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Brave New Worlds
Coruscant. "When Obi-Wan

ILM director of

photography

Anakin

Carl Miller

were at

and

the door to the bar,

close

the

ground
plane and you could see Coruscant
way off in the distance," Miller notes.
"We had to shoot multiple planes
because we couldn't stop down
enough to hold the focus through¬
out, even though HD has greater
depth of field than 35mm film. That
meant that instead of shooting the
the

(right) oversees
adjustments to
the miniature

Coruscant
Industrial Park.

camera was

model
times:

once,
once

to

I had to shoot it three

in close-up, again at mid¬

focus and

finally at far-focus. Then
image
planes together to create a single
sharp image."
Miller,
Sweeney
and
Rosenberg were essentially shooting
the digital equivalent of an old celanimation technique: multiplane
backgrounds. "When you shoot
effects, you love to make it as
complete as you can because you're
our

because

we

needed to achieve greater

depth of field with less light.
Sometimes

we

had to deal with

multiple focus planes."
This was especially true of
setups where the camera was very
close to the foreground plane and
shooting all the way to the deep

background of the miniature. In a
few cases, Sweeney found himself
shooting as many as three different
planes on a single miniature in the
desert sequences; Rosenberg shot
multiple layers in the 'droid factory;
and Miller repeatedly captured the
miniature bar exterior in the city of

CG artists joined the three

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