darth_ender said:
When seeing the Star Destroyers from a distance (i.e. "It's a trap" or "I wonder what those Star Destroyers are waiting for."), it would be good to see a few smaller ships dotting the fleet. This of course would require only a still shot from the front and digitally inserted in a few places.
Let me tell you that I am grateful we have you on our team. You have a super star destroyer?! That's awesome too. We've been discussing enhancing the Executor's death so it is more dramatic, a la...
Would you be willing to upload some pics of your models for us? It might give us an idea of how close we can get in our special effects. Thanks for your contributions thus far, and if you don't mind, I'd like to add you to our list of involved team members in the first post.
I'll try to sort out the models I have over the next few days and give a definitive list. I've also been looking over the Victory class ship and have a few ideas about that so I will try to mock something up over the next week and depending on how that goes I'll be able to give you a more definite answer regarding a time frame.
Most of the changes you have suggested here would be fairly static shots so I think I can probably help there and if some of the motion shots involve fairly straight movement at a reasonable speed this might also be able to be done with moving photos rather than motion footage. At the very least it will be fun to give it a try.
If we have a good image for the surface of the death star I think I can use my super star destroyer model to create the shot of it falling toward the death star, and I've had an idea for creating a half exploded version so maybe we could show the Executor breaking up a little more slowly as it hits the surface? I'll see how I get on. Oh and I would be honoured to be listed as part of the team.
darth_ender said:
This is an interesting combo of Ronster's and timdiggerm's ideas. Of all the ideas we've given serious thought to, I imagine this would be the hardest sort to pull off. It's interesting and both ideas were very close in the votes and should be discussed further. I still worry most about how hard some of these things would be to pull off, but if it simply involves editing existing footage from other films to the point where it's not too obvious, I'd have to defer to the special effects team on how doable it is. It looks interesting, as did both Ronster's and timdiggerm's ideas.
Well if people don't mind me building on their ideas a little more, and taking a bit of a liberty with the Bothans (basically using the name and ignoring everything the EU added to it), I would like to try to improve this mock up a little. I'll post another video at some point when I have added something worth showing.
As for the assignment, I'll try to have some progress photos for new models up by the 15th, but exactly how much progress will depend on how much free time I have outside of work.