vaderios said:
ImperialFighter said:

However, I'm so conflicted..... The city itself looks terrific, and definately an improvement compared to the SE (and GOUT) versions. But while the clouds look great too (and I'm sure will have a nice 'motion' to them), I really liked seeing the long 'stem' in this shot previously (which was a really great design element of the floating city), which has now been obscured by some of the new cloud pattern. I also liked the overall composition of the previous original shots because of the 'foreground' cloud bank on the left of the frame, which gave some real depth to the scene.

Yeah. A slight movement/variation (turbulance noise or whatever) will give more life/.

-Angel

oh there's a lot of movement in that shot. i have used video footage of flying through clouds. No more artificial 2d movement like in the SE

the only thing is that this new shot is in danger of being omitted from the finished movie. I hated the gas refinery they added for the SE and always preferred the cloud car fly-by. now the problem i'm having is that i am having to use the cloud car from the GOUT and, as we all know, the quality of that sucks ass big time. even with loads of filters applied it looks crap. i can't reproduce this with a model so i desperately need someone who can recreate the pod car using CG. i did start a thread to try and ask someone from the SCI-FI3D site but the forums have moved over to TFN and my thread was deleted almost as soon as it was posted. I guess they don't like me messing with Lucas' work over there.