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January 07 2006

Illusion Arts' Bill Taylor on crash-landing 'Serenity.' A very cool, very illustrated discussion with Mr. Taylor about Illusion Arts' contributions to the Big Damn Movie.

Includes matte paintings, the Mr. Universe planet, and the Big Damn Crash (which was shot practically with a Big Damn Model).

HudsonVC | Firefly&Serenity | 03:18 CET | 7 comments total | tags:

That crash landing was amazing!
Great job, that.
Even watching the DVD, I wince when Serenity bounces and slides into the hangar. And when she hits the beam and her engine flies off? Ewww. Just thinking about it...
Amazing work.

AmazonGirl | January 07, 07:51 CET

Excellent article. It's so cool to see Serenity as a real physical thing!

CG-Realms | January 07, 08:40 CET

Yeah, very cool article. I also wince when I watch her engine getting wrenched off and for me it really brought home the idea that the ship is very much a part of the crew.

Can anyone with more of that knowledge stuff tell us what he means when he says the cameras were 'operated wild' ? I have an image of camera wranglers cracking whips and lone, plucky cameras making a bid for freedom but i'm pretty sure that's not right.

(also cool to see from the article comments that it inspired someone to - hopefully - buy the BDM).

Saje | January 07, 13:57 CET

Oh, man. Is it wrong that I want a miniature toy model of Serenity? Those film guys have the coolest toys! And count me in the masses who were terrified to see the poor ship so battered by that crash landing. When I watch actors doing stunt fighting, part of me knows that it's a trick of the cameras and so on, but seeing the ship break up like that was heartbreaking because I knew that on some level it had to have been "real" to get that effect on camera, not CGI. She really is the 10th character.

punkinpuss | January 07, 15:56 CET

Right there with you all on Serenity crashing "OMG she's lost her engine! First Book now this...."

Don't know if it has been linked already but there is another article in the same blog called "Rhythm & Hues" about the Generator scene -which has a great Joss anecdote.

I also wonder what happened to that model. Would be great to get your hands on it.

The Do That Girl | January 07, 21:44 CET

I'd love to have a model of Serenity! (A good one, that is. Not one that's messed up like the poor figures of Mal and Jayne.)

zencat | January 07, 23:09 CET

I remember attending one of the early sneak previews in Portland last spring, and right after the ship crashed, someone yelled at the top of their lungs, "THEY KILLED SERENITY!"

And then, you know, the next thing happened. And all bets were off.

HudsonVC | January 08, 05:23 CET

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