I really really wanted to like this but - everything from 1:31 to 2:14 is appallingly bad physics. Dramatic as hell, but, there's simply NO way to have people walking on all sides of the tube like that, because centrifugal forces on Rama-sized objects with Rama's spin do not create this effect. You would have been FAR better off to render a zero-G space-suited group floating down the corridor. It's a major departure from the book and shows a serious lack of understanding of the physics. sorry!
I keep watching this over and over! I can't wait until it's made into a movie! But I am not sure it will appeal to a wide enough audience. Great trailer though!
Well, it was impressive, good, clean animations and what not. One issue i have is that Norton had Endeavour land on the North Pole and up against a pillbox, I'm not sure your Endeavor could pull that off. The only other thing I noticed was that Rama was to decorated inside. From what I read it was pretty much just smooth surfaces and such until the plants showed up (ignoring the South). Other than that, super amzing awesome.
Very good, student you say? Well my friend you are going places, I read the Rama series way back, and I recommend to any new siFi reader. then move to alastair Reynolds stuff. He has a similar back ground and style
The book series was epic similar to that of Space Odyssey and the specific short film depicts beautifully the atmosphere of the books. Thank you for the video!
The latest news I've heard is that Morgan Freeman (!) is spearheading the movie project, but they haven't been able to come up with a good enough script. I've often thought about how to do a movie version, but actually it's not very easy to adapt.
It looks terrific, but there is no sound in space. I refer to the external scenes of Rama and the human antenna array/station and engine sounds.
The astronauts walking into Rama would probably hear the vibrations of their own footsteps, though, as you have depicted.
Forgive the nitpicking, but this is Clarke we're dealing with. He was a physicist and wrote books on real science, in addition to his novels and short stories, and they all, always used real physics, not the sci-fi type.
In this book (published in 1972) the author refers to a 'cataclysmic event' that takes place at 0946hrsGMT on 11th Sept.. If you revise the hour for BST you have the exact time and date the first plane struck the WTC.. another strange coincidence?.. or what?
There isn't gravity in the axis of rotation of Rama's cylinder where the entry was located. And I'm not nit-picking. That was one of the most interesting aspects of the artificial gravity produced by it's rotation: that it'd get stronger as you wen't "down" to it's interior surface. If movie makers are going to ignore this fact, they could as well make it's shape a cube or any other more eye candy shape.
wasn't Norton like 50 years old or something. Anyways i would love this movie if i were to find a full version. I absolutely loved the book and have been serching for a movie based on it. If anybody knows anything about a movie please tell me :)
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Sorry, even deep space has more light than what is shown in this movie short. The electronic choir also doesn't help. Show the cylinder, show the space craft approaching the cylinder, show the subsequent landing and the marvelous scene in the book when the door is opened. Stop with the spooky shadows. Lord Carnarven used lots of light when he opened King Tut's tomb. There was lots of light on the black stele sunk into the moon in '2001, a Space Odessey.' Fewer dramatics, please. Nice try!
@zeekwolfe Oh sheesh. Why don't you go and make your own film instead of attacking Vlad's efforts? After all, for someone such as myself who read this book years ago, it was great to see a (short) film on it.
Really nice work mate. I loved the book and was excited to hear David Fincher was working on a movie about 8 or so years back now. It seems to have gone into turn around now but your short proves there's so much intrigue and visual spectacle to make a really exciting feature.
You wouldn't believe which title IMDB has just added back into David Fincher's filmography: Just very recently Morgan Freeman confirmed the possibility of this long-gestating project still working its way into production. Now "Rendezvous With Rama", David Fincher's probable science-fiction 3D epic, was announced again, aiming at a 2013 release date.
Excellent job!!! I liked it a lot. Great idea and composition, with a very nice music and an amazing end. It would be nice to get it all the way till the end. I loved the four books of Rama and I would like to see them one day (the sooner the better) shown on the big screen.
Aaron, You should consider making a longer version. I know it's a bit of a financial drain, but if you could find a way, that would be awesome.
I do hope that if Rendezvous with Rama is ever made into a feature film, it won't be as drab as "Contact" but much less space marine-y, like "Aliens" or the such.
Too "dull" for modern films. It would end up as a bastardisation of the book if it were made. They would likely include lots of violence and action where it should be just hard sci fi.
The fact that Roland Emmerich is set to direct "Foundation" is proof enough that Hollywood cannot and must not be allowed anywhere near masterpieces.
I agree with your worries, but remember that the first sequel to Rama had a lot more action, violence and conflict between the characters. It was a terrific novel!
I have a feeling that they will combine at least the first two books in the series into one movie.
This video is HOT! Very well done. I know you don't know me but would it be possible for you to teach me how you to do the animations. I'm a young film maker and I have experience with Green screen, but i don't know how to do the actual graphic design to accomplish what you accomplished with this film
This is absolutely brilliant ! My favorite sci-fi book ever and i couldn´t hope for a better rendition of the original story visuals and atmosphere. I only wish you could have done more. Come on, do the full 4 books please !! Ill buy the dvd. ;)
Very nice... Just started reading the books again. I do wish a film would be made. Though I imagine it would probably be disappointing, no matter what. Movies based on great books usually are. Plus, nobody is going to do it anyway... Not enough explosions for Hollywood.
looks like a trailer for a movie, i would love for it to happen, Clarke is my favor author, sadly none of the other Rama books were as good as Rendezvous with Rama, i love how it ends just leaving on it own course us none the wiser of it's creators or where it came from.
@romansionis the while series if books is amazing! Rendevouz with Rama is probably the worst book of the 4 (although still amazing) I have just finished reading the third book for the second time. I would say that it is the best sci-fi book series that I have ever encountered! I would love to see a film made, but I don't think it would be possible with the later books! They are too great in scope and would
Probably require several films each, although rendevouz is manageable and should
@antonvysoven9 Yup... Rendevous With Rama is definitely the worst book of the 4 considering it's the original of the 4 and receive 6 awards... while the other receives none whatsoever...
I thought the first two sequels were excellent, but by the second sequel, Clarke was under the spell of sequelitis. It clearly was no longer a novel that would stand on its own, requiring the follow-up books to complete its story.
wow!!amazing work.i wud love to see a movie not just a movie an epic movie,superior than avatar, to b made on this book.hope JAMES CAMERON might be thinking on it,if not then he must think abt it..
@ceasefire066 James Cameron would turn it into another hippie "love the planet" flick like Avatar was. This deserves a far better director. @vladikoff Excellent representation of the true feel of Rama. I would love to see you make a full version of this spanning the book. This, I feel is the one scifi movie that MUST be made and never is. Damn Hollywood and there budgets and liscencing.
really cool but u made a goof, @1:28 when the guy's turning the handle thing, in the book all rama's locks turn anti-clockwise. its mentioned in chapter 3 i think, or possibly chapter 2. still , apart from that its spot on.
This is fantastic! I hope you received some high praise for your work. As a fan of Clarke and Lee and the entire Rama series, I would love to see this made into a full length motion picture one day. The books explore all that we are as humans. In my opinion the books represent the epitomy of Science Fiction story-telling. The same would be true of a movie production, assuming the project was placed in the right hands.
Really saddens me they scraped the movie project. The Rama series should be made as a high budget TV mini series. It is too complex and wide for just a movie.
I hope I get to see a TV show of Rama in my lifetime...that would be sweet.
Breathtaking. Truly, a captivating piece that radiates Arthur C. Clarke's work and talent, wrapped up in a perfectly equal film in regards to enginuity and scripting.
..yeah screw hollywood , you should make it yourself. It`s a great story, and you have already done it justice here. Really great. Big slap on the back from me...
F*cking brilliant. It's only sad that I have to imagine what you might be capable of with a budget. I've heard that the problem with Freeman project is that not enough Hollywood people could make enough money writing the adaptation and screen play to justify the production. Perhaps James Cameron, J. J. Abrams or Speilberg should take on the project. Perhaps, Vladikoff, this film is your destiny
This really pisses me off seeing this! Only by the fact its not a film, but a short film. I wish someone would make a film of the books, not a half ass job but a proper go at it. The person or people who made this video should take up the challenge. You would be thick not to! Good shit... MAKE THE MOVIE!!!
@netrix99 Morgan Freeman was trying to get this novel to the big screen a few years back, and it looked like it was going to happen, but due to his poor health and a lack of funding, the project seems to be off at this point.
Perosnally, I would much rather see someone make a stab at "The City & The Stars" which is still Clarke's best work I think.
It would be nice to see a sci-fi movie that doesn't feel the need to put in action and explosions every fifth minute, but instead think the sense of wonder and the exitement of a meeting with the unkown is enough to make it interesting for the moviegoers.
It would be nice to see a big budget sci-fi movie that doesn't feel the need to put in action and explosions every fifth minute, but instead think the sense of wonder and the exitement of a meeting with the unkown is enough to make it interesting for the moviegoers.
For those who haven't I recommend reading the 4 rama books. They turn out to be an interesting approach on humanity behaviour towards ourselves and our environment. And... who are the Ramans after all, why did they build these spacecraft... and why everything they did they always did in threes?
I have only one suggestion: use Jean Michel Jarre's music. Arthur Clarke himself said that JMJ's music inspire him to crete "2010: A Space Odissey". I think it was e great link between A.C. Clarkes novels and JMJ's music. I read all stories from Clarke and all under JMJ's music. It is fantastic!!!
@JARREmenoid are you sure about the Clarke-Jarre thing? Jarre irst album was in 1969, Clarke's novel came out in 1968...maybe you mean Kubrick and The movie?
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a stunning technical achievement for a student film, but even in 3 minutes they made so many fuckups it is equally stunning. I could list them but it's not like you are going to learn anything.
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if they need a youtube comment to learn about all their technical and canonical inaccuracies then they are truly fucked. In that case my constructive criticism is to jam that cylinder up their collective asses. but hey, they moved on to bigger and better things so bully for them.
The one big mistake was that they had such strong "gravity" in the video. According to the book in the center, where the dock was, they had virtually no gravity. only as you descended from the center to the outer edges of Rama did you start having any real downward force. They should've been basically weightless. So the way the flare fell wasn't realistic either.
"Fuck ups" is a very unkind way of putting it. This short clip is simply inspiring. I read the rama saga, by Arthur C Clarke, many years ago and it was unforgetable.
I know one thing that isn't "right" according to the books, in t his clip. Rama spacecraft generates gravity by rotation. As the astronauts enter the ship along its axis, they had no gravity there, so they could be walking like they do here, and the light would not "fall" as it does.
"Fuck ups" is a very unkind way of putting it. This short clip is simply inspiring. I read the rama saga, by Arthur C Clarke, many years ago and it was unforgetable.
I know one thing that isn't "right" according to the books, in t his clip. Rama spacecraft generates gravity by rotation. As the astronauts enter the ship along its axis, they had no gravity there, so they could not be walking like they do here, and the light would not "fall" as it does.
Sadly, I doubt a company would make this movie today without fucking it up. Modern audiances demand more drama, good guys and bad guys. They would add a dog fight between the Mercury people and Norton's team, or ruin it in some other way. It's really a shame. Imagine what a 100 million dollar effects team could do with Clarke's 50 km spinning worldlet.
Pretty good! Been waiting for someone to make a full length movie of this book for most of my life! There was a glimmer of hope when Morgan Freeman showed some interest, but guess that project died with the author and this short film will have to do.
Great job! It plays exactly as I remember reading it. It's a shame this will never make it into a movie. So many people don't read books and will never get the chance to experience this awesome adventure!
Then between 1:50 and 1:60 you would have a completely different gait. Somewhat like clunk...clunk...clunk... They're walking too easily. They should be almost gliding like as they were weightless.
I also would like this man as director for the filming of Rendezvous with Rama. But then with a few science advisors. I like my SF hard. When obvious scientific laws are violated there has to be a good reason.
@SolomonSAL They're not held by centripetal force because Rama is 15km wide and there would be no force at the axis. Magnetic boots would be the only way to hold them in place. Also it's my film so I can tell you that's what they are.
Not at that radius, they're not. The gravity there is as close to zero as makes no difference, as others here have written. The closer to the perimeter of Rama one gets, the stronger one's acceleration becomes, thus inducing a feeling and the effects of gravity.
Very nicely done! One remark: a quick calculation with data I remember from the book gives me g-force of about 0.006 m/s2 at the place where the astronauts are walking at the centre of the space ship. Hardly enough to allow normal walking like we see it in the video. A. C. Clarke is turning in his grave.
The studio execs would do test screenings and most people would not like the ending... it would end up them fighting the Ramians in a intergallactic space war!
I wish the script hadn't been scrapped. I'm reading the book right now, and it would be great to see it done in a film. Great short film though. I was impressed.
hey nice little film guys! we need sci-fi movies like this being made nowadays, sci-fi has nothing to do with science anymore its all about special effects and stupid spaceships, and cliches. good stuff!
go see district 9. there isn't as much science as you would want but writter/director (Neil Blomkamp -spelling?) kinda spits in the faces of the cliched modern day alien invasion movies.
unfortunately, this probably wont be made into a movie anytime soon. scifi in movies nowadays is all about the action and visual effects, not the science fiction itself. its really sad. this, and many other stories by Clarke would make for incredible movies. just look at 2001.
Great visualization of the essence of this bk. Would take multimillion$ commitment to at least a trilogy to do the story of Rama that Clarke/Lee told justice. Regrettably, the R w/ Rama Quartet doesn't have the built in audience that "Lord of the Rings" had to make such a project feasible.
They would have to compress and change the story too much for the purest.... best left alone, but this short ought to make some curious enough to read them....Rama Revealed is my favorite.
i will gladly pay any amount of money to watch this movie. the book was purely awesome
TheBlueSuperDude 1 day ago
Wow I didn't think any videos/images could come close to the awesomeness first imagined by Arthur Clarke, but this was pretty nice for a short
EMOBIZZLE 2 weeks ago
Make the movie already!
FrankSellersActor 2 weeks ago
I really really wanted to like this but - everything from 1:31 to 2:14 is appallingly bad physics. Dramatic as hell, but, there's simply NO way to have people walking on all sides of the tube like that, because centrifugal forces on Rama-sized objects with Rama's spin do not create this effect. You would have been FAR better off to render a zero-G space-suited group floating down the corridor. It's a major departure from the book and shows a serious lack of understanding of the physics. sorry!
ExosiusWoolley 3 weeks ago
Very impressive. Very 2001-ish. Arthur C. Clarke would have loved it.
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Please get this movie made!!!!
MrPabiv 2 months ago
No he turns the wheel counter-clockwise
TheIsay21 2 months ago
Continue with the movie please
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sarojbaniya 2 months ago
Woaw, joli
lytchye8 2 months ago
The Rama series needs to be turned into a few good movies. I'd watch it for sure, loved reading the series.
djkreature 2 months ago
superb work guys the closest thing to the real thing so far!!!
the greatest Si-Fi trilogy mever made
SHAME ON YOU HOLLYWOOD!! Peter Jackson for director please :)
TheCaptaincameltoe 2 months ago
I keep watching this over and over! I can't wait until it's made into a movie! But I am not sure it will appeal to a wide enough audience. Great trailer though!
floridamadman59 4 months ago
Well, it was impressive, good, clean animations and what not. One issue i have is that Norton had Endeavour land on the North Pole and up against a pillbox, I'm not sure your Endeavor could pull that off. The only other thing I noticed was that Rama was to decorated inside. From what I read it was pretty much just smooth surfaces and such until the plants showed up (ignoring the South). Other than that, super amzing awesome.
bruzewski 4 months ago
Wow, it's so much like how I pictured it in my head!
VanKlaunch 5 months ago
Arthur C Clarke approves.
nickdwaters 5 months ago
Clarke, shoot the limbs!!
Fitrox 5 months ago
i can't wait for the actual movie
zeproo 5 months ago
Very good, student you say? Well my friend you are going places, I read the Rama series way back, and I recommend to any new siFi reader. then move to alastair Reynolds stuff. He has a similar back ground and style
wraith01mg 6 months ago
The book series was epic similar to that of Space Odyssey and the specific short film depicts beautifully the atmosphere of the books. Thank you for the video!
PsychotronicWar 6 months ago
The latest news I've heard is that Morgan Freeman (!) is spearheading the movie project, but they haven't been able to come up with a good enough script. I've often thought about how to do a movie version, but actually it's not very easy to adapt.
ELuhn 6 months ago
Thanks for making this trailer. Probably this story is just something that is never meant for film. Here's to hoping anyway though....
Shipgate 6 months ago
My question is, why hasn
t this been made into a major motion picture. Shoot, if theycan make the Twilight series into films, why not actual classic sic fi literature?
bigscarytigermonster 6 months ago
@bigscarytigermonster because sex with tall statuesque aliens from Pandora is what people want to see.
Imat00l 6 months ago
@Imat00l THat's where it seems to go anymore, doesn't it? If someone isn't getting their rocks off it doesn't make money.
bigscarytigermonster 6 months ago
Hey whats up with KCLion saying he made this movie? His is also posted two years later?
rsdeepsea 7 months ago
I'm currently reading this book, actually just a bit after where your video ends. Good job! Much better than the crap effects I see on SciFi Channel!
rsdeepsea 7 months ago
Exceptional !
cubrick2001 8 months ago
Not bad, says I.
Not bad at all
TheCaracatusPotts 8 months ago
It looks terrific, but there is no sound in space. I refer to the external scenes of Rama and the human antenna array/station and engine sounds.
The astronauts walking into Rama would probably hear the vibrations of their own footsteps, though, as you have depicted.
Forgive the nitpicking, but this is Clarke we're dealing with. He was a physicist and wrote books on real science, in addition to his novels and short stories, and they all, always used real physics, not the sci-fi type.
OronOfMontreal 8 months ago
In this book (published in 1972) the author refers to a 'cataclysmic event' that takes place at 0946hrsGMT on 11th Sept.. If you revise the hour for BST you have the exact time and date the first plane struck the WTC.. another strange coincidence?.. or what?
MrJeffers001 8 months ago
There isn't gravity in the axis of rotation of Rama's cylinder where the entry was located. And I'm not nit-picking. That was one of the most interesting aspects of the artificial gravity produced by it's rotation: that it'd get stronger as you wen't "down" to it's interior surface. If movie makers are going to ignore this fact, they could as well make it's shape a cube or any other more eye candy shape.
damianpaz 9 months ago
Good work :) I'm reading this book, just now.
NeiCaelum 9 months ago
It´s like in "star trek" "The motion picture" and "The Voyage home", there are surely inspired by "Rendezvous with rama"
TheAluminiumklorid 9 months ago
Very professionaly done. you must do this for a living. Thanks!
LakotaCat 9 months ago
excelent work , loved it
congrats
Bardock987 9 months ago
Good work! Very exciting, thanks.
pattyb325 9 months ago
That was awesome, i dont know what zeekwolfe is talking about but i was extremely impressed with that, very nice work.
SarenArteriusFallout 9 months ago
wasn't Norton like 50 years old or something. Anyways i would love this movie if i were to find a full version. I absolutely loved the book and have been serching for a movie based on it. If anybody knows anything about a movie please tell me :)
TheBlueSuperDude 9 months ago
@TheBlueSuperDude There's supposedly going to be a full film released in 2013 on this book. IMDb has more information. I can't wait for that.
InferiorityProject 9 months ago
@InferiorityProject me too
TheBlueSuperDude 9 months ago
wow man nice work, is this the only trailer you've made?
mahabats 9 months ago
@mahabats thank you, yes, so far it's the only short I've done.
vladikoff 9 months ago
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Sorry, even deep space has more light than what is shown in this movie short. The electronic choir also doesn't help. Show the cylinder, show the space craft approaching the cylinder, show the subsequent landing and the marvelous scene in the book when the door is opened. Stop with the spooky shadows. Lord Carnarven used lots of light when he opened King Tut's tomb. There was lots of light on the black stele sunk into the moon in '2001, a Space Odessey.' Fewer dramatics, please. Nice try!
zeekwolfe 10 months ago
@zeekwolfe Sounds like you need to turn up the brightness on your monitor. Problem solved.
vladikoff 10 months ago 22
@zeekwolfe Oh sheesh. Why don't you go and make your own film instead of attacking Vlad's efforts? After all, for someone such as myself who read this book years ago, it was great to see a (short) film on it.
Baculus 7 months ago
awesome book
chiefy67 10 months ago
my god its full of stars oh wait wrong book
cjaccardi 10 months ago
This is a great interpretation of Rendezvous with Rama! Very impressive! Good job and keep up the fantastic work!
yesterdaymr1 10 months ago
The endeavour. Which is the that docks with rama looks totally different than designed in the book. Other than that not bad.
Ben1238 11 months ago
Very well done!
SPLIMLETLET 11 months ago
Really nice work mate. I loved the book and was excited to hear David Fincher was working on a movie about 8 or so years back now. It seems to have gone into turn around now but your short proves there's so much intrigue and visual spectacle to make a really exciting feature.
Good job.
albumental 1 year ago
Amazing work!
MONDARIZDK 1 year ago
Wow, flawless. I seriously had chills. Now, if only a feature length film could be made.
poetdesmond 1 year ago
Very well done.
DMRainsbergerII 1 year ago
Excellent video. About a movie?
You wouldn't believe which title IMDB has just added back into David Fincher's filmography: Just very recently Morgan Freeman confirmed the possibility of this long-gestating project still working its way into production. Now "Rendezvous With Rama", David Fincher's probable science-fiction 3D epic, was announced again, aiming at a 2013 release date.
1111ICEBEAR1111 1 year ago
Best Book ive ever read, Awesome work with the vid !!
Jazza159 1 year ago
holy shit hollywood better make this movie happen.
MacDaddyPooty 1 year ago
As professional trailer as for a SF classic. Would make a great film!
markwhalanaus 1 year ago
That was so cool thank you so much
Chaos290494 1 year ago
Just listened to this on audiobook so its nice to see it in motion, shame it wasn't made into a full movie.
PuuberZ 1 year ago
@PuuberZ the project is up and running again, this movie is happeing. google latest interviews with david fincher
SunriseFestival 1 year ago 3
well done very impressive
carl5192 1 year ago
Excellent job!!! I liked it a lot. Great idea and composition, with a very nice music and an amazing end. It would be nice to get it all the way till the end. I loved the four books of Rama and I would like to see them one day (the sooner the better) shown on the big screen.
dnonar 1 year ago
Wow. It's amazing. I wish I could do something like this in the future. Good job, Aaron Ross! Keep up the good work.
uselessz007 1 year ago
Aaron, You should consider making a longer version. I know it's a bit of a financial drain, but if you could find a way, that would be awesome.
I do hope that if Rendezvous with Rama is ever made into a feature film, it won't be as drab as "Contact" but much less space marine-y, like "Aliens" or the such.
Also, I nominate you to be director!
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siddhant109 1 year ago
Awesome CGI!!! I love the part where he lights the flare, so true to the book! Well done sir!
ShuddupChip 1 year ago
So why hasn't this book been made into a movie? Seriously, it would be amazing!
MrMeeph 1 year ago
@MrMeeph
Too "dull" for modern films. It would end up as a bastardisation of the book if it were made. They would likely include lots of violence and action where it should be just hard sci fi.
The fact that Roland Emmerich is set to direct "Foundation" is proof enough that Hollywood cannot and must not be allowed anywhere near masterpieces.
nashertheatheist 1 year ago
@nashertheatheist
I agree with your worries, but remember that the first sequel to Rama had a lot more action, violence and conflict between the characters. It was a terrific novel!
I have a feeling that they will combine at least the first two books in the series into one movie.
OronOfMontreal 8 months ago
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jeebersjumpincryst 1 year ago
This video is HOT! Very well done. I know you don't know me but would it be possible for you to teach me how you to do the animations. I'm a young film maker and I have experience with Green screen, but i don't know how to do the actual graphic design to accomplish what you accomplished with this film
thamcdowells 1 year ago
This is absolutely brilliant ! My favorite sci-fi book ever and i couldn´t hope for a better rendition of the original story visuals and atmosphere. I only wish you could have done more. Come on, do the full 4 books please !! Ill buy the dvd. ;)
Fantastic short adaptation.
alcaminhante 1 year ago
so coool!!
OSuKaRuTV 1 year ago
Very nice... Just started reading the books again. I do wish a film would be made. Though I imagine it would probably be disappointing, no matter what. Movies based on great books usually are. Plus, nobody is going to do it anyway... Not enough explosions for Hollywood.
xray606 1 year ago
Wow well done
TR0LL2R0CKS 1 year ago
Have just finished reading the book (10 minutes ago!).
Love the video. Excellent work - you've caught the atmosphere of Rama beautifully. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future.
Jh8hyrtf 1 year ago
Awesome, you did a fine job with this demo.
patrickisready 1 year ago
What a great short! Absolutely incredible. You give me the sense of 'wow' as I did when I read the book.
Very good!
bigjuicefolife 1 year ago
fantastic
CelestialElf 1 year ago
looks like a trailer for a movie, i would love for it to happen, Clarke is my favor author, sadly none of the other Rama books were as good as Rendezvous with Rama, i love how it ends just leaving on it own course us none the wiser of it's creators or where it came from.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
Beautiful work, beautifully achieved. A++++ !!!!
godfreyih 1 year ago
@romansionis the while series if books is amazing! Rendevouz with Rama is probably the worst book of the 4 (although still amazing) I have just finished reading the third book for the second time. I would say that it is the best sci-fi book series that I have ever encountered! I would love to see a film made, but I don't think it would be possible with the later books! They are too great in scope and would
Probably require several films each, although rendevouz is manageable and should
Definite
antonvysoven9 1 year ago
@antonvysoven9 Yup... Rendevous With Rama is definitely the worst book of the 4 considering it's the original of the 4 and receive 6 awards... while the other receives none whatsoever...
Steelheart8280 1 year ago
Great short film. I love the book, I still read it. I feel you've done it justice...
sandycrak 1 year ago
Seriously impressive!
genova03202 1 year ago
I cannot fathom the 16 unlikes.
Great job on this!
malosuerte 1 year ago
Seems like only Kubrick got the idea right that there is no sound in space.
romansionis 1 year ago
Congratulations, beautiful work. Love the book - read it (many times) as a teen and now I'm reading it to my 10yo daughter.
TheHorseyChick 1 year ago
@TheHorseyChick
This question goes out to everyone actually:
Have you read the sequels to Rendezvous with Rama. Are they any good or worth reading?
romansionis 1 year ago
@romansionis
I thought the first two sequels were excellent, but by the second sequel, Clarke was under the spell of sequelitis. It clearly was no longer a novel that would stand on its own, requiring the follow-up books to complete its story.
OronOfMontreal 8 months ago
I just finished reading the series. I would LOVE to see this stuff made into a movie!!!!
bombermwc 1 year ago
Wow...this is awesome. The world needs directors this good. Great job.
guitarcrusher2000 1 year ago
wow!!amazing work.i wud love to see a movie not just a movie an epic movie,superior than avatar, to b made on this book.hope JAMES CAMERON might be thinking on it,if not then he must think abt it..
ceasefire066 1 year ago
@ceasefire066 James Cameron would turn it into another hippie "love the planet" flick like Avatar was. This deserves a far better director. @vladikoff Excellent representation of the true feel of Rama. I would love to see you make a full version of this spanning the book. This, I feel is the one scifi movie that MUST be made and never is. Damn Hollywood and there budgets and liscencing.
SniperWolfX117 1 year ago
really cool but u made a goof, @1:28 when the guy's turning the handle thing, in the book all rama's locks turn anti-clockwise. its mentioned in chapter 3 i think, or possibly chapter 2. still , apart from that its spot on.
GoinDownToJunkieTown 1 year ago
This is fantastic! I hope you received some high praise for your work. As a fan of Clarke and Lee and the entire Rama series, I would love to see this made into a full length motion picture one day. The books explore all that we are as humans. In my opinion the books represent the epitomy of Science Fiction story-telling. The same would be true of a movie production, assuming the project was placed in the right hands.
TSM8088 1 year ago
this is amazing, if you make the movie, it will be one of the greatest!
StationXXrama 1 year ago
Really saddens me they scraped the movie project. The Rama series should be made as a high budget TV mini series. It is too complex and wide for just a movie.
I hope I get to see a TV show of Rama in my lifetime...that would be sweet.
CanOfSpam 1 year ago
Breathtaking. Truly, a captivating piece that radiates Arthur C. Clarke's work and talent, wrapped up in a perfectly equal film in regards to enginuity and scripting.
This is visual art at its finest. :)
Lolwtfrudoin 1 year ago
..yeah screw hollywood , you should make it yourself. It`s a great story, and you have already done it justice here. Really great. Big slap on the back from me...
BLUESFREAK01 1 year ago
This is absolutely unbelievable! Magnificent... beautiful! Screw Hollywood, you should do the whole thing!
vaasnaad 1 year ago
Wow! Just like the book! Great composition! The music fits in as well! Thanks for posting!!
MrChristian326 1 year ago
F*cking brilliant. It's only sad that I have to imagine what you might be capable of with a budget. I've heard that the problem with Freeman project is that not enough Hollywood people could make enough money writing the adaptation and screen play to justify the production. Perhaps James Cameron, J. J. Abrams or Speilberg should take on the project. Perhaps, Vladikoff, this film is your destiny
Spock23307 1 year ago
wow excellent graphics! you should absolutely enter it at BIGSTARtv's Online Film Festival, you could win 50,000!
emceefreshjiveLA 1 year ago
If they ever decide to shoot this amazing book, it will be the blockbuster of the century...
PsychotronicWar 1 year ago
superb work my friend.
I have read this novel at least 4 times.
well beyond our time.
goshaaad 1 year ago
This really pisses me off seeing this! Only by the fact its not a film, but a short film. I wish someone would make a film of the books, not a half ass job but a proper go at it. The person or people who made this video should take up the challenge. You would be thick not to! Good shit... MAKE THE MOVIE!!!
netrix99 1 year ago
@netrix99 Morgan Freeman was trying to get this novel to the big screen a few years back, and it looked like it was going to happen, but due to his poor health and a lack of funding, the project seems to be off at this point.
Perosnally, I would much rather see someone make a stab at "The City & The Stars" which is still Clarke's best work I think.
gmdinformation 1 year ago
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terriblemoviefactry4 1 year ago
It would be nice to see a sci-fi movie that doesn't feel the need to put in action and explosions every fifth minute, but instead think the sense of wonder and the exitement of a meeting with the unkown is enough to make it interesting for the moviegoers.
Snurremegrundt 1 year ago
It would be nice to see a big budget sci-fi movie that doesn't feel the need to put in action and explosions every fifth minute, but instead think the sense of wonder and the exitement of a meeting with the unkown is enough to make it interesting for the moviegoers.
Snurremegrundt 1 year ago
For those who haven't I recommend reading the 4 rama books. They turn out to be an interesting approach on humanity behaviour towards ourselves and our environment. And... who are the Ramans after all, why did they build these spacecraft... and why everything they did they always did in threes?
kihew 1 year ago 2
Great!
Md2585 2 years ago
Thank you very much!
Good work.
I have only one suggestion: use Jean Michel Jarre's music. Arthur Clarke himself said that JMJ's music inspire him to crete "2010: A Space Odissey". I think it was e great link between A.C. Clarkes novels and JMJ's music. I read all stories from Clarke and all under JMJ's music. It is fantastic!!!
JARREmenoid 2 years ago
@JARREmenoid are you sure about the Clarke-Jarre thing? Jarre irst album was in 1969, Clarke's novel came out in 1968...maybe you mean Kubrick and The movie?
JPWales 2 years ago
Really liked this, thought the compositing was amazing!
Where did you get your music from?
jezzarass 2 years ago
Thanks! The first track is from Lost Highway by Angelo Badalamenti. The second is called Intifada by Zdenek Bartak.
vladikoff 2 years ago
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a stunning technical achievement for a student film, but even in 3 minutes they made so many fuckups it is equally stunning. I could list them but it's not like you are going to learn anything.
illustriouschin 2 years ago
@illustriouschin your comment would be very much welcome if you did list some constructive criticism, instead you chose to come off as an ass.
maxsmell 2 years ago 8
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if they need a youtube comment to learn about all their technical and canonical inaccuracies then they are truly fucked. In that case my constructive criticism is to jam that cylinder up their collective asses. but hey, they moved on to bigger and better things so bully for them.
illustriouschin 2 years ago
The one big mistake was that they had such strong "gravity" in the video. According to the book in the center, where the dock was, they had virtually no gravity. only as you descended from the center to the outer edges of Rama did you start having any real downward force. They should've been basically weightless. So the way the flare fell wasn't realistic either.
zhitgeist 2 years ago
can you name me the fuck ups so other film students can learn something.
and as someone who hasnt read this, i didnt understand what it is all about.
fallenepitaph 1 year ago
butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high
take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow
READING RAINBOW!!
illustriouschin 1 year ago
"Fuck ups" is a very unkind way of putting it. This short clip is simply inspiring. I read the rama saga, by Arthur C Clarke, many years ago and it was unforgetable.
I know one thing that isn't "right" according to the books, in t his clip. Rama spacecraft generates gravity by rotation. As the astronauts enter the ship along its axis, they had no gravity there, so they could be walking like they do here, and the light would not "fall" as it does.
Morgan Freeman, do this movie already:)
kihew 1 year ago
*EDIT*
"Fuck ups" is a very unkind way of putting it. This short clip is simply inspiring. I read the rama saga, by Arthur C Clarke, many years ago and it was unforgetable.
I know one thing that isn't "right" according to the books, in t his clip. Rama spacecraft generates gravity by rotation. As the astronauts enter the ship along its axis, they had no gravity there, so they could not be walking like they do here, and the light would not "fall" as it does.
kihew 1 year ago
Best series of books I ever read. I might even read them again after seeing this.
playmarto 2 years ago
ahhh this is amazing!! good job! i can't wait to read the book!!!
treblecutDancer92 2 years ago
I read the book years ago and I will never forget the deep impression it made on me - congratulations to this real tribute to Rama and AC Clarke!
tobster3 2 years ago 6
Very few words to describe how wonderful this is... which is saddening considering it deserves pages and pages of praise.
What a beautiful glimpse into Rama.
sashasally 2 years ago
Nice video. I doubt Hollywood could never make a movie like 2001 today, but I hope someone tries with Rama.
calamagrostis88 2 years ago
My physics teacher told me that Morgan Freeman bought the rights to the movie a while ago, but so far nothing is happening with production :(
treblecutDancer92 2 years ago
unbelievable....ten stars out of 5, totally great job, you must be very proud
redhawke2000 2 years ago
Sadly, I doubt a company would make this movie today without fucking it up. Modern audiances demand more drama, good guys and bad guys. They would add a dog fight between the Mercury people and Norton's team, or ruin it in some other way. It's really a shame. Imagine what a 100 million dollar effects team could do with Clarke's 50 km spinning worldlet.
sulljoh1 2 years ago
The British could do it better. Keep this away from Hollywood at all costs.
metabog 2 years ago
They could. I agree strongly. Too bad the UK GDP is probably 100 million dollars :-P
sulljoh1 2 years ago
Good. Damn good. I hope the master himself got a chance to see this before he died.
studentshortfilms 2 years ago 2
Pretty good! Been waiting for someone to make a full length movie of this book for most of my life! There was a glimmer of hope when Morgan Freeman showed some interest, but guess that project died with the author and this short film will have to do.
ChannaGun 2 years ago
Great job! It plays exactly as I remember reading it. It's a shame this will never make it into a movie. So many people don't read books and will never get the chance to experience this awesome adventure!
chambs1 2 years ago
fark! well done!
xmlisnotaprotocol 2 years ago
very nicely done!!!
jhelmsorig 2 years ago
They are wearing magnetic boots.
vladikoff 2 years ago
Then between 1:50 and 1:60 you would have a completely different gait. Somewhat like clunk...clunk...clunk... They're walking too easily. They should be almost gliding like as they were weightless.
ridelo 2 years ago
I also would like this man as director for the filming of Rendezvous with Rama. But then with a few science advisors. I like my SF hard. When obvious scientific laws are violated there has to be a good reason.
ridelo 2 years ago
Eh.. Sorry. I only now realize that vladikoff was the maker of this video. Kudos for your work!
ridelo 2 years ago
@vladikoff
Those aren't mag boots, Rama is spinning on the axis they are walking down. They are all held in position by centripetal force.
SolomonSAL 1 year ago
@SolomonSAL They're not held by centripetal force because Rama is 15km wide and there would be no force at the axis. Magnetic boots would be the only way to hold them in place. Also it's my film so I can tell you that's what they are.
vladikoff 1 year ago 24
@vladikoff
16Km in diameter, and 60Km long.. ;)
I,m actually reading the 2nd book and that's a fantastic ride!
I so hope they will make a movie about this book someday.
metalhead007007 5 months ago
@vladikoff
16Km in diameter, and 60Km long.. ;)
I,m actually reading the 2nd book and that's a fantastic ride!
I so hope they will make a movie about this book someday.
Oh, and great film by the way!!
metalhead007007 5 months ago
@SolomonSAL
Not at that radius, they're not. The gravity there is as close to zero as makes no difference, as others here have written. The closer to the perimeter of Rama one gets, the stronger one's acceleration becomes, thus inducing a feeling and the effects of gravity.
OronOfMontreal 8 months ago
Very nicely done! One remark: a quick calculation with data I remember from the book gives me g-force of about 0.006 m/s2 at the place where the astronauts are walking at the centre of the space ship. Hardly enough to allow normal walking like we see it in the video. A. C. Clarke is turning in his grave.
ridelo 2 years ago
Wow!!
pinkgal109 2 years ago
OH MY GOD! Give this guy hundred million dollars to make a feature film! He won´t definitely fuck it up
MuscleeStud 2 years ago
The studio execs would do test screenings and most people would not like the ending... it would end up them fighting the Ramians in a intergallactic space war!
j0en 2 years ago
stunning
GodEmperorAR 2 years ago
I wish the script hadn't been scrapped. I'm reading the book right now, and it would be great to see it done in a film. Great short film though. I was impressed.
RandomNess522 2 years ago
Oh, this one would be a great full length, if done right...
Loved the books...
Serpentbane666 2 years ago
nice work here. there is a "Rama" DOS point and click adventure from about 1995 that is pretty good.
VideyoJunkei 2 years ago
This is awesome. I hope they'll do a full length one soon. Looks like this director might be the one for the job
U2buserX 2 years ago
hey nice little film guys! we need sci-fi movies like this being made nowadays, sci-fi has nothing to do with science anymore its all about special effects and stupid spaceships, and cliches. good stuff!
ididyomommy 2 years ago 3
They are making a Hollywood full length version with Morgan Freeman
Gozzmaster 2 years ago
i heard the project was scrapped, doesnt seem like it will be out for a while...
ididyomommy 2 years ago
go see district 9. there isn't as much science as you would want but writter/director (Neil Blomkamp -spelling?) kinda spits in the faces of the cliched modern day alien invasion movies.
PancerFTW 2 years ago 2
unfortunately, this probably wont be made into a movie anytime soon. scifi in movies nowadays is all about the action and visual effects, not the science fiction itself. its really sad. this, and many other stories by Clarke would make for incredible movies. just look at 2001.
Halcyon670 2 years ago
2001 was filmed using Nasa cameras and lens' if you watch the film today the quality and clarity of the picture is still impressive
Gozzmaster 2 years ago
completely AWESOME!
Seamus07 2 years ago
make more please :)
AUBENDOZA1 2 years ago
Morgan Freeman is going to make a RENDEVOUS WITH RAMA movie.
Chiggs58th 2 years ago
from what I've heard that movie isn't likely to be made.
doomroe3 2 years ago
for real??!!
lumpfish99 2 years ago
Yeah, sadly it probably won't happen. David Fincher has said they haven't been able to nail the script and so the project is dead for now.
vladikoff 2 years ago
@vladikoff such a shame... it would be a fuckin EPIC movie
ac130pilot 1 year ago
@vladikoff they just need to grow a pair and go through with it. the book was amazing i couldnt imagine the movie not making sales
RoomTroll 1 year ago
Rama would actually be better as a series on a smaller network like sci-fi
Rembrandt18 2 years ago
no way dude...it would not do it justice.....
lumpfish99 2 years ago
Great visualization of the essence of this bk. Would take multimillion$ commitment to at least a trilogy to do the story of Rama that Clarke/Lee told justice. Regrettably, the R w/ Rama Quartet doesn't have the built in audience that "Lord of the Rings" had to make such a project feasible.
They would have to compress and change the story too much for the purest.... best left alone, but this short ought to make some curious enough to read them....Rama Revealed is my favorite.
fifthbiz815 2 years ago
there are some good shots for a demo reel, but i dont see the story, some dudes walk through a tunnel?
loopafox 2 years ago
read the book.
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