adywan said:
Nerfherder said:
When the walker first collapses and the head hits the snow hard (perhaps an extra sound effect to reinforce the damage thats been done?) can you not instead show some energy 'sparks' around the entire head area (similar to force lightning) and this energy rapidly spreads to the main body which goes up with the aid of the snowspeeders firing upon it?
You're sort of close to what i have done to that shot , but i won't be saying what i have done until the film is released
Sounds good. I'm glad the exploding 'AT-AT' shot is being kept, despite what is mentioned about their armour being too strong for blasters. It's a terrific visual.
Thought I'd chip in with how I usually choose to 'imagine' the flow of those particular shots whenever I watch the movie:
Even though the AT-AT has been felled, the approaching Snowspeeders just take a quick potshot at it anyway...and merely happen to have a lucky strike! They just happened to hit a 'weakspot', it's neck area, without necessarily knowing that it was a 'weakspot'... It wasn't necessarily a deliberate action that they knew would do so much damage...
Also, when that particular approaching AT-AT was initially 'felled'...the group of Rebels which were in it's path, now possibly see a quick chance to either reach a working 'gun emplacement in front of them, but which is 'offscreen' to us, to mount an attack on the other AT-ATs...or run forwards to rescue a casualty or two, also 'offscreen' to us...
I also choose to imagine that the Snowspeeders that rapidly pass by those 'running Rebels' probably end up a good distance ahead of them by the time we cut to the next shot of the AT-AT being blown up...so that the explosion doesn't actually affect those groundtroops. And even if anyone feels that the footage does make it look like that AT-AT would have exploded too closely to them...then I guess the Snowspeeder pilots can possibly just be too caught up in the 'fog of war' at that point, and don't realise that those groundtroops are potentially going to be injured in any subsequent explosion they cause...
Something I am looking forward to seeing in those 'felled' AT-AT shots though, will be a hint of the 'entangling towcable' around the legs, if adywan can add that.