Blade Runner: How the opening sequence was made

A great little documentary on how the opening titles (aka the "Hades Landscape") of Bladerunner was made:

http://douglastrumbull.com/key-fx-se...ades-landscape

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Doug and his Entertainment Effects Group team created thousands of acid-etched brass miniatures lit from below with hundreds of bundles of fiber-optic lights, shot in forced-perspective through layers of smoke to create layers of light refraction, creating depth.

Doug reveals how the explosions visible in the sequence were projected on screens placed throughout the miniature and light-timed. These explosions were created through massive pyrotechnics shot in the California desert for a discarded sequence for the 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni film Zabriskie Point.

The sequence ends on the Tyrell Pyramid, which Doug's team created at 3 different scales with similar etched-brass lit from within.

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Very interesting documentary, absolutely love Bladrunner.

extremely cool and lots of thanks Ghee :)

Beautiful. Great way to finish off my afternoon. Might go dig out the DVD now ...

Love the film, and that was a good watch ... thanks for that :D very interesting