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Luigi Vendittelli

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2725 total appearances

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The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

So I started building the craft, obviously.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

And in the software, we started building it in real size.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

We weren't building it in a 13-inch or 14-inch diameter.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

It was 52.9 feet in diameter.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

It was real size.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

And that was the beginning of a complete...

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

shift in my life where the way I was seeing it on screen, we started off in Blender with just a craft.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

Blender, an open source 3D program.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

Absolutely.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

And then we said, why don't we make the box look like the interior of the hangar?

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

you know, if there's going to be this flying saucer and we're going to put it in a collector box, make it look like the hangar.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

This is a great product idea.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

Right?

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

So I'm like, let's make that happen.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

And so we had to build a hangar.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

And that was the start.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

And then another part of my team started doing that in Unreal Engine,

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

four at the time oh four point seven yeah exactly and so that the the the blender file was the craft the unreal engine file was the hanger and then we started expanding on the hanger bob was like okay well i'll tell you how that is so it looks real and we started asking a billion questions and as we got further and further into this we would constantly

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

all of us in my team, we have questions for Bob.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

So we had a booklet and we would write, oh, it's a question for Bob, go write it.