Last year, a Doctor Who devotee inspired the show’s new opening titles with a video uploaded to YouTube. Could another fan be in for a phone call from Steven Moffat?


A VFX artist calling himself ‘John Smith’ has created an incredible take on the Tardis’ dematerialisation effect, which breaks from the tradition of it gradually fading away and instead captures – as he puts it on the video’s YouTube page – “what travelling through time and space might look like from the point of view of the Tardis, from take-off to landing, all in one shot.”

As you can see below, that resulting shot is seriously impressive, with time and space seemingly warping itself around the box – a far more dramatic effect than its usual vanishing act.

Cool, right? ‘John Smith’, however, has form. In 2013, he was responsible for the internet setting itself on fire when he made Tumblr’s dreams come true with Wholock: in which Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock and Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor appeared to meet in a video seamlessly cut together from the shows.

Then, just last year, he fooled many fans into thinking that the video below was the first trailer for Peter Capaldi’s series eight.


Come on, BBC. Give the guy a call.