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Andrew Orton

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Television historian, writer, artist, 33% of Mulgrave Audio, comic colourist. Author of books about Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Robin of Sherwood. Generally found recreating BBC studio sets in CG. Solvitur ambulando. Marra. Durham. ko-fi.com/andreworton

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · Nov 23

Well, #DoctorWho is 61 today. How better to celebrate? An Unearthly Child, in Lime Grove D, 1963! #CGSets

A CG recreation of the studio set for An Unearthly Child, showing the junkyard, school yard and TARDIS interior from the position of the gallery.

A CG recreation of the studio set for An Unearthly Child, showing the junkyard, school yard and TARDIS interior from the position of the upper floor of the junkyard.

A CG recreation of the TARDIS interior in studio for An Unearthly Child. The central control console is visible, as is a large hexagonal light fixure above.

A close-up CG recreation of the TARDIS console on set for An Unearthly Child, with the Doctor's die-cut Westminster clock on a pedestal int he foreground.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 9h

The Wicker Horse

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 10h

I've just watched the first episode, having never seen it before. I think I'll be watching the others.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 11h

I loved it - why didn't the live-action series examine its characters like this?

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

There was this...

A shot from the credits of The War Games in colour, with a credit for Andrew Orton.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

I am! It's really good so far, too. Love the 70s fantasy æsthetic. Are you a big fan? :)

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

I might have nudged Corbomite up a point in hindsight, but I'm comfortable with the others. I'm almost entirely blind to fan wisdom beyond the big hitters, and it's always possible that scores may change on a second viewing! Shore Leave though was dire: random fantasy images strung together.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

82) Yesteryear - I mean, that was better than anything in S3 of the series. Lovely: proper drama and characterisation, and a real plot, along with some gorgeous imagery of Vulcan.
9/10
#StarTrek

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 20h

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That Micthell and Webb Bawdy 1970's Hospital

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 20h

Lily / Shoshannah (i.e. Suzanne)?

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 20h

Oh yeah, fair point! That's probably why I thought of it...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 20h

Daisy / Marguerite?

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 21h

See, this is why I'm never going to climb Everest.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 22h

Just raw Blender - the trick is to keep everything organised in different collections so you can easily hide everything except, say, Deck 14. I worked out the liftshafts first because they cut through each deck and are essentially immovable. That gives a basis for deck layout.

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Cutaway Comics @cutawaycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Classic Who. New Perspectives. The next strand in The DNA of Doctor Who launches this Friday 10th October at 11am BST. Pre-sign up now! #DoctorWho #BookSky #Books

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Coming soon: THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who

Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

Aw :)

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The set is essentially four storeys high, and the first floor (second in US English) ceiling is the same height as the model ceiling, so everything above that doesn't fit.

A card production model of the Quark's bar set, showing the various storeys of the construction.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

I put a spiral staircase in because I reckoned you'd have to do soemthing if the lifts all knackered! I like to think it transforms into a slide in an emergency though :)

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The struts are indeed different, and also, the Promenade and Ops are both at completely different scales to the model - the Promenade is particularly egregious, and doesn't fit with the radius of the model's window section at all.

And the top floors in Quark's bar are in space...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

Thought I'd try to work out how the interior of #StarTrek Deep Space Nine works. Can't remember why. V rough work in progress. #DS9

A CG model of the Deep Space Nine spacestation, with a work-in-progress cutaway showing the interior deck layout.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

It would be really easy to do...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

81) Beyond the Farthest Star - Animation! Basic, but I like that it does big, exciting sets they couldn’t do in live action, and is trying something truly alien. Voice work is okay, if a bit booth-y. Some proper jeopardy on the ship, and this is a decent story. Lovely start. 7/10 #StarTrek

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

I do the same with English villages that sound like 1940s matinee idols. 'And now, The Dambombers, starring Shipton Bellinger, Hungerford Newton and introducing Manningford Abbots.'

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

10/10
29) City on Edge of Forever
43) Trouble with Tribbles

Any surprises in there?
#StarTrek

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

9/10
25) Space Seed
35) Amok Time
40) Mirror, Mirror
45) Journey to Babel
65) Tholian Web

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