Creating the Stargate Portal | Shanks FX | PBS Digital Studios
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2015
- The 1994 film Stargate combined CGI and practical effects to create the portal sequence in the opening act of the film.
An air cannon was fired into a huge 500 gallon tank. We use the same technique but in a 2.5 gallon tank.
The Stargate model featured in this episode cost $30 on Amazon.
Look for another Stargate episode soon, as we will try and create the water vortex that shoots out of the portal once it is activated.
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I started thinking "this doesn't even look close to like it does in the show".
Then I realized this was a practical effect only stargate. This is pretty cool.
to be fair, the original gate in the movie used practical effects for the opening sequence, but the event horizon was cg.
For "just practical effects" this look really awesome.
The show's effects also look very different from the movie.
That you're just using multiple passes, real life physics, so to speak, and just digital compositing makes for some great accidental effects that would be hard to obtain with even the most skilled fluid sim guys digitally. Especially the bubble surface was a great idea. Shows me that there's still room for some good old trial and error in the real world rather than just in 3D space. Love your channel, just hit subscribe. Thumbs up!
Dope!
Very Cool!
About to make the portal in blender kewl vid you got a sub!
If this can be scaled up to a full-sized Stargate, it would be AWESOME!!!
Pretty slick. :) I love your unique and down to earth techniques for effects!
Original aircannon was a little more powerful ;) But idea is nearly similar:)
Gotta love them practical effects! :D
Did you know that in The Abyss, the mini-sub glass breaking under preasure was made by crinkling tinfoil reflected in the glass? :D
I did not know that, I will have to watch the Abyss again and look for that. Maybe will see if I can find the clip, Abyss is quite of a time commitment!
Just checked it out, yeah I see the tinfoil crack, totally works, most clever!
This was AWESOME!! Gotta start using some of your effects!
Very nice! A way I would go about this would be, instead of a blast of air, using a garden hose sprayer to shoot a blast of water into the fish tank. Then for the portal I would film a fishtank from above with a single point light shining from below and use a massager or something to cause vibration on the surface. This would create and effect that is almost identical to the SG1 series portal effect I think!
This...
Is
Amazing... Welldone... Great FX
Your process is inspiring! Keep up the amazing videos!
One word: AWESOME!
Just awesome!!!
Check out the slow mo guys backdraft video id love to see you use a backdraft to complete it
Superb. Thanks again Joey.
That was a great video! Most enjoyable.
Love it. Super good job!
OMG, you got a new subscriber now. Juste amazing !
wow impressionnante
Merci vraiment c’est fantastique c’est vraiment magique
WoW, thx
I actually prefer this to the actual portal. The opening/activation could be better, but that darkness, mixed with the attractive, swirling blue light? Very creepy.
I wish I had the same ingenuity!
I remember for the film they used a bowling ball dropped into a tank of water for the initial opening of the gate.
No finished product? :'(
Wow this is so good , i just have to ask do you have the stargate figures or did you get the gate especially for the video . I have been trying to get a gate like that for years
Wow.
Well... that was easy! ;)
Have you seen the FX/SX in _The fountain_ directed by Darren Aronofsky? They where all done without computers. I especially liked the "snow-globe" spaceship.
Very cool Joey! Will you do a video showing the compositing?
still think the kawoosh from the original movie was the best version of it!
Because of blured out foreground it does fel like a toy scene, but good job
HOW THE HELL DID I ALREADY HIT THE LIKE BUTTON ON THIS VIDEO I HAVE NEVER SEEN?
it would be better to make a capture of water entering in water for the effect instead of air compressed.
This could be a good prank... ;)
gg 2020
WOW AWESOME!
thats not 17 steps but who cares, lol.
Blue dye water + lights + compressed air. Just saying. Also, bigger. Much, much bigger. And you film from inside.
Eh...
This video is about 10 years too late!! With the advent of digital software like Maya, which you can rent for a week or a month as oppose to buy at full price, you can use Maya for better quality effects, made easier, and with a far lower price
That's a fair point but practical effects are still pretty awesome. CG surely has its place but *a lot* of truly amazing scenes in many productions were created using practical effects along with CG. That's the magic, though. Creating CG that blends so well with practical that you can't tell the two apart from one another. That shit is awesome.
That doesn't even come close.
Yeah, No... Please Stop Spoiling the Movies... Seriously Uncool....