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RotJ's Black Marker Shots

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Thread to honor the RotJ employee who had a black marker and liked to use it.  This person's most famous work is affectionately known as 'The Emperor's Slugs':

 

But this same pen also created fake shadows for Boushh:

 

Large fake shadows to enhance a reveal:

 

and even a glove for Luke:

 

Anyone seen any others?

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There is at least one shot where Artoo's eye seems artificially darkened. I think it's at the door to Jabba's lair?

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Where were you in '77?

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Interesting stuff. It's a bit unfair to talk about this animation/roto work as "black marker." These were meant to be invisible fixes, and most of them worked - I never noticed any of these until you pointed them out. (In fact, I never noticed the Emperor's slugs before they were pointed out to me, either.)

It's certainly better than some other optical-era roto/matte fixes, like when they had to block out Coca-Cola signs in Grease because the producer had inked a tie-in deal with Pepsi and the set dresser didn't know about it.

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SilverWook wrote: There is at least one shot where Artoo's eye seems artificially darkened. I think it's at the door to Jabba's lair?

The two close ups in this sequence (POV of 3po and the wall eye) look untouched.  The wall eye POV shot, R2's eye is quite red.  Also checked the first interior shot but that's looks unaffected.  That might make an interesting cut-up sequence, piecing together all the eye shots and centering them to see the color changes. 

TServo2049 wrote: It's a bit unfair to talk about this animation/roto work as "black marker." These were meant to be invisible fixes, and most of them worked - I never noticed any of these until you pointed them out.

No doubt, They worked.  If I didn't watch the film at the wrong speed would have never pieced these together.  But because of the old transfer method the 'blackness' of this work makes these items stand out.  (when knowingly looking for them)  On the color scale these are much closer to a sharpie then a natural film black, so that's why i'm wondering if they did use a marker.  They seem like after thoughts, there were on set shadow for the other posts in the Boushh shot, but the lighting didn't cast one so they drew one on, the reveal is three frames, so that's a quick fix and the Luke hand is the longest on screen.

LeoneNut wrote: Does the animated figure on the sail barge count?

I don't see why not.  These don't have a good classification, so throwing out similars will give us a bigger picture to make judgements.  Problem is defining where to draw the line between all those Sail Barge and Skiff shadows and these other oddities.  These skiff men are more refined to their surroundings as they were on screen longer.  and they don't appear as dark in the GOUT.

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The glove and slugs I knew about. The shadow and curtain coverup blew my mind.

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