![]() There were often times when one frame or two would be out of sync in the process and a star would bleed into the spaceship and then the entire thing would have to be done all over again” (Brian Johnson Interview). Then it would go next to the department that made the stars themselves, and then eventually all of it would end up together on a strip of film as one single shot. It would next go to the “blobber” department, as it was called, and they would project each frame of what we had shot and then they would create the matte background that was needed for the shot so the stars could be put into the shot. ![]() “ll of the images were “held” takes so they could go from one process of the animation to another…For example, we should shoot a track-in on a spacecraft. Special effects artist Brian Johnson explains in an interview with TV Store Online: The shots of space were quite often ruined when one or more of the background stars would appear over one of the models during the animation process. Here we see the “8 X 10 moon plate being photographed on 65mm Oxberry animation stand” (Making 104). Movement of Aries was made by visualizing its relative movement against background and translating it simply to a first-and-last frame position” (Making 104). Moon-shuttle Aries is a still photograph of model two feet in diameter shot on horizontal camera in order to get the longest track movement as it moves away. “ Moon is transparency of telescopic picture of real Moon, rephotographed on animation stand. We begin the second part of the Floyd sequence with this shot of the Aries shuttle traveling toward the moon. I explored what was available on the Internet and found tons of great information from a wide variety of sources concerning the special effects, music, costumes, set, and several of the actors. Every bit of information in this video was available for free on the Internet and from the Bluray of the film. In Part 3, we follow Floyd to the Clavius Moon Base to investigate the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (the monolith). Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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