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That's some nice effects work - it would have needed a budget bigger than some entire movies not so long ago.
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Tell me about it. I remember seeing a making of for The Last Starfighter. This film was groundbreaking because it was the first film ever to incorporate actual CGI. Let me tell you, it was pretty primeval then. It would take forever and a day for a Cray Super Computer to render a sequence that was a few seconds long... and if they messed up with the input, they had no way of telling until the finished result came out.
To show the folks that made the SW movies just how effective this was, they did a render of a flight of X-Wings in formation, and then one by one they pull out of the formation as the camera pans over, around, and under. The SW guys were absolutely floored - they had no idea how they would even set up such a shot using the miniatures they had used before.