

what? is that for real?

this making of is one of the best I have seen for a long time. so awesome that they even had to wear masks because it was too hot inside. must have been a pretty intense experience on the set. I totally love this "no computers" way of doing it. looks much better than the cgi shit

  On 9/13/2010 at 1:13 PM, lumpenprol said:

what? is that for real?

"My thoughts exactly"

there's another thread that explains about those posters, i think that it's on this forum.

  On 9/13/2010 at 1:26 PM, o00o said:

this making of is one of the best I have seen for a long time. so awesome that they even had to wear masks because it was too hot inside. must have been a pretty intense experience on the set. I totally love this "no computers" way of doing it. looks much better than the cgi shit

It's like the 70's and 80's space scenes, they look real because they used real props and star field backgrounds, CGI killed cinema. The Fountain shows that you don't need CGI, it was all photography tricks and effects.

I really wish people would stop bashing CGI vs. traditional special effects - both are a medium (or multiple mediums, if you will), and it's irrelevant what the medium is, but how the artist uses that medium to convey the intent, and how well (or not) they accomplish this.

Traditional effects like this are amazing, but respect should be given to the digital artists who spend as much time creating lifelike environments and effects that achieve the same goal as those traditional effects did - cause the viewer to suspend disbelief and be transported into the reality of the film they're watching.

  On 9/13/2010 at 5:12 PM, Joy Rex said:

I really wish people would stop bashing CGI vs. traditional special effects - both are a medium (or multiple mediums, if you will), and it's irrelevant what the medium is, but how the artist uses that medium to convey the intent, and how well (or not) they accomplish this.

 

Traditional effects like this are amazing, but respect should be given to the digital artists who spend as much time creating lifelike environments and effects that achieve the same goal as those traditional effects did - cause the viewer to suspend disbelief and be transported into the reality of the film they're watching.

[on LOTR] Peter Jackson combines both CGI and traditional special effects (for instance miniatures) and the result is outstanding. it kind of depends on the team and director behind the film, and their minds.

Robocop would be great if District 9 folks could redo the bots scenes digitally, they're the few who can do decent looking CGI.

One big problem I have with cgi is that "they" keep using it to simulate naturalistic properties of things, while the atmosphere stays on a juvenile level. Thinking about it (again) I still think that explicit cgi best used in movies was in terminator 2.

Don't get me wrong, I've always been a futuristic sf-freak and I would embrace a film that has amazing cgi working well in the whole. But that never happens. I just keep giving them chances and they keep making lousy environments out of their possibilities. And yes, I will always rant about it everywhere because I know those fucks do it on purpose and don't give a shit about making good movies anyway.

  On 9/13/2010 at 5:42 PM, vasio said:

Robocop would be great if District 9 folks could redo the bots scenes digitally, they're the few who can do decent looking CGI.

you give me a sadfase