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"I enjoyed that, it wasn'tjust for the kids."
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More added dialogue
to make it clear what they're doing.
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Great use of inserts from Useful Companies.
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Thunderbird 5 and Thunderbird 3
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were the first sequences of visual effects shots
that were completed.
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Because there were 680 shots
there was a schedule that needed to be met.
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And for some reason 5 and 3
were early on the schedule
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and the lighting and texturing
of those spaceships was so impressive
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that it put all of us at ease with Framestore.
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This had been their biggest project.
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They had done bits of the Potter films before
and bits of Bond films
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but this is the first film that they had
from beginning to end.
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The project, 680 shots, is a very considerable
amount of visual effects work.
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At one point we had 148 artists -
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2-D artists, 3-D artists, producers,
special effects supervisors -
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all working on Thunderbirds.
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It was quite daunting to go over there
every morning and approve shots.
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Again you can see the floating debris
that Nelmes added
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to enhance the sense of zero gravity
and now we're back in real gravity.
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So it was used sparsely
because it's so time-consuming to shoot
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because of all the elements -
the green screens, the poles they need to float on,
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the uncomfortable quality of the rig itself.
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So what was originally in the script
five or six scenes,
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was cut down to two or three scenes,
ultimately to good advantage.