Asteroid! (part 1)

[GlazyUK]

Remember this article in Cinemagic Magazine very well, in fact I scanned a copy for Stephen Parady a few years back !!! Great to actually see the fibal film !!!

[Adom]

Wow, just started watching and can't help but be a bit impressed by the prediction of "Depression II" and changes in Government control over space travel.  Well done.

[2721357902]

es la de 1997, por que no la he encontrado en internet, (a lo mejor no he buscado bien), y en blockbuster tampoco esta

[jsl151850b]

@2721357902 Block User is joking. There was a made - for - television movie with the same title.

THAT is the movie with the fighter jets shooting the asteroid with lasers!

[2721357902]

@jsl151850b do not worry, I think that movie has not already exist, I hate when people take, but it is not that movie is the 1997. to see if you find it.

[helenajesstarzak]

Is this the movie from 1997?

With Michael Biehn?

[jsl151850b]

@helenajesstarzak

a) Obviously not.

2) No.

[helenajesstarzak]

Okay, thank you for ansaw.

[UrbanSwagger]

Incredible! Almost thirty years after reading about this film in Cinemagic, I'm finally viewing live clips! I've also checked out clips from The White Gazelle and The Deadly Spawn. Is YouTube great or what?

[jsl151850b]

The magazine article is posted at flickr.

Same user name.

My website has a 90mb no annotations version.

There's a link at flickr.

I remember the The Deadly Spawn article for the wrap party monster cakes!

[UrbanSwagger]

Thanks for posting the article. I was always impressed with your technique of merging the human actors with the models. Old school ingenuity!

[jsl151850b]

About that....

At the end of part two...

Bloopers.

The actors were 100 ft. away when the model had a 'malfunction'.

[jsl151850b]

Now with annoying annotations!

[kuhnigget]

Ha! Love it! Thanks for posting! And thanks for the tip, Tims44!

See some more (very primitive!) Cinemagic marvels at my video page. Still haven't digitized my epic Space Commando 7, but one of these days...!

[jsl151850b]

Now with annoying annotations!

[CreativeGiant]

Very inspiring! I've enjoyed Cinemagic for years and they came in very hand when I was younger making my own Super-8 films. I still have most of my collection. I always wanted to see your film and am just glad I know have the chance. Looking forward to part 2. I also attended the Starlog/Cinemagic award show back in 1980 and got to see many other great movies. Hopefully more Cinemagic alums will post their work. Thanks!! Dave

[jsl151850b]

It's odd you and tims44 found this within 30 minutes of each other after it has been posted for months!

There's a high resolution 16 minute version. Google for

Google Video Asteroid!

or

Fun 1981 sci-fi home movie

(The Boing boing article has links to an animation that was too late to be included in the film.)

There are links to my flickr photos of CineMagic's Asteroid! articles.

[jsl151850b]

Now with annoying annotations!

[tims44]

Awesome!

Thanks for posting this. Cinemagic is still my favorite magazine, even though they haven't published it since the 80's.

Some really great film making in the film. A real treat to finally see this.

Thanks again for posting it.

Tim

[jsl151850b]

See the message I sent to CreativeGiant.

[jsl151850b]

Now with annoying annotations!

[jsl151850b]

I've reposted this at a higher resoultion at Google Video.

Asteroid!

[jsl151850b]

video(dot)google(dot)com/video­play?docid=5527308473610248626­

[RET80]

So. Have you ever thought about making new stuff? either by using new technology or keeping your vintage stuff?

I am starting to produce things using vintage tools like old prolines from the 80's and such.

[jsl151850b]

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things."

1 Corinthians 13:11

Now that I have 2 thousand times the computer power I had 25 years ago, I don't have the ability to program in C+ or interface hardware through the USB ports.

The film school computer animation I see on YouTube is amazing. I don't know what I could do now.

BTW... What are prolines?

[RET80]

Ahh, but some people are still children at heart. Who said you have to program with the new software? I still program some SFX in good old BASIC. All-in-all, they have services to learn C++ online like DeVry university.

Film school animation is candy coated. What you did with the Apple II is HARD, true work! The new computer animation I have learned is all point and click.

Prolines were created by Panasonic, first started in the 80's before they integrated VHS tape decks in the camcorder.

[jsl151850b]

Now with annoying annotations!

[RET80]

simply amazing!

And with the new processing you added, it looks THAT much better. Everything was put together so nicely. A wonderful work of architectural film. This concept of directing films has been lost. People either use sex and violence or computer animation to crank out what they want. You hand crafted everything EVEN the animation with BASIC variables!

[jsl151850b]

That's me at 5:55 in part 2.

Check out the flickr page.

3 applicable CineMagic magazine articles, and  photos of the animation rig.

[matbergman]

Bravo! The vintage computer animation complements the fantastic miniature work. Very original.