Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker - Set Extensions
Base FX KL worked on Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker in parallel with The Mandalorian season 1, and produced a number of seamless set extensions for interior spaceship shots among other tasks. This was an interesting show in terms of producing highly polished 'invisible cg' as many of the sets only had foreground elements built and needed the cg to extend the scope. The shots may not be as epic as some of the environment builds I did at ILM but I learnt a lot about precision when polishing the set extensions to be indistinguishable from the practical sets. There was also some work to enhance practical puppets to give them more expressive facial performance which wasn't possible with the puppet. My responsibility was to supervise all asset and environment work awarded to Base.
Some of the main set extension shots. Spaceships seen through windows are CG and in many of the corridor shots the mid and background was shot on green screen.
Other shots Base was involved in.
Set extension in background.
Set extension through glass.
Set extension through glass.
Set extension in background.
Set extension in background.
Claude the alien needed some CG face replacement to give better performance than the puppet.
Most of the background is CG here.
We did some motion graphics for screens.