Corona Self-Isolation made me build a STAR DESTROYER

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The DOMINATOR in movie lighting...

October 27, 2020

I want to close this project and milestone on my hobby journey with a couple of photos shot and lit the way the studio models were filmed in the original trilogy.

As usual, I placed the model in front of a pitch-black background. As for the lighting, I set up an even, diffused white ambient lighting, as well as a bright white key light directly aimed at the model to create shadows. Then I arranged some large white cards in a way that they bounced light into the shadows to bring out some details there without eliminating the shadows. That’s pretty much how they lit the models during the visual effects filming of the original movies.

Here are the final, large images – I had a blast with the project. Enjoy!