I feel it felt more natural having the TIEs coming from space and flying towards the camera, no? i.e. coming in from high to low then cut to flyover.
Poppa! That’s NUTS! Incredible work, dude.
Yeah perhaps! I think the way the camera is moving dictated to me how the ties should fly, so that’s what I went with, but you’re right it’s three shots in a row like that!
I feel like some sequences in the prequels of ships flying had similar perspectives back to back (I guess they figured since the backgrounds change so much it won’t feel like a jump cut). Dooku’s meetup with Sidious at the end of AOTC comes to mind, not that the prequels should be any reference point for good composition and sequencing!
Unfortunately, creating a new flight path in C4D is kind of like starting from scratch (that alone took a couple hours). So at least for now, this is what we have to work with.
I made the Vimeo downloadable, and if you select “original” under download that will be the prores render straight from After Effects!
Thanks everyone!