Factory EXPLOSION miniature scale model and VFX - full walkthrough

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

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[@DirWanjez]

The chimney fell too quickly... otherwise its amazing 🔥🔥

[@kevinmthethwa4396]

Was thinking the same thing too

[@patrickpaganini]

Yes, the chimney was the playmobil giveaway.

[@thewildcardperson]

The trick to fixing it is shooting it in slow mo and slowing down the explosion time and debre

[@clurkroberts2650]

True, it should have also crumbled at the base. But overall this shot and edit was very effective.

[@NeonVars]

My first thought, same with the debris. Immediately exposes it as a miniature.

[@hermanrobak1285]

5:13 Bouncing miniatures was addressed in one of the clips at the "piercefilm productions" channel. The remedy was to stick a container (a jar or a plastic bag) of lead pebbles or birdshot immersed in a viscous fluid, like oil, inside the prop that would fall. If the oil-and-lead dampener was well placed, it would make the prop "stick" to the ground.

[@ikhfarakmaltuvfx]

Uhh... The brick itself falling and bouncing(it should be slow) already look realistic enough but.... It fell to fast

[@seth-blank]

Man I love this channel. Its exactly up my ally.

[@AUM_3000]

I saw several demonstrations of such works that contain multiple sources of cinematic effects .. This video provides ideas and solutions to how to produce cinematic shots that closely resemble the reality. Your work is beautiful and your explanation is helpful, demonstrating an intelligent and an understanding of the work and of the ways to use the resources you have. Good job

[@KuruGDI]

Considering the size of the model and the low budget the result is actually surprisingly good :D

[@normanrowe2831]

Special effects personal from the 50s, 60s and 70s would be amazed. Keep up the great work. Thanks.

[@mycroft16]

It's actually shocking how simple this sort of thing is. I say simple meaning the technique itself on a broad level. The devil is in the details. Getting the right size model, right frame rates, right lighting, right materials for the model. Having someone ridiculously good at roto. Figuring out all the little details to add in to flesh it out, etc. One of my favorites ever was the helicopter crash into the house from Bond. That one was so well done it was hard to believe it was a miniature at all.

[@ArealTube]

Very cool and smart. we love it. amazing

[@chiron3463]

My opinion: That chimney falls too quickly - such a huge and heavy building cannot fall this way. And because everything have to seem as a real big houses and flames and smoke and dust clouds, this all has to move more slowly too. Including shock waves. And sound with delay, 300m=1s, with diminshed higher freqs, and with more reflections (echoes) from area around. I am looking forward if you will want to try it with those new settings.

[@plutoyaldnil4750]

Speak english much????

[@mcemtpockets1775]

Damn dude....

[@JeffreyBlakeney]

I watched both the original upload and this one. In both you mention putting the one building in the foreground to cover up the chimney bouncing. Couldn't you have roto'd the chimney to cut it out and put it on a still of the area it falls into? Doing it this way you could even animate the cut out chimney so that it ends up lying flat on the ground and maybe even roughen the edges of the part that broke off from the building. It is more work but I find the chimney falling over is the part that really makes the shot look like a model.

[@deltaplan996]

Great work. I'd add a shock wave that come afterwards with a slight delay, specially in the background. Samples from the Beirut port explosion might help ro visualize.

[@rexsomething4460]

This guys work feels really earnest.

[@SuperClau07]

Hello, i love your tutorials and i really love that you remake older tutorials with your upgraded skills! I just want to suggest that you try working in a 32-bit linear colour space like aces and composite the fire assets using an add or linear dodge blending mode instead of screen. This is the "proper" way to composite fire because it doesn't become transparent and keeps its colours. Great job, nonetheless! Greetings from Romania!

[@brianlagat6637]

Wow, I really like how you break it down into bits. Great work🔥

[@blackpowderdan5174]

Couple of things to keep in mind with explosions and debris. Unless it's a gas station or something with lots of flammable substances, there typically won't be a fireball. Even with a building with flammable material, if there is a large bellowing flame, the amount of smoke produced will obscure a majority of the fire. The other thing to keep in mind is that anything with bricks or masonry will crumble either during the explosion or upon landing impact. A majority of the explosion from something like this would be white/grey from the mortar of the bricks disintegrating. The camera pan and frame wobble do a good job at selling the effect, though!

[@UnexpectedCreativeStudios]

Nicely done. Great to see how far you came from the original green screen footage to the final piece.

[@BoristheBlade]

Awesome video! I wonder if simulating the physics of the building exploding in something like cinema 4d would be an improvement or not

[@derrickforeal]

I build larger framed models. I then add texture elements to the real life model by making a matte painting in photoshop. I film my own fire and explosions using the model and scale it back in the composite as well slowing the flame down always helps

[@Lumibear.]

Impressive! I love stuff like this. For such a basic model the end result really isn’t bad at all.

[@austinevplab7167]

Great job! A real test would be to plug this amazing work into a scene and not tell people the story behind it. Knowing it is not real, I think people watch the final product with an eye towards spotting everything that doesn’t look right rather than marveling at how well it was done. I had my Yorkie attack a Christmas village, you know all those little shops and scenery pieces people set up at Christmas? I filmed it at 120fps then had a remote control helicopter fight him. Fun!.

[@SuperTuna23]

These videos are amazing, you’re doing a great job detailing these alternative methods.

[@cesarghful]

Love the details in all your videos, thanks man, great job

[@ranger51262]

So very cool... my old VHS Camera did not have a chance

[@MrsKnickerbater]

Favorite effect is the dolly shot made famous in Jaws - would love to see how that was done.

[@ewellt.rowaway3703]

Definitely

[@Nietzman]

Zooming in whilst moving out. You're welcome.

[@zazaazuza6969]

The scale of fire and debris betrayed miniatures.

[@jafarsadiq6226]

Thank you for sharing valuable knowledge and experience of real projects

[@hemzaahmed1684]

The fire ball should've been brighter and emit light before disappearing. Some lens flare as well.

[@MythicBricks]

this was CRAZY COOL! Love it

[@mx472000]

Derek Meddings work inspired me to go into VFX.

[@reallyfurious]

I was just watching Demolition Man and I thought I noticed a practical miniature scene in one of the opening shots of the film which made me wonder how possible is it to do realistic flames in miniature on a no-budget diy film? I think yours is a great test, I'd like to see more practical miniatures in home-made films.

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

Dude you should have shot the footage at higher fps and then slowed it down. Huge objects move slowly.

[@Dogmicspane]

Their camera could only shoot at 60fps, but honestly, I'd have just used a smartphone for the improved framerate.

[@NostalgiNorden]

Did you watch the clip?

[@XTheCat]

He did say why he didn't do that you have to the HOLE video not just the finished product to realise that though.

[@GlinFilm]

Bro you didn’t even watch it

[@unacertamirada]

Expected the car lights to blink :D I'm joking. Great work!

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Many thanks!

[@YADUSHREEBRIJ]

Nicely explained video on miniature sets

[@mhiguelhorta]

I love miniature and VFX! Very good video!

[@xandersmith2124]

Wow so good, your channel will blow up any time

[@jackstevensbass]

So good!

[@abdullahsabawi1202]

This is so inspiring and amazing. Thank you...

[@dubstepzsi]

Oh my gosh plaster of Paris when you said that it took me back to when i was 12 ( now 47 ) and made a storm trooper with that with a metal mesh to keep the shape man i wish i had the photos to show you. so when filming explosions i guess you would film at 48 or 50 frames per second so when put into post you can slow it down. Yes i work in post production as an film editor and colour grader using DaVinci Resolve.

[@boka04]

Very good job :) Pretty nice result :) One idea came up in my mind while I was watching the explosion: some of the cars' alarm system could be activated with light&sound effects :)

[@brker8964]

wow good job i onestly didn't know that this was the way of creating the explosions !

[@iliapetrov5761]

I love your channel man, keep it up, amzing work!

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Thanks, very kind

[@latanadeldem]

The fact is: even if the effect is cool etc. a towen would never fall like this after an explosion... check some building collapses, it's completely different

[@garyfox8701]

Thanks for your input Latana. When are we going to see any of your work?

[@CosminNeagu]

The camera movement really took the realism away a bit. Adding some fine film grain really helps the whole thing.

[@Thetom5000]

this was a really great video, i feel like the one thing the shot was missing for me was the light fall off from the flames

[@gishoferi8456]

Wow so very good

[@R9A9V2]

Heres a suggestion. Try to use 3d software to simulate buildings being blow out. They can spew out more debris. Lighting would be better too..

[@DevotedSentry]

Thanks for making this, it was quite helpful!

[@brianbright7501]

Amazing what you all did, I love it

[@levayfrancis8991]

super

[@ericohara2582]

Really enjoyed that, thank you

[@godanswersprayer]

Absolutely fantastic job

[@sonofdragon5530]

He should be hired by Christopher Nolan because he’s an amazing special-effects man

[@parkerspringfield]

Thanks for such informative tutorials.

[@SavageCam_YT]

This is pretty cool on how you did

[@Happymali10]

I like the term "Maxitures" when Miniatures are still pretty big

[@phantomcorps3373]

Pretty good!

[@Equilibrier]

This is too awesome, extraordinary. Are you working on big vfx studios in your professional working time ? If not, then you're a genius. :)

[@SteveRamsdenYoutube]

Thanks, mostly just working on more normal client work!

[@hytralium]

Very nice! Die you used Production Crate pro?

[@OllisFilmkueche]

Great tutorial! I love this channel!

[@metafuel]

Fantastic. Thank you for your work.

[@camrun2011]

just incredible

Amazing! Thank for your videos. Very inspiring!

[@usman_hassan87]

great, please more miniature scale model and VFX

[@cubingartonline9275]

Nice video

[@engineerirfan]

AWESOME 💜👍

[@Thecricketmail]

Im from Bangladesh,, i love your video

[@SithikaBalagalla]

dude that's great

[@Baileyske]

Ok I see the first seconds and I'm like Thunderbirds are GO :D

[@edubuilt3153]

Really amazing techniques

[@theoriginaltommysteward]

George Lucas peeking in is hilarious!

[@voronOsphere]

I love old school!!!!

[@hanseljaison]

This video is superb 👍. You should have added the indicator signal(light) in the car while the sound is played. The chimney falling scene if delayed would be perfect. Overall this video was Superb 👌👌❤️.

[@modestbeserker36]

Yes!!!

[@thomaswindfeld728]

Awesome! Maybe even better if the added flames were slowed down to, if there was enogh frames ofcorse. Great job

[@ROVIMAKER]

Great class, thank you! 👏👏👏

[@SakthivelNadar]

Wow 😍😍😍😍 my dream to recreate this scene!!!!

[@blackreelentertainment6663]

The effect look great. I feel the fire in the doorway should have been a little smaller and with a lot of smoke to hide most of the flames.

[@akbgaming1987]

Amazing vfx.

[@badephprodz2098]

So good

[@larsgreen4292]

there's one thing missing. when the explosion happens the cars alarm system should go on and start flashing.

[@jackbridges5913]

Who else got the George Lucas bit?

[@hairyguysketches9799]

Okay, interesting question. So the key to making the miniatures look bigger is to shoot on wide lenses, but then the audience can kind of tell that you moved inward as a posed to if you shot it in real life. The obvious solution would be to shoot on a longer lens, making it seem far away, but then that reveals the fact that it’s a model. Would a laowa lens fix this issue? Seeing how they try not to distort the image, would that help sell the effect?

[@ethanspaziani1070]

Hey man you might not like it you might think that you could have done better or that you could do better now but damn that is impressive work you have done I love it I hope someday I can do something like this amazing work

[@cjfx4705]

Amazing! The fire in the door needs to come out of the door, like combustion

[@00ta]

I like your work.

[@jim-stacy]

Inspired well done

[@RickyDownhillRDH]

Cool stuff!! If the chimney could have fallen slower, and broke up a bit, that would have helped.

[@Kritfayle]

Looks like a Doctor Who Effect. Saying that in the nicest way

[@yank3656]

thanks for sharing Steve Ramsden

[@Wailwulf]

If you camera can only do 60 FPS, just convert it to 120 in post production. Yes, this means you will basically show the same frame twice, but that is what they did for cartoons like Looney Tunes. They only drew 12 images per second, but recorded each image twice. It is not perfect, but can extend the time of the action. The slower motion does not add weight to flying objects, it adds size and height. A cubic foot of Aluminum weighs 170 pounds, while a cubic foot of Lead weighs 710 pounds if the cubic foot of aluminum and lead are the exact same shape, they will take the same amount of time to fall. But the longer it takes something to fall, the higher it was. And I have trouble with the fire and smoke, the main reason is the most of the flames (on the roof) are being blown by a breeze to the left of the frame, but the smoke and the fire in the gateway is rising straight up. And then there is the fact that your minature has shadows on the right side where your background has shadows on the left. (Two Suns?) I am bring this up as it is things to keep track of, as such discrepancies pull one out of the illusion.

[@ABEAMY1]

Amazing

[@BojanBojovic]

Great. The only thing missing is the latency of the explosion sound due to slow speed of sound, otherwise it is great. 😃👍

[@Mortom83]

For great effect you should do chimney in 3D with simulation and add in post.

[@mrstratau6513]

excellent.

[@Jabarsix]

When the chimney falls, pieces should fall apart and it bounces like a ball, resting on the springs.

[@EduFirenze]

Looks like the intro to command and conquer

[@hdhmingaproduction5566]

i love to see it

[@RoverIAC]

Cooool! -new sub

[@danielconde13]

So damn good.