I would love to get into this line of work! I do this for fun already! I even have my own shop people call "Hobo Hobby Town" lol cause its almost all dumpster finds.. I call it recycling lol
As a scenic carpenter working on The Expanse, this was awesome to see some "behind the scenes" of another department. We are all usually working so hard that we never get to appreciate the work of the other departments. Thank you for this awesome expose
Your comment reveals one of the millions of little things that we audience members never even think about--how much or how little to all the different people working on a show get to experience and appreciate each others' work with the exception of everyone seeing the final product? I wonder, especially since so many of you have all be working together on this show for so long now, if you guys could find the time and a way to have in-house show-and-tells or "job shadowing" or little department open houses. Not only would it be fun, but the fact that you're a carpenter commenting on props makes me think there'd be neat lessons everyone could learn from a little "cross-training." I guess at the end of the day, the show needs to get made, and there are deadlines...and with the show having grown, everyone has more and more to do in the same time, so I can see how it would be difficult to indulge yourselves. It really seems like everyone involved in this show genuinely enjoys what they do. I hope that continues for everyone.
They're basically just for better weight distribution. They're not powered, no motors or anything, just give you better balance and mechanical advantage for certain tasks.
This one just springs. One just came out recently that is highly powered. it's way heavier so it has to compensate for its own weight and it amplifies your strength by 5
We were at Ad Astra, three of us. We had bought flight suits from a surplus on Yonge St., we made our own boots. It was while Season 1 had just aired. We ran into a guy who was con staff (apparently does Anime North too) and he was kind-of taken aback by our cosplay. We did the boots all manual. Didn't know about the slap bracelets. We took acrylic, laid out LEDs from a pick-and-place roll onto solid core wire, and glued that down to the acrylic. Then used a red acitate sheet over that. Same CR2032 batteries, but we didn't have the sockets so we put them between the 2 leads. This made them kind-of flaky, they would dim or turn off, but sometimes reliably. So you could stomp and make them turn on. Conrad said he thought we look like we lifted the suits from the set. He can be seen as one of the belters in S1 and I recall seeing him in the end of S3 too. So I guess he's still working on the show. Hi Conrad!
"So what we did is we bought an existing exoskeleton that would be sold to like home depots or anything for enhanced lifting, so repetitive motions." Hold up. The future is now?
He either exaggerated or doesn't know what the real world is like. Home depot doesn't use those things. Maybe one or 2 stores do but it definitely isn't common.
@@scottywills124 ua-cam.com/video/zLWuHo63C8k/v-deo.html I believe the founder/engineer/inventor there explains the cost set up. How a company essentially leases these suits from them and doesn't have to maintain the suits either. They are here and with IBM's new battery tech: gizmodo.com/ibm-research-created-a-new-battery-that-outperforms-lit-1840535845 Along with adoption of no rare minerals/low usage in batteries we will have costs down and capacity up. Possibly without the dangerous explosion capabilities of Lipo. The future is now
This and some builds are my favourite thing in Tested, it's truly fascinating how they build this stuff. I wouldn't mind an extended version of this with more details
9:00 Another reason the show is great. Good story and writing coupled with the fact it is directly based on "sort of" plausible science makes it just amazing.
They never actually showed the crew dying. The ship was pulled apart, not them. It also seems like they could still breathe since they weren't suffocating. They would eventually die from either suffocation after they use up all the oxygen in that space or from starvation, which are pretty lame ways to die given the situation.
Thank you! I've been trying to decide how to do the boot lights and the HT for a few weeks now. Never cosplayed before, but I can't get enough of the Expanse!
Just finished the expanse s5 (well up to date) and ive been loving these videos. I didnt get into The Expanse when it first launched but now im thoroughly obsessed and loads of my favourite youtube creators are too! another favorite is the spacedock ship breakdowns as they're hyper detailed and canon. Can we expect more stuff from you and the expanse in the future?
That's pretty fun. Glad you guys seem to enjoy your job. The Expanse show is great. Just started reading the books too. Thanks for all the hard work! Don't forget to spend time with your families too! ❤️🙏😊
I don't know if it was this guy in charge of set direction, but that gunfight on eros had me rolling my eyes when the heroes took cover behind plastic totes. Probably just because I work with those things every day, and I know they won't stop a bb. Much less a future tech space gun
Wonderful to see episodes like this where cosplayers can see into the prop makers mindset, and that the prop makers are increasingly aware of the cosplaying scene. A question Adam: It's very clear to see how the prop and effects industry has impacted the Cosplayers, but do you know of anything the Cosplayers have done that has impacted the Propmakers? Whether from a design standpoint or a "Oh hey, that's really inventive, I never would have thought of making that THAT way before"? Maybe this could be an episode in and of itself?
@@sittingstill3578 I have it. I dont really watch tv, so i didnt noticed, but last time i checked IMDB it was only announced. I suppose i checked too long ago lol.
It is truly amazing how simple tech advancements have made prop building so much easier and cheaper. Just wait in a couple of years all the images on those coms and tablets will be from micro projectors that are giving an animated image instead of using acetate film.
Omg! I love you Adam! I so enjoy watching your enthusiasm and massive intellect!! Your bounce reminds me of a little boy in a man's body! Adore you!! So enjoyed this episode.
@RJ Original MOVIES ha ha. If only! No. I'm a very happy married woman thanks and I'm sure he is a happily married man. It's perfectly ok to feel affection for another. He is adorable!
It’s amazing when you think that some of the ‘throwaway’ tech that is being incorporated in props these days far exceeds anything even the SF writers of 50 years ago could even dream up.
In season 3 when Naomi is on Drummer’s ship, there is a scene where she’s working and you can see a bunch of laptop cooling mats placed along the ship. I thought that was funny, but this video makes me realize the mindset behind why they did that.
Damn, I saw someone who looked a bit like you and I saw the credit 'Mission Specialist ADAM SAVAGE', and I still didn't put two and two together. Looks like the Superman/Clark Kent thing with the glasses really does work in reverse :)
I'm gonna modify my boots. It's dark this time of the year and that was the coolest and easiest mod ever. Thanks for the info, these episodes is so damn cool! Love The Expanse!
@@TheNewton People use them alone in the show all the time. They don't have someone in the same room with them 24/7 when in space for months at a time....
I know one piece of info the cosplayers could really use is the dimensions of things like Tycho, UNN, MCRN, IASG, and OPA insignia patches... I _like_ the 4" diameter IASG patch I made for my flight gear, but I know it's too big. 🤔
what's really interesting about this video, is that we have two great builder/makers who both loves to build stuff, but just looking at them talking about making stuff, it is kinda obvious that one of them still has that 12 years old running around joyfully inside his head, but the other one does not...
Found items are awesome but I'm still not sure how to feel when the found items are highly recognizable, like the 5-1/4" floppy drive bezels on the back of Alexander's tablet in Star Trek TNG, or the Gamma Vittle Vaults in the cargo bay in DS9
The only obvious thing to me as a prop was the freezing chamber on the Jupiter moon where they stored the protomolecul hybrid kids in. I think it was season 2. It was just a car roof box.
When I saw the series, it made me laugh, that the cameras where they put the children to hybridize them with the aliens, were trunks that are put on the roof of cars to carry the luggage.
'This video is geared towards cosplayers,' oh cool, so we're gonna get to see how to make all kinda scifi props! Oh man, how are they gonna make an exoskeleton suit!? 'we bought an exoskeleton' Well there go my iron man fantasies...
I LOVE seeing real-world familiar items repurposed into the expanse, as other things or even as themselves! Pretty sure I grabbed a flask the same as Murtry's in S4 (the GSI Boulder 10oz). I'm thinking of including it as a taken item with an Amos costume.
Here's the interview Adam did with Jim Murray in 2017, when he talked about weapons and helmets and more: ua-cam.com/video/QXwe51lkJ6M/v-deo.html
Wow I missed that interview! This is the best Sci-Fi show of the past decade and they do such incredible work with everything.
Ooh. On-point. Must away to see you in Tokyoooooo... Sounds like a good bit.
I would love to get into this line of work! I do this for fun already! I even have my own shop people call "Hobo Hobby Town" lol cause its almost all dumpster finds.. I call it recycling lol
I never heard of Expanse I didn't know what you were talking about until I see the ad under your video
Looks the place like mythbusters 🤔
As a scenic carpenter working on The Expanse, this was awesome to see some "behind the scenes" of another department. We are all usually working so hard that we never get to appreciate the work of the other departments. Thank you for this awesome expose
What an awesome job. Thanks to you and everyone involved with this show for making something so amazing.
Your comment reveals one of the millions of little things that we audience members never even think about--how much or how little to all the different people working on a show get to experience and appreciate each others' work with the exception of everyone seeing the final product? I wonder, especially since so many of you have all be working together on this show for so long now, if you guys could find the time and a way to have in-house show-and-tells or "job shadowing" or little department open houses. Not only would it be fun, but the fact that you're a carpenter commenting on props makes me think there'd be neat lessons everyone could learn from a little "cross-training." I guess at the end of the day, the show needs to get made, and there are deadlines...and with the show having grown, everyone has more and more to do in the same time, so I can see how it would be difficult to indulge yourselves. It really seems like everyone involved in this show genuinely enjoys what they do. I hope that continues for everyone.
*Madison Rallis* - Isn't it wonderful to see how all the parts come together into a synergistic work of art?
Thank you for your service. Fantastic show.
@@daveogarf it truly is awesome when you get a chance to step back and see the big picture and the final product
Today I Learned you can buy an exoskeleton suit
Yeah, same. Didn't even occur to me before.
Back in 2012 you could buy a Pilot-able Mech from a company called suido bashijuko if you have a few mill spare
I was literally gonna go look that up after the video.
They're basically just for better weight distribution. They're not powered, no motors or anything, just give you better balance and mechanical advantage for certain tasks.
This one just springs. One just came out recently that is highly powered. it's way heavier so it has to compensate for its own weight and it amplifies your strength by 5
That was waaaaay too short of a show and tell. Could have watched a whole hour more of this.
Was thinking the same thing long before I'd even finished the 10 minutes of it.
Veritas. I'm for that.
yep
Yes
It's supposed to inspire you to build not binge 🤣
We were at Ad Astra, three of us. We had bought flight suits from a surplus on Yonge St., we made our own boots. It was while Season 1 had just aired. We ran into a guy who was con staff (apparently does Anime North too) and he was kind-of taken aback by our cosplay. We did the boots all manual. Didn't know about the slap bracelets. We took acrylic, laid out LEDs from a pick-and-place roll onto solid core wire, and glued that down to the acrylic. Then used a red acitate sheet over that. Same CR2032 batteries, but we didn't have the sockets so we put them between the 2 leads.
This made them kind-of flaky, they would dim or turn off, but sometimes reliably. So you could stomp and make them turn on.
Conrad said he thought we look like we lifted the suits from the set. He can be seen as one of the belters in S1 and I recall seeing him in the end of S3 too. So I guess he's still working on the show. Hi Conrad!
"So what we did is we bought an existing exoskeleton that would be sold to like home depots or anything for enhanced lifting, so repetitive motions."
Hold up. The future is now?
you heard that too? he must be joking
He either exaggerated or doesn't know what the real world is like. Home depot doesn't use those things. Maybe one or 2 stores do but it definitely isn't common.
Yes those things exist, but no, nobody is giving them to actual working class people.
Well they are testing these things for a couple of years already in various industries like automotive, warehouse / shipping etc.
@@scottywills124 ua-cam.com/video/zLWuHo63C8k/v-deo.html
I believe the founder/engineer/inventor there explains the cost set up. How a company essentially leases these suits from them and doesn't have to maintain the suits either. They are here and with IBM's new battery tech: gizmodo.com/ibm-research-created-a-new-battery-that-outperforms-lit-1840535845
Along with adoption of no rare minerals/low usage in batteries we will have costs down and capacity up. Possibly without the dangerous explosion capabilities of Lipo.
The future is now
"found items" = "legitimate salvage"
5:29 Can't stop glancing at blinky lights
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN
[Me at 6:15] "Oh thank you!"
This and some builds are my favourite thing in Tested, it's truly fascinating how they build this stuff. I wouldn't mind an extended version of this with more details
Absolutely fabulous video and top notch tips. Thanks! =D
THANK YOU AMAZON FOR CONTINUING THE EXPANSE
9:00 Another reason the show is great. Good story and writing coupled with the fact it is directly based on "sort of" plausible science makes it just amazing.
"When you killed me at the end of season 2" - Adam Savage 2019 xD
He made it to Venus and it tore him apart.
@@I_NeedCoffee PM tore everything around him apart. Then Venus killed him.
They never actually showed the crew dying. The ship was pulled apart, not them. It also seems like they could still breathe since they weren't suffocating. They would eventually die from either suffocation after they use up all the oxygen in that space or from starvation, which are pretty lame ways to die given the situation.
I feel like 10 minutes does not give this segment justice.
At first look at the thumbnail, I thought that was Adam with Mike Stoklasa, and I was super pumped. This is good too, though.
The Expanse effects are amazing. Every scene looks better than most movies, and it is so impressive that they can do that with a TV budget.
Two of my favorite things together, The Savage and The Expanse!
Big props to amazon for continuing this show. I just wish prime was around when Firefly was on the air.
00:22 as a sound guy, I have always liked the use of Shure microphone boxes in the Galley of the Rocinante.
Jonny One-Truck ahaha
lol good catch.
The slap bracelets and the plexi idea is so cool, these on-the-budget ideas are life savers, thank you so much!
amazing show with amazing special effects and props as well as digital effects
I love reading the labels on the bins on the racks behind them. They say things like "Holden's helmet" and "shot glasses."
Super interesting. Did anyone else see them use an UE BOOM speaker as the bomb/rocket in the series?
Hypedoc completely missed that and I own that speaker :D what season?
Thank you! I've been trying to decide how to do the boot lights and the HT for a few weeks now. Never cosplayed before, but I can't get enough of the Expanse!
Just finished the expanse s5 (well up to date) and ive been loving these videos. I didnt get into The Expanse when it first launched but now im thoroughly obsessed and loads of my favourite youtube creators are too! another favorite is the spacedock ship breakdowns as they're hyper detailed and canon. Can we expect more stuff from you and the expanse in the future?
Thank you! Awesome to see behind the scenes of the best sci-fi show out there!
That's pretty fun. Glad you guys seem to enjoy your job. The Expanse show is great. Just started reading the books too.
Thanks for all the hard work! Don't forget to spend time with your families too! ❤️🙏😊
I just started watching the show and I love it!
Those dimmers were RC4 wireless DMX. Could just see their purple label under the tape...
I don't know if it was this guy in charge of set direction, but that gunfight on eros had me rolling my eyes when the heroes took cover behind plastic totes.
Probably just because I work with those things every day, and I know they won't stop a bb. Much less a future tech space gun
'Tech'
- Jim Murray, 2019
That's also how the Star trek episodes were plotted. "Captain, we have to tech the tech!"
Wonderful to see episodes like this where cosplayers can see into the prop makers mindset, and that the prop makers are increasingly aware of the cosplaying scene. A question Adam: It's very clear to see how the prop and effects industry has impacted the Cosplayers, but do you know of anything the Cosplayers have done that has impacted the Propmakers? Whether from a design standpoint or a "Oh hey, that's really inventive, I never would have thought of making that THAT way before"?
Maybe this could be an episode in and of itself?
Beautiful. Super entertaining and interesting.
So I just found out I need to "watch" 2 seasons of the expanse
2 seasons? You need to watch all four
@@Adrian-jn9ov 4th is out already? Dayum.
Alientcp It’s only on Amazon Prime though.
@@sittingstill3578 I have it. I dont really watch tv, so i didnt noticed, but last time i checked IMDB it was only announced. I suppose i checked too long ago lol.
Alientcp Yeah, S04 came out last week on Friday as a whole season, so happy binging! :)
It is truly amazing how simple tech advancements have made prop building so much easier and cheaper. Just wait in a couple of years all the images on those coms and tablets will be from micro projectors that are giving an animated image instead of using acetate film.
Omg! I love you Adam! I so enjoy watching your enthusiasm and massive intellect!! Your bounce reminds me of a little boy in a man's body! Adore you!! So enjoyed this episode.
@RJ Original MOVIES ha ha. If only! No. I'm a very happy married woman thanks and I'm sure he is a happily married man. It's perfectly ok to feel affection for another. He is adorable!
Love the Expanse! It's a great show!
It’s amazing when you think that some of the ‘throwaway’ tech that is being incorporated in props these days far exceeds anything even the SF writers of 50 years ago could even dream up.
Now waiting for season 6👍❤️❤️
One of those videos where I keep thinking "no... NO don't be over!"
"right right... green for you're connected to the ground..."
"um... red."
Well in his defense, GREEN usually means ON, while RED usually means OFF/Disabled. And magboots works when they are ON... so.
It honestly looks like Adam went back to M5 (AKA the old Mythbusters set).
I kept expecting Jamie to walk into frame.
Imagine being Adam Savage.
A complete geek/ nerd for the series and then they let him appear on the show.
Lucky bar steward
I want season 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And I want more than 10 episodes a season. I want this to be like Farscape where they had a total of 82 episodes.
Great behind the scenes video 😎👍
I love the fact that current advancements in tech is driving our ability to conceptualize future tech in an easier manner.
In season 3 when Naomi is on Drummer’s ship, there is a scene where she’s working and you can see a bunch of laptop cooling mats placed along the ship. I thought that was funny, but this video makes me realize the mindset behind why they did that.
Funny how it took The Expanse to render this man knolled with a spaceship in Venus
Damn, I saw someone who looked a bit like you and I saw the credit 'Mission Specialist ADAM SAVAGE', and I still didn't put two and two together. Looks like the Superman/Clark Kent thing with the glasses really does work in reverse :)
That was a fine trailer! Now, where's the 1½ hour movie? :D
4:30 I used to use that thing with computer cases 10-15 years ago when it was cool to have window on your case :-)
It's still cool but windows are now in glass instead of plastic.
@@BertyBertsson Only for people who prefer to stare at their computer instead of using it. The window in my MasterCase Pro 5 is facing the wall.
I'm gonna modify my boots. It's dark this time of the year and that was the coolest and easiest mod ever. Thanks for the info, these episodes is so damn cool! Love The Expanse!
This was fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing!
they could sell these handheld terminals to the fan pages! I buy for sure! Nice!
07:50 - woah, woah woah there!
Did they just brush off the statement that exoskeleton suits are common at Home Depot?!
The spoken word "comms" is translated to text as columns and comments in the printed, rolling, transcript
I bet he is super appreciative of things like the Deep Space Nine shuttle being made from a hand shaver.
Awesome!!!
I almost thought for a second they were filming at Jamie Hyneman’s M5 workshop because of the similar storage solution in the background 😅
I need to make a shirt that says "I'm a maker you wouldn't understand" when I'm going to the hardware store lol. You heard it here first folks
At first I thought you were in the M5 headquarters.
Me too! :D
I literally have the show paused when I searched for this and I was at the bomb scene in s3 and the guy showed it.
Spooky.
Really enjoy the show
Why is the boot indicator in a place where the person wearing it can't see it?
sleepib because you should never use them alone
pretty sure your indicator the boots are working is the fact your stuck to the floor...
same as your car break lights. You as the driver don't see them, but someone else will
@@TheNewton People use them alone in the show all the time. They don't have someone in the same room with them 24/7 when in space for months at a time....
For the convenience of the viewer.
Oh man that room does look amazing. I could get into making those things
Googling "home depot exoskeleton suit"
Very interesting, loved it.
I like the expanse because it gets the little details right
Like using a cutoff wheel in space? LOL
8:57 Dear Star Trek Discovery, this. This right here? This.
Habanaero Jones - The other Star Treks are far from realistic too so why target specifically Discovery?
Hahahahah!!! That's like asking rain not to be wet. ;P
@@Krytern because the older sets were good/great for their time, while STD is outclassed by its peers today.
@@marcusbailey5450 STD looks pretty good.
Red for right and blue for left is also how my hearing aids are differentiated.
The headphones that came with the original game boy where labeled like that as well.
Adam Savage has the same open smile of a kid in a candy store!
I know one piece of info the cosplayers could really use is the dimensions of things like Tycho, UNN, MCRN, IASG, and OPA insignia patches... I _like_ the 4" diameter IASG patch I made for my flight gear, but I know it's too big. 🤔
The controll of one of the spaceships is a spaceball for cad-modeling, the same i use at work...
Yeah, I was excited to see that 3DConnexion in the cockpit too. That is a pricey item just for a prop that hardly moves!
oooh...sooo many pretty things
what's really interesting about this video, is that we have two great builder/makers who both loves to build stuff, but just looking at them talking about making stuff, it is kinda obvious that one of them still has that 12 years old running around joyfully inside his head, but the other one does not...
Season 5 sure but 6 an 7 should hopefully already in the works
6:38 comm bomb xD
Today I learned......."SEASON FIVE!!!!" 8D
Just see the etched Plexiglas i made with my brother back in the day!
This was awesome, I'd love to see more of this type of content. And maybe a few more B-Roll shots of the props themselves.
Sneaky starfleet Delta on that crate in the background.
Imagine if they'd have built the proper book miller-bot :(
Well this arived at a great time, I was just thinking of upgrading my martian marine cosplay...
Best hard scfi show in the world meets best fact finder in the world !!!!!!!
Found items are awesome but I'm still not sure how to feel when the found items are highly recognizable, like the 5-1/4" floppy drive bezels on the back of Alexander's tablet in Star Trek TNG, or the Gamma Vittle Vaults in the cargo bay in DS9
The only obvious thing to me as a prop was the freezing chamber on the Jupiter moon where they stored the protomolecul hybrid kids in. I think it was season 2.
It was just a car roof box.
"So for the first part of our Exoskeleton, we picked one up from Home Depot and then made it look fancy"
I'm sorry WHAT
I could sit here listening to these guys for hours...
love all these BTS episodes
Thule Car topper as a kid cryo freeze tank.
how have i never heard of this show
Probably because you don't have access to the one channel you can watch it on.
Can’t wait for season 3 on Netflix 😱
How about season 3 and 4 are available on Prime Video right now?
Amazon bought The expanse some years ago and saved them from being cancelled
@@tallAldiProduction LOL thx mate :D
Fliegen mann glad I could help 😄
When I saw the series, it made me laugh, that the cameras where they put the children to hybridize them with the aliens, were trunks that are put on the roof of cars to carry the luggage.
'This video is geared towards cosplayers,'
oh cool, so we're gonna get to see how to make all kinda scifi props!
Oh man, how are they gonna make an exoskeleton suit!?
'we bought an exoskeleton'
Well there go my iron man fantasies...
Sci-fi shows would not exist without motorcycle boots xD
Belta Proppa meka! Well....this is my try to sound like the belter language...more or less...
Bist bien. It all happened in a dream.
The room looks exactly like your cave Adam !! :) ..
It's so adorably strange to see Adam fanboying.
I LOVE seeing real-world familiar items repurposed into the expanse, as other things or even as themselves! Pretty sure I grabbed a flask the same as Murtry's in S4 (the GSI Boulder 10oz). I'm thinking of including it as a taken item with an Amos costume.
A button cell battery, a switch and an LED... "We could never build that for 11 dollars" ... Sure buddy
Time is money. Even if the materials were entirely free, they would still take more than 11 bucks worth of time to make.