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By Lucas Seastrom
The cinematography lighting & VFX director tells StarWars.com about utilizing filmmaking tricks like rear projection to give the animated series an artistic flair.
In “Spoils of War,” the Lucasfilm Animation team crafted a memorable cold open for the second season premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It’s a peaceful and sunny day on the tropical planet Aynaboni until a swarm of menacing crab creatures roar down a picturesque beach, chasing three members of Clone Force 99.
For Joel Aron, the cinematography lighting & VFX director — a longtime member of the animation team and, before that, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), — the beach chase was yet another exciting challenge at fooling the audience. “It’s funny how different questions come up with a sequence like that,” he tells StarWars.com. “Someone says, ‘Do we need the characters to run in the water? Can they run on the beach?’ Having the characters run in the water like that can be challenging and expensive, but we find interesting ways to do it.” In this case, their feet stay below frame and animators add splashes at the bottom, a suggestion of the action…
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