Adam Savage and Fon Davis Talk About Working on Star Wars!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2021
- Adam sits down with his friend and former colleague Fon Davis of Fonco to reminisce about working on special effects for the Star Wars prequels, with all its moments of triumph, tedium and terror. Adam also presents a classic example of ILM modelmaking: a T11 Skyhopper maquette he made ... that (spoiler alert!) George Lucas unfortunately didn't like.
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hi Adam, "thought you might of been involved in movies",
'Jealousy' and 'Hate' are unpleasant emotions. We all know that. But I can safely apply them to how I feel listening to these two icons and their extraordinary experiences. Truly amazing. Lovely to watch. And as everyone else has said: "More! More! More!" (please - and with sprinkles on top)
Sooooo... what IS the colour!??
More of these shoots plz
@@Rustbukkit69 If I had a guess it would be Tamiya 85032 TS-32 Haze Grey
More of that please! Adam visiting old friends talking about ILM days is always fun. Anyone that will sit down with Adam to chat about their early careers would be high on my list of watching. And it's better than the podcast because they can have props or models to show off and talk about too.
Yes, lots more of that, please!!
Adam has been mentioned today on Corridor Crew react to the video, also Grant and Tori -
- VFX Artists React to THE MUMMY Bad & Great CGI apparently Adam worked on a 4 ft Sphinx miniature! I would love to see Adam go to them as a guest and react to some of the other work he has done etc!
I want MOAR. I could listen to this type of conversation forever.
Moar?
@@ray-beam Moar!
MOAR!!!
@@ray-beam MÅR!
Literally came to the comments to say this conversation needed to be like 40 minutes longer.
more of this please.
I've heard so much good stuff about Fon Davis over the years that seeing him here for a few minutes makes me feel like I've spent a moment catching-up with an old friend. Kudos.
Thank you for the comment -- we love Fon. More from our visit to Fonco coming soon!
I love these stories, it's how part of how my childhood was formed
Omg, the man the myth and legend himself! More of this pls
More videos with Fon forthcoming!
Absolutely agree!
I'm privileged to be Facebook friends with him. He's great.
@@cryophile Right????
I could binge watch 24 hrs of this content no problem!!! I need you to do an ILM in the 80s Masterclass!
I wish this was longer. I got to build a model next fon once. Most amazing time ever
This is about 2 hours too short.
This would've been the perfect opportunity to bring back Untitled. This needs to be a much longer conversation. I would watch hours of this!
Adam we need more of this kinda stuff.
This should have been at least an hour, i love to listen to those stories!
I really love this type of video. Hearing such enthusiastic professionals talk about their experiences in such a niche, important part of the film history is a pleasure.
Being an aspiring film model maker kid in the 80's and a pro in the 90´s this really takes me there, when I stared at ILM's pictures and knew all the names of the modelers by heart. I really enjoyed this piece! PLease more and thank you
More of this. Loved watching For and Adam talk shop.
9:20 For some reason, the story of their mentor always matching his deadlines reminded me of Scotty from Star Trek, who always said he would need 4x longer for a task than he thought he would actually need to keep up his reputation as a miracle engineer.
WHAT? That was nowhere near thirteen minutes! Jeez, I could listen to you guys talking about this stuff ALL WEEK. Thanks.
Please!!! More with this gentleman. I could listen to these stories all day!!
Adam you need to have more interviews of the model makers of ILM. Many of these craftsman are getting old or have died, it would be a history lesson of ILM!
I had a TIE model kit as a kid, and I haven't thought about it in 30 years, but seeing it there on the table brings a huge wave of nostalgia that I didn't expect.
I've heard you mention this Fon Davis several times and now that I see him he's a cool ass dude I hope he wants to do more videos thanks Adam and crew :) Also that line about Star Trek "we worked it all out a long time ago" was solid. Utopia baby! We should be so lucky!
Fon seems like such a luminous ball of positivity (as does Adam)... I would love to just sit in the corner as they reminisce and hear all the stories with all the joy and love that goes with them.
that was a fun, fine chat. i learned plenty. Salute to Adam and Fon.
reminds me of when a program manager at a former job was showing a potential customer our best apogee engine (rocket)
he grabbed it around the combustion chamber and ruined it's $500,000 vapor deposition crystalline coating (takes months)
he knew a fly could walk on it and leave a trail, but....
People like these guys are what makes Star Wars great (and every movie). Such beautiful details and such amazing dedication.
My introduction to the small pieces of tech protruding from various machines and crafts came from early Marvel comics. Kirby and the guys did an awesome job of making things look both foreboding and functional. I can really appreciate the difference between the Trek and Wars approach to this. Wars had everything with a "just used yesterday" appearance, like a bus in Manhattan. Trek was often "white room clean."
More of these interviews please. You need to have .ore conversations like this with folks that worked on a lot of movies. I would have loved to hear his stories on so many movies both technical aspects of building models and props but also the people that did the work and the things they shared.
Also, Fon has a wonderful personality on camera. He seems like he would have been a joy to work with. I am so jealous of the projects and work you were both a part of.
And THAT was what was SOOOO convincing to me that Star Wars vehicles were REALLY a "real" thing when I was a kid! They always looked well used and weathered,showed signed of being repaired. (When you first saw Luke in his X Wing ,it looked several years used and a battle veteran for sure. ;) ) Cool stuff !
I don't know why, well I do know why, but I just can't get enough of this video. I absolutely love hearing about the ILM days and the history with it. Thank you so much, Adam and Fon, for sharing your wonderful memories! ❤️
Man, model makers would make phenomenal surgeons. Genius level thinkers and super patience with tedious patience
Thank you Adam, and Fon for doing this video, I love how both of you are so excited to talk about this stuff, you sometimes talk over each other, Ha ha ! It reminds me of when I and my art friends get together... you both give lots of great stories and info.. Thank you for sharing ..
The OT/PT Star Wars Trilogies are brilliant thanks to George Lucas and the ILM team. I saw the Prequels in theaters growing up.
I do not think I've ever seen a happier person than Fon remembering working on the Star Destroyer. That, right there, has made my sad mood go away. Thank you!
One of my favorite classes while attending Academy of Art in SF was special fx model making.. just good old kit bashing and other hands on model making techniques.
It’s fascinating to listen to you reminisce about making models for Star Wars. Thank you so much for sharing.
Out of all the crap-ton of Tested videos I've watched over the past year+ in the pandemic, this is my favorite.
OMG more of this please! Love just listening to two industry professionals share stories!
I still have my pictures from that display in DC. And vividly remember that Star Destroyer!!
I love listening to these conversations about some of the most legendary propmaking in film history.
I would love you to talk more with old colleagues about your days model making and such like. Its great to experience it
Thanks for mentioning the TIE fighter paint!
So… what was it?
I would like to know what paint it is too.
Bandai have it as Neutral Gray (XF53)(70%) + White (X2)(30%) + Blue Gray (XF18)(small dose). But would be nice to know what it actually was (if not that).
Tamiya haze gray was on a star wars forum , but to me as I have used that color . It seems to be to dark of a gray!
He touched the part of the model where the paint was wet to make you re-do something and learn to focus on it. A very subtle "wax on/wax off" kind of sneaky lesson.
This conversations are a delight, please do more.
Growing up I thought something like ILM was the ultimate goal for me in life. Growing up east coast it was tough to view what I needed to do. I got into photography and got a BFA in graphic design. I helped pioneer the CGI lab at my college. I worked for a game company that had contracts with Lucasfilm, Paramount, New Line; I went to the Skywalker ranch. The day came when I lead from a west coast studio offered me a job on the spot to work on Star Trek Voyager, and I turned it down. I had a new house and new baby; another guy they did take was out of work again in six months. I guess I'll always wonder about the career I turned my back on, or perhaps I dodged a bullet.
That Tie Interceptor looks so nice ... I'm a bit bias as the Tie Interceptor is my favourite Tie fighter. Love the videos about model making and the stories from ILM are great.
I've heard about Fon so many times from stories Adam has told, so nice to see him in person at last! More of his cave please.
Roundtable memories of Cinema, Modelmaking, and ILM. 👍
Best video in a long time.... so you talked about it but never said what color the TIE Fighters are!! Please tell us simple model making fans!!
It's incredible the history of San Francisco, my wife is from there so we have visited a good few times. Between the model making, Mythbusters, tech and so much more everytime I go I learn something new about what was done there. It's like me in the form of a city (however I still have yet to see Adam roaming around of course
im currently working on the Kenobi series and its just amazing. its so cool to see what you masterminds do.
I love the conversations between Adam and Fon! More, please!
Wonderful stuff. Thank you for this conversation.
I love the energy in this video!
The random sidetracks were wonderful as well, it's really special to find out so many details about how some of my favorite movies were brought to life 🙌🏻
thankyou Adam, Fon, and the Tested crew!
TIE interceptor sitting nearby. My favourite SW fighter since 1983 :)
Excellent. More of this please. Great to listen to. Really interesting and enlightening 👍
I love how all the the models on the table have the same size block of wood for the base.
Adam and Fon... what a magical duo. More please!
This was my dream when I went to film school. Life intervened.
You guys are verbalizing my thoughts when playing with space lego as a child. Best toy ever.
The white/blue gray tie fighter has been driving me crazy for years. THANK YOU!
(now i wait menacingly for the one opportunity 30 years from now where i'll be able to share this newfound information and blow somebody else's mind)
that was a really nice conversation, loved it! and the bit about the star destroyer just conjured up the scene of Norm crashing the gigantic lego star destroyer into the death star with Will shattered...
My brother from another mother Sean Sides built the most accurate recreation of A New Hope version of the Millennium Falcon in studio scale. They’ve had him drag that thing from Denver to LA twice now to display with the restored motion camera and mount.
He always tells me I was his inspiration for going into studio scale. I say BS, but hey…
I could listen to this forever.
So great to hear about how the model making was done at ILM and your shared stories….cool!!
The interesting thing for model makers like me that work on kits that aren't studio scale sized is trying to replicate greeblie detail that looks "right" when there isn't anything quite right in size or shape.
For instance, when adding details to the 1999 Eagle for Series 2, Brian Johnson's guys added stuff to the models. I tried to emulate those added bits on a half scale MPC Round 2 kit which had the Series 1 details. The original bits appeared to be from 1/35 Tamiya armor and 1/72 (probably Airfix) aircraft kits. So for my added details I used 1/72 to 76 armor bits and 1/144 airplane bits to replicate what my research showed. Fun stuff.
More of this please. It was great to watch 2 pros enjoying there job/gifts with us all.
I love the fact that I mentioned the Star Wars versus Star Trek aesthetic just because it has never even occurred to me that difference of Star Wars “it’s not perfect but it works so we don’t care” where as Star Trek “everything is perfect in this utopia”.
Not enough , I could have watched for hour's.. love it
I can already tell this is going to be one of those videos that I come back to every couple of months. Great stuff, guys!
Love seeing Fon talking about his awesome experiences
This video is good. More of this please, I like the video more then I thought I would.
I have watched a few of your videos with Fon Davis and it is so interesting all the hard work that goes into making props for movies that it is just totally amazing! It makes me want to watch the movies over again.
Thank you both for this inside view. It makes so much fun to listen to your stories.
Aw this video was too sweet. Could watch/listen to a 5 hour conversation between these guys
Fon was doing the Lord's work by restoring that Star Destroyer. Bless you.
Fantastic!! More!
Great to see Adam catching up with old friends and swapping stories.
These Videos are sooo much Fun, please do more!
This was absolutely delightful. Thanks!
so much fun to watch! Thank You
This is awesome nostalgic trivia. I bet everyone like me as a kid watching star wars movies in the theatres in the 1970s and 80s wanted to grow up and be a model maker, making space ships for sci-fi movies. But alas I didn't, just like most of us. Adam and Fon are super lucky!
This is just like a couple old freidns having a convo and I' get to be apart of it, loved this
Awesome! I should’ve been raised on the west coast…movies, model making, skateboarding, and Metallica. Thanks Mr. Savage I love your vids.
The paint is called 'stormy sea blue' a discontinued color from PACTRA
Left me wanting more! I could listen to your stories all day! Thanks for this! 😁👍
This was an ABSOLUTELY ENJOYABLE video! I would love to sit and listen to this sort of memory-walk for hours. Well done.
More Fon PLEASE!
That was so awesome, loved the conversation. I hve been working on movies doing set lighting and sometimes we have similar conversations about the details of our work, especially with guys who are truly into job. It used to bug me that when I got into the lighting union local that a lot of guys treated it the same as working a factory gig. Show up do your bits and go home. I love people who are really passionate about their jobs.
I could watch HOURS of this stuff!
I want a podcast that's nothing but Adam catching up with ILM colleagues.
I wouldn't mind a nice long conversation like this with you both just talking shop and memories.
geeks, geeking out. so much fun. For me it was removable disk drives platters so large that when you wrapped your arms around them your fingers wouldn't meet. these platter stacks (10? platters) would go into a washing machine sized cabinet attached to the mainframe by a flat ribbon cable wider than your spread fingers.
At DECUS Wizard sessions stories were told of configurations still running after earthquakes had separated the raised floor. A different kind of geeking out. so much fun.
There needs to be another 100 of these.
This was great! Keep these type of videos coming!
I remember when the special editions came out, I rented the original movies (in VHS tape) the day I was going to see the corresponding movie just to have a fresh frame of reference for the changes
This is on me for not being familiar with Mr. Davis enough on his own, but after a good long time of listening to Adam talk about one of his mentors Fon Davis and how much Adam learned from him, I honestly expected someone a fair bit older.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. Would Love a video of Adam kitbashing a custom Star Wars ship from A-Z! Great "one day" build idea there!
"Star wars is we haven't gotten around to fixing that part yet whereas star trek is we worked it out along time ago". So true.
I could listen to you both talk about this stuff for hours. Great video!
This was amazing. The world needs more of you two sharing stories.
I was lucky enough to see that exhibit at the Smithsonian. It was easily the longest Star Wars line I've ever stood in.
These videos are delightful!