GODZILLA 1998 miniature effects (part 1)

[@Clay3613]

The model work in this movie is so good you can't even tell it's a miniature!

[@gaveintothedarkness]

I like how in a video about another movie production (5th element?) they reference how Godzilla has taken all the prop buildings that were available and here we have a video of them talking about that as well.

[@Joshua_N-A]

Great miniature effects, the age of 3D printing should be able to breathe a new life in miniatures.

[@jimsmalleimb7709]

No. Not really. Hand made stuff will always look better.

[@arch9enius]

@@jimsmalleimb7709 If you need to produce large numbers of things like cars, printing would come into its' own there. They could always be weathered or kitbashed for more individuality.

[@thegamethemovie9605]

That last guy... Man, when your special effects people run into the unrecognizable icon that inspired them to get into the work - feel sad for them.

[@piercefilm]

Yes, Gene Rizzardi (model shop supervisor) is a huge Godzilla fan so it must have been very disappointing to see this design.

[@revolverswitch]

You know you absolutely f-ed up when that happens, this is honestly the first negative opinion about a project I have ever heard from these guys. All the more reason to justify the rebranding to Zilla or just be his own monster.

[@MiamiMillionaire]

Reminds me of the new Ninja Turtles movie, couldn't they just make them look like they did in the 90's

[@starwarsroo2448]

@@MiamiMillionaire not only too much money but the pre production and post production they cba with all the craft that went into movies before, just packaged crap now

[@Mr.Maguro]

@@MiamiMillionaire that was the 80's, and i hope you're reffering to the michael bay movies, because rise of tmnt was awesome.

[@TheReidmeister96]

Setting my thoughts (and emotions) on this film aside for a bit, the effects for this movie hold up. The effects have aged like fine wine. The decision to use miniature sets with a 3D creature is partly why the effects have aged so well; I would argue that the CGI is impressive for 1998, but the CGI would not have held up if not combining it with the sets. While I do enjoy the newest set of Legendary Godzilla films and Shin Godzilla, I do wish they stuck with real miniatures.

[@legioner9]

The effort for this movie set was otherworldly. Just fantastic how it was put together.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Love this movie. Except the ending. Can't get enough😃👍⚡

[@BoneChillingPictures]

Even though it's not a godzilla movie we wanted. Zilla was a great film and the people who worked on it

[@legioner9]

Nobody cared and no one asked for some other Godzilla movie. The 1998 Godzilla was a top movie.

[@robabiera733]

LOVE the supermarket with the sign that just says "FOOD!" And, of course, Godzilla is just right there! LOL!

[@Powerhaus88]

I remember being a 10 year old in 98 watching this movie, being blown away. For me at that time this was Godzilla, I didn't like what at that time I referred to as "the fatso from Japan", but more than that, I loved the vibe of the movie, the mystery, all the tanks and vehicles, the whole Army vs Godzilla, those scenes are a cherished memory, a few of thousands growing up with these films. Did you by any chance have done interviews with anyone who worked on Sleepy Hollow from 99?

[@piercefilm]

There was a miniature windmill made for Sleepy Hollow, but I didn't interview anyone who worked on that film.

[@subasurf]

My exact same experience mate. Same age too.

[@joshoshea3194]

Golden Girls, Cheers, Rosanne & a classic Godzilla movie. That was my Friday night as a kid. And I used to watch them on a small black and white TV to.

[@BiseUshery]

Вот почему я больше люблю пересматривать старые американские фильмы 1980-1990-х годов - потому что тогда киношники хорошо сочетали эти практические спецэффекты, миниатюры, маленькие декорации, большие декорации, и только потом киношники добавляли компьютерную графику и компьютерные спецэффекты, но в меру 😎😎

[@tsarbomba1]

I worked with a guy who did some of the digital effects on this. Said there was a very good reason why it was always "raining"!

[@blankblank2370]

And that reason was?

[@tsarbomba1]

@@blankblank2370 Covered up a lot of the digital problems they were having back in 1998.

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

GREAT GOZILLA (1998 ) FILM - MINIATURE EFFECTS - (PART 1 ) !!!!!

[@robertobuatti7226]

I remember watching Godzilla at the theaters back when it first released in 1998 and people saying before I watched it that you could see the city buildings through his tale in which I was trying to pin point where it was but never saw it, I've seen it multiple time on home video releases but still can't find it maybe when they release it on 4K in Ultra high definition I'll be able to find where it is, the miniature sets were impressive much more than the design of Godzilla which looked like a mutant dinosaur more than a lizard and looked like nothing from past Godzilla movies, which in the more recent movies resembles more of the classic Godzilla design.

[@pennygadget7328]

In the (admittedly hazy) canon, '98 Zilla exists, but is just a random monster that the Americans mistook for THE Godzilla. It gets a like 3 second cameo in one of the Japanese films, where it's immediately obliterated. I think it's fun when franchises try to integrate adaptations into their world, even if it's just to mock them. :D

[@Mr.Maguro]

i prefer the approach of gmk, where they just reference it (and the animated series in the english dub). final wars is such a bad and spiteful movie, i didn't like how they treated hedorah and gamera.

[@MrAwsomeness360]

@@Mr.Maguro Gamera isn't a Toho/Godzilla monster.

[@Mr.Maguro]

They had a kid in the movie insult and throw a blue turtle monster toy into a fire, which is supposed to be Gamera.

[@Suli5241]

I hope there will be "tora tora tora" episode :)

[@piercefilm]

Unfortunately, I didn't interview anyone who worked on that. Most of my interviews are from films in the 70's and 80'S.

[@Suli5241]

@@piercefilm oh no :(

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

2:20-2:24 Hey, that’s the Dinosaur Skeleton from the Teaser of the 1998 version Film of GODZILLA.

[@piercefilm]

Yes. Also made by Mike Joyce at CPSFX.

[@maureenobrien4968]

It’s a damn shame. All the hard work these talented effects artists did for this movie was overshadowed by how poor the rest of it was.

[@TheTimPilot]

The best Godzilla movie with the most badass looking creature 😃

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

wth are you smoking? I want some of that...

[@RoddThunderheart]

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 it's a more realistic take on Godzilla it's not a fat guy in a rubber suit. I'll never figure Gojira fans are so in love with that. I'd like to see other models they tested for Godzilla too though.

[@anteeru]

would be so funny if jumper joe would be standing on a model in the background

[@kentallard8852]

They wouldn't be from Batman as that was shot in England (and also its miniature effects were criminally underused), they would be from Batman Forever/Batman & Robin - but they weren't made for those films they were originally made for The Hudsucker Proxy and then took on a life of their own appearing in numerous films like Babys Day Out, The Shadow, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and Godzilla. They were last seen in 2005 as background props in the studio backlot scenes of Bewitched.

[@piercefilm]

Yes, that's what Bruce meant. There were so many Batman films in the 90's. I already posted a segment on the Hudsucker building models. Also, some new model buildings were made for Fifth Element and Batman 3/4 which ended up here.

[@Powerhaus88]

Does anyone know what happened to all these props and miniatures from these movies? Are they gathering 2 feet of dust in some abandoned warehouse somewhere in LA or have they been destroyed?

[@VictorBalestrin]

@@Powerhaus88 Their last appearance (as I've seen from other videos in this channel) would have been 2005's "Bewitched" film adaptation, as set dressing for when the characters are walking around the WB backlot.

[@aes9217]

miniature killed by CGI CGI killed by AI... The END

[@jkutnink87]

I perfer this look for a Godzilla, not some 1960's look. I mean who wants a movie with a 1960's batman? No one does.

[@tibedog5629]

I wish we'd go back to models. CGI just looks so trash and gives me no excitement.

[@DarksaberForce]

Plus a lot of actors always say it's very hard to act on green screen sets. Ian McKellen said on the set of The Hobbit he broke down in tears because there were no real sets unlike the original LOTR trilogy.

[@Mer0lk]

Not only that but he had to act against green cardboard cutouts so he had to act out scenes without the other actors which was probably the primary reason for him breaking down during filming.

[@ejb0808]

'and then they blew it up'

[@BLCKCSTLS]

People complaining the movie was bad need to lighten tf up, it’s a corny monster movie not citizen kane.

[@MrLondon18]

If Hollywood ever had a big sale of their model being used from each movie I want Godzilla that will scare the crap out of the kids in the neighborhood and I want to city buildings from New York in my backyard😂👏😎👍👍!!!

[@Joshua_N-A]

Halloween is perfect for it. Charge them extra lol.

[@theheadshot45]

It's a shame that the movie sucks, because the special effects were spectacular.

[@joshoshea3194]

The movie is terrible. But the miniatures are excellent.

[@quincy3d69]

He is right , the Godzilla design was not Godzilla , very disappointing and the worst , no atomic breath

[@maxsmodels]

Godzilla is like bacon, it makes everything better....except for Zilla. Zilla is not like bacon.

[@BisatFilm]

I think godzilla fans are some of the most toxic and least open minded fans. The new design and the more "realistic" vision of the creature are blasphemy, but when the Japanese have reduced Godzilla to a power ranger that makes fools, jokes, jumps, shakes hands with other monsters, becomes friends with humans, flies ... that is fine, indeed it is sacred and does not damage the iconography of the monster XDXDXD

[@guileniam]

It's coz it's not godzilla? Any bat themed superhero doesn't mean it's Batman. Same with this, heck it's not even a mutant dinosaur. It's just a giant lizard? So it's not godzilla?

[@Mr.Maguro]

yeah, i think toho did more harm to their own franchise than tristar ever did. they took a horror monster and made him and the kaiju genre childish, the laughing stock of cinema. roland emmerich's godzilla is a bad adaptation, and a jurrasic park wannabe, but it's also just another blockbuster, a movie to watch on the weekends. goji fans treat it as the antichrist superficially, only because of tatopoulos' design.

[@guileniam]

@@Mr.Maguro they did it for the money. But I don't think it harmed them it extended the life of their franchise: millions of kids fell in love with it and it spread the character and endeared it far more than if it was just nuclear terror incarnate (which was what director Honda always wanted not a anthropmorphic kids toy). Think 60s batman tv show which reached heights of popularity and relevance the comics alone could not.

[@Mr.Maguro]

@@guileniam and like the adam west cartoon it turned the franchise and genre into a laughing stock nobody could take seriously, there's a reason why batman went darker and edgier after the adam west show did it's thing.

[@guileniam]

@@Mr.Maguro yeah so did Godzilla (heisei era went dark and again with Shin) the Adam West parody Batman stopped Batman being cancelled in the 60s lol and bad as it from a character standpoint made the character popular and reach new heights in pop culture. Kids also didn't see the parody and saw it as a serious crime drama and its the same with Big G, they process information differently. You need to understand being flexible with a character is what keeps it relevant.

[@dennissmith5807]

GINO. Godzilla In Name Only. Crap movie. Good miniature effects.

[@BiseUshery]

А вот новые-преновые американские блокбастеры - там тупо гонят сплошной компьютерный графон, CGI и зелëный экран 😅😅😂

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

terrible movie 😅