{"id":225,"date":"2009-06-06T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=225"},"modified":"2009-06-20T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T21:31:42","slug":"v-the-final-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;V-The Final Battle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two more shots from &#8220;V-The Final Battle.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The saucer\u00a0was an approx.\u00a0 30&#8243; model constructed by Greg Jein. It was composited with the live action using two rear projection images\u00a0with matte painting blends by David Stipes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226\" title=\"finalbattle65\" src=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/finalbattle65.jpg\" alt=\"finalbattle65\" width=\"576\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/finalbattle65.jpg 720w, https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/finalbattle65-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The saucer model was photographed in an extremely dense smoke room to convey the scale of the saucer which is supposed to be three miles across. (!) The camera had to match the tilt angle and lens specs. of the live action plate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228\" title=\"finalbattle66\" src=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/finalbattle66.jpg\" alt=\"finalbattle66\" width=\"576\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/finalbattle66.jpg 720w, https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/finalbattle66-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the matte painting set up:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230\" title=\"ds_047crop\" src=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ds_047crop.jpg\" alt=\"ds_047crop\" width=\"456\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ds_047crop.jpg 456w, https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ds_047crop-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231\" title=\"rp-_demo_text\" src=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rp-_demo_text.jpg\" alt=\"rp-_demo_text\" width=\"524\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rp-_demo_text.jpg 582w, https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rp-_demo_text-299x231.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; color: windowtext;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">This article and images are used for non-profit educational purposes only. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyrightinfo\" style=\"margin: auto 0in; line-height: 14.4pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; color: windowtext;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cV\u201d and all related elements\u00a0 \u00a9 1983 &#8211; 2009 Warner Bros. All rights reserved. The use of anything related to \u201cV\u201d or \u201cV-The Final Battle\u201d on this site is for educational purposes only and is not meant to be an infringement on Warner Bros. property rights.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two more shots from &#8220;V-The Final Battle.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The saucer\u00a0was an approx.\u00a0 30&#8243; model constructed by Greg Jein. It was composited with the live action using two rear projection images\u00a0with matte painting blends by David Stipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,34],"tags":[35,8,9,81,78],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-film-vfx-history","category-visual-effects-techniques","tag-v","tag-david-stipes-productions","tag-film-history","tag-matte-painting","tag-visual-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}