Comments on: Obsessively Explaining the Visual Effects in Flight of the Navigator https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/ Fresh hacks every day Sat, 29 May 2021 14:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Declan John https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352604 Sat, 29 May 2021 14:33:44 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352604 In reply to Gregg Eshelman.

He won an auction of film memorabilia – the pieces plus the model spacecraft he shows.

]]> By: Gregg Eshelman https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352312 Fri, 28 May 2021 02:27:07 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352312 How did he get the original stop motion props for the door and stairs animation? How have they survived all these years? Very neat that he was able to re-shoot that animation digitally.

]]> By: Val https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352202 Thu, 27 May 2021 17:41:42 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352202 no one commenting on how much of a masterpiece this video is, from just about every standpoint, although that might be because of how obviously amazing it is

]]> By: Steven Gann https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352181 Thu, 27 May 2021 16:56:00 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352181 In reply to Ostracus.

Most of the effects would be reasonably easy using Blender or most modern CGI tools.

Doing it practical like they did then would be a serious challenge, though.

]]> By: Alice Lalita Heald https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352149 Thu, 27 May 2021 14:01:18 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352149 I always though that the design was alien originated.

]]> By: sqelch https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352134 Thu, 27 May 2021 12:41:08 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352134 Awesome, this is one of my favorite films of all time. Really captured my childhood imagination.

]]> By: Ostracus https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/obsessively-explaining-the-visual-effects-in-flight-of-the-navigator/#comment-6352084 Thu, 27 May 2021 06:31:25 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=480092#comment-6352084 I would be quite the education for a film student to try and recreate Flight of the Navigator and see just how close they could come.

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