poppasketti said:
I played with the shuttle scene a little more tonight. The particles were a little too similar, so I added a few of the flickery sharp particles that better match the ship explosion (still very subtle). Also tweaked the color slightly, and added a tiny bit of vibration to the beginning of the first shuttle shot.
Shuttle Deleted Scene
https://vimeo.com/394579555
pw: fanedit
I love the vibration, anything to lower the locked down/static zoom of the original is great! Have you tried adding more/pushing it further?
I’m not suggesting it needs it, it already looks great, but I’d be interested to see a more ‘turbulent’ version just to have the comparison?
With regard to the particles, I’ve got AWFUL lighting ATM, the sun is glaring right onto my monitor so I just can’t see the finer details to make any sort of observation and hence offer any insight one way or another.
Since you are still playing with the shot, I did have a thought the other day, which I elected to not share because I don’t want to keep coming at you with suggestions…BUT since you are still tinkering:-
What about adding one or two faint flame elements into the reflection? As if the shuttle is just passing the last pieces of flaming debris when the shot picks up?
My thoughts were that you’d just see the faint reflection of a flame or two passing out of the shot and that would coincide with Finn seemingly throttling back on the controls? these subtle visual cues and elements would combine to indicate them now being clear of the destruction and hence Finn ‘backs it off’?
I thought it might add just a bit of extra 'seasoning’to it all?
Definitely keep it subtle, but I think having the colour of a few faint fire elements passing in the reflection would just add to the overall dynamics of the shot and further reduce it from looking so static?
Don’t get me wrong, after everything you have already done here, the shot doesn’t NEED it, especially as the shot before does show the shuttle getting clear and so ultimately, the effort to implement this might not even be worth it, but it was just an idea on what else could be added?