Blade Runner Apocalypse Effect with Miniatures

In this video Josh provides a basic overview of how he tackled replicating the apocalypse style effect from the movie Blade Runner 2049 with the use of miniatures and compositing. Hope you enjoy :)
Music:
"Eternal night" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
"We Cannot Defend You" by CO.AG Music
"Fermi Paradox" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
LEMMiNO - Cipher
• LEMMiNO - Cipher (BGM)
CC BY-SA 4.0

[@samlove35]

Great job! Looks fantastic!

[@MadArtMart]

This is absolute perfection! The fact that this was made with little to no budget in comparison to how much Hollywood films are made is astounding. If I ever make films, miniature work would 100% be the preferred route to take! Phenomenal job on this, I hope to see more like this in the future! I subbed too, even though this deserves WAY more 👍

[@josuebartley7272]

This was really good

[@cassidylewis3913]

Amazing, really interesting! Bravo!

[@pico2419]

Wow , nice work, it's impressive

[@andrileonardo]

Love the use of miniatures! Very well done! 👍👍👍

[@OllisFilmkueche]

Great video! And great Effect clip. Awesome miniature work. Thank you!

[@fede1969]

You really nailed it! Congrats.

[@fairlyhappyjack]

So slick!

[@dirtygarageguy]

Awesome dude, truly awesome!

[@jamesdavies541]

Brilliant work, congrats!

[@michaelmedhin2905]

Work of Genius! very impressive!

[@robinert8858]

great job man. love the simple well explained delivery.

[@CheapCheerful]

Great work, thanks for sharing.

[@CoolCatholicArt]

Nice work!

[@wordswithneil]

Great video mate, super interesting!

[@emmanuelgoldstein1918]

Very cool!

[@theadamtron]

Great video! Really inspired me and demonstrates how much you can do on a small budget.

[@GatchamanG4]

It looks amazing! ✌🏻

[@4Him4u2]

Well done!!

[@nazmashaikh3507]

Wow

[@cocis911]

Great video! Huge well done, and you've earned a new sub! 👍

[@zbdot73]

Excellent work. It would be kinda interesting to offer up the film elements and see what other people could come up with.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*impressive*

[@akikomii]

Nice !!!!!!

[@captur69]

You gotta make a mini movie 🎬, on blade runner 🏃‍♀️, that was fantastic, if that was Hollywood it would of cost 10 million...

[@darkspark_cosplay]

New sub... I want to be a movie director and I want to do this type of filmaking with miniatures, please make another one of this, this is really helpfull

[@memestervader950]

Yo it's fucking awesome 😎

[@skylx0812]

I recognize one of the female figures. The woman standing, bent foward with her hands in the sand looks like it was inspired by photogropher Gerhardt Thompson's composition, "Close Encounter". The b&w photo has a woman in that pose on a white sand dune under a gray stormy looking sky with sunlight barely breaking through the clouds. I believe I first saw it at deviantART around 2010. If the figure is in the film, that may be where they got the idea from. Or, at least wher the figurine you used came from.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Excellent work. Do you have a reference or link to where you got the Blade Runner car from?

[@bigjawgettys]

Cheers! Should be able to find it here! shorturl.at/doM59

[@AllThingsFilm1]

@@bigjawgettys Thank you!!

[@IndySidhu88]

Work to impress Roger Deakins and Denis Villeneuve!

[@Pearce2]

hey how did you do the fog effect in after effects? im trying to make a fog like that

[@bigjawgettys]

Hey! So the fog effect is somewhat made up of layers, but the main thing is actually colour grading rather then any real fog. So the shot for example where I am walking away from the camera at 0:47. I have been separately colour graded to appear a lot more orange as if there are a lot of dust particles between me and the camera if that makes sense. So if you just took the layer of me walking and put it into a new composition I would still look exactly the same, Its just a grade. Same goes with the statues at 1:10, everything is rotoscoped and on its own layer. So in the shot when I walk between the two statues the are colour graded as follows: The furthest statue in the background has its shadows put up quite a bit with a very light orange /yellow making them appear very similar in luma and hue as the distant fog. For me walking in front of the statue, my shadows are put up a bit with some orange/yellow but are not quite as bright as the shadows on the statue behind me. And the statue in the foreground has its shadows as a much darker orange/red than the rest of the scene. This all gives off the illusion of objects becoming more ingulfed in the fog the further away they are from the camera. Underneath all this however is a solid colour that is heavily feathered on the horizon line so the fog tapers off along the ground. And on top off all this is a orange/yellow solid colour at a very low opacity. So the fog is more of an illusion using the colour of the multiple layers rather than an overlay, although overlays can help. The key is to have different elements of your scene rotoscoped depending on their distance from the camera. You can play around with having different solid colour layers of different opacities in-between various layers and see how that works. I hope this helps a bit, its hard to explain with just text, I'm happy to answer any other questions. I'll maybe do a more in depth video on the vfx work specifically :)

[@Pearce2]

@@bigjawgettys colour grading??? It looks like you added fog how??

[@Dirk80241]

Wow, well done! The first part looked real (real scifi, that is) and I thought I was in the movie, but wondering: who is this actor?

[@bigjawgettys]

Cheers! The actor is just myself :)

[@marcusanimation100]

Great job all around! I'd be interested to know what you thought of my Blade Runner 2049 homage on my channnel - I took the full CG approach!

[@bigjawgettys]

Cheers mate! Your work looks really cool! Captures the feel of blade runner completely, I'm thinking of getting into CGI myself one day :)

[@marcusanimation100]

@@bigjawgettys No, don't do that, leave something for the rest of us! 😁 I can highly recommend Blender to get you started in 3D...

[@braveCod3r]

wth, your face looks like Ryan Gosling wwffofofmc