@@JammyONE VFX is like spices in cooking. Dull and flavorless if you leave them out, inedible or overwhelming if you put too much and/or the wrong type in. And you need good people in the kitchen who know about the strengths and limitations of everything in that spice rack and have a good plan going in.
@@KronoGarrett A great analogy, similar to Chris Nolan's use of VFX. Case in point, the train crash sequence into the underground car park from Batman Begins, a practical miniature set touched enhanced with visual effects!
Absolutely fantastic. Luckily as a lad I visited the unit (round the corner from my school) and watched these wonderfully clever people at work. Unbelievable memories.
Thank you to Mr Johnson, Meddings, and the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson AP Films studio staff for all the dreams they gave me as a Baby Boomer growing up. We (kids) were amazed when Supercar came out! I was so futuristic and he puppets were so "realistic" for that era; what were they going to come up with next?... Years ago, I sent a message to Mrs Sylvia Anderson to thank her for orienting me to a military pilot career - she wrote back to me, happy to have made my dreams come true! I still have that letter. Thank you, Ciao, L (Veteran, USA)
As an "adult" (the unfortunate realities of life have forced me to become one), I have developed a deeper level of appreciation and respect for the amount of work that went into making it. These guys were working with high-voltage electricity, pyrotechnics, water, and sometimes all of those things crossed paths! Brian commented in a different video that fire and water were the two most difficult things to work to make them look authentic at scale. I can see what he means. At any rate, to Gerry Anderson, his wife Sylvia, Brian and his colleagues, the puppeteers, camera operators, technicians, and everyone else who made this show come to life, thank you. The show lives on forever because of your work.
Your imagination and creativity gave me, a 68 year old, so much fun watching Thunderbirds as a youngster. Behind the scenes details were so amazing. Thank you for having that gift.
I don't know about you but this way of film making appears to feel much more exciting than modern CGI. Sitting in front of a computer monitor, moving and clicking the mouse and do some keystrokes versus real models and practical effects created by hand. You press a button and BOOOM! 🤩
One of the best videos you have shared! Thunderbirds and these kinds of effects is what got me into special effects and making minatures and now I get to work on Marvel films and Star Wars. Still looks fantastic to this day! You are all amazing!
Met Brian Johnson in person at the National Space Centre Worlds of Anderson event in 2019. They say don't meet your heroes you will be disappointed. Well, I can tell you it was a complete joy. A genius who's FX make the fantastic a reality and a gentleman too. Thanks Brian.
When i was 7-12 yrs old (now 60) i and my classmates often wonder how this was made… we have some theories but..😅 Now I know…👌 Thanks for sharing this ❤
63 years old and love to see this side of the show. I am now playing around (and started this in 1981) doing closeup pictures of my own model cars. Just doing stills. I have been modelling model buildings out Lego (it is very inexpensive to deal with) and I get an idea of the work needed to work with small models. Seeing the show and how it recreated reality in model form got me what to do the same thing. After 40 plus years of doing this myself, it is nice to see the world from a different point of view.
In all seriousness, I loved Thunderbirds. Great times and my earliest memories as my mum tells me how she used to sit and watch it with me. She will be 100 next month and still remembers the names of all the pilots.Bless you mum.
SO COOL. just loved the Thunderbirds as a kid. The beauty for me - in retrospect - is that they played it as a straight drama, didn’t dumb it down or play just to kids. The characters played with real human emotions - even if their faces didn’t always match. The SFX team was outstanding. I think I still have my Thunderbird 2 somewhere. Glorious show.
What a fabulous video! A bit of trivia: my great uncle’s company (Wig Creations) made all the wigs for the puppets. I’ve never seen this in any of the credits 😞
Sheer brilliance! - I grew up with all this going on and never guessed how it was done. a BIG 5 Stars to everybody involved and thank you for sharing this
SOOOOOOOOO cool! Absolute genius. The talent, imagination and skill involved in these productions is sorely missed in this digital age. People are too lazy these days.
Absolutely brilliant 👏 still watch the all now..brought up watching stingray thunderbirds and captain scarlet best programme's ever...sound fx adds to everything aswell genius Derek obviously going on to work at pinewood on bond stuff...Anderson fan gazz
Just the best shows ever! TBs, Capt Scarlet, Joe 90, Stingray were so exciting and dynamic, and the music scores and title music really turned up the drama to 11. I still watch them whenever they are repeated.
So much talent and skill they make it look easy as they share demonstrations. They've got to know so many neat tricks for those beautiful shots done over the years.
Great video. Hats off to everyone involved back then without having computer graphics & AI technology. Allways wanted to know where the thunderbirds aircraft sounds came from 😊
"That was great guys.... that looked fantastic. Really incredible, brilliant. Ummmm, thing is, that was the main set we had scheduled to film the big finale and all the B-roll we needed. That one in the corner was the expendable miniature to destroy."
I WORSHIPPED Century 21 films and I was GUTTED to discover that i had lived a mere few miles away from the studios in Slough and not visited them before the evil ones destroyed it!😭 I was devastated when we lost Jerry. For the era they were produced they were YEARS ahead of their time. Derek Meddings is the man who EVERY SFX designer copied and who went on to produce some amazing explosions in the Bond series! It always amazed me I believed the explosions were filmed in FULL SIZE not models. What added realism for me was when pieces of metal dropped out of the sky after an explosion there were sounds of girdes and stell hitting concrete (probably some of the guys droping scaffold poles or bits of steel?) I grew up with every one of Gerry's shows THANK YOU ALL for making a little boy so happy AND leading to the inspriration to join the RAF as an aircraft engineer believing that one day I would get to work on 'Fireflash'! (well not quite but I did fly on Concorde during crew training - ON THE FLIGHT DECK!) I MISS YOU ALL TERRIBLY.👏👏👏👏👏👏
I know it's a kleeshay (I don't know how to spell that word), F A B. International Rescue's yellow submarine (sound familiar?) Thunderbird 4. I don't understand how TB4 can be so dirty and off colour when it's supposed to be a submarine, all that water rushing by when in forward motion, after all we did it see it launch from TB2 into the sea. Anywho, amazing work by Brian and Derek Meddings. Gerry and Sylvia were fabulous, they gave us THUNDERBIRDS an organisation that cared about people. Thanks for the video.😀👍
66 now and still one of my favorit series. So much better then CGI.
CGI should be used to enhanced practical models and effects.
@@JammyONE VFX is like spices in cooking. Dull and flavorless if you leave them out, inedible or overwhelming if you put too much and/or the wrong type in. And you need good people in the kitchen who know about the strengths and limitations of everything in that spice rack and have a good plan going in.
@@KronoGarrett A great analogy, similar to Chris Nolan's use of VFX. Case in point, the train crash sequence into the underground car park from Batman Begins, a practical miniature set touched enhanced with visual effects!
68 and I have to agree.
Me too.
63 years old and I still think this is absolutely brilliant! So glad I grew up with this sort of programme.
Absolutely fantastic. Luckily as a lad I visited the unit (round the corner from my school) and watched these wonderfully clever people at work. Unbelievable memories.
Thanks a million for bring Thunderbirds to life , Sat here smiling like a kid again even though I'm retired.
Brian Johnson is a VFX legend. I grew up watching his work. Thanks for this behind the scenes look.
As fantastically inventive and 'realistic' these visuals are, it's the sound effects that really complete the sale.
Man, Thunderbirds, Star Wars, Space:1999 and Alien are totally awesome! 🤩😉👍
As a Kid in the early 70's, I ADORED the thunderbirds. Memories
Thank you to Mr Johnson, Meddings, and the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson AP Films studio staff for all the dreams they gave me as a Baby Boomer growing up. We (kids) were amazed when Supercar came out! I was so futuristic and he puppets were so "realistic" for that era; what were they going to come up with next?... Years ago, I sent a message to Mrs Sylvia Anderson to thank her for orienting me to a military pilot career - she wrote back to me, happy to have made my dreams come true! I still have that letter. Thank you, Ciao, L (Veteran, USA)
As an "adult" (the unfortunate realities of life have forced me to become one), I have developed a deeper level of appreciation and respect for the amount of work that went into making it. These guys were working with high-voltage electricity, pyrotechnics, water, and sometimes all of those things crossed paths! Brian commented in a different video that fire and water were the two most difficult things to work to make them look authentic at scale. I can see what he means. At any rate, to Gerry Anderson, his wife Sylvia, Brian and his colleagues, the puppeteers, camera operators, technicians, and everyone else who made this show come to life, thank you. The show lives on forever because of your work.
Your imagination and creativity gave me, a 68 year old, so much fun watching Thunderbirds as a youngster. Behind the scenes details were so amazing. Thank you for having that gift.
I don't know about you but this way of film making appears to feel much more exciting than modern CGI. Sitting in front of a computer monitor, moving and clicking the mouse and do some keystrokes versus real models and practical effects created by hand. You press a button and BOOOM! 🤩
Brilliant. 60 year old woman still mesmerised by my favourite childhood series.
One of the best videos you have shared! Thunderbirds and these kinds of effects is what got me into special effects and making minatures and now I get to work on Marvel films and Star Wars. Still looks fantastic to this day! You are all amazing!
Met Brian Johnson in person at the National Space Centre Worlds of Anderson event in 2019. They say don't meet your heroes you will be disappointed. Well, I can tell you it was a complete joy. A genius who's FX make the fantastic a reality and a gentleman too. Thanks Brian.
This man is a genius
I'm 60 and still love this show. Thunderbirds are GO !!!!
When i was 7-12 yrs old (now 60) i and my classmates often wonder how this was made… we have some theories but..😅 Now I know…👌 Thanks for sharing this ❤
63 years old and love to see this side of the show. I am now playing around (and started this in 1981) doing closeup pictures of my own model cars. Just doing stills. I have been modelling model buildings out Lego (it is very inexpensive to deal with) and I get an idea of the work needed to work with small models. Seeing the show and how it recreated reality in model form got me what to do the same thing. After 40 plus years of doing this myself, it is nice to see the world from a different point of view.
Utterly brilliant. A genuine joy to watch, both then and now.
In all seriousness, I loved Thunderbirds.
Great times and my earliest memories as my mum tells me how she used to sit and watch it with me.
She will be 100 next month and still remembers the names of all the pilots.Bless you mum.
Just a few words....
Thank you very much mr. Johnson!!!
👍 👏 🏆
貴重な映像ありがとうございます！😊
As a kid Thunderbirds was awesome and now at 54 it’s still awesome
58 here and couldn't agree more 😊
Thunderbirds is what got me into aviation…. ‼️👀😎☺️😊
FAB!
Still a desperate need for a real TB2.
子どものときに魅了された『スーパーマリオネーション』
感動は今も色褪せていません。ありがとうございます😊
SO COOL. just loved the Thunderbirds as a kid. The beauty for me - in retrospect - is that they played it as a straight drama, didn’t dumb it down or play just to kids. The characters played with real human emotions - even if their faces didn’t always match. The SFX team was outstanding. I think I still have my Thunderbird 2 somewhere. Glorious show.
What a fabulous video! A bit of trivia: my great uncle’s company (Wig Creations) made all the wigs for the puppets. I’ve never seen this in any of the credits 😞
I actually thought they had real hair ;)
I'm 62, and I loved that show
The way it is done is as interesting as the series itself.
Always loved it and still do.
They were ahead of their time with their ground breaking techniques. Long before CGI came along. True innovators!
I loved my little green thunderbird toy as a toddler im 60 now and still remember.
I’m 57 and it was one of my favourite tv shows as a child. Absolutely loved it.
Wow, it looked real..big fan of Brian Johnson. 🤠👍
Wonderful stuff! Th😂 care ,love and attention to detail that does'nt exist anymore.So glad to have lived as a young boy in the 60's!❤️👍🏻
Sheer brilliance! - I grew up with all this going on and never guessed how it was done. a BIG 5 Stars to everybody involved and thank you for sharing this
SOOOOOOOOO cool! Absolute genius. The talent, imagination and skill involved in these productions is sorely missed in this digital age. People are too lazy these days.
Now this was when children's television was worth something... a perfect mixture of imagination and ingenuity.
Just brilliant! Was obsessed with this as a boy. Still amazes me now! ❤
Awesome - And looks kidz ~ NO 'COM·PUT·ERS 🦉
Loved that show from my childhood!
I grew up on Supermarionation, I'm old enough to remember Supercar.
It's just great to see this tribute to those talented guys.❤
The Thunderbirds. Such an incredible show. I was a huge fan and couldn't wait to see what the next emergency was going to be.
Great stuff. Magic childhood. Thanks to everyone involved. 🖖
Very happy childhood memories. My sons love watching now ❤
No more emotions in life, compared in candid energy and tender astonishment, could ever be compared. Blushy eyes and burning heart ❤️🔥 😢🇬🇧
How do they make Joe Biden walk?????
Wow! Absolutely BRILLIANT!
Absolutely brilliant 👏 still watch the all now..brought up watching stingray thunderbirds and captain scarlet best programme's ever...sound fx adds to everything aswell genius Derek obviously going on to work at pinewood on bond stuff...Anderson fan gazz
Just the best shows ever! TBs, Capt Scarlet, Joe 90, Stingray were so exciting and dynamic, and the music scores and title music really turned up the drama to 11. I still watch them whenever they are repeated.
Nice thanks for sharing 👍 🎉❤
So much talent and skill they make it look easy as they share demonstrations. They've got to know so many neat tricks for those beautiful shots done over the years.
Love the big Rock n Roll finish!
67 yrs old. One of my favourite series!
Pure genius.
Thank you for the wonderful childhood memories.
I was transfixed at every episode. Thank you, I was always so happy to see new stories.
Utter genius. And why I still go back to the pre cgi Star Wars movies. I just love models in films.
Me especially luv the " HITCHCOCK - STYLE OUTRO !🇨🇦
Fantastic dedication to their work 👍🏻
I was really impressed by those explosions at the end.
So cool to see how it’s done. Looks a great job.
Brilliant. I love this series!
Lovely little documentary ❤😊
Johnson is a genius! Great stuff!
Totally awesome video!
Petroleum jelly!? That’s something I did not expect. Cheers guys, I love such videos.
A great show in its time
That was a joy to watch! Thank you!
👏👏👏. Que bárbaro, cuando lo veía no pensaba en eso, hace mucho.
Absolutely fantastic!
Wonderful!!! The real art of hingenius!
Thunderbirds and Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes make my childhood. I still love them. Thanks to all the artists ❤ (62 yrs old engineer)
Great video. Hats off to everyone involved back then without having computer graphics & AI technology. Allways wanted to know where the thunderbirds aircraft sounds came from 😊
FAB Scott, Thunderbirds are go !
Really enjoyed that.
Brilliant, really enjoyed that.
I'd love that large Thunderbird 4 hanging from my ceiling 👌
Pure brilliance 👌
Thunderbirds are still GO!
FAB Simon
Thunderbirds is currently on Amazon. Have caught a few episodes and they are still fun to watch
Wow what a great insight thank you
"That was great guys.... that looked fantastic. Really incredible, brilliant.
Ummmm, thing is, that was the main set we had scheduled to film the big finale and all the B-roll we needed.
That one in the corner was the expendable miniature to destroy."
I WORSHIPPED Century 21 films and I was GUTTED to discover that i had lived a mere few miles away from the studios in Slough and not visited them before the evil ones destroyed it!😭 I was devastated when we lost Jerry. For the era they were produced they were YEARS ahead of their time. Derek Meddings is the man who EVERY SFX designer copied and who went on to produce some amazing explosions in the Bond series! It always amazed me I believed the explosions were filmed in FULL SIZE not models. What added realism for me was when pieces of metal dropped out of the sky after an explosion there were sounds of girdes and stell hitting concrete (probably some of the guys droping scaffold poles or bits of steel?) I grew up with every one of Gerry's shows THANK YOU ALL for making a little boy so happy AND leading to the inspriration to join the RAF as an aircraft engineer believing that one day I would get to work on 'Fireflash'! (well not quite but I did fly on Concorde during crew training - ON THE FLIGHT DECK!) I MISS YOU ALL TERRIBLY.👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thunderbirds was brilliant
Excellent!
Amazingly cool.
Thunderbirds for ever!!!!
Brilliant!
Amazing !
I know it's a kleeshay (I don't know how to spell that word), F A B. International Rescue's yellow submarine (sound familiar?) Thunderbird 4. I don't understand how TB4 can be so dirty and off colour when it's supposed to be a submarine, all that water rushing by when in forward motion, after all we did it see it launch from TB2 into the sea. Anywho, amazing work by Brian and Derek Meddings. Gerry and Sylvia were fabulous, they gave us THUNDERBIRDS an organisation that cared about people. Thanks for the video.😀👍
Brilliant. Thunderbird 2 is my favourite. And how much fun did they have blowing stuff up?
This is amazing
Thanks for the video 😊
Bravo!!😍😍😍
Incredible
GREAT VIDEO!
Sensational 😊. I adored watching the Thunderbirds as a kid in the 80s.
Great fun!
Thanks for that. I wondered how it was done.
They were so creative. Brilliant British filmmaking that is poorly replaced by CGI.
Wow! Always looked so real to me as a nipper, and still pretty good even compared to early CGI