The Empire Strikes Back - Wampa Attack - Full Sequence - New Stop Motion Animation Shots

I liked this a lot. Great stop motion and comps.

Sonnyboo Productions
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Hey Chris,

Thanks for your input. It all helps.

The Tauntaun and Wampa ARE traditional animated stop motion elements. I used a tad bit of motion blur to emulate the look of go-motion used in the original Tauntaun running shots, but as far as it's movement and that of it's rider... that is the way it was animated. Funny, The Wampa wasn't animated as smooth as we would have liked. The lighting was done with what ever lights we had laying around and I had to tweak it in the composite.
I also retimed the animation element in the final shot as a test to make the animation much easier as it would be hard to move it so little for each frame.

This was a test of what we could do; just two guys in a garage wondering what if.... It was fun to 'play' in ILM's sandbox.

Below are links to the green screen draw stop motion and then the final comps for each shot.

Cheers, Joe

Vimeo links:

The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Full Sequence
https://vimeo.com/56644189

The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Shot #3A
https://vimeo.com/56671343

The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Shot #9A
https://vimeo.com/56671684

The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Shot #10A
https://vimeo.com/56671836

Youtube Links:

The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Full Sequence






The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Shot #3A






The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Shot #9A






The Empire Strikes Back – Wampa Attack – Shot #10A