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• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 13 edited January 13 #62

  

  Reduced the cockpit light a little bit and added the falcon additional lights.
  
  
  

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• ashleytinger2018 Central OhioPosts: 1,246Member

  January 13 #63

  

  Nice touch!
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 13 edited January 13 #64

  

  I think it's done.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 16 edited January 16 #65

  

  Wasn't finished yet. Replaced the rear cockpit panel with a screen acurate version. Also made some small adjustments to the lighting.
  
  
  
  
  

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• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 16 #66

  

  My flight setup for future animations
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 18 #67

  

  My next favorite scene of TESB. 2 days work for 4 seconds.
  
  The Tie fighter canon lasers are animated by hand in MAX. That was no good idea. Maybe it's possible to create that in After Effects in a shorter time ?
  
  
  
  
  

  
• PreViz339 Posts: 14Member

  January 19 #68

  

  mylex wrote: »

  My next favorite scene of TESB. 2 days work for 4 seconds.
  
  The Tie fighter canon lasers are animated by hand in MAX. That was no good idea. Maybe it's possible to create that in After Effects in a shorter time ?

  
  In vanilla After Effects there is the BEAM plugin:
  
  
  A way more advanced FREE plugin available from Videocopilot:
  https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/03/new-plug-in-saber-now-available-100-free
  Trailer
  
  Tutorial
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 20 edited January 20 #69

  

  That's it...thank you so much...now it took only one day for the next scene. Animated it's looks good
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• PreViz339 Posts: 14Member

  January 22 #70

  

  mylex wrote: »

  That's it...thank you so much...now it took only one day for the next scene. Animated it's looks good

  
  You're very welcome
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 22 #71

  

  After learning how to use the VRAY Renderer I spent some extra time to this shot. Now the X-Wing smoothly fits into the scene.
  
  
  
  

  
• StarCruiser364 Posts: 45Member

  January 22 #72

  

  Although - it's a bit too small for the scene... X-Wing's a pretty large fighter and that guy in the background shouldn't come up even halfway as high as he does...

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 22 #73

  

  StarCruiser wrote: »

  Although - it's a bit too small for the scene... X-Wing's a pretty large fighter and that guy in the background shouldn't come up even halfway as high as he does...

  
  You're right...I didn't notice the wrong scale. Now it fits better
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  January 24 #74

  

  It's incredible what you can create so quickly with modern tools. The 3D scene contains only 2 light sources and was rendered with global illumination in VRAY. The desert floor and the mountains are real footage. The sky was created by the AI.
  A little color adjustment and that's it. The scene is finished so far, a few props are still missing to fill it up.
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 1 #75

  

  Spent some more time in this shot. Replaced the X-Wing nose.
  
  
  
  I came up with new camera settings for the Falcon chase. I like them better than the original shots
  
  
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 3 edited March 12 #76

  

  The last shots in action.
  
  

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• PreViz339 Posts: 14Member

  February 5 #77

  

  Suggestion: make the nose part darker, and try to match the R2 shot better.
  Looks a tad bright.
  Looks great other wise

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 5 edited February 5 #78

  

  The asteroid field
  
  
  

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• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 6 edited February 6 #79

  

  Spent some more time in lighting and animation....the final shot.
  
  
  

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• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 7 edited February 9 #80

  

  The next shots will be really difficult. Even with particle systems, creating the asteroid field is a real challenge. I actually didn't want to touch this sequence at all...but now that I've started....
  
  
  

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• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 9 #81

  

  The next shots are easier, because I can use the generated background footage. Flip a little horizontally and vertically and it looks completely different.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 12 #82

  

  Another iconic scene.
  
  When recreating it in 3ds Max, I noticed that ILM cheated quite a bit with the proportions. The size and distance between the Falcon and the asteroids don't match at all. A clear indication that the asteroid field and the Falcon were filmed separately.
  
  
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 19 #83

  

  Step by step through the asteroid field
  
  
  
  The cockpit scenes are all rotobrushed in After Effects.
  
  
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 23 #84

  

  Change the asteroid and the engine glow to get closer to the original shot
  
  
  
  The next shot
  
  
  
  For the rest of the sequence i will now create my own scenes.

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  February 29 #85

  

  The Tie Fighters don't stand a chance against Han and the falcon.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  March 1 #86

  

  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  March 8 #87

  

  The sequence comes to an end. Only two shots left.
  
  
  
  
  

  
• mylex1015 Posts: 346Member

  March 11 edited April 15 #88

  

  The asteroid field scene is finished.
  
  

  Post edited by mylex on April 15

  
• Lizzy7771265 PNWPosts: 758Member

  March 11 #89

  

  I know the "shoe in the asteroid field" thing is a myth, but it'd be hilarious if you had one in there. Still, you got pretty close to matching the original VFX.

  

  "Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the corgies of war!"
• StarCruiser364 Posts: 45Member

  March 11 #90

  

  Shoe - maybe - but the potato in the asteroid field was no myth...