The Three Doctors: 50th Anniversary Edition (Classic Doctor Who)

[@dametrot]

Absolutely stunning wish this had been released on the Blu-ray 😍😍

[@DoctorJohnSmith9]

Rendering Omega's lair to resemble Omega himself? Time Lord brilliance!

[@dragoncymru2940]

Just brilliant - your best yet I think. Thanks for including the Time Lord planet and particularly Omega's palace that I suggested. A nice surprise was UNIT HQ in the quarry - lovely idea. Black Hole work and the nebula was excellent! Hope to see Frontier revisited as that's another story that needs establishing shots (Draconia etc). Thanks so much for your hard work. Wish we had these on Blu Ray.

[@cunningmunki]

Hey there! Thanks so much for your suggestions! You have Bing and DALL-E to thank for the Palace. I started by feeding it the description from the novelisation, "...a towering castle...beaten from solid brass...with hundreds of towers and slender minarets...beneath the purple sky...giving the whole place a look of oriental opulence like the Arabian knights castle of some Caliph." - which came out amazing but it just didn't fit (I'll post some images on Twitter). I wanted something that looked similar to Omega's helmet, with a more alien and angular look. So I just kept updating the description, over and over and over, for most of last Saturday I think! Eventually I started getting images I liked so then it was a matter of picking one and making it blend in with the lighting and surroundings. I also used it for the shot of the "quarry" where UNIT HQ lands because, bizarrely, I couldn't find a single picture online of a suitable quarry from ground level, as they're mostly aerial shots. I'll definitely be using it more in future I reckon!

[@dragoncymru2940]

@@cunningmunki Glad to be of service. :) It looks terrific. I would have had the planet shot for a little longer with a caption identifying it perhaps? Please do post shots - would love to see them. i have loads more ideas if you want 'em... :)

[@cunningmunki]

@@dragoncymru2940 I think a caption would have been very out of place in classic Who, plus just calling it "The Planet of the Time Lords" sounds a bit silly and calling it "Gallifrey" would open a whole debate about whether you can canonically name something before it was technically named! Another issue with establishing shots is that they need sound. Luckily, the planet, the palace and the shot of UNIT HQ all have sound and music that fit quite well, and are accompanied by scenes that can stand having some seconds cut out, but I don't want to cut too much, like the interior of the Time Lord's control room, because they're important too. Otherwise I have to either find suitable sound effects and reuse music from elsewhere, which may sound quite easy but finding the right ones to fit the scene is quite tough. For the shot of UNIT HQ reappearing I was able to just use a couple of seconds of bird sounds and the last moment of music from the previous scene. But I agree that establishing shots are *so* important, and a lot of 70s Who just doesn't have them, especially establishing shots of the TARDIS which I always enjoy adding in 😄🟦

[@dragoncymru2940]

@@cunningmunki Brilliant - totally get your choices too

[@AlReviewsWho]

Wonderful work, I'd say your best yet! Especially love Omega's palace and UNIT HQ in the quarry, not to mention the Time Lords finally discovering colour TV!

[@AnotherScifiGuy]

such an amazing upgrade, I wish i could watch it all with these effects now!

[@cunningmunki]

thank you! (link in bio btw!)

[@adrianace1725]

Absolutely stunning work. It's a great shame this story didn't get a CGI makeover on the Blu-ray collection. A wasted opportunity to enchance this iconic story.

[@Lumibear.]

I’m late to the party due to life circumstances, but what could I say that hasn’t already been said so I’ll just join in on the applause. Love what you did with the palace!

[@cunningmunki]

Never too late Lumibear! Thank you x

[@Darren79]

Great work💯 I love things like the exterior to Omega's palace and UNIT HQ👏

[@Magpiesplusmore]

Excellent!!! So great to watch.

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Not sure about the temple in the quarry - but congratulations on the 'electric tinsel' and adding the consistent transportation glow.

[@ianotimelord]

Bloody brilliant!! Excellent

[@JoshSnares]

Soooo good!!

[@ZoomerUnion]

Will you be updating your edit of this story with these effects (assuming permission is given, of course)?

[@jezt42]

A thing of beauty! 😊👍

[@issigri9395]

Sublime!

[@Gerrypotterpoet]

You’ve redecorated and I love it. Gx

[@thedimensionjakwarriorkidj1303]

Very well done 👍

[@danielcox3152]

Fantastic work

[@TheFinalMinutes]

Excellent!

[@Centurian128]

This is magnificent!

[@marquonuk]

Absolutely superb! :-)

[@daniledrake4137]

Nicely done.

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Nice job!

[@marquonuk]

Have you thought about doing some effects updates for 1960s stories? Some of the spaceship effects in particular were very rudimentary. Is it harder or easier if they're in black & white?

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great vid

[@philward2538]

Excellent...is there a way you can add Hartnells monitor scenes and blot out the reflections..

[@cunningmunki]

I've removed the reflections of the camera monitors from the right side of the screen and the moving camera you can see in Ep4. Some of the other reflections I can't take out since they're on Hartnell's face, but I don't think they're very noticeable. I did consider adding an extension to the TARDIS interior wall but couldn't find a suitable image from the correct angle I could use!

[@philward2538]

@@cunningmunki i used a software called snapseed and it erases and deblobs unwanted artifacts..With Hartnells face i cut and pasted the right cheek and flipped it round and placed it over his left cheek...

[@finnsempire5671]

God: Jon I am a time lord too Me: Spoilers dad Troughton : I will explain to you what’s going on in heaven in the future Hartnell: actually I am the original doctor so I will give the explanations to the child 😊

[@richevans3157]

shear brilliance. should be added to new ddvd

[@akshaytrayner1960]

I wish they made a castle for omega instead of two doors

[@danielcox3152]

Was it tricky adding the new effects to the location footage? As there is lots of double images

[@cunningmunki]

You mean like when the Gel guards appear? Yes, it was harder to remove the obvious shift between the shots than it was to do the actual effects. Took a lot of compositing still images and running shots backwards, etc. I did a few in Time Monster too, like when the Doctor reappears in the TARDIS, but I didn't include them in the YT video.

[@mikenash7049]

Was the First Doctor in his garden William Hartnell, Richard Hurndall or David Bradley?

[@cunningmunki]

Hartnell (in his actual garden, apparently!)

[@c0nvict_pleb174]

Now this puts BBC to shame with their SFX

[@harrynewiss4630]

Mostly very nice and tasteful - and this story certainly needs a touch up on the effects. But I think the palace on Omega's planet doesn't really work.

[@Rocketbunny71]

Another great effort! I actually quite like the temple in the quarry, gives a much better sense of scale and grandeur more fitting to Omega's will imv. I particularly like the lighting on it, matches the location film very well. I have a question, when you watch any of these stories you've worked on for your own leisure, do you watched your "revised" versions or the originals? If it is the former, know that I am very jealous! 😉👍

[@cunningmunki]

I watch mine 😄, in fact I'm halfway through my 60th anniversary Whoathon which was the whole reason I started these in the first place. The problem is I notice things I'd do differently now, especially on my earlier stories like Frontier and Planet of the Daleks, which I might revisit one day. I've just finished watching Planet of Evil and am halfway through Pyramids (I'm a little behind schedule!), and I'll probably revisit those two when the Season 13 Blu-ray eventually surfaces.

[@ZoomerUnion]

The Three Doctors just became watchable 😅

[@marcse7en]

Unused Scene: JO GRANT (horrified): "Doctor! ... What is it? ... It's horrible! ... I can't bear to look!" DOCTOR (disapproving): "Great balls of fire Jo! ... That's no way to talk about the New Series!" JO GRANT (incredulous): "But Doctor, you're ... you're a WOMAN!" DOCTOR: "My dear Jo, just wait until you see me post Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant!" JO GRANT: "The weirdest things happen in time travel!" DOCTOR: "And they don't get much weirder than my future self regenerating into Jodie Whittaker!" JO GRANT: "I hope they write me out! ... The Barmpot Broadcasting Corporation have lost the plot of the show!" DOCTOR: "Spoiler! ... I hear the sound of Wedding Bells!"