These are my favourite kind of videos from Tested. Seeing two veteran model makers working together and just having fun. There are so many great stories that are told during the process, and I just find it so fascinating. It honestly inspires me to keep going as a model maker and make whatever I want. ILM produced some of the best model makers on this planet. Not just from a model making point of view, but from a humanity point of view. The personality, the comradery, the conversations, the jokes, just everything about the individuals and the team. I could genuinely watch hours and hours of this kind of stuff!
After watching Tested for many years, this video is EASILY THE BEST one you guys have ever done! This dual model maker - making model videos need to be a series!!!
I'm stopping halfway through to comment on how much I enjoy the two of you telling stories about your time in the biz, while you work. It is fun and fascinating at the same time. Please do more collabs.
I love everything about this video. Watching you both work, hearing stories about your work at ILM and other places, and everything in between. I hope you can have other veterans from ILM and other places back on for videos like this. We learn so much about the craft and the history of movies from these collaborations!
Might be one of my new favorite videos on UA-cam period. Something about the collaborative improvisation, comradery, and clear mastery while good naturedly revisiting the past- please have Dave back!
I love how when Adam mentions the Nightclub (Which Adam said is one of his most embarrassing moments), Dave instantly understands the pain and is empathetic to the story. Its great to see when people show empathy towards others when they have made mistakes instead of belittling them and blowing it off.
Adam, i told norm about these nippers. i can highly recommend the Tamiya Fine cutter model NO.123 item number: 74123 Its pricy but worth it and if you pre cut the sprues from the frame with your rough cutter first, the Tamiya will last a lifetime. its an extra step i know, but on the positive side it won't damage your model kit.
If I could give this 10X likes I would, this was PHENOMENALLY ENTERTAINING and insightful. The tools, techniques and skills - man, what a great hour spent. Thank you both a million.
Most likely my favorite video put out in a long time. These guys look so at home here and it's a genuine pleasure to watch them work and chat shop and reminisce
This video is great. Two guys that are passionate about what they are doing, enjoying their time, and geeking out over it. Very wholesome, and I watched this with a smile on my face the entire time.
I really hope they do more projects together. The stories they share from back in the day. Things that they didn't need to fully explain b/c the shared experience. Sharing their successes & mistakes w/ each other as they build. Great stuff.
I feel like watching Dead Ringers' twins working on their next tools... Amazing stuff, witnessing two geniuses working side by side in similar fashion. What a treat!
Nothing others haven't said before but the mix of... seeing process unfold, master technique, clutch tips, shared gems of personal wisdom, and nuggets of CFX history is precious. By far my fav tested ep. I doubt you can intentionally replicate this magic, but I sure hope you try. Great stuff.
Just two creative homies kickin it, working on a project together, bringing it to life with good laughs and storytelling. Nothing gets better than this
"All great jobs start with having no idea how to do what we want to do." That was my first mind-blowing lesson when I started in my first shop job. (Todd Masters Effects) I had thought there was some Great Repository of Effects Knowledge, and when we had to devise a particular effect, I asked "How did they do it in "(Movie)" "? My Supervisor, Greg Johnson, looked at me with a slight smirk, and said "I don't know! I didn't WORK on "(Movie)" !" That was my first inkling that everybody was makingbit up as they went along, and that was happening in EVERY Effects Shop, on EVERY project. It's strangely liberating to realize that we weren't bound by convention, or established practice: If you could IMAGINE it, it was fair game, and ANY idea could turn out to be the Great Epiphany that completely launches the project to the next level. I really miss working in a big group of Shopdudes!
This was what I went to school for, but never got to do for life reasons. This was an amazing video. Watching you guys working with such enthusiasm makes me want to bust out my stash of styrene and build. I'd love to see more. I'm looking forward to meeting some ILM icons at Wonderfest next week.
Love watching the obvious creative chemistry between these two as they work. Wonderful video! Stuff like this keeps me motivated while chipping away at my own projects!
It’s amazing to hear both do sound effects when explaining steps.. “First you have to do the click click, then poof poof, and the dink dink.. and the Wow!”.. love it
As a lifelong fan of Ray Harryhausen's work this video feels like I'm stepping into an equivalent studio and getting to watch some of the next generation of masters at work. Thank you both and everyone behind the production. 💜
This is amazing content. Make this a series! Adam building with veterans and sharing anecdotes from the industry and sharing wisdom and insights. Great work! 👍🏼
What a great time! Interesting, inspiring and just a very feel-good video. I would love to see more like this; Fon Davis immediately comes to mind as a perfect guest for these kinds of one-day-build / trip-down-memory-lane videos.
Thank you so much, I loved this. The design and build part, the stories from the past. The concept and thought process talk. This whole episode was wonderful. Again Thank you!
Best bit of Tested content in yonks. These days it seems that the majority is watching him use his tools, where in the early days it was more about his choices and problem solving. The tool use is nice enough, and as he’s said, oddly meditative. But getting a glimpse into his thought processes is the real gold. More of this please! Cheers
Love seen this built from Dave and Adam's perspective not only in making but also in film producing. Adam is all high energy and talking and explaining... While Dave's videos are slow breathing experiences. They both tell you the story but the different energies make the same story a completely different experience!
I enjoy the one day builds, but this was a special, special treat to watch the two of you collaborate, relive old wars, and riff off each other. Magical!
Being a scale modeling hobbist myself, it is an absolute delight to witness this level of craft so casually and expertly practiced by a couple of industry veterans. The creative process of turning a design concept into a three-dimensional model to be held and touched is a wonderful thing to watch and practice.
This is by far the best thing i have watched in forever. I always wanted to work at ILM when I went to college and this is like getting a glimpse at what day to day would kinda have been like.
PLEASE! More videos like this. It is almost therapeutic to watch. I love to see workshop banter and I see myself in it so much with my colleagues. Just small details like "Come! Feels this transition" or like "Dude, look at this curve!" I LOVE IT!!
As a maker in a totally different space (I'm an indie-game dev) this is fascinating to watch. It's also informative on team working I think for any profession. You took clearly delineated pieces to work on so you wouldn't overlap, you offered praise and feedback and checked in with each other. Really wonderful video.
Dave Fogler at the Cinodrome: youtube.com/@cinodrome
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If it hasn't already to be said, you two need a show together... You complement each other really well. It's nice to see.
It’s like watching a concert of two Jazz Giants improvising together. Masterclass stuff. Love the interaction!
it's almost like it's turning into a music channel
Which band member is the skivvy ? Ill play drums! 😂
Coltrane's Greeblie Steps
Yesssss! What an analogy - just perfect - well done Sir!
I NEED MORE
My favorite Tested ever. You should consider doing a series of "model making master class" videos. Simply amazing.
I could not agree more!
So cool to meet a multiversal variant of Adam!
Sincerely, thank you for the video. You are both an absolute delight to hang out with!
Those are the exact words I was looking for "multiversal variant of Adam"!
Lol, I've often had the idea that Kiefer Sutherland could be the Adam Savage variant that drinks or maybe it's the other way around.
Adam Savage from the Direstaverse?
This was so chill and enjoyable - but my jaw clenched when Adam rubbed his eye while holding an exacto knife.
Fantastic one-day build, guys. Adam, more guest builder! Listening to your two share stories was great.
I've been watching Tested since the start and this is my favorite video you guys have ever made. So perfectly right up my alley.
Wow! Thank you!
What a treat to watch two legendary model makers work together on a star wars piece. I really enjoyed this episode.
This is the best video ever. Just so cool. Please more!!!!
Thanks Savage! I fully enjoyed that build, the shop, and the company.
More please... The best Tested episode for many months. 🙂
This was a lot of fun to watch. I think the world NEEDS an Adam Model Making with Guests show. I don't know if we DESERVE IT, but we need it.
An episode...with two ILM vets finishing a lost star wars design as they would for a film...holy crap this is pure gold.
Yes PLEASE do that again. Best episode. Cool Modelmaking, good memories, great interaction. 10/10 Thanks
This is like watching ILM footage... great video!!! Do more with you both!!!
fascinating video, even without the model building just the shop talk and reminiscing about ILM is great
I absolutely love the "working together without much talk", when you just work well together 😊
These are my favourite kind of videos from Tested. Seeing two veteran model makers working together and just having fun. There are so many great stories that are told during the process, and I just find it so fascinating. It honestly inspires me to keep going as a model maker and make whatever I want. ILM produced some of the best model makers on this planet. Not just from a model making point of view, but from a humanity point of view. The personality, the comradery, the conversations, the jokes, just everything about the individuals and the team. I could genuinely watch hours and hours of this kind of stuff!
After watching Tested for many years, this video is EASILY THE BEST one you guys have ever done! This dual model maker - making model videos need to be a series!!!
I'm stopping halfway through to comment on how much I enjoy the two of you telling stories about your time in the biz, while you work. It is fun and fascinating at the same time. Please do more collabs.
I love everything about this video. Watching you both work, hearing stories about your work at ILM and other places, and everything in between. I hope you can have other veterans from ILM and other places back on for videos like this. We learn so much about the craft and the history of movies from these collaborations!
This was a PURE JOY to see and hear. Great things happening, real time, and great stories from the past. BRAVO gents, more of this, please 🙂
Please do this again! So much fun to see two masters at work, just riffing and having a great time!
I really liked this one! It's like watching two brothers hang out!
Might be one of my new favorite videos on UA-cam period. Something about the collaborative improvisation, comradery, and clear mastery while good naturedly revisiting the past- please have Dave back!
I love how when Adam mentions the Nightclub (Which Adam said is one of his most embarrassing moments), Dave instantly understands the pain and is empathetic to the story. Its great to see when people show empathy towards others when they have made mistakes instead of belittling them and blowing it off.
Adam, i told norm about these nippers.
i can highly recommend the Tamiya Fine cutter model NO.123 item number: 74123
Its pricy but worth it and if you pre cut the sprues from the frame with your rough cutter first, the Tamiya will last a lifetime.
its an extra step i know, but on the positive side it won't damage your model kit.
As a veteran miniature painter, I would really love to paint something like this! I really dig those rounded surfaces.
57:16 I would have love see Adam paint and weathering it,
see how he would use the imperfections as battle damage and dirt
If I could give this 10X likes I would, this was PHENOMENALLY ENTERTAINING and insightful. The tools, techniques and skills - man, what a great hour spent. Thank you both a million.
Watching two model making legends work together is great. Hearing some of your old stories is even better.
This should be alternate edited as a nature documentary.
“And here we see the maker, in their natural state”.
This is one the most enjoyable videos I've seen of Adam... In his element, chatting up a friend while working... awesome!! Thank you!! ❤
it's like watching Adam and his double from another universe!
absolute delight to watch 2 accomplished makers enjoying themselves so much
The best episode of Tested in all of Tested history! Thank you!!......and MORE PLEASE!
Outstanding Video. The harmony between these two modelmakers was remarkable.
Most likely my favorite video put out in a long time. These guys look so at home here and it's a genuine pleasure to watch them work and chat shop and reminisce
This video is great. Two guys that are passionate about what they are doing, enjoying their time, and geeking out over it. Very wholesome, and I watched this with a smile on my face the entire time.
I really hope they do more projects together. The stories they share from back in the day. Things that they didn't need to fully explain b/c the shared experience. Sharing their successes & mistakes w/ each other as they build. Great stuff.
Adam's garage must be a place of wonder.
Love the model making videos that have been on this channel lately. I could watch 8 hours of this.
More of these tag team builds, please?
Will do!
I’ve loved all of the scratch build videos but this was by far my favorite. I’d love to see more of these.
One of my favorites! Good friends with mutual respect making amazing stuff. Wish I had more of that in my life. Thank you.
I feel like watching Dead Ringers' twins working on their next tools... Amazing stuff, witnessing two geniuses working side by side in similar fashion. What a treat!
Nothing others haven't said before but the mix of... seeing process unfold, master technique, clutch tips, shared gems of personal wisdom, and nuggets of CFX history is precious. By far my fav tested ep. I doubt you can intentionally replicate this magic, but I sure hope you try. Great stuff.
Please, oh please make this a recurring theme. I could watch these two gentlemen all day long
Great to finally see the other side of this build from Tested. You guys were clearly having a ball and all the ILM memories were fun to hear.
Just two creative homies kickin it, working on a project together, bringing it to life with good laughs and storytelling. Nothing gets better than this
Absolutely loved this! Please, please do this again. The video was the perfect length of time. You both were simply excellent.❤❤
I could listen to these kinds of conversations all day!!
This was an absolute treat, I hope we get a part two!! and more hard surface modeling things, so satisfying!
It was a joy to listen to the stories and mishaps as you worked. Thanks for sharing them
Yes please for a whole series of 'Adam & Dave'.
I absolutely love this video. It kind of gives me a little glimpse of how it might have been back in their ILM days.
I could watch this show non stop. The two of you are very fun to watch
"All great jobs start with having no idea how to do what we want to do."
That was my first mind-blowing lesson when I started in my first shop job. (Todd Masters Effects) I had thought there was some Great Repository of Effects Knowledge, and when we had to devise a particular effect, I asked "How did they do it in "(Movie)" "? My Supervisor, Greg Johnson, looked at me with a slight smirk, and said "I don't know! I didn't WORK on "(Movie)" !"
That was my first inkling that everybody was makingbit up as they went along, and that was happening in EVERY Effects Shop, on EVERY project. It's strangely liberating to realize that we weren't bound by convention, or established practice: If you could IMAGINE it, it was fair game, and ANY idea could turn out to be the Great Epiphany that completely launches the project to the next level. I really miss working in a big group of Shopdudes!
Gosh~ listening to them talk about Star Wars prequels work is so good.
As some one who grew up with the prequel movies, my love is immense.
I am consistently bewildered by the amount of equipment and supplies Adam has. An absolute wonderland for prop makers.
Yes. But no spraybooth.
This was what I went to school for, but never got to do for life reasons. This was an amazing video. Watching you guys working with such enthusiasm makes me want to bust out my stash of styrene and build. I'd love to see more. I'm looking forward to meeting some ILM icons at Wonderfest next week.
Fascinating to see you working together - you have your own language which is full of grunts, clicks, whistles and part words /sentences!!
What a pleasure to hear these 2 legends interact as selfless peers! Huge Brains - like Planet Size. Global Treasures!
I agree with what others have said: This might be the best Tested video ever. What a joy!
Always a joy to see the pros demonstrate their craft. The model looks like it'd make a great garage kit if you guys ever felt like pursuing that.
This is like a class in old school model making with inside the industry insight. I really enjoyed this video.
Love watching the obvious creative chemistry between these two as they work. Wonderful video! Stuff like this keeps me motivated while chipping away at my own projects!
Best ever! So much truth in converting flat 2D into a 3D sculpture. I laughed so much, and nodded in agreement as the build progressed. Fun!
I love watching you two talk through the design, such fascinating insight into what went into these beloved models.
So cool seeing two creative brains working together.
This made me smile. Delightful vocals by Gary.
I've been considering taking up prop building as a hobby or even a career, and the more of these videos I watch, the more I want to.
Watching the masters at work in their playground… such a treat
Forgotten how much i enjoyed scratchbuilding and listenning to you both work gives me some great flashbacks. Thanks folks, great vid
Amazing watching two professionals working together.
Great to see Adam working alongside a peer and reminiscing together. The interactions are delightful to witness. Thank you.
It’s amazing to hear both do sound effects when explaining steps.. “First you have to do the click click, then poof poof, and the dink dink.. and the Wow!”.. love it
It takes a mix of confidence and humility to tell somebody, "This is my idea go make it better."
As a lifelong fan of Ray Harryhausen's work this video feels like I'm stepping into an equivalent studio and getting to watch some of the next generation of masters at work. Thank you both and everyone behind the production. 💜
This is amazing content. Make this a series! Adam building with veterans and sharing anecdotes from the industry and sharing wisdom and insights. Great work! 👍🏼
What a great time! Interesting, inspiring and just a very feel-good video. I would love to see more like this; Fon Davis immediately comes to mind as a perfect guest for these kinds of one-day-build / trip-down-memory-lane videos.
Thank you so much, I loved this. The design and build part, the stories from the past. The concept and thought process talk. This whole episode was wonderful.
Again Thank you!
Love the chill jazz music as they are talking.
Magic in the making with 2 wizards working in probably the mother of mancaves... 👍👏
Best bit of Tested content in yonks.
These days it seems that the majority is watching him use his tools, where in the early days it was more about his choices and problem solving.
The tool use is nice enough, and as he’s said, oddly meditative. But getting a glimpse into his thought processes is the real gold.
More of this please!
Cheers
Is has been a really interesting one-day build, loving the stories told as you were both building. Thanks Tested team.
Thank you for the kind comment -- we really appreciate it, and are glad you enjoyed the video!
Love seen this built from Dave and Adam's perspective not only in making but also in film producing. Adam is all high energy and talking and explaining... While Dave's videos are slow breathing experiences. They both tell you the story but the different energies make the same story a completely different experience!
Lovely to hear - thanks!
I enjoy the one day builds, but this was a special, special treat to watch the two of you collaborate, relive old wars, and riff off each other. Magical!
I'd love to see you guys tackle something like a Star Wars fuel truck, or delivery truck... something very industrial working class.
For me this one video, giving a great insight into the process is worth the membership fee alone 😊
Being a scale modeling hobbist myself, it is an absolute delight to witness this level of craft so casually and expertly practiced by a couple of industry veterans. The creative process of turning a design concept into a three-dimensional model to be held and touched is a wonderful thing to watch and practice.
"But it's battle damage." is now my mantra for damaged projects.
These guys could do one of these a week and I would never get sick of them!. My fave builds by far!.
I had been saving this to watch two masters relate to each other, and was not disappointed.
This was fun. Old stories, multiple procresses, concept through to model. Really enjoyed this.
This is by far the best thing i have watched in forever. I always wanted to work at ILM when I went to college and this is like getting a glimpse at what day to day would kinda have been like.
Adam has the greatest mind ive ever seen. If i had the workshop and schooling i would be set for life
PLEASE! More videos like this. It is almost therapeutic to watch. I love to see workshop banter and I see myself in it so much with my colleagues. Just small details like "Come! Feels this transition" or like "Dude, look at this curve!" I LOVE IT!!
I’d watch this as a tv show!
What lovely inspiring guys, charming conversation and masterful collaboration.
As a maker in a totally different space (I'm an indie-game dev) this is fascinating to watch. It's also informative on team working I think for any profession. You took clearly delineated pieces to work on so you wouldn't overlap, you offered praise and feedback and checked in with each other. Really wonderful video.