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    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

    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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    Re: Blade Runner: How the opening sequence was made

    Very interesting documentary, absolutely love Bladrunner.

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    Re: Blade Runner: How the opening sequence was made

    extremely cool and lots of thanks Ghee
    Cheers, David



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    Re: Blade Runner: How the opening sequence was made

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

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    Re: Blade Runner: How the opening sequence was made

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

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