Pretty impressive stuff. Whole lotta’ potential with this tech.

This commercial was made using the original Star Wars cantina footage. Amazing stuff!

I really enjoyed the healthy discussion this video generated. From a guy that’s done a lot of compositing, I can tell you it’s definitely faked. This might not be so obvious though, so I thought it might be interesting to walk through how I think they put this together. The guys that made this were able to do such a fantastic job, in part, by making some really simple, smart decisions about how they went about shooting. In this post I will walk you through the compositing process and how these decisions culminated in a video believable enough to make anyone second guess their initial reaction to it.

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