Star Wars Motion Control

Remake of the famous opening scene with Lego models plus making-of.
Home-made motion control system like they did the famous Star Wars VFX in the old days.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Motion Control
• Star Wars
• Lego
• Brickfilm
• Stardestroyer
• model
• Episode IV
• New Hope
• opening scene

[roystonlodge]

The best results come from motion-control and models combined with CGI. Shoot your ships as models, and then composite them all together using something like GIMP Animation Package (GAP), or another cheap-ass animation package. You can use GAP to "fix" any errors in the footage by letting the computer crop, scale, and even change the perspective on your footage of the models. You could do a good home-made version of the asteroid field chase in ESB, the most complicated scene from the trilogy.

[JerrysFunhouse]

models look way better then CGI

[efnarios]

Its kinda messy one shot about picture one shot about the title over and over again till fade and lack

[patrixiomadrid]

image moved

[roquefortfiles]

This is not really motion control!! MC the axis are repeatable and recorded to a digital drive and each axis has motors which are slaved to the recorded data. If i am not mistaken match moving has basically rendered motion control obsolete. What you have done here is just a green screen dolly move. But your comp looks good

[eimb1999]

I love your enthusiasm! Keep it up!

[alienhddna]

i want to make ship battle useing all the ship frome starwars startrek and battle star all fighting that would be cool

[alienhddna]

i would only use cgi for takeing out the blue screen and the stand that hold the modles

[plavins1]

Great work u should make another vid, but with less wobble.. but still great!

[johncocktosensen]

@LeeStringer223 I disagree completely- Alnjac DOES have control in his/her motion-control rig. albeit primitive. I think you are the one who doesn't get it. Motion control simply leverages the ability to repeat a camera move– the computers and servo mechanisms used in Star Wars were just a very precise way to do that. By restricting the camera to travel along the board, Alnjac is effecting control over its motion. Quite clever. Well done!

[kezadrone]

If you gor rid of thw wobble you in biz man. But still really good lateral thinking.