Thanks Ronster! Yeah it took quite a while to make this, just this handful of shots took me about 3 months to create. I basically went through frame by frame on each shot twice. Once to mask out the speeders, then another time to match and animate my speeder. In total it’s almost 1500 frames, so 3000 going through twice.
I definitely could try to replace the miniature speeders in the cockpit shots, but again, I kinda felt like it was an awkward composition where the inside of the speeder is real, but from the outside it’s Lego. Maybe I’ll try it on an couple of easier shots to see how it looks and decide from there. That would probably take just as much time as the stuff I’ve done already, and currently I don’t have much free time at all, so it might be a while when I get around to it.
Could you also give us an exterior shot of them flying out the base on the matte painting? If you feel like it?
I’m not sure which shot you’re referring to there. I think the first shot in my edit is this one- where they fly past the turret? Not sure though.