Star Destroyers over Virginia Beach

just for fun. A simple animation and compositing job of some star destroyers over the Town Center area of Virginia Beach.

Star Destroyer model and Super Star Destroyer model modeled by Ansel Hsiao. Check out more of his wonderful work at his website fractalsponge.net

3d models provided by www.Scifi3d.com
Super Star Destroyer: Fractal_Sponge
Star Destroyer Imperator: Fractal_Sponge

Sound Effects provided by www.Theforce.Net
software:
Matchmoving: Syntheyes
Animation: 3ds Max 2011
Rendering: Mental Ray
Compositing: After Effects

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3d animation
• matchmoving
• star wars
• compositing
• 3d models
• matchmove
• mental ray
• 3ds max
• gcl2g5555

[TheRockandroy]

more! i wish you had a supercomputer to render a whole "amateur" scene.

[gcl2g5555]

@TheRockandroy Me too buddy! me too!

[runforthehills707]

That's more like it. Better use of scale than nearly all the others and so much more realistic. You just need to make much longer videos!

[gcl2g5555]

@runforthehills707 Thank you. Yes, I wish to do much more, if only time was on my side. I am also saving for a a good "prosumer" camera in order to shoot sequences for practicing vfx. This video was shot on my friend's (guy in video) camera.

[SephirothEGS]

What software did you use to make this? I would imagine something like 3D S Max or Maya for the modeling/animation, and then After Effects to place the ships in the city scene. After only ten seconds, I want more, but I realize that this must've taken forever to render. Great job!

[gcl2g5555]

@SephirothEGS You basically nailed it man. I used syntheyes for camera matchmoving, and 3ds Max 2010 for animation coupled with Mental Ray for rendering. Rendered images were then imported into after effects for compositing. Both models were created by the wonderfully talented artist Ansel Hsiao.

And yes, rendering time is always problematic. Render time for this shot took 20 minutes per frame.

[Ja2so4]

Now, all UFO "belivers" have their proof. It's real, I saw it too:D

nice work

[grysjay]

Titanic all over again!

[ma049]

Love it.

[109acepilot]

finish this scene please!

[rogerpenna]

@runforthehills707

most people dont realize, but a Star Destroyer is taller than the Empire State Building. And that is far from being is biggest dimension :)

[Freakyboy109]

its about to go down...