Silent Running Drones by zorzim
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Silent Running was a movie shot in
1972... no CGI back then... this feature
was due to a guy named Douglas Trumbull,
father of 2001: A Space Odyssey special
effects.
Trumbull as director was not shiny as
Kubrick... (neither did Peter Hyams's
2010 after all...) but the SF eco-story
of the last green of Earth surviving in
those starship near Saturn struck
something in me when I was 13.
There was three nice robots, or drones,
Huey, Dewey, and Louie (named after the
well known Disney little ducks...)
Stock footage of the marvelous botanical
freighter ships have been re-used in
Battlestar Galactica 1978...
The three excellent meshes of the robots have been created by Martin, the Botanical Ships have been made by Sean Kennedy. Thanks to both !
Comments (11)
paul leatham
That was such a cool movie, intelligent and funny. I have fond memories of it too.
DarkStormCrow
Very nice work, well done sci fi classic movie...
NefariousDrO
Ooh, nice classic SF at its best! Excellent work!
ansgar2
Fantastic!!!!!! Cool work!!!
peedy
Way cool work! Great lighting. Corrie
TheBryster
When Silent Running came out over here it was second billing to American Grafitti. I watched Silent Running and left the cinema halfway through Grafitti. And yes, it seems that every time someone needs a convoy of spaceships, the old Silent Running vessels are in there somewhere. Very nice scene btw!
Hubert
Well captured scene!! A great tribute to a great (and funny) movie.
zhaanman
Too cool you've captured their looks Perfectly loved that sad movie!
slippery46
One of my all time fav SF movies this render is so COOL AAA+
DavidEMartin
Your image captures quite nicely the state of (non-Star Wars) SFX sets in the 70s. Two of the drones were actually performed by guys. The third, smallest drone had a really cute girl in it -- I saw a rare still of her poking her head out through the number panel's space to talk to Trumbull). John Dykstra was Trumbull's assistant on this film. This explains why he reused Valley Forge footage 6 years later when he was SFX director for GALACTICA. I found online paper kits toi build your own Drones. Here's one in Japan-- http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Silent/Silent.html
gpfer
Thank you for the lunar rover! Lewy, Dewy,and ? Bruce Dern would be proud!