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[nib95]

Nothing to contribute, but this is an amazing thread!

 

[Borgnine]

Some of these newer ones are less impressive. All movies after 2000, BEHIND THE SCENES EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE:

 

[TrAcEr_x90]

The Gate?

 

[Ostinatto]

please dont stop !!

 

[TrAcEr_x90]

That crow pic made me sad.... RIP brandon lee

 

[swoon]

young kubrick x douglas

 

[Radec]

Awesome find gaf.

This pic can be a headline.

 

[Chuckl3s]

Some of these newer ones are less impressive. All movies after 2000, BEHIND THE SCENES EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE:

I thought that was Avatar.

 

[timetokill]

I love this thread. Great job guys.

 

[Cesar]

Is that Cameron on the right?

 

[TrumanBurbank]

The Dark Knight Rises

Prometheus
Engineers BTS
Deacon
Medpod
Fifield
Random Concept Art
More images

Gladiator

Love this one. Requiem for a Dream.

 

[Muffdraul]

Recently watched The Wizard of Oz on blu-ray, afterward went looking for bts pics of Frank Morgan in the full on "Wizard Head" make up, the big green bald disembodied head. Searched and searched and searched, nothing.

$10,000,000 to whoever can succeed where I failed.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

The doofuses behind the Power Ranger movie thought it would be a good idea to have no visor for the helmets.

Which really fucked with the whole "secret identity" thing they had going on in the show.

 

[Chuckl3s]

^Have you seen the movie?

 

[Aurongel]

Kind of odd that even behind the scenes photos of the set are still in black and white.

 

[anonymous_abc]

nightmare fuel right there...

Some of these newer ones are less impressive. All movies after 2000, BEHIND THE SCENES EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE:

sad but true...

 

[adamsappel]

The Sin City one is pretty wild. Looks so strange in colour.

I was really having trouble with that one.


Great thread; love this stuff, even when it destroys the "magic."

 

[anonymous_abc]

I was really having trouble with that one.


Great thread; love this stuff, even when it destroys the "magic."

i could not disagree more, its shows how much magic there used to be!

 

[XiaNaphryz]

i could not disagree more, its shows how much magic there used to be!

Still plenty of magic now, considering how many people don't realize what's real and what's digital. ;P

 

[TheKaeptain]

The Two of the Greatest Doing Work

 

[ShinHayase]

This thread is really great.

More!

Spoiler

I got nothing..

 

[BrokenEchelon]

I sadly can't find pictures of this, but the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey where you see the Sun coming up over the Earth was actually made my filming a sunrise inside a barn. Kubrick had them drill a bunch of holes in the side of the wall to capture the crescent and used black paint to block everything else out.

 

[Wolfe]

For everyone wondering about that shot from The Gate, I could be totally off base but to me it looks like an off center forced perspective shot. I've done a quick shitty MS paint job to illustrate:

The red outline is for the stuff that is in front of the shot and the guys in the demon suits on the "floor" are in the background. If you can imagine moving a few feet (or whatever, I have no idea how much this shot is off by) to the left and seeing all the elements in the shot lining up.

As I said I could be 100% wrong but that's what it looks like to me at least.

Edit: Although the thought of them making a huge oversize blue hoodie just for the shot is fairly amusing

 

[Candeldandel]

I hope my friend is OK with me sharing this picture of him:

(link)

Hammering out the little petals on the ground for Coraline. He's worked in the greens department for both the Laika films you may or may not know (Coraline, ParaNorman), so I get to see quite a few awesome behind-the-scenes stuff from him and his movie buddies.

 

[- J - D -]

Artificial perspective in the film Blackguard (1925). Art direction by Alfred Hitchcock. Old Hollwood films (or even up to the 90's were filled with ingenuity).

 

[bodyboarder]

This thread is great.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

This thread is fucking awesome. Those Ghostbusters and T2 pictures are awesome. Two of my favorite movies ever, and I've never really seen any of that.

 

[strobogo]

Tom Hardy is a pretty short guy.

 

[Expendable.]

And the best for last:

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

The doofuses behind the Power Ranger movie thought it would be a good idea to have no visor for the helmets.

Which really fucked with the whole "secret identity" thing they had going on in the show.

The fuck? They had visors in the movie.

 

[DJ88]

Opening scene of Blade Runner.

Various buildings from the city

The documentary Dangerous Days has way better images and footage of all the incredible special effects work for Blade Runner.

 

[Hackbert]

poof goes the magic ^^

independence day!

 

[Dreaver]

Wow what a great thread! Some are really cool.
All right, I came a cross this one a while ago, while it might not be a real behind-the-scenes photo, it's still pretty damn great.

 

[TrumanBurbank]

Empire of the Sun

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Marty Scorsese BTS pics

Iron Man 2

 

[A Pretty Panda]

The fuck? They had visors in the movie.

Yeah I know. They had a whole lot of reshooting to do.

I don't think anyone knows where all of that visor-less footage went.

 

[Baroni9]

 

[Diablohead]

They should have squeezed this into the movie somehow.

 

[Razek]

For everyone wondering about that shot from The Gate, I could be totally off base but to me it looks like an off center forced perspective shot. I've done a quick shitty MS paint job to illustrate:

The red outline is for the stuff that is in front of the shot and the guys in the demon suits on the "floor" are in the background. If you can imagine moving a few feet (or whatever, I have no idea how much this shot is off by) to the left and seeing all the elements in the shot lining up.

As I said I could be 100% wrong but that's what it looks like to me at least.

Edit: Although the thought of them making a huge oversize blue hoodie just for the shot is fairly amusing

To add to this: They did this because they had full sized humans in that scene as well. If you look at the wall close to the bed, there is a bit of floor sticking out too. This is where the full sized humans stood in the scene. Everything else was far. The youtube video Ajemsuhgao posted shows the effect in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKGHiP4bs84&feature=relmfu

26 seconds in. You can see the door is split underneath the knob. But... I still don't understand why that whole split was needed. Weird.

 

[nhlducks35]

 

[rbanke]

Wow this thread is so great. Too many different awesome posts to comment on. A lot of this also reinforces my belief of practical effects > CG effects.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Wow this thread is so great. Too many different awesome posts to comment on. A lot of this also reinforces my belief of practical effects > CG effects.

They're just tools. A good practical effect is just as effective as a good CG effect.

 

[nhlducks35]

Also:

 

[Jibbed]

I. Love. This. Thread.

 

[womp]

I don't understand why the forced perspective was needed here. I really want to see this scene.

It's from a 1987 movie called "The Gate"

I actually knew what movie this was from...A old guilty pleasure of mine from the 80's. I recognized the little demons instantly and I swear, to this day the effects for them are brilliant. I always imagined a lot of them were stop motion but wow, amazing pic.

For anyone interested, it is currently on Netflix.

 

[CrankyJay]

Team America

 

[TDK Rises]

De Palma, Manolo, and Montana. For those 3, I'd carve something up real nice.

Leo and Wahlberg in Basketball Diaries

Coppola and Brando = Godfather

"Hey what's up? Nothing just chilling." Spielberg, Lucas, Ford =Fucking COOL

We will rape your mind

R2D2 getting fixed after malfunction

"YO Adrian, I'm filming here!"

Gotta get that last Ryan brother

Spppace Odyssey

"Yup, we're badasses"

 

[Victory Red]

.

 

[Lion Heart]

This one is the best.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Yeah I know. They had a whole lot of reshooting to do.

I don't think anyone knows where all of that visor-less footage went.

That's fucking crazy. How the fuck do the people who make the worst decisions ever wind up in decision making positions in Hollywood?

 

[Grinchy]

(awesome thread btw)