When I was 8 I thought this sequence was fantastic. 50+ years later I can see as an adult how preposterous it all was. I still love it...

I remember I was 10 (1968) and I wrote a letter to Werner von Braun as to whether this design would actually fly. I actually received a letter back ("go ask your science teacher" )along with a lot of cool NASA literature and photos.

I’ve been a fan of Thunderbirds since Sept 1991 (the BBC 2 generation) and this was easily the greatest Thunderbirds animation I have ever seen. Congratulations on all your hard work, this was F.A.B!

Thats insane, absoloutly amazing. Looks like Thunderbirds in the G1 Transformers art style.

I’m 34 years old and this still blows my mind goes to show how clever these people were

THANK YOU - See there is a little memories in all of us remember Gerry Crew.... As I am 65

Gerry Anderson was a genius who, wrote, designed and produced tv shows using poppets and minitures years before CGI was even invented.

Genius - pure genius.... my favourite model sequence of all the Supermarionation shows.... Thank you! This when the future truly was fantastic!

How did I not know about this for a year? This is a brilliant tribute to a British classic. I have no idea how long it took to create this, but you certainly get a standing ovation from me.

A fantastic re-animation for a fantastic craft with a fantastic theme, everything about it is just fantastic.

*Whenever I watch an Anderson Supermarionation production, I still see it through the eyes of my childhood days.* 👍👍👏️

If I remember properly it took Derek Meddings and his team over 6 weeks to build the Zero X craft for the movie (and only 2 days to destroy it). I'll chalk that up to how impressive Zero X was and still is. Zero X and the Fireflash - the two most impressive non Thunderbird crafts designed, built and seen.

Watching this now, made understand why I loved this so much - all those moving, retracting and sliding parts really hit my imaginary as a child, at a time when you got a miniature car with opening doors was something amazing :-) Good job Morgan!

I've wanted something like this for more than half my lifetime. Thank you so much for this. I've actually wanted it so badly that I actually started working on remaking it about 1.5 years ago. However I've been starting from scratch on all levels so the progress is very slow. As someone who's spent weeks staring at images and diagrams of Zero-X I wanna say your colorations are spectacular, and the nosecone shape are dead on (it's given me some trouble) and the extra scene where the wheels retract is awesome (I was planning to add one as well) The interior shots of the crew and the external shots of the landscape are probably entirely beyond my ability. The sound mixing is also fantastic and the animation sections are extremely smooth. Three _extremely_ nitpicky details: - The rear landing wheels on the Main Body stays retracted after it gets lifted up by the jacks (very subtle, easy to miss) - The nose gear has different numbers of wheels on the first and second axels; 4 on the first and 6 on the second - The rear section of the lifting body has 5 more nozzles (it has actually been extremely hard for me to model it, so I understand not doing it)

The Golden age of Television! A tribute to the Imagination of what if😮

I was half-expecting Stirling Archer to make a cameo. That would make for a crazy cross-over production.

I started watching Thunderbirds when I was a kid back in the late 80's/early 90's and the Zero-X is still hands down my favourite craft of the series. I've always loved the design and just the idea of a spacecraft like that. I still watch the movie sometimes and just watch the Zero-X bits. Nice to see another rendition of this. Would like to have seen the mission be successful and see the Zero-X actually land.

I still watch these episodes 🙈

Zero-X was popular enough that it got it's own comic strip in Century 21. As indeed did Lady Penelope. It's a wonderful sequence, an absolute classic that combines the genius of Derek Medding's model work and the glorious triumphal sound of Barry Gray. "Zero X" is one of my all-time favourites of his, alongside "White As Snow" from Captain Scarlet.

That was beautifully done! Love the cel-shaded style!

This is simply awesome work. I saw 'Thunderbirds Are Go!' at the cinema in 1966 - I was three. I went with my mum and gran, and loved it, although the 'Rock Snakes' scared the bejeezus out of me. I still have the TV21 book of the movie that gran bought me at the time. Your animation brought me out in goosebumps. It's that beautiful. Thank you for this. Oh, and Barry Gray's 'Zero-X Theme' is still magnificent.

I remember the Zero X model some 49 years ago! When the Co-op was in Fairfax Street in Bristol. This is a great reminder of that to me!

I love that animation. A fitting tribute. Though the Zero X wouldn't be feasible IRL, as a sci-fi vehicle, the cool factor is off the charts. Watching this and hearing the music gives me chills to this day.

Really well done. I have never used the Toon shader in Blender, so it was interesting to see it in action, quite literally 😃. Brought back some good memories of seeing this in the cinema when the movie first came out in '66 and in glorious colour.

Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Space X has been one of my all time favourite Gerry Anderson vehicles. Bravo!

It's always funny to me how "future tech" in the 70s, 80s and even 90s involved combining several planes, vehicles, robots with parts retracting into spaces they would never have fit :) all the while ignoring the simple fact that even in the future you don't want unneeded extra points of failure in a craft of any kind. Still "rule of cool" rules :)) and for a young lad it was awesome to see.

Love it, especially the landing gear retracting, brilliant.

That was really moving and well made,superb many thanks .

I've enjoyed this show and others like it as I was growing up 😃

When I was a kid this was the coolest thing ever, but just imagine having a hanger move away from the air/spacecraft that has wheels and it ends up moving anyway...LOL the utter pointlessness of the whole thing now is just absurd, but it was for kids, and I ate it all up!

Having seen all of this the first time round your work is a fine tribute to Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and the majestic Zero X theme by Barry Gray, wonderful stuff.

Superb video. Zero-X and Fireflash are my two favourites, with a Sidewinder lumbering ungainly in a close third. I wish there had been a little more Zero-X in Scarlet and Black's Mars mission, though.

I had a Zero X as a kid... Wish I still had it now, 50-odd years on.

*Very well done indeed! Thanks for sharing with all of Anderson Addicts!* 👍👍&💯👏️

That God Bless them my friends. That Names and that Iconic Titles/Classics. Is Impossible Not Recognize this Names and his Works. That R.I.P. Thanks.

I'm sure someone could model just the main body of the Zero X. But modeling the entire airfield and launch sequence in an animated style is amazing!! I was also impressed by the CGI recreation of the takeoff scene with the rotating belt. Zero X号の機体だけなら、モデリングする人はいそうだけど、 飛行場と発進シークエンスのシーン全体をアニメ調でモデリングしているのは凄い！！ 回転ベルトを使った離陸シーンも、CGIで再現されていて感動しました。

The full film appears on the UK channel Film4 when the school holidays are on, still takes me back to my childhood, I'm 60 now.

Like a lot of comments below! I went to the cinema to see it and it was then magical to a young lad! I loved every bit of that wonderful film and to think we are now close to that era ourselves! To say thank you to all involved doesn't do them justice as they all made it seem feasible to us young kids back then and I suspect a few adults too 😉 Sadly, like I suspect some others have also like me have lost there parents, but! I have magical memories of that time back in England watching Thunderbirds on TV in black and white and then! Getting Century 21 magazine each breakfast and reading it before going to school! I know Gerry and Derek cannot hear us all say thank you, but it is all we can do, is say thank you for the magical childhood you gave us all! R.I.P 😢

La he vuelto a ver. Es magistral y hermoso tributo. Y pensar que los Anderson con su equipo hacían todo en maquetas. Una maravilla. 👍👍🇨🇱

Beautiful tribute. The movie was wrongfully panned. It wasn't perfect, but it had all the action that GA was known for. My favourite bit from the movie ( apart from the gargantuan explosions at the end ) is when the sky turns to a star field [ 9:20 ] as seen from inside the cockpit and you've captured the essence beautifully.

Wow, it's the pinnacle of aeronautical engineering.

Wow! All I can say is... absolutely fab!

Preposterous the Zero-X launch may be, but looking back on it now it perfectly captures (for me) both the otherworldly wonder of an Apollo launch and the somewhat more mundane excitement of my first trip on a 747. And the carefully rotoscoped animation also brings back fond memories of Jonny Quest in his prime!

I'm old enough to have seen the original film when it came out. Still enjoy it. I may have got older but I never really grew up.

Outstanding stuff ! superbly choreographed with the the original with nicley thought out rediting ! well done a great sequence.👌👌👍👀

I've never seen this movie, but gosh I want to.

Very well done.Oh the memories!!👍👍👍👍

Takes the absolute biscuit for the most elaborate launch sequence EVER! (And this is Gerry Anderson we’re talking about here..) Absolutely BRILLIANT! Musk EAT YOUR LIVER!

They must have loved that model. Everyone goes on about the Enterprise fly round in ST TMP but when I saw this in the cinema as a kid it seemed to go on forever.

This should be made into a series for tv, brilliant.

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.!!! Please do more of these. The whole movie perhaps???

As ludicrous as that design is, it is still totally in keeping with the future that the Anderson's showed us back in the 50s through the early 1970s.

this takes me back, still love the shows. great work on th eanimation

landing gear retract not shown in the actual movie this animation makes up for that

Cell shading works really well for these…

This is a truly wonderful piece of work and looks to have been a real labour of love. My only feeling as to how it could be even better is that the shadow of Zero X that is visible at the point of take-off could have been shown throughout as there is clearly strong sunshine present. But this is only a minor point and doesn't diminish my admiration for your work.

When it zoomed out I just saw the logo fly forwards and under it would be ‘Copyright MCMLXVII Century 21 Films’ It was just too perfect

A very nice piece of work

Excellent recreation of the film and they managed to edit out all the puppet scenes while keeping the music going,

I can't unsee the name of the photocopier brand name and it makes me wanna pronounce "Zero-X" differently, lol!

I loved Zero-X because it was so easy to build as a wooden model.

I wouldn't call it an animation, more of a remaster

This is amazing, stick at it.

This was so amazing! Thank you for taking the time to do this :)

I nver saw anything this beautiful in my life :,)

Nicely done.

My favorie Thunderbird aicraft/rocket. Well done.

That's so cool!! Thank you :-)

This is great stuff!

man, i remember seeing this episode as a kid, but sadly i don't remember all the details...

The depth of field is great.

Fabulous work dated makes it better

What a marvellous job-you must have spent ages on this.

This is an Earth timeline where Man continued to explore Space after the moon landings.😎👌 Amazing animation.

Genial. Qué recuerdo!! 👍👍🇨🇱

Beautiful!!!!!

even though my inner engineering side is saying everything is wrong... well... this shit gud

This is quite good I do like the animation style

Awesome! Simply Awesome!

I love Thunderbirds . I love Battle of the planets . This was Great! 💥👍

I think this proved my inner child is long dead, this craft's design and take off procedure is beyond absurd. Nice job on the animation though, the edge marking created some odd surfaces such as the land gear hatches looking like a "L" shaped panel rather than a hinged hatch. The rotation of the 1st lift module also looked weird in relation to the overhead rail and module, plus the far rail support having nothing to spread the weight of the span.

As much as I loved Thunderbirds and these models and all, I always wondered why this scene was sooo drawn out?

Luv it. Great memories :)

technical questions, if you watched the original... 1. What was the purpose of the upper and lower boosters? They just fired up for a moment, before the rocket began to move... then all that (no dead)weight was lofted??? 2. What was the nose cone for?

This fantastic!

just amazing

I'm sure at the time, this looked kind of ridiculous with all the bits and pieces being added on to form a rocketship. But today, looking at all the additional fuel tanks and rockets added on to space shuttles to get into space, it now looks kind of prescient.

Wonderful, what software did you use?

I watched the Thunderbirds edition of this in the 60s there was a comic which featured zero x it's a pity they did not produce a series of this

Pretty Great.

You can see where the Austin Powers "defrosting" scene got its inspiration....

I have wondered how the crew of Zero X can see where they are going with the nose cone on. Great video.

The music was always just right

This is very good. Pretty much as I remember it from childhood - how did you do the animation? Is it Blender?

beautiful work! thanks......can you do the Dragonfly from JQ?

Great work Mate! NZ approves(yes, I did ask Everyone down here!)

Very well done sir

WOW.

I'd LOVE to see the various Thunderbird Launch Sequences rendered in this style, and even the Female Moonbase Officers from UFO, just because it would make them look even HOTTER!

Very good!