I'll add my appreciation here of your ongoing progress. The inner nerd in all of us appreciates the 'how it was done' behind the scene videos. Oh, and the voiceover - that must be HAL's distant Scottish cousin, ha ha. Well done, you lifted another pandemic lockdown day at home. Take care and good luck going forward !!......

Nice, really glad you’re doing this. Hal project has been my screen saver for as long as I can remember.

This is exceptionally beautiful and impassioned work. I'm in awe of your attention to detail and the respectful care that you've put into these reproductions from the masterwork that is "2001: A Space Odyssey". It's easily on par with the same meticulous craftsmanship that Kubrick, Trumbull, et al put into the original. Also, it resonates with me on an artistic level. For example, the efforts that I put into my cover versions of music are for the same reason - sincere and total admiration for the original. I'm now going to binge on the rest of your videos. This is fantastic stuff.

On my channel, I have a rough animation that was inspired by the AE-35 inspection animation. I've been meaning to go back and do it proper, and make a few tweaks, but you can already see how much influence this one animation has had on me haha. I LOVE that you've redone it in such awesome detail!

Amazing work. Labor of love and wholly appreciated by us all.

Thank you for this entire project. I was fortunate enough to enjoy "2001: A Space Odyssey" in its original 1968 Cinerama release. The closest thing to that today would be an IMAX theater. In a Cinerama theater you sit between three screens so it seems like you are right there with the actors and the action, similar to sitting in an IMAX dome, though easier on the neck, as you aren't looking up.

Your work, your screen saver, puts me in the same "mood" as the movie itself- a soothing mood. I cannot wait to download your new 4K version to all my computers. Several times, people have asked me how to get the old flash version I've had on my computer for years. I can't wait for them to have this too!

anyone else think Hal was punking frank because he only thought of him as a machine and treated him such? After a happy birthday greeting, he passes it off with a flat thanks and goes right back to ordering him around.

Impressive work! Seeing how hard It is to replicate these graphics with our current technology just increases my admiration for Doug Trumbull, who did all of them by hand 50 years ago.

You blew my mind with HAL's incorrect chess moves. :0

The new version of the AE-35 module animation is great. I admire your precision. I am asking for some kind of arrangement for several monitors.

That wire frame Discovery was beautiful!

ohhh man..... your work is absolutly AWESOME!!!! Thanks for showing it to us and share!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!

Beautiful work! The circuit board diagrams are an excellent catch, massive props for seeing that. I've got a whole bunch of critique on the BBC intro though... The BBC title screen graphic doesn't look quite accurate to me, it's somewhat difficult to fit into the 16x9 aspect ratio as you've done however I suggest keeping the graphic at its original aspect ratio and adding onto the sides instead of squishing the elements. I've perspective corrected the tablet from the original movie while keeping the vertical height as accurate as possible (still eyeballing it in all fairness) and applied it as a difference overlay to your isometric cube background, note the blue lines extending past the second row of rectangles-I believe the height of the perspective corrected rectangle to be accurate and that the ones in your version should be taller. If you REALLY want to go for accuracy find the size of the 2001 tablet, calculate the aspect ratio, ensure your perspective warped version shares the same ratio, match your graphics to it, and extend the sides to match 16x9! I've done this for your reference to showcase the height discrepancy: imgur.com/a/dsEnDKi This will shrink the overall size of the graphic a bit and you can probably still crop a bunch off the bottom of the shot so that it's not ridiculously small while maintaining as much accuracy as possible without actually using the vertical aspect ratio. I think it should look quite nice! The BBC typeface also does not look correct to me, according to Typeset in the future is set in Univers but the counters of the B in the font you've chosen look quite different from how it is displayed in the original film though again, it's hard to say given the quality. The "12" doesn't look like the right font either but I'm almost certain it ISN'T set in Univers in 2001. My final point is on the colour, I believe the tablet was done with rear projection through the table and as such its blacks are limited by both the environment light and the contrast ratio the projector is capable of. You seem to have colour matched to the film and its lighting conditions (except for the white text which you seem to have corrected for properly!) while in reality the actual colour of the graphics if they were displayed on a modern screen would be much different! I've also provided a colour corrected image (second image in the imgur link above) beside the original pulled from the film, both have obviously been perspective corrected. I think the reds and text have been corrected for properly, you may consider lightening and de-saturating the pink bits more than I have. That's all! I love your work and as a huge fan of the retro-futuristic aesthetic of 2001 I can say with a large degree of certainty that you've done a faithful job capturing the aesthetic. Hopefully this has been helpful!

Love your work Joe!

Well done Joe. Your determination and obsession with this film is nothing short of amazing. If you need help with Photoshop or Illustrator vectors I'm here to help. I've managed to make a couple of monoliths too out of solid perspex in the correct ratio 1:4:9.

Impressive work - beautiful and deeply thoughtful.

Thanks to post this art.

I am so happy that you're still doing this! I always loved the work you did on the screensaver and how accurate it was to the original animations; thank you so much for all your hard work!

you have improved the best of the best.......good show

Fan-Freaking-Tastic!! Great Job! 😃Thank you for this!

Always love seeing another update on this! Well done, and can't wait to load this across my monitors!

Greatly looking forward to the new version!. The Advanced version has been my screen saver for as long back as I can recall.

I'm so glad you're still working on this! Please enable some form of compensation: at the very least some of us who bought the old screensaver did so because effort like this should be congratulated and rewarded with more than words. also can we enable/disable certain animations? I've always wanted to disable the 'computer malfunction' animation and the one with the monitor of biological functions.

This is extremely wonderful. Now that's I screensaver I would buy.

So happy to see this being worked again. That's amazing work. Thank you!

Absolutely can't wait for this I wonder if the installer will have a 'legacy animations only' option as a throwback to the original project

Cannot wait for this to be released. The HAL 9000 screensaver has been my favourite one for years (sadly unable to use it for a while due to the discontinuation of Flash, as everyone knows). Hopefully some good news soon!

Hello. I have just stumbled across your channel (now subscribed) and I am in total admiration of your dedication and effort. The attention to detail is outstanding and I look forward to discovering more of your work on this journey. Thank you!!

I ran SETI@Home for my screensaver for twenty whatever years. That ended recently and this was the only screensaver I wanted, then flash died and with it this screensaver. So ready for the new version ASAP.

That's absolutelly impressive, so much love poured for the sake of the movie and it's world. So much detail and technical stunning skills. Many thanks for all that, and for keeping 2001 spirit alive.

A labour of love

Just came across this. This is fascinating! And beautiful work!

Thanks for the upload

This looks amazing! I can’t wait.

Great work!

Labour of love.

I can’t begin to imagine the amount of effort going into this passion project. But we all appreciate it and look forward to next stages and final result 🙂

Excellent!

Love it ! Had to watch the movie yesterday ...

gorgeous!

Thanks for this. The animation of Frank Poole tumbling in space at 4:23 shows his air hose connected to helmet and backpack. Is this another test of detail, or is something else not quite right?

To paraphrase David Bowman "My God, this project is superb"

It is a Titan's work (translated french expression) which means a colossal task

THIS IS AWESOME

The circuit board designs are intriguing. I believe they may be based upon real circuit boards of the time. If they ARE based on 1960's electronics I wonder what they were used for?

what a screensaver Hal 9000 would be for a future i phone if only on their Siri AI was intelligently and creative enough to be more responsive to voice commands and ?,s and apple today calls it a $martphone but they made a dumb error of firing the lead tech,s of the early original developers of google which could have enhanced it ever further today. excellent video animations of The HAL project.

Amazing update! And, this time around I'm over the moon: I have always adored the circuit board diagrams in this sequence at 07:42 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7tkhLWXyZzMZIk.html -- But figured I'd never seem them rendered out. The curvilinear, organic shapes are different from modern circuits (and 1960s circuits I've seen) in a way this is unique, timeless, and quintessentially 2001. I'm so excited to see these animations featured in the new designs! Great sleuth-work on combining the board variations as well!

Excellent work! Did you purposefully avoid the typo in the World Tonight sequence? "THe World Tonight" was in there one time in a sea of "The World Tonight"

And you need a tip jar or donation fund or something. A minimum payment would be appropriate too!

Just Awesome. Can't wait to get this screensaver back up and running. I haven't seen it expressly mentioned but I hope this will be macOS compatible?

YAY!!!

Have you done a digital walkthrough of the command module (perhaps with invisible walls) ?

This is so amazing, I can't wait... Btw, how do I install it when it comes out? Never used screensavers on windows before. Will there be a tutorial?

very good

Would the screensaver be a video file or will it use OpenGL? Anyways the screensaver right now looks fantastic! Im looking forward to it.

I do have a suggestion and wonder if it's possible to implement: will the screensaver have a 'classic mode', where we can see screens, animations, etc, that we had from previous versions, just upscaled in 4k? I'm really dying to see when this finally comes out every since I noticed that Flash no longer works, the previous versions no longer work. I've had to resort to running a version of the classic After Dark 'Flying Toasters as my screen saver. Granted, it's not in the same league as what you're building, but it's all I got. =/

Now that Flash Player is gone, how do we install the HAL-9000 screen saver on new PCs? Is there an updated version of HAL-9000 that doesn't need flash?

Like Hal - 9OOO

Not to demand something else immediately after the release of this fantastic update, but will there be an inclusion of the health monitors flatlining as the hibernating astronauts are being murdered by HAL?

You mentioned all will be available directly in KZfaq. But then, how will we use it as a screensaver ? 🤔

What technique did you use for recreating the 4 circuit boards? Are they all just manually placed lines with a stroke added to them? I'd be so curious to see the vector file for one of those. (I tried creating a circuit board pattern for myself a while back and gave up.)

I've already made one big long comment so I'll split this out into a separate one, the graphics are lovely but they are missing the element of imperfection and glowy aesthetic that came about as a result of the limitations of the time. This one is more subjective critique but I like those things! I like the clean version too though. I've played around with graphics in order to replicate a similar effect, it may not be what you're going for but you'll probably find my process for this previous project interesting nonetheless wilkinson.graphics/projects/2001/

Hi! Amazing work. I am the creative director of an aerospace company in Los Angeles and we have a conference room called "the Kubrick" I am making looping video signs for the conference rooms and would love to use the home screen animation of your hal9000 project with the 8 square screens. Would you consider selling/sharing the animations with us?

I presume you got copyright clearance from the HAL Lab in Urbana, Ill. before making this.

I am glad to say that I am the 500th like of this video. @}--