Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

[graffitilogic]

Took a little bit of a break until I can see more from the film but I do have some ideas for punching up the design later..

Some Reviews that were out,

Spoiler: reviews from Cannes

the assembly being assembled in two halves that were separated long ago

, I have some ideas on how that might work. I think I have some ideas developing around a gearing assembly as well but I need to watch the frames from the trailer that show the assembly moving a few more times to see how much of it is practical vs CGI.
I'd pay good money for real metallic prop with the proper artistic glyphs, though. Maybe the Mouse will offer one and get my money.

 

[Cable23]

I’m not putting a lot of faith in these early reviews. Most are mixed; some good, some bad. Just remember: most reviewers hated Temple of Doom. I prefer to make up my own mind.

 

[graffitilogic]

Absolutely, I really don't trust RT either until after the audience scores start rolling in and I start to consider an aggregation of the Audience and Reviewer scores. Even then the review scoring seldom represents my personal experience with films. I know Top Gun Maverick did well at Cannes but I also know that there was a certain enthusiasm about just being back in Cinema and getting back to normal moviegoing. That said, I could totally see the normal film-festival crowd not being the ideal audience for an Indiana Jones movie, instead looking for the more art house faire. I did find some of the reviews a little informative about the McGuffin itself, just to bring in more inspiration of things to try to apply to the prop. For instance, I'm thinking the spiral spring / clutch like mech really needs to be an Archimedean spiral versus just any old spiral.
I think this project is really interesting:

Printables

 

[Cable23]

I’m looking forward to seeing the actual McGuffin the movie just to see how it actually works with all the gears and hands. I would love to see the Mouse put out a working prop copy.

 

[bondoking]

I’m looking forward to seeing the actual McGuffin the movie just to see how it actually works with all the gears and hands. I would love to see the Mouse put out a working prop copy.

theres a new tv commercial i saw on reddit that shows more of the dial workings

 

[graffitilogic]

Thanks! - So far it isn't giving me a 4k stream option but once I see one I'll try to get a cleaner screen grab. Based on this screenshot combined with the others, I'm guessing the base white disk is motionless-static with a viewfinder window disc above it rotating to reveal a portion of this.

after a very dirty photoshop clone, that puts the center disc wax encasement at about 9 whiskey corks wide when measuring by the bottom edge, so in the range of about 252mm not counting the wax encasement margin. Probably around 230mm for the actual disc. If the prop makers got cute with it could probably do the math to find the nearest archimedean circles in that size range. That could probably inform the other circles by relation (a relief of the arbelos is probably the viewfinder disc hole, the twin circle is probably related to the upper compass-like element's radii). Totally spitballin' though but seems like something the awesome prop nerds might do.

 

[bondoking]

I love this prop board!!!!

 

[Jintosh]

Okay, here's a pic from that last video. It shows this is a THICK dial. And that the sides are not smooth.

 

[graffitilogic]

Okay, here's a pic from that last video. It shows this is a THICK dial. And that the sides are not smooth.

thank you!

 

[graffitilogic]

Okay, here's a pic from that last video. It shows this is a THICK dial. And that the sides are not smooth.

I wonder if that pattern is consistent on all sides or if some are different than others? I haven't printed one of these yet to turn it around in my hand and think on it but this is my first stab at it. Going on the assumption that those little chiclet things are somehow related to the other circular elements near them, so I tried to stagger them based on that same radius.

 

[graffitilogic]

Some bits from the top of the dial (inset) I believe in the background of a recent poster.

My local Dolby Vision / Atmos theater is small, hasn't posted their tickets yet. Hopefully soon!

 

[Cable23]

Still hoping for a prop replica of the Dial from Disney at some point.

 

[graffitilogic]

Still hoping for a prop replica of the Dial from Disney at some point.

Same! ShopDisney had an exclusive preview for D+ Subscribers banner up for a few weeks and I was hoping a Dial would be in the list but so far it was a Hawaiian Shirt and a Disney Pin a couple toys but no prop as of yet.

 

[Cable23]

I saw the new items listed . The only thing that tempted me was Indy’s bag. Nice mid grade prop, but not quite the WWII gas bag prop original.

 

[Cable23]

I saw the new items listed . The only thing that tempted me was Indy’s bag. Nice mid grade prop, but not quite the WWII gas mask bag prop original.

 

[Cable23]

Oops, sorry for the double post.

 

[Jintosh]

There's so much detail on the small portions we can see.....that you cannot extrapolate the missing pieces. Any replica is going to be incomplete on the engravings.

 

[Cable23]

I have a feeling that the inscriptions are so intricate that unless you have the original, we’ll never see all the details.

 

[graffitilogic]

I had another scaling notion the other day trying to add in those triangular details on the outer enclosure. If made at this scale (about 230mm) - the detail work even to do something simple like the sun, rays, landscape, looking outlines on each point is going to require some really fine detail painting. Though, I suspect the real prop will be slightly larger than will fit on the print bed of my printer. (about 256mm)

On the glyphs, I'm really curious to see how many come from the historical mechanism versus just awesome looking stuff added by the prop folks.

 

[dortega]

I have some pictures of what i think is the actual prop. Maybe you guys have it but if not this are good references for 3d modelers. This are from a FB group.