Opening credits from Escape from New York (1981)



    by StephenMcGannon

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    1. thisisredlitre on

      The imitation 3d computer generated landscape they made from sets lives rent free in my head

    2. Yo, you can’t leave me hanging without Carpenter’s theme song accompaniment.

      Also I fully appreciated the practical effect of “viewscoping digital-gridwork NYC below the glider” by building a model with fluorescent grids and shooting bird’s-eye with a blacklight. Saved themselves 80 gajillion 1981 dollars on a Cray Supercomputer to render that shit.

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