You have to send this to ILM. This is precisely how they do miniature work and they still have an active miniature effects department. This is quality work and they would be very impressed. It's not just the detail of your diorama, but the accuracy of getting the proper shot perspective that sells it. Great job. Seriously, SEND IT.
I was enjoying the vid and I thought this guy must be abit of a Star Wars fan - then the camera panned back to reveal his collections along the wall. wow!
Very nice! Love the POV. It reminds me I need to put my camcorder on my Radio Controlled Jawa Sandcralwer lol I made a little Tantive IV shoot-em-up game out of poster board when I was a kid. The hallway design is very cool to recreate.
Tantive IV battle was (and still is) my all time favorite scene in the Star Wars trilogy! I loved it more than any part of the movie when I saw in back in 1977. It's funny after 40 years I had no idea the spaceship was called Tantive IV. Good to know it now.
Absolutely fantastic diorama. I'm working Vader arrives Death Star II Diorama at moment. First i'll wanted to make Jabbas Palace but it's good to start someting simple like Vader Arrives or Emperor arrives to DS II.
great job! i noticed the death star playset on the floor, that was one of my favourite toys. nothing like a tall tower of doom as a centre-piece of your battle! lol. i'm wondering if i should just go ahead and undate that playset... and the answer would be yes, yes i should.
have you tried using that snake apparatus with camera on the end of it, its the mini camera for looking under doors or cracks in foundations. could help you when filming "interior shots" without taking your diorama apart when filming
SHIT!! This is a great job you have done! Congratulations! This scenes are very important scenes because it was the first scenes on Star Wars back in 1977!
Sick....Sick.... ... Sick. Sweet, accurate choice of soundtrack, too (tho YT incorrectly tags it as the Imperial March -- wow, not even the right movie).
I think about 10 rebel troopers, and at least 12 stormtroopers of various incarnations -- I tried to use as many of the most recent ones that I could -- the brand new Luke and Han figures are actually in there. Then the astromechs (2), Darth Vader (one of many), the officer, and the Leia. So that's about 25 figures for these photos!
JOEL! Wow... Well, I stopped keeping track of the hours after the first week -- I could only do a few hours each evening because of well, you know, wife and two kids, work, and gigs. Seriously -- I can't say how many hours -- there's planning, buying materials, computer work, nitty gritty cutting and construction, painting, gluing, fine detailing -- then setting up the figures, taking pictures, creating the video -- and oh yeah, trolling eBay for cheap Rebel Troopers! Who the hell knows by now..
do you think you could post some images (not video) without figures so I could print out flat backdrops of it for stopmotion? and any other starwars dioramas you are making, I plan to recreate the whole movie. btw your diorama is realy awesome!
@mattjew619 Those are Power of the Jedi Rebel Troops from 2001. Don't bother with them, though, there's a much better Rebel Fleet Trooper coming up in the Vintage Collection that should be in stores in a matter of weeks,.
i'm a big starwars fan to and collecting a lot of action figures how much would you say that you have spend on everything, and how many action figures would you say you have?
@digitalintent I guess by hack I meant "not good" versus "good" -- you can have no experience and do great stop motion. My point is that I never set out to do stop motion at all -- just building the set took dozens of hours of my personal time -- every night for weeks. It would take a year to do stop motion in that environment that looked decent -- who has time for that?!
When I first seen ur set up I wanted a legit diorama of this epic scene. Now we're getting a mass produced diorama, wots ur thoughts on it? PS I wish I had enough artistic talent to re-create it, I have to buy it lol. Oh well
Hilarious that you noticed that! I just included him to round out the crew -- I put him way in the back but he ended up being kind of prominent. I guess he's the only one of those guards that is a steroid freak!
Hahahaha!! I love the POTF rebel trooper at 0:43. He's all jacked up and sex-crazed. He's like the Barry Bonds of the Rebel Alliance. Thank god they don't make Star Wars action figures like that any more... A+ vid, diorama, collection, etc!!
@andrewa714 This setup wasn't built to accommodate stop-motion; manipulating, posing, and moving figures and photographing them simply would not physically work with this diorama. Additionally, I and lots of others feel that good photography and screen accurate poses beat the hell out of ridiculously crappy ass stop-motion done by hacks with zero experience doing so.
I have to say... You are a great artist, you must be proud
SUPERB! You did a very good job! Excellent work and nice presentation!
Unique diorama! Markus from Germany
You have to send this to ILM. This is precisely how they do miniature work and they still have an active miniature effects department. This is quality work and they would be very impressed. It's not just the detail of your diorama, but the accuracy of getting the proper shot perspective that sells it. Great job. Seriously, SEND IT.
dude your so awesome you made the tantive iv the best man its the best replica in vids i'v ever seen
dude you're a sick sick person!!! awesome job!!! ..... oh the humanity... how many patience!!!!
I was enjoying the vid and I thought this guy must be abit of a Star Wars fan - then the camera panned back to reveal his collections along the wall. wow!
Incredible work, well done mate!!!!
Very nice! Love the POV. It reminds me I need to put my camcorder on my Radio Controlled Jawa Sandcralwer lol I made a little Tantive IV shoot-em-up game out of poster board when I was a kid. The hallway design is very cool to recreate.
My dude excellent work
Really great! Good work!
Splendid idea, nice set and script! Like it :-)
Most impressive. I'm planning to shelf part of our loft wall and tell the STAR WARS saga in figures.
Wow! You are an ubernerd! Congratulations! That's a compliment btw.. That is one nice diorama!
Excellent diorama!
looks like you have quite the collection there. Ever thought of doing a video on it? I for one would love to see it
Tantive IV battle was (and still is) my all time favorite scene in the Star Wars trilogy! I loved it more than any part of the movie when I saw in back in 1977. It's funny after 40 years I had no idea the spaceship was called Tantive IV. Good to know it now.
Absolutely fantastic job!
Looks exactly the same as it was in the move nice work
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Awesome that looks just like it
This was awesome. Really like what you did.
awesome work
impressive. most impressive.
I so want one...:) great hallway dio dude!.
Absolutely fantastic diorama. I'm working Vader arrives Death Star II Diorama at moment. First i'll wanted to make Jabbas Palace but it's good to start someting simple like Vader Arrives or Emperor arrives to DS II.
Your diorama is excellen you did a very good job and i like the comparison between movie scenes and the toys in action! You are great! :o)))
im glad some people still like starwars
great job! i noticed the death star playset on the floor, that was one of my favourite toys. nothing like a tall tower of doom as a centre-piece of your battle! lol. i'm wondering if i should just go ahead and undate that playset... and the answer would be yes, yes i should.
great work..
have you tried using that snake apparatus with camera on the end of it, its the mini camera for looking under doors or cracks in foundations. could help you when filming "interior shots" without taking your diorama apart when filming
SHIT!! This is a great job you have done! Congratulations! This scenes are very important scenes because it was the first scenes on Star Wars back in 1977!
Awesome, Well Done.
Impressive most impressive
nice job 5/5
details are verry good :P
Pretty cool.
this is amazing
Nice! Now you have to make a stop-motion movie using your action figures!
nice job man :)
Excellent
TFN and Rebelscum. But I hadn't posted this on a forum until your note! Then I did on both.
Sick....Sick.... ... Sick. Sweet, accurate choice of soundtrack, too (tho YT incorrectly tags it as the Imperial March -- wow, not even the right movie).
I think about 10 rebel troopers, and at least 12 stormtroopers of various incarnations -- I tried to use as many of the most recent ones that I could -- the brand new Luke and Han figures are actually in there. Then the astromechs (2), Darth Vader (one of many), the officer, and the Leia. So that's about 25 figures for these photos!
Very cool diorama.
Wouldn't vacuum formed sections made with white plastic work for this?
Maybe this could be ambient lit with fibre optics or LEDs?
Thanks man -- it was a lot of work but I am glad I did it.
I'm inspired. I'll have to do a deal with you; for one of my scratch built costumes or something.
Awesome.
Wow man...thanks, I really appreciate it.
Love it! Would love to see a how to video.
That's so cool. Lots of stirafoam?
very cool man :)
@smithdream It definitely would! If I only knew how to do such things.
JOEL! Wow... Well, I stopped keeping track of the hours after the first week -- I could only do a few hours each evening because of well, you know, wife and two kids, work, and gigs. Seriously -- I can't say how many hours -- there's planning, buying materials, computer work, nitty gritty cutting and construction, painting, gluing, fine detailing -- then setting up the figures, taking pictures, creating the video -- and oh yeah, trolling eBay for cheap Rebel Troopers! Who the hell knows by now..
impressive
do you think you could post some images (not video) without figures so I could print out flat backdrops of it for stopmotion? and any other starwars dioramas you are making, I plan to recreate the whole movie. btw your diorama is realy awesome!
do you think you could post some images (not video) without figures so I could print out flat backdrops of it for stopmotion? It's realy awesome!
This would be awesome to do with 12" figures (like the sideshow ones) :D
Extraordinario
@mattjew619 Those are Power of the Jedi Rebel Troops from 2001. Don't bother with them, though, there's a much better Rebel Fleet Trooper coming up in the Vintage Collection that should be in stores in a matter of weeks,.
that is soooo epic please make a tutorial
Awesome! Which Leia was that?
i'm a big starwars fan to and collecting a lot of action figures how much would you say that you have spend on everything, and how many action figures would you say you have?
@digitalintent I guess by hack I meant "not good" versus "good" -- you can have no experience and do great stop motion. My point is that I never set out to do stop motion at all -- just building the set took dozens of hours of my personal time -- every night for weeks. It would take a year to do stop motion in that environment that looked decent -- who has time for that?!
damn i felt like i was goin in the ship!
When I first seen ur set up I wanted a legit diorama of this epic scene. Now we're getting a mass produced diorama, wots ur thoughts on it?
PS I wish I had enough artistic talent to re-create it, I have to buy it lol. Oh well
Hilarious that you noticed that! I just included him to round out the crew -- I put him way in the back but he ended up being kind of prominent. I guess he's the only one of those guards that is a steroid freak!
Recant on YT diss: My bad, I guess the music tag is just an ad and not necessarily meant as identifying the vid's music track.
not bad for a first attempt...pffft just kidding .lol. that is feckin rad dude!
very nice iam also making one but mines in 1/6 scale
I wanna make an Indiana Jones Diorama!!!
has any body noticed that c 3 pos left or right leg is not gold its silver i first saw that in the empires strikes back
Are you using TC-14 from TPM line as the silver protocol droid?
Do you mean for this display or overall?
@johnnygun749 Pretty much everything came from Hobby Lobby or Michael's.
Hahahaha!! I love the POTF rebel trooper at 0:43. He's all jacked up and sex-crazed. He's like the Barry Bonds of the Rebel Alliance. Thank god they don't make Star Wars action figures like that any more...
A+ vid, diorama, collection, etc!!
You even got the lighing right,lol!!!!
@andrewa714 This setup wasn't built to accommodate stop-motion; manipulating, posing, and moving figures and photographing them simply would not physically work with this diorama. Additionally, I and lots of others feel that good photography and screen accurate poses beat the hell out of ridiculously crappy ass stop-motion done by hacks with zero experience doing so.
All I can hope is some time within the next month...!
DUDE YOU HAVE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH STAR WARS TOYS I WANT THAT MUCH IF YOU MADETHEM TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THEM PLEASE!!!!!
Hahaha awesome
beats my cousins model train diorama into a sh!tty hole. excellent work
doesn't anybody have any Indiana Jones dioramas? I guess i'll have to be the first
And yeah, duh, C-3PO, R2-D2 and TC-14...