Blade Runner - Special Effects Sequences Tribute

A vintage Special Effects Homage to the Movie Blade Runner. All Model SFX Scenes are cut together in full length and (almost) chronological order. And what's there, is only 5 Minutes... no more. And all done with handmade Models and photographic effects.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sci-Fi
• Special
• Effects
• 1982
• Vintage
• Science
• Fiction
• Model
• Design
• Ridley
• Scott
• Vangelis
• Cyber
• Punk
• cyberpunk
• retro

[TBONEMCT]

Well put phibescurse and mponkey69.

I work with miniatures and practicals (models) in special effects and CG is great for complimenting practicals. Star Trek was all CG and looked good, but in a surreal sort of way. Starship Troopers was a classic example of using both: CG and practicals.

This is beautiful! Magical, but the Vangelis adds so much as well.

Thanks for posting MetalApe.

[MetalApe]

@TBONEMCT Yes! And thank you! :)

[DocLock]

One of my all time favorites. Loved the days of great effects work done with good miniature techniques. I do appreciate CGI but there's a special magic with what was done with models when managed properly.

Great job on this tribute.

[MetalApe]

@DocLock Thank you!

[DavidChipman]

Very well done!

[MetalApe]

Thank You DavidChipman.

[ryangfilm]

I think Hollywood needs to revert back to the way they did special effects like the way they made these effects in Blade Runner. They used models and lights heavily and created in-camera effects which made the effects more tangible whereas if you go watch Spider-Man it is so easy to be distracted by the special effects becuase you know they're there.

[Asianpersuasion3]

Judging from the comments, CG is underappreciated around here. Alot of times, CGI is so convincing that you don't even know it's there. The problem is that people think CG sucks since they can only see it when it's done poorly.

[WarOfSalvation]

@jakespick Don't forget the original "Alien".

[WarOfSalvation]

They only need CGI for things that require them, not everything. They managed to do King Kong in the 1930s just fine. And it's one of the most memorable films of all time due to it's effects. Sure it was stop motion, but with today's effects you could do Stop Motion and animatronics, and use CGI for only a few things. It still works, you never knew it was stop motion because you never had anything else.

[electroluxia]

Beautifully done. Cheers.

[FluffyFooFookins]

This stuff is great, should be done more in modern films, even when miniature stuff isn't always convincing, at least I can always tell it's real.

Pure cgi always looks so fake, like in the Star Wars films, meh.

One of the main giveaways is always how blurry cgi looks due to the fake shading and lighting.

[ScaperSteph]

This movie holds up so well over the years! CGI is overrated... miniatures and puppets (like the original Jim Henson Yoda from Empire and Pilot and Rygel from Farscape....they seem more real than CGI characers.)

[eddiefuzz]

Perhaps I'm missing the point, but can someone explain to me how CGI is supposed to be better than this....?

[Mod60s]

Still amazing after all these years. Needs to be seen on the big/wide silver screen again!