TServo said:

The closest thing I know of is that screencap from the Senator screening, the one on zombie's site, and aren't you using that as one of the elements in your current composite?

Yeah, and I think that one looks great for what it is (one of my proudest moments in v1.0 actually) but there are two different mattes and I don't have the other one in any better quality than the GOUT.

It's the bottom left one in this picture posted by Laserschwert:

The picture comes from Rinzler's making of book and he actually used the GOUT for those too.

The one on the right is an unused painting.

And I saw a production photo of the actual prop from that angle and they clearly painted over the whole thing, because all the little details are different.

Harmy said:

Oh, I wondered why it only said that the soldiers were new in the comparison comment :-) It's time to change it. Oh and the window is different and a lot of the soldiers inside the room were originally a matte-painting too.

Troyig88 said:

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Fixed.

Jaitea said:

Its rough....and its not the original, but as a concept??...maybe not

Used image of Fine molds model to pick out the details

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Looks really close. I actually thought about that but couldn't find any picture of Falcon similar enough. Anyway, once again, this is not the one I need.

If this ends up being usable, I nominate this for the Most Awesomest Source Material Used in a Film Restoration Project.

I actually already tried with this picture ages ago but couldn't get it to work, it was too different.

Just for the record, I thought the Falcon DS matte looked really good in version 1.

OK, I've got some bad news. I got the scans of the Falcon matte (from a 35mm print) I've been waiting for. Unfortunately, they are very blurry and aren't really an improvement over the GOUT (they are possibly even worse). I'm not sure whether this is due to the print (which is very faded) or due to the way they were scanned (more likely) but there it is.

It's not our last hope though. There might be another. ;-)

But it would still take some time before I can get that. But in the mean-time, I can finish the last few shots and start editing.

OK, so I accepted the challenge and put my sources together and came up with this:

1. A frame of the 35mm scan I got.

2. GOUT

3. v1.0

4. v2.0 (unless I get my hands on a better source)

^I heartily agree with you, sirs.

Don't know if your v2.0 Falcon matte is final or not but it lacks the reflection on the floor the original have, so do your v1.0. Just an observation.

Well, I like the new one waaay better, so though cookies ;-D

You have to see it in full resolution - and it also looks a bit better than the old one in motion when you add grain too. It's far from perfect but it looks less like 90s video and more like film IMO.

What do you mean about the top edge of the cockpit window? That looks way better in v2.0.

You're doing great job, Harmy. When you're already going through the trouble, maybe you could try to restore the missing reflection to make it even closer.

Maybe it has already been pointed out.

I'll see what I can do. The problem is that the stromtroopers cross that area as they walk, so I'm not sure I'll be able to pull it off convincingly.