He was the one primarily using all of this and it had to be comfortable for him, said Deidre Thieman, manager of production archives at NBC Universal. “He’s wearing it through the whole film through all different climates. He’s got cold weather and he’s got really hot weather so it had to be comfortable for him,” she explained. I use to work for Halfords and one of the services they offered was an Aircon regas / top up, so I have successfully done a few in my time. Roll forward to my Jimny ownership (no longer at Halfords) and I decided the Aircon could do with a top up, so connected my STP kit and proceeded to top up.

I am by no means an Aircon expert, but my Jimny is not following the simple Halfords or STP top up instructions. For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel songs around the piano with friends and family. If you look at the compressor the inner part of the pulley should not be turning with the Aircon off if all is working. The 804 VFX shots for the movie were almost evenly split between the two FX companies. Filmed on location in Iceland, Hawaii and Louisiana, 85% of Oblivion was shot live and 15% being all-CG shots. Going on location scouting for the movie was very helpful to Mayer and Barba because they could take pictures and draw concepts, which makes a huge difference later on, said Mayer. “You need to be there,” added Barba. Costume designer Marlene Stewart used light colors for Harper and darker tones for the Scavs and then added complexity. Kosinski wanted Harper to be in white, the traditional hero color. Stewart ended up creating a grey version to make it look more lived in. The costume also had to be practical given the time Cruise would spend in it.The thing to note is that for me (or at least on my Jimny), the Aircon top up did not appear to follow the rules and I had possibly over gassed it in an attempt to get the correct readings. Is it possible they have done the same? Darker colors and a complex helmet comprised of four separate sections were utilized for the Scavs. It took 30 minutes for the actors to put on the Scavs’ costumes. “They’re quite a gear to put on,” said Thieman. DESIGNING THE BUBBLE SHIP Digital Domain was responsible for Tom Cruise fighting himself. Working with Kosinski, director of photography Claudio Miranda, the stunt team and Cruise, Barba and his team helped choreograph the shots when the actor is fighting a clone of himself. When some of the shots didn’t match, Digital Domain replaced Cruise’s face with a fully CG version by capturing a 3D scan of the actor’s head on a light stage. Growing up a fan of the classic television series Twilight Zone and films such as Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), Kosinski earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and then graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from Columbia University. He lent his visual style to several commercials while working on the story of Oblivion.

Oblivion features many visual highlights, including shots of the torch of the Statue of Liberty and the top of the Empire State building in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Perhaps the biggest challenge was the seemingly floating station where Harper and his friend Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) reside high up in the clouds above the Earth’s surface.

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Yes You can drive without damage so long as your air con compressor clutch is disengaged and you are not turning it. It should be if the Aircon is off, but they can rust on / off. Perfectly timed for holiday shopping and Elvis’birthday in January, these officially licensed products from Running Press make the perfect gifts for Elvis fansold and new! Visual effects supervisors Bjorn Mayer and Eric Barba worked with their respected teams to bring Kosinski’s vision to the screen. Mayer’s team at Pixomondo worked on the cloud work since many sequences had the main character flying around the planet. Mayer said their biggest challenge was generating ice on the bubble ship. Barba’s team at Digital Domain found the end sequence inside the massive space station the most difficult test. “It was a challenge to make it work on screen,” said Barba.

It was impossible to get the correct low pressure reading, so I kept adding refrigerant in an attempt to get the dial in the correct zone. Got it in the correct area but noticed the load was so great on my compressor that the electric clutch was starting to slip, the compressor was almost stalling. I know this is not good so I removed some refrigerant, now possibly too much, and got the compressor happy again.It was during a trip in the Middle East that Kosinski was inspired to create the story of a man in search of his identity. “I’ve been to Petra and Jordan a few years earlier and it was a really inspiring kind of trip to go on and I thought if you could see our world in the same state that Petra exist today, what would that be like?” he recalled.