Anyone else notice that the texture maps on the X-Wing are mirrored? What a cop out, come on ILM! Love the ships and loved the movie even more regardless though.
Anyone else notice that the texture maps on the X-Wing are mirrored? What a cop out, come on ILM! Love the ships and loved the movie even more regardless though.
It makes financial sense. You don't want to have to pay a texture artist to do the other side once you've finished one of them. You never really see the CG X-wings in a "hero" close up. Anytime you see them, they are zipping by with heavy motion blur, and in the film's finale in a pretty dark environment where it's hard to see detail.
I understand the cost cutting. However the same could be said about the some details on the old ILM physical models, but the artists added them anyway.