Death Star over San Francisco

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2008-08-17 05:57pm

http://current.com/items/89204971_death ... _francisco

Exactly what it says on the tin.

apocolypse · Post by **apocolypse** » 2008-08-17 06:14pm

Great find.

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-08-17 06:17pm

That was pretty cool. I especially liked the AT-ATs at the beach. Plus, I liked how they had the ISD leak some type of fog stuff and the shuttle leave a smoke burst as it accelerated away.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2008-08-17 08:38pm

The tracking was quite good in that film - there was only the one night shot of the Death Star over to the Shuttle that I thought was a little rough on the tracking/masking.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2008-08-17 08:49pm

Pretty cool. The beach isn't NEARLY wide enough for those three AT-ATs IRL though

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2008-08-17 08:53pm

Silly Treder it's obvious they are walking in the ocean too.

This is a good find, choppy, HS level CGI but good. I'd like to find a Professional somewhere with some stock footage of DC and see what a low level pass by a Star Destroy looks like(ALA-Independence Day)

fractalsponge1 · Post by **fractalsponge1** » 2008-08-17 08:54pm

Well, at least someone is using my star destroyer :p.

Themightytom · Post by **Themightytom** » 2008-08-17 10:03pm

was the ATST asking for directions?

FuncoWilkerbean · Post by **FuncoWilkerbean** » 2008-08-17 10:44pm

Damn it, if I only stayed in San Francisco a bit longer....

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2008-08-18 07:37am

Day 549 of the Occupation: Life in San Fran has gotten a lot easier since the rationing was lifted last week. Mo word yet on when the Imps will be bringing their own goods to the city, but judging by what I've seen of their military gear, they MUST be sufficently advanced to build the flying car. Fred is going to ask one fo the Imps just how much a flying car would set us back since we've only managed to scrape together a couple hundred credits and dollars aren't legal tender in space.

The construction project got shifted to a lower orbit-which was amazing to see, but boring to watch. Still, a good pair of binoculars let's you watch it change day by day, hour by hour. The astronomy club has telescopes set up on it 24/7, recording the construction. It will be an interesting time-lapse film when they are done I bet.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2008-08-18 11:19am

That was neat. Pretty good graphics too, all things considered. I suppose it's a little odd that the incomplete DS2 showed up for a "visit" (the other notes it as "Imperal Fleet Week" in San Fancisco) but otherwise great fun.

And it wasn't until I read some of the comments that I noticed the little police lights on the TIEs over that protest. That was pretty neat and a nice little touch (Imperial MPs making sure it doesn't get out of hand?).

Master_Baerne · Post by **Master_Baerne** » 2008-08-18 01:16pm

RogueIce wrote: And it wasn't until I read some of the comments that I noticed the little police lights on the TIEs over that protest. That was pretty neat and a nice little touch (Imperial MPs making sure it doesn't get out of hand?).

I thought that was just bad graphics. Thanks for pointing it out.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2008-08-18 01:19pm

Damnit, I was expecting that thing to fire! Would have made a good ending. But I suppose that would make people think "waaaait a minute, I'm not dead, this stuff must be fake".

Post by **RogueIce** » 2008-08-18 01:22pm

Dooey Jo wrote:Damnit, I was expecting that thing to fire! Would have made a good ending. But I suppose that would make people think "waaaait a minute, I'm not dead, this stuff must be fake".

Well that and "how the fuck did the video survive?"

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-08-18 02:09pm

No stormtroopers though? That's kinda odd.

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2008-08-18 03:33pm

Darth Ruinus wrote:No stormtroopers though? That's kinda odd.

Would have been harder to do--this is all just insertion of graphics into film of other stuff, like the protests obviously, and getting a bunch of stormtroopers together would be harder. Some of the stuff was pretty meh, like the shots of the transports landing and the lighting on the AT-ATs, but the Deathstar itself looked great.

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2008-09-28 06:14am

Covenant wrote:
Darth Ruinus wrote:No stormtroopers though? That's kinda odd.
Would have been harder to do--this is all just insertion of graphics into film of other stuff, like the protests obviously, and getting a bunch of stormtroopers together would be harder. Some of the stuff was pretty meh, like the shots of the transports landing and the lighting on the AT-ATs, but the Deathstar itself looked great.

I loved the little subtle bits in one scene that looked like a ship heading towards the deathstar instead of just a static image of it.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2008-09-28 11:23am

Contrails? What?

fractalsponge1 wrote:Well, at least someone is using my star destroyer :p.

At least it wasn't an official, George Lucas-approved moneymaking thing this time.