Ziz said:
It looks like the asteroid belt is tilting more - er, the Falcon is tilting more - you know what I mean.

yeh. In the original shot, to me, it looked like the Falcon just bobbed up and down in the cockpit window shot so i wanted to make it look like it was actually flying into the asteroid field and that it was dodging the asteroids.

mrbenja0618 said:
That is freakishly awesome, Ady. What did you do to the asteroids to make them look so good?

the whole background asteroid field i had to rebuild from scratch. The original was just a doubled matte and looked blurred. then there is about 30+ different layers of asteroids added on top to fill the background and give it more depth. The on top of that there are all the single larger asteroids added. The each layer has to have a separate motion path given to match the main motion of the shot. all in all the cockpit shot alone had almost 100 different layers to create it. Even my quad core struggled to render all that so i am so glad i dropped the 1080p idea because i now know it would have been impossible.

The whole asteroid sequence is having a makeover so be prepared. lol