Burning the Death Glider on Stargate SG-1 (Dial the Gate)

THIS VISUAL EFFECTS SHOT from Stargate SG-1's second season premiere is one of the show's cooler moments, as SG-1 and Bra'tac barely escape from Apophis' exploding motherships. This was 1998, and while digital compositing was key to the process the show's VFX entailed extensive work with practical models.
In this clip visual effects supervisor John Gajdecki is back to share more from his VFX vault with "Dial the Gate!" John reveals how the burning effect on the death glider was achieved, filling out the rest of the shot, and how many hours of work went into these few seconds. He also shows off several other effects from "The Serpent's Lair," from the Horus mask to the glider launch.
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[@allocater2]

I wish a channel like this would exist for Star Trek.

[@quatarsr6217]

Agreed, seeing the Serpentguards in the Pilot felt a bit underwhelming compared to the animation in the movie. But of course we're talking entirely different magnitutes of budgets there as well. That they managed to basically replicate it by season 2 is awesome

[@HemisphereCinema]

the budget is what blows me away honestly with all the detail

[@ydna]

love those tricks from the ship visuals. I bet it'd be fun to find new and creative ways to make those effects and show them off to others in the industry

[@theladysings]

Love this! Waiting for new show’s!!!!

[@C76Caravan]

This is so cool to see how these scenes were shot, esp. with SG being such a long-running show, where the VFX also evolved with the technology becoming available (haha probably thematically like it was in the show).

[@viniguez487]

ohh man, that scene with the launch bay and the gliders. I WISH you would have asked him about the jaffa raising the roof in the scene!

[@evaldo_coutinho]

Very nice

[@khomo12]

Great!👍👍👍🌟 🌟🌟🌌🌌🌌

[@IanZainea1990]

1:57 I've put over 100 hours into a 10 second shot or whatever... it's crazy the amount of labor-hours that goes into vfx

[@HemisphereCinema]

man unreal engine and Blender would had so benefitted that time of Sci fi too bad that it feels like we won't see anything stargate in this life time 😢 the practical stuff is also cool.

[@schwartzy65]

Naa im glad that effects were practical before... It was always way more interesting and mindblowing on how on earth did they do that. Nowdays the answer is always its just cgi :/ boring imo. The best era when stuff like this peaked was early 2000 and stuff like lotr,king kong and pirates had it perfect with real locations, sets, miniatures and cgi to enhance those.

[@HemisphereCinema]

@@schwartzy65 true i am not denying that just saying it could had benefitted abit more since it must had taken ton amount of intense craftsmanship then I am a 89 kid so been through most of the awesome practical route and I miss it most of the times honestly

[@n3cotraf]

@@schwartzy65 Who cares how it's done as long as it's well done? If not, it will suck wether it's CGI or "real" effects.

[@HemisphereCinema]

@@n3cotraf i was kinda meaning that crunch sucks and if it was in different time it could had maybe be less on the budget for the show and maybe afford more episodes since sgu costed too much and low viewer ship , ive also seen a bit behind the scenes of how they made mustafar in ep3 and man its like a diorama set too.

[@guaposneeze]

Technically, Blender 1.0 existed before SG1 started production, and Unreal came out the same year as the end of S1 of SG1. Kind of an odd coincidence that they were all born within a few years of each other. Blender was still an in-house tool at a local Dutch VFX company in 97, but in-theory the show could have subcontracted to them. But yeah, the model work was pretty great.

[@icer1249]

where did u get that hatak from? (background left shelf top right) 3d printed?

[@KingPOF]

First