TIE Fighter Shot Guide (Patreon)

Well well!

Here's a fairly lengthy shot I've been working on (298 frames). A lot of different layers on this particular one (ships, cockpit interior, glass, etc etc) in addition to laser effects, engine glows and the like. I want to get a lot of crazy camera angles into the battle scenes so I was experimenting with fancy flypast shots here.

Main steps:
1) Rough 3D model setup
2) Line render
3) Hand drawn and animated pilot
4) Rough explosion
5) Hand drawn lasers
6) Final background
6b) Frame by frame colouring
6c) Airbrushing

That weird looking ship at the end is a Victory-class star destroyer that Thrawn uses a lot in the game.

Anyway, that was my weekend work. Now back to Project Monday!

-Paul