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

Aaaaand we have a true winner of this thread :lol
VinceVader said:
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:

War-Horse-01-L.jpg


War-Horse-02-L.jpg


Trebuchet-XL.jpg


12759332_gP92a-L.jpg


12777218_Q4Km3-M.jpg


63400346_raBPJ-L.jpg


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

Vince.
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I will have to write more when I get to my computer. But in short I have been designing and building props for film/tv for the last 8 yrs.
 
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.
 
Rebelscum said:
That Trebuchet is amazing. No wonder it looked so real in the film.

Did you design it as well as build it?
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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:

Trebuchet-03-L.jpg


Trebuchet-04-L.jpg


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:

Bubo-01-XL.jpg


Bubo-02-L.jpg


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.
 
VinceVader said:
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:
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Sadly, this is everything you see of him :(
Clash Of The Titans - Bubo The Golden Owl - YouTube
 
vince built a f^&king working Trebuchet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup


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:
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:

War-Horse-01-L.jpg


War-Horse-02-L.jpg


Trebuchet-XL.jpg


12759332_gP92a-L.jpg


12777218_Q4Km3-M.jpg


63400346_raBPJ-L.jpg


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

Vince.
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defiant967 said:
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.
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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.
 
asavage said:
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.
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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! :thumbsup



Doug
 
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