VFX Breakdown: Flight of the Valiant

Hey everyone! I thought I would put together another breakdown, this time for Flight of the Valiant. Again, it's not super detailed, but it might be helpful to an aspiring animator, or answer some deep burning question you may have.

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[nickroy]

Such a cool scene, I always love seeing Clone Wars Era ships in the hands of the rebels.

[rainmakerroar]

I'm excited to see the bigger fleet battles

[marcosbravo]

The Starfighters were amazing, and although the Incursor is smaller than an ISD, it was beautiful see such monolithic ship going after those ships.

[paulhui]

I wonder if the valiant could have escaped if the 2 corvettes had sacrificed themselves and rammed the bridge tower

[vicnugget]

This is better than any animation tutorial I’ve ever seen! All the key information with tips and tricks that I never even thought of. Very much appreciated! Keep up the good work! Thank you!

[ApolloNui]

Can’t wait to see the next film and see what kinds of ships will be in it!

[nickharding]

The republic medical ship and shuttles were a nice touch

[neppoj]

Looking amazing!!! How did you do the music effects?

[hagentritz]

Looks fantastic has the feel of the original practical models

[ignaciocambero]

i love the incursor, is like an old battleship

[scorpioncoreuniverse]

Now that was excellent I have never seen anything that cool before. Or it's just been a long time I've seen anything that great.

[FQP-]

Such a good team of guys trying to make us normal folks happy and still do it better that a entire multi-billion dollar company too

[mattdawg]

Amazing! Fantastic! Colossal! Stupendous! And it was good too!

[sicko]

Super cool video and behind the scenes look. The only real critique I have is the smoke from explosions. Just tone it down a bit but ramp up the explosion more. Simply seems like too much smoke in space. Other wise great camera and animation work

[DigitalImageWorksVFX]

Absolutely fantastic work guys! The only thing that bothers me is way too much smoke during explosions. I know that it's Star Wars so it's not very physically correct, but even in the movies they looked less "smoky" ;)

[mdm-prods]

hi, amazing works and result, the animation - vfx are great.
some question ;
- do you used blender ?
-for ship animation, do you use curve path and camera lock on empty with constraint ?
-for the explosion do you used stock footage or this is simulation ?

[haydenravenscroft]

Could you do a breakdown of lighting and post processing. Would love to see how you achieves that "rogue one" visual style.

[Martian]

If this is meant to be set during the GCW then you might want to check the a wings, I think the ones in this video are the rz-2 model and I don’t think those were around.

[protocolcosplay]

This is amazing work. Just one quick question, was this rendered in Cycles? If so, how long did it take to render each frame? Love the work!

[Conservative_crusader]

This is Better than the battles in rise of skywalker