Ah, good to know! Thanks!
I bet there was some huge technical hurdles to composite the two.
I remember watching a video about Flight of the Navigator and basically the computer could only keep 2 or 3 frames in memory at the same time. And they had some complex machine that composted the CGI ship with the filmed background, filmed the frame, and dumped the digital image. Just crazy the work that went into it.
That style of animation is what I wanted to do in HS, but didn’t have an educational outlet to teach it - and honestly - not sure I had the chops for it or not.
