Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian

Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandal... by Cthulhu_ on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:40AM (#22381756)

One solution to this would be to put the camera on a fixture that replays the same motions every time, so they can do a 'dry run' and correct the rendering. (Putting a camera on a fixture is not new, IIRC they did it in Back to the Future - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPA6nIBs5g is a really good yet succinct documentary on it)

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Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandal... by fhars on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:37PM (#22384975)

IIRC they did it in Star Wars for the space battles (but it is forty years since I read about it, so may memory may be playing tricks on me).

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Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandal... by ygra on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:58PM (#22385168)

They did. They only had so many models of the spaceships, so multiple takes with a programmed camera path and compositing was used to increase the number of vessels in the scene.

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