hey everybody adam savage here in my cave with a show-and-tell um that i've held in reserve for a
long time and i didn't realize that it was just sitting there um a lot of you have asked about
my tenure at industrial light magic and the kind of model making i did there and i have
shared many stories about what it was like but i have shared very few pieces that i actually
made because obviously you know they show up in the movies and they go into the archives
and it is the very rare piece that makes it out but this little chunk chunky chunk did make it out
and this is a little this is actually so to be clear uh this is a little bit of a star wars prop
from episode two from a landing bay that i did as a laser cut job for a motion control shot
um and doug chang wanted like half a dozen of these spread around like little work screens that
were being used by people in this loading bay um i had a very rough sketch and uh turned this around
in a i think a couple of days it has three or four working leds but it's also got a little bit of a
film trick that uh that has a lineage all the way back to stanley kubrick built right into this and
that is this little this little screen here i'm going to show you in close-up too but if you look
at the so you can see this like that's a laser cut part that's a cast greebly from the greebly room
so are these this was a guy in marin who actually had an injection molding machine he made oh no no
i'm sorry that's a tamiya that's a tamiya piece i careful viewers might notice some
key star wars pieces so some of this wiring was actually real there's two bulbs here and one here
um and we put lights into all of these and then at the end i just cut myself an extra set of parts
and made my myself one of these that's that's kind of how that kind of thing can work sometimes
i am not advocating you walk out of the door with anything from your workplace it might compromise
your employment i took this risk low 20 plus years ago uh and i still have it to show you
uh so what's cool about the little screen here you might notice it seems to glow quite brightly
and even brighter if i put the light directly behind the camera lens this
is a scotchlite so this is reflective material it is effectively a retro reflector like your bike
like your bike reflectors and a retro reflector is simply the uh term for a reflector that always
reflects back to the viewer's point so if you notice like the it doesn't dim when i change it
and that's because of the light coming you can see it probably better in this close-up when i
put my flashlight right behind yeah right it lights up so what we did on the motion
control stage was they set these up all over but put a hot light source right behind the
right next to the camera lens and that made all of these light up and that made it easy to key
actual cg like i don't know scrolling data for for for uh for the workstations uh in the actual shot
this was my favorite kind of model work i loved it when i would get something like this
like hey we need 11 of these in the next 24 hours can you jump into it and do it and there's just
nothing more fun than uh getting to be that guy uh to be on that team to crunch crack your knuckles
jump in and like 24 hours later show up with a bunch of painted pieces and i think these were
sent to the paint room uh to actually do the final paint finishing on you can see some a
couple of different silvers going on on some of the on some of the paint pieces you can even see
if you look up close some of my milling marks i mean i basically turned this into um let's see
those were laser-cut parts that were glued onto a casting so that was a casting that was a casting
and we sent those to the mold room as two separate parts they made up a bunch for us
i made these little laser-cut frames that went on the front because that was the business end
and it wanted to be nice and crisp that saved the mold makers a little bit of time uh and then yeah
all of these went to yeah you can actually see oh ah now i understand this is actually my original
this is actually my original because it's rent-shaped not cast resin that's so this
was the master that i made for the mold room and then kept it and finished it for myself yeah i'm
not saying i was following company policy you're going to have to forgive me ilm i
really wanted a piece of my word to show people you know again i am not advocating
i i don't need to go this deeply into it um but you wanted to see a piece of star wars
proppage that i have built in the past and here you get to see it uh oh you know what
here let's if i put the light here you will see yeah see how bright that is yeah look at that
oh my desktop point out that's as good a time oh it went back
all right i'll work on that one later thank you guys for joining me for this
very little show and tell of a piece i'm very proud of and happy to have in my collection uh
and yeah thanks for watching i will see you guys next time
cheers