Examining the plan for the scene

- [Chad] Alright, folks, in this chapter … we're going to start looking at this big finale sequence here. … Tons and tons of visual effects over 13 separate shots, … using terabytes (laughs) of data. … Just a massive undertaking, … and we're going to look at kind of of … the environment in this series, … and then we're going to save effects like the ball, … the glowing ball, things like that, … and there was a bunch of particles … and fire and cool things that are also going on, … and we'll talk about those in the next training series … when we look at effects, … and here we're just going to focus on the environment, … building the world, compositing the elements, … how to make things blend together … and feel like they belong in the same world. … You know, it's kind of challenging. … I've been struggling to figure out how to teach this stuff, … because there's so many millions of little, tiny details, … little decisions that I made over the course of months. … I had tons of failures and experiments that didn't work out. …