The Tardis Console of the 8th Doctor: Doctor Who goes steampunk

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Жыл бұрын

In this video, we will look at the control console of the 1996 'Doctor Who' television movie, in which we bid Sylvester McCoy's 7th Doctor goodbye and are introduced to Paul McGann's 8th Doctor (two awesome doctors in one story) - hence the thumbnail.
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@MattMcIrvin Жыл бұрын

The TV movie's TARDIS control room set was one of the best things about it. I would have very much liked to see more of that.

@WeTravelbyNight Жыл бұрын

It was pretty awesome, and I liked the lived-in feel it had. The rugs on the wooden floor were a nice touch. I might recreate the console room eventually, although as the console itself took 1 hour and 10 minutes to render for each ten to twelve seconds of footage you see here, it maybe some time.

@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын

@@WeTravelbyNight damn, how many ray tracing samples per pixel are you taking? I suppose with the lighting bloom it must be fairly high.

@Z1gguratVert1go 11 ай бұрын

Must agree. As an American Doctor Who fan I was always proud that the American attempt at making a TARDIS console room was so good. Best thing about the movie (well that and Paul McGann was great). Seeing its unmistakable influence on all subsequent console rooms always made me happy.

@Lumibear. Жыл бұрын

This was my favourite Tardis interior, next to Matt’s brass and copper beauty. I loved the sense of space and depth, and that it looked like The Doctor’s home, not just a device.

@WeTravelbyNight Жыл бұрын

My fondness for this console has grown over the years. There are well-lit set photos of the console room on the Tardis Builders forum website, in the reference forums.

@danivarius 11 ай бұрын

Naa I thought the first console room of Matt Smith was ridiculous, not to mention purely idiotic.

@JustAboutTime Жыл бұрын

Actually it was the Canadian’s that brought it back. The CBC helped pay for a lot of it and it was all shot in Vancouver BC (Where I live). Sure it was made for an American audience .. but the actual backing behind it was mostly Canadian.

@MatthewCaunsfield Жыл бұрын

Lovely closeup look. The design of the room and console really set the direction for modern DrWho, for good or bad

@STE6677 Жыл бұрын

Your model making never ceases to amaze me.

@WeTravelbyNight Жыл бұрын

Nor me. It's all the more remarkable being made on a cheap little laptop - a surprisingly capable one, although it draws the line when it comes to fog - otherwise, I would have given this console a more smoky atmosphere.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@WeTravelbyNight Fog is actually very easy to model, if you do it in a compositor rather than volumetrics, which is the expensive way. For example, in Blender, you ask the renderer to produce a z-depth map in addition to the image pixels, then you can use that to control mixing the image with the fog colour, so the deeper parts of the scene are more obscured by fog.

@eriksonoliveiraiii1605 Жыл бұрын

Wow, this video was amazing. Thanks for doing it, man.

@matthewmurdock7329 Жыл бұрын

Not bad for the only Tardis from the 90s

@darmtb 10 ай бұрын

One of my favourite console room. The display screen/ tv on the chain seems to been repeated on the 11th Doctor’s first console room too

@Charlie_Duz Жыл бұрын

It's a design triumph! Loving these console videos. Can't wait for the secondary console room. I haven't missed it, have I? Hang on, I'll go and check... Brilliant video! 🙂

@ryantwombly720 Жыл бұрын

🎉Thanks! Pretty sure I asked for this. The TVM console was sublime, a fitting compliment to McGann’s incarnation. Lovely model and excellent research. Keep up the fine work. 🎉

@definitely_notme4112 Жыл бұрын

Always loved this console

@WeTravelbyNight Жыл бұрын

I am happy you like it. It was hard-work to make.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

I never get tired of steampunk -- there’s something about that wonderful illogicality of mechanisms that couldn’t possibly work, yet look so beautiful. Among the roots of steampunk, here’s one name you might not have thought of: Rudyard Kipling. Specifically, his short story _With The Night Mail_ , which was first published in 1905, and was set in the then-future world of the year 2000. So yeah, he wasn’t faking the period feel, because he was actually living it.

@purefoldnz3070 11 ай бұрын

One of the main problems of The Doctor Who movie is that they tried to make it like Terminator 2. From the liquid "metal" Master to the bike chase.

@The-Cosmic-Hobo 7 ай бұрын

I grew up with the 5th Doctor, so the console from The Five Doctors onwards for me was THE console. BUT - if I was to have a TARDIS console hiding out in a corner of my house... I would 100% go for McGann's! It was beautiful... and I was so pleased when a few years ago it was shown, restored by its new owners, and featured at a convention. Very jealous of all who got to see it!

@nightowl8477 Жыл бұрын

Eight's TARDIS exterior in Night of the Doctor is actually War's, implying that it was actually he who (like 7) travelled in his future counterpart's TARDIS first. Though I like to think that initially his second TARDIS merged his and War's design, like the model you shown here. His console, War's walls.

@plantainsame2049 11 ай бұрын

Well, the novelization had the TV movie control room. Which I find better, aesthetically just imagining a young John hurt piloting that tardis and it all burning to the ground They probably Had to use the box they had

@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын

Guitar pickup switches, telephone/synthesiser patch bays, voltmeters, and parts from an adding machine? Someone involved definitely tinkered with electronics. Definitely a mid-late-90s design sensibility too, compared to the early-80s “everything is buttons” one preceding it, the pendulum had swung from minimalism to realism and complexity. As with synthesisers of the time, taking place of the highly-organised buttons comes controlled chaos, with each section following its own organisational rules and nothing lining up quite as you’d expect. My ADHD brain always loves how varied and tactile this kind of design is, which persisted into the late-00s (by which time minimalism was fashionable again, though 11th’s console didn’t follow that trend anywhere near as much).

@purefoldnz3070 11 ай бұрын

even the series when it came back used the same continuous central column in the middle of the console likely inspired from the tv movie.

@seantressel1754 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic... Absolutely Fantastic...

@malbourne805 6 ай бұрын

This would have fit in well with 2008's The Next Doctor - Jackson Lake if he really was the next doctor, as he originated from Victorian London.

@mahatmarandy5977 6 ай бұрын

I would love to see a render - or at least a floor plan - of the entire control room

@nathanahedgehog2871 Жыл бұрын

The fact you left the classic room in the thumbnail makes me think to the version seen in Human Nature. Same desktop with half the column and no struts but with the classic roundals bathed in more of a sunset light instead of white

@Gamingdude1618 Жыл бұрын

Awesome 🤩👍💙👏⭐️😎❤️❤️🟦💙💙😁😃😄😆😀🙂🔷💎😍👌💚

@derekhart3308 10 ай бұрын

Always thought a part of the 8th Doctors console was a modern of the 4th Doctor during time when Leela was with the Doctor in season 14, I think, or season 15.

@Concreteowl 6 ай бұрын

The column isn't the rotor. Often the rotor is in the column but not always.

@EngineeredNonsense 5 ай бұрын

6:16 I restored the console with its owner, and those aren’t guitar switches (not sure where you got the info, as the blog of my restoration is on there in entirety). They’re old-school ‘leaf switches’ that I used as the master control for all of the automation we added.

@EngineeredNonsense 5 ай бұрын

Apart from that little hiccup, the rest of the video is great! On Tardisbuilders there’s a PDF I made of straight-on photos of each panel that I labeled the lights on to help with the automation. Every black or brass panel with a dial or a post on it is a found item, mostly of Bakelite era variable resistor boxes. The only two panels that appear to be purpose built for the show are the switch banks on the ‘star panel’ (where Sylv breaks off one of the toggle paddles at the beginning), and the long vertical panel of larger leaf switches on the ‘crank panel’ with jewel lights to the left and right.

@adamali1976 Жыл бұрын

Hey, is there any chance we could explore the War Doctor’s TARDIS?

@jcarterla Жыл бұрын

I really like this design but it would be problematic for regular filming. The pillars are too close.

@WeTravelbyNight Жыл бұрын

Very true - they kept getting in the way of my virtual camera!

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

Set designers know exactly how to deal with that: just make the pillars removeable -- you didn’t think they were structural members, did you?

@TheMilkman-ur5ip 8 ай бұрын

Ever considered creating download links for your consoles and police boxes? They’re actually very well made.

@originaluddite Жыл бұрын

I never noticed till now, but it bothers me that the six pillars are positioned at the sides of the hexagon rather than at the corners.

@yazidelsoleno8126 Жыл бұрын

Could you make the 2010 Eleventh Doctor TARDIS next?

@PenneySounds Жыл бұрын

I don't know why you specify that the Times used month-day during the 1920s. It still does now. As far as I can tell, all English-language newspapers do.