Little Endor space battle shot

This is a 4 seconds shot I animated using Cinema4D and models from www.scifi3d.com, based on the Endor space battle from "StarWars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi"

I'm planning to make a full animation of the battle of Endor, and this is one of the tests I made for that. Enjoy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• endor
• space
• battle
• star
• wars
• starwars
• return
• jedi
• rotj
• 3d
• c4d
• cinema4d
• fighter
• tie
• a-wing
• calamari
• frigate

[dsbiehl]

This is very good. I love how you can see the light play off the Calamari ship when the air burst goes off above it. Good use of scale and camera dynamics too.

Did you do multi-layer rendering and do post in another app or is this a single pass just using shaders?

[LordSapiens]

All you can see is rendered in a single pass (well, and some things that you can't see because of YouTube quality :P).

And I didn't use shaders on this. The explosion is stock footage from DetonationFilms.

Glad you liked it ;)

[chillboy4]

I got a rreeeeeeeeaaaalllyy long question. I have cinema 4d too and you said you used it. but on the site you wrote in the note there are just models for 3ds max or something else? how did you open them with cinema4d???

[LordSapiens]

Cinema 4D can open all 3DS and LightWave objects in that site. The format that C4D can't open is 3ds max. So you can use all the other models (I recommend that you choose LW when possible, because in a lot of cases there are conversion issues).

[LordSapiens]

I've had to convert a lot of ships from that site, so I'll tell you one thing: most times, 3DS objects appear with some parts symmetrically rotated. To fix that, you have to make the scale of that part negative in one of the axis, most times in the X axis. Good luck ;)

[stevo0124]

no offence, but this is ILM material... need to post more to believe it.

[LordSapiens]

LOL, that's a great compliment... or a provocation to make me animate more scenes and post them :P

Hehe, well... unfortunately I won't be able to work on this project for the reasons stated before. Sorry, guys :-/

[AdMaker3000]

Good! The action compensates lack of sound! :D

[AdMaker3000]

Good! The action compensates lack of sound! :D

[AdiooSk8]

Great job!

[jayce79]

Neat man , really neat. Love too have that program. Cool stuff.

[MrCharrrles]

Excellent render, are you making the entire battle of endor scene? because that would be spectacular

[TheFXGuy]

if that was you, then holy crap. Perfection.

[GrandJediMaster7860]

I mean the programmer :)

[GrandJediMaster7860]

Ady has one or two great 3D effect guys working on the Revisited films and you'd make a great addition to his team :)

[2otimesbetter]

HOW DID YOU DO THAT!

[Perion]

looks really nice, the TIE fighters should be moving a bit faster though