The X-wing engines were originally pink in ANH. The engine colour changed when it came to ESB & ROTJ, when they became red. But now, with Rogue One using the original colour for the engines, and the possibility of me doing an edit of R1 for personal viewing, it makes sense to have the engines the same colour throughout.
No issues with what you do and your decisions but I’ll remind you about the “Blue” star fields so how much bleed is coming in from contrast bleed to the image?
If you add blue to red you get pink… So I don’t know I think I’ll blame you for making them Red and making me believe they are “meant” to be red. But then also It is something that was hand painted on and would have been one of the last things added to the image so honestly I don’t know it might be worth assessing the blue star fields at some point and see if it is impacting the color of the engines?
You know more about this stuff than I do but is there any possibility the engines were meant to be red? I just thought it looked better aesthetically anyway…
Interesting though all the same. 😃
Your theory about the starfield making the engines pink doesn’t hold up when you consider ROTJ. That is the one film that has really heavy blue cast starfields and the engines in that are red. 😉 Plus, the engines aren’t hand painted in the originals. They were done by doing a separate motion controlled light pass of the models, with just the engines lit, against a black background and then composited on top.