Pre-Production

As a previsualization artist on the film we were tasked with planning, choregraphing and visualizing a major action training sequence. The two aircraft were to be traveling at high speed through a canyon and would engage in mock combat. During previz I proposed that we should plan the aerial engagements in diagrams since the client called out specific maneuvers they wanted to see per shot.
Aviation and more specificly Fighter Jets are a huge interest of mine and as a result I have quite a bit of good bit of knowledge that I could use to inform the coordination of each requested maneuver and create cohesive flight paths.

The two left diagrams illustrate a problem I uncovered where the maneuver requested would put the hero aircraft ahead of his target but he needed to stay behind the target. The first diagram illustrates the problem and the second diagram illustrates a proposed solution keeping with aircraft capabilites.