How do podracers work

Though, his pod is filled with illegal modifications that allow him to win almost every time. It's unknown who the first pod racers were, but the pods themselves weren't always connected by two or more roaring engines. The first pods on Tatooine were driven by animals and carts, think of Roman Calvary where an Archer shoots from the back.

Boonta the Hutt Hence the name, Boonta Eve Classic held the first pod races and since then they were continued to honor him. The Hutts are hard to like, but they did bring about one of the coolest sports in the Star Wars universe. It wasn't just the Jedi that fell during the great purge, but sports like Pod Racing too. With the Imperial Empire ruling the galaxy, pod-racing lost popularity during the Galactic Civil War. However, there were underground races on larger planets that had space for them.

These races were a gamble as they avoided imperial detection and would be gone by the next morning for fear of being caught. He's worked for fashion and lifestyle magazines both nationally and internationally, having been published numerous times. By Riley Keefe Published Mar 23, The cockpit seated a single pilot, and was attached to the engines via strong cables, such as those produced by Steelton.

The engines for these craft traditionally came in one of two varieties of mechanical action: internal-combustion-engine types, which used moving mechanical parts; or rocket-motor types, which used no moving mechanical parts. Energy binders projected from each engine and connected both turbines together, forming a loose triangular configuration with the pod itself, dragged behind the engines, at the highest point.

A racer could commonly achieve speeds in excess of eight hundred kilometers per hour. Because of this, Podracing required lightning-fast reflexes, and only species with a wide range of sensory organs, multiple limbs, or durable bodies were known to race pods.

Species such as Humans rarely took part in races, and never won—with a single exception. Each Podracer was a unique craft that was highly personalized and obsessed over by its owner, born out of long days in scrapyards and ship-breaking yards looking for the perfect, most unique parts. All customizations, whether to achieve greater speed or agility, or simply to end up with a unique-looking racer, were scrutinized by race organizers who sought to tighten rules and outlaw specific tech from the circuit in an effort to make their racing series more competitive.

Despite concerted efforts to reign in certain custom jobs, pilots constantly remained a step ahead of organizers and learned to skirt the rules. While most pilots felt that customizing their own craft was part of the sport, major corporations such as Czerka Arms , Incom , and Galactic Power Engineering sought to cash in on the production of Podracers. Such was the task set for ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll now also chief creative officer at the studio as production on The Phantom Menace ramped up.

John Knoll The Phantom Menace visual effects supervisor : Just as an overall overarching thing on the entire show, I was worried about how massive it was and how to distribute the work appropriately across different departments. But even if you could find places that were sufficiently exotic looking, how would you shoot them? A helicopter can fly, at most, knots. And then there were all these very dangerous things being depicted, like flying through arches. So, pretty quickly, shooting live action plates for this on some location went off the table.

And then the next thought was miniatures. And there was a partial cave we did with miniatures. So there were a handful of things that I figured I could do in miniature, but some of the more wide open areas were a different story.

I remembered that we had done work on Hook , the Peter Pan movie, where we did some 3D matte paintings, the two 3D matte paintings of Neverland. And apparently it was kind of a pain to set it up, and because it was a pain to set up and hard to do, nobody was really excited about doing a lot more of those. But I kept thinking how powerful a technique that was, and I talked to a friend of mine at Electric Image into writing a camera projection tool for Electric Image. And as soon as we started doing that, our matte department just went nuts over it because it was such a super powerful technique, and the tool that got written into Electric Image to do that was super easy to use.

Log In. Anakin Skywalker's Podracer Built in secret by the young slave Anakin Skywalker, this shiny blue and silver Podracer was boasted to be the fastest ever to compete in the Boonta Eve Classic.

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