Here's a little something I've wanted to start for a while now as one a personal project. The plan is to recreate the
entire 2015 set from Back to the Future 2, one of my favourite movie scenes of all time, and to hopefully recreate it as accurately as possible.
So far I've got a pretty good start on the courthouse, and the movie theater where Jaws pops out, and a bit of the Cafe '80s (not pictured because I started that a while back and might end up entirely rebuilding it anyway)
Here's a comparison between my model so far of the movie theater, and a set photo-
Hopefully more to come soon!
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A guy I work with was just telling me today that he never saw the Back to the Future movies. I couldn't believe it! I consider those films a key part of cinema history, and great fun to watch as well! I personally loved part 2 the best.
That is a great start. You matched that photo extremely well. I circled a few details just in case you didn't see (like the bevel and extrusions), although I know you are not done with that part yet (just in case).
I will definitely be following this thread!
JMoney
Edit: I added the attachment
It just wouldn't be complete without the fake looking shark (complete with no anti-aliasing on the texture).
Thanks. I am aware of the those, I just hadn't gotten to them yet. I try to get the general shapes right before filling in details, otherwise I end up redoing details several times.
But don't let that stop you from continuing to point out stuff like that in future. I am going for accuracy, after all. :thumb:
Haha! Hey, maybe the industry hits a throwback, anti-HD phase within the next three years. :P
This project is so dope; Kudos for thinking out of the box with this one. I'm interested in seeing how you sculpt the statue over on the left side of the "Holomax" logo.
Great work, though. I'll definitely be watching this one!
Hell, yes!
Hell, yes!
and Hell, yes!
I will keep a close eye on this, for BTTF II is one of my favorite films.
Are you sure, you wanna do the whole set??
It will be a pleasure to watch you go insane
I'll finish the rest of the building before I attempt the sculpture bit. It's probably one of the most organic shapes I'll have to model, at least for the architecture. I'm having a bit of trouble finding much good reference material for this building too. I have some, but not a lot (excluding the movie itself of course).
If you can think of a better way to go insane, I'd like to hear it.
Nono, just go on with this way, for you might remember Syboks words:
"Everyone hides a secret insanity - share your insanity and gain a great mesh from it"
I just had a thought. have there been large projects similer to this but with forum members able to contribute therefore spreading the fun and reducing the workload?
Im not suggesting it, just wondered if something like that existed on the interweb.
I've attached the latest anyway, just so people can see where I'm at.
There are good blueprints for the backlot that are easy to find on the internet, although they only cover the 1955 era buildings and additions, so in this case that only covers the lower level, although they're not 100% accurate. But they'll get you much closer than you could ever get from scratch.
For the top level of the building, I have a few screencaps, and a few good photos from backlot tours back when the 2015 set was still standing in the late '80s / early '90s. They're mostly from the front-ish angle though you see in the movie, plus one side photo.
I love the BTTF movies, like the others this is my favorite one.
If this turns out great, you know your going to have to do the other four version of the town square.
Though 85 version and alt 85 version would be the quickest to do. just change textures to make the street rundown and add the hotel to the town hall.
Yes a large project was attempted here a few years ago. We where planning to do a full 90min CGI animated movie.
It was a very large project the script was written and going though a few re-writes. Given how large the project was, it was then decide to do a few shorts as a test to lead into the main film.
New script where written and we started to build some simple meshes that would appear in the back ground like guns and stolls.
We where also working what the universe would look like and where also doing concept art for everything.
Unfortuanlty RW stuff came up and people started to leave the project.
I still got most of the stuff from it and from time to time do a little work, but I doubt it will ever be finished.
I've made a start on the Cafe '80s. I don't have good blueprints to use as a basis for this building like I do for most of the other buildings, but I think I've got it fairly accurate so far based on screenshots.
I've basically finished the front doors now. Now that I've got the hand rails on, I'm quite happy with the accuracy of it so far.
Not really, I just happened to be online at the time you posted.
Very happy with this building so far.
I sincerely hope they never do. The originals were simply perfect, and I don't need today's Hollywood desecrating the franchise.
First one is a gif that toggles between photo and render. Keep in mind that the first pic is the same building, but not from BTTF, and it's a variant on the 1955 style cafe, not the 2015 version, but it's still the same building on the backlot.
I think I might need to raise the window heights on the second level, but the lower level is pretty accurate at the moment.