That works!

Looks great! :) Though, the way it's positioned, that shadow looks kinda funny now, like it's joined with the guns. Haha. It looks like a four-eyed alien slug or something. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything...

Ripplin said:

Looks great! :) Though, the way it's positioned, that shadow looks kinda funny now, like it's joined with the guns. Haha. It looks like a four-eyed alien slug or something. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything...

what shadow do you mean. can you point it out please?

some nice ideas Shadowman99. It's so much easier with pictures for reference

Galvatron said:

Looks perfect! Here's a pic from the model for comparison...

that reminds me, I still have to paint mine... it's sitting right next to me. haven't touched it in over a decade.

glad you mentioned that change now, aren't you ady? hehehe

Adywan -  Your latest 9 minute preview was terrifically coloured, and your new 'Probe Droid firing' sequence is just what I'd hoped for!  I like where the generators are more centrally-placed in the background now, and note that you changed the look of the whole background itself in the screenshots put up earlier.  I was also glad that your 'Wampa' sequence wasn't finalized (or at least revealed) yet, as some surprises before the release of this thing is a good thing I reckon.  That re-positioned gun behind Chewbacca looks great now too, by the way. 

doubleofive -  Good call on that 'missing' turret in front of the 'Power Generators'.  I am so glad that Adywan is planning to add it in, behind the foreground Probe Droid, rather than remove the one in the display screen, as I think this will be far better to referrence the rebel's territory behind the Droid.  Can you check your PM's later.

Shadowman99 -  Some nice ideas recently there, especially adding panel colour to the snowspeeder full-scale 'props' to match the miniatures.  I'm a big fan of that idea.

Jay-  Thanks for the welcome additions to the software. :) 

Brimley said:

Shadowman99 said:

 

Here's a few fixes for consideration:

 

See, I always liked the arrangement of the Star Destroyers in this shot. Firstly, its more visually pleasing than a uniformed group. Also it serves as subtext to the situation constantly on display in ESB- the empire is almost at odds with itself! They all keep making mistakes, pissing off Vader left and right. Of course it makes sense they would all have their own direction in which their ship is going.

I agree with Brimley.....ships don't always travel in uniform formations.....

Shadowman99 is my hero.  Screenshots, that's the key, ladies and gentlemen.  I was going to mention the floating SD as I just noticed it upon viewing GoodMusician's alternate music track (which is where I noticed the turret as well).

I don't think that shadow on the Falcon looks bad, but at least its not the shadow of the gun like I thought it was.

Just wanted to say, that as far as that first 'establishing' group shot of the Imperial Fleet in 'Empire', I prefer it's 'lack of uniformity' at this point too.

ChainsawAsh said:

I'm surprised at everyone wanting to keep the fleet positioning the same - I've always thought it looked awful.

Adywan might agree with you, but what Brimley and vbangle suggested also has merit.  Tough call.  Wouldn't that mean that the ships in the distance were all going in the same direction (forwards and downwards) as the one where the 'close-up' of it's uppermost section (it's a'standard' stardestroyer, not the 'Executor', although we see it's underbelly shortly afterwards) passes overhead in this shot?

No matter what, at least that one ship that has the arrow saying it has an especially bad motion, it needs to not be so slidy.  But hey, it looks like ILM used the same techniques Ady does just moving 2D objects, so there's a good precedant!

i can imagine the fleet circling like planes do over a crowded airport to avoid collisions, but that metaphor doesnt stand when the spaceships can just stop. i think the uniformity idea sounds good, but may give the impression that the fleet actually knows where to go, which at this point it doesnt quite. the test will be seeing them in motion, its hard to make a decision i guess until we see them moving.

just backtracking, i think the yellow stripe should be kept. it kind of looks better, and then han and lando are visually similar in their outfits, so perhaps highlights their similarities.

GoodMusician said:

I wonder if they added the blue to kinda make the film seem colder... because DAMN ...that's a lot of blue.

i think it amy have been a crude attempt at highlighting its harsh times for the rebellion. in the prequels the colours of each film seem tailored to the mood, (EP1+2 being rosy and over saturated to show the inoocence and romance, EP3 being alot darker and broodier) in ROTJ the colours seem to get a bit jolly again after the emperor is killed, han almost looks like he is wearing lipstick!

ben_danger said:

GoodMusician said:

I wonder if they added the blue to kinda make the film seem colder... because DAMN ...that's a lot of blue.

i think it amy have been a crude attempt at highlighting its harsh times for the rebellion. in the prequels the colours of each film seem tailored to the mood, (EP1+2 being rosy and over saturated to show the inoocence and romance, EP3 being alot darker and broodier) in ROTJ the colours seem to get a bit jolly again after the emperor is killed, han almost looks like he is wearing lipstick!

At least that's a better excuse than "to give them a more modern look."  But one of the first screenshots Ady posted of the color correction was how the DVD actually has LESS blue in a few shots.  Craziness.

My thought on the whole stardestroyer placement issue is that all the stardestroyers have all just returned from deploying the probe droids around the various systems and are now regrouping with the Executor, so they would be facing all directions and not uniform in placement

Seems very logical, thanks for the confirmation on that one.