Honestly, I’m not a fan of the three-shot version. It feels less cohesive to me. The first shot looks way too dark and doesn’t match the surrounding footage. The TIES in the second shot look like 2D elements tracked on and you can see matte lines around them. Overall, the two-shot version at least transitions from lava to forest whereas the three-shot sort of jumps all over the place. There’s no sense of geography.
Not denigrating the hard work everyone put in to both versions, but that version just doesn’t work for me.
Agreed. Plus, it would be a shame not to use this Biomes footage.