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The Phantom Menace shooting
Articles, Retro

The world already loved lightsabers, but then ‘The Phantom Menace’ made them even better

Posted onMay 21, 2019May 18, 2020

How new ways of shooting, new digital tools and lots and lots of roto resulted in the laser swords of ‘Episode I’.

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