Building the Rag Tag Fleet
In the cliffhanger of yesterdays video I had Wacko find himself stuck in the launch tube of the Battlestar Galactica.
Originally I was going to pull a footage of the fleet from an episode but I couldn’t find something I liked. Either it focused too much on the bucket or it had an advertisement or scifi logo in the way. At the last minute I decided to make my own fleet using the 3d simulator in aftereffects.
To achieve this I took this pretty well known photo and cut all the ships out
Once the white was removed I put each ship in a separate layer in photo shop and then brought that document into After Effects. From there I added a star field background, set a different depth and position for each ship, animated them moving forward, then added some lights and a camera having it move as well.
It’s not a perfect effect, but I thought it was good enough that you might not know I created it from scratch so I thought I would point it out.
The next episode is going to be about the ending of Battlestar, so I think I might keep working on this effect, we’ll see.
Wow! I’m even more impressed than I was before! Very well done, sir! So, any chance of the song we made so long ago getting used in this BSG review? Probably not, but I thought I’d ask. :P
that’s not a bad idea. Ive got the audio still but I don;t have the background beats. Ill have to recreate the song but it’s doable.
Even if it was just a short bit of it to use during the closing credits or something. Just a thought since the windows of opportunity to use it don’t come around as often now that the show is over.
Very nice indeed. I don't know if you took any live footage of your photo shot of the beach head where you reenacted the landing of earth. That would be cool.
Faceman
afraid not, we only had he still camera that day.