Who here has actually built stuff for the movies? SHOW and tell.

Tactonyx said:

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How About Web series? Here's something I did for Corridor Digital:



Took me two weeks to design and build this from scratch PVC foamboard. Here's a link to more pics of the gun: http://www.therpf.com/f9/corridor-di...7/#post2284116

I saw this a few days ago on YouTube - AWESOME short and great job on the "spaceman"

Rebelscum said:

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That Trebuchet is amazing. No wonder it looked so real in the film.

Did you design it as well as build it?

Glad you like the Trebuchet, the overall look came from the Art Dept but I had to design the mechanics of the rig and make it practical, safe and reliable. Once I'd completed all the drawings four of us built and assembled it in around 5 weeks.

With safety and reliability in mind a steel chassis was decided upon which was then clad in 3/4" timber to give it the correct look of something constructed from solid timber.

You can see the chassis in the following photos:





Another cute little character I got to work on was Bubo for "Clash of the Titans", not seen the film yet but I understand the character gets minimal airtime, which is crazy when you consider the time and effort which went into the build. I can't take credit for the whole character as it was a bit of a team effort but I did design and build the chest feathers and feet:





Vince.

Vince,
The Trebuchet stole the show. I loved it.
Nice job on the owl, was he metal and plastic? or just metal?

Cheers, everything you can see in the photo of the owl is steel, brass and aluminium, the only plastic used was a thin fibreglass shell under the metal feathers.

Vince.

I saw Clash of the Titans and we love the Owl, too bad we see it for 10 seconds...

VinceVader said:

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Another cute little character I got to work on was Bubo for "Clash of the Titans", not seen the film yet but I understand the character gets minimal airtime, which is crazy when you consider the time and effort which went into the build. I can't take credit for the whole character as it was a bit of a team effort but I did design and build the chest feathers and feet:

Sadly, this is everything you see of him
Clash Of The Titans - Bubo The Golden Owl - YouTube

Wonderful work, all. Vince, that Bubo's a great tribute to the original... it's a shame they didn't use it more on screen!

If commercials count, we did some groovy rubber monsters for Volkswagen's Star Wars themed Super Bowl spot this year:




Pics of our characters and some behind the scenes links here: Volkswagen Star Wars Superbowl Commercial Cantina Bar Alien Masks and Costumes

best,
Tom

vince built a f^&king working Trebuchet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


not many people can put that on a resume.......

Vince,

Good to see you are still very busy!

not heard from you for ages, don't be a stranger!


- David


ps Vince is ever so slightly a bit of a master craftsman

VinceVader said:

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I've been in the Film Industry since 1995 so there's quite a few projects I've worked on over the years, first 12 years were spent doing Animatronics and now I specialise in Special Effects for Neil Corbould Ltd here in the UK. Over the years I've worked on the Oompa Loompa's for Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Puppies and Parrot for 102 Dalmatians, the monster for Loch Ness, Chimps for Babe Pig in the City, Kangaroos for Kangaroo Jack and more recently Clash of the Titans, War Horse and Snow White and the Huntsman.

My favourite projects so far were to design and build an accurate "all steel" working replica of a Mark IV WWI tank for Spielberg's War Horse and a full size fully working medieval Trebuchet for Snow White and the Huntsman:













More projects are in the pipeline but haven't been released yet.

Vince.

defiant967 said:

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Well, I don't call myself a prop maker. It was never my career. I'm just a hobbyist who got in with the right people. I suppose my stuff had to be up to a certain standard, though.

I didn't *design* this stuff.... I was just asked to reproduce it.

I made some static pieces for ST: First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis. Mostly PADDs, iso. chips, static Tricorders, and a few other background pieces.

I'm the one who came up with the lower button window on the small PADD.
The Cardassian/Starfleet hybrid PADD from FC came from me, but was not my idea! The set decorator requested it.

When The Experience opened in Vegas, I provided many of the TNG era Starfleet devices.

To this day, I get a kick out of seeing my stuff appear in auctions, especially Profiles in History. I recently saw some of my pieces at ST: The Exhibition when it was at Kennedy Space Center.

I'm grateful to have had the experience.

wow!

Nice first post!

Welcome to the RPF

I built the broken buildings in New York in the film A.I. Was a really fun job. My friend Aaron and his team would lasercut and assemble the buildings, and then me and my team would spend weeks making them looked destroyed. We had reference libraries from major earthquakes, visited construction sites.

Spent 6 months on these. So much fun.

I can't believe all those Oompa loompas....Ive never seen one available anywhere

asavage said:

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I built the broken buildings in New York in the film A.I. Was a really fun job. My friend Aaron and his team would lasercut and assemble the buildings, and then me and my team would spend weeks making them looked destroyed. We had reference libraries from major earthquakes, visited construction sites.

Spent 6 months on these. So much fun.

C'mon Adam, as much as you like to blow things up, it took you 6 months to trash these? Fess up.

My sons and I are hooked on the show btw, keep up the good work!



Doug

Last thing I worked on before going into private commisions was 'The Decent' at Pinewood, sculpting and the like.

We did the hard parts for this costume last summer:

WE ARE ONE starring Rosie Jones | Facebook

Good film BTW!!

Just finished some wall fixtures for a Trek pilot.

Lots of SW related parts for Disney.

Lots that we never take the time to photograph.

Worked with Dennis Lowe (ALIEN) on a few shorts lately.

Richie

Propmasters said:

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Vince,

Good to see you are still very busy!

not heard from you for ages, don't be a stranger!


- David

Hi David

Great to hear from you, yes it's been a while, works been keeping me busy for some time now and weekends have been keeping me busy on a car restoration.

Hope you and your family are well?

Vince.

I have. 36 years in make-up effects and creatures. And CGI and models.

I have worked on Ghost Busters, Fright Night, Star Trek, and a lot more. Did Spock's ears for the first movie.

I'm still working today and I'm currently working with Andy Probert, Doug Drexler and Mike Okuda on the new Space Command. I'm Building Space Suits and the Clipper model.



That's me grabbing her in the face with the hands I designed and created.



Here's the original ear molds I made way back when in my oven at my home lab. Weekends I use to take them home and run them for the next week. Fred Philips was my friend and gave me one of my greatest moments in my career to work on Star Trek.



And here I am in my test makeup before we shot the opening scenes to Laser Blast. I built the gun too this was one of my early jobs given to me by Rick Baker.



Here I am with my wife and our old friend Bob Burns on the Mac Tonight set. I created the puppet head Doug Jones wore for years during the campaign.



There is lots more here: sneillfx.com and Steve Neill's Blog

Steve

cool looks like you guys 80's time machine

Love this thread. I'll follow this thread

OMg the talent shown on here is simply amazing!

And here I am in my test makeup before we shot the opening scenes to Laser Blast. I built the gun too this was one of my early jobs given to me by Rick Baker.

I loved Laser Blast! A while back I thought about making the gun and the grenade looking necklace thing that makes it work, but I would spend more time explaning what it was from than it would take to make them.

Sent from my Apple Newton

Wow, you guys are so talented. Will be following this thread.

SteveNeill said:

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I have. 36 years in make-up effects and creatures. And CGI and models.

I have worked on Ghost Busters, Fright Night, Star Trek, and a lot more. Did Spock's ears for the first movie.


Steve

Wow! I am one awe of your experience. Would you be willing to answer some Ghostbusters questions?

Xenuprime said:

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Wow! I am one awe of your experience. Would you be willing to answer some Ghostbusters questions?

Sadly Steve is not participating at RPF anymore (don't ask). He has a blog you can subscribe to though.

Steve Neill's Blog



Doug

Thanks wannab.