Originally posted by: adywan

Originally posted by: InfoDroid
Good point about the Geonosians building it, Marvolo. I'd forgotten about that.

The blue color looks fantastic, Adywan. It really does. But, the problem is that it's too much like Alderaan. It might be confusing.

I've tried a few different colours & planets and the blue is definately the best. Any other colour just stands out too much with the grey pallet of the death star & ships. I used a plate that had no land mass so it looks more like a water planet than Alderaan.

The blue planet from a technical standpoint looks great, but I was confused the first time I watched it thinking it was Alderan as well.

What about a rocky planet with minimal atmosphere... it would be dominately grey tones with maybe dark purple highlights. I think this would work on many levels.

1. I can't think of any plain old rocky planets in the OT or PT so it would be somewhere mysterious.
2. Rocky planet == mining planet... great place to build something big if you can just use the resources nearby
3. (More important) Color scape would match the rest of the movie... Star Wars is dominated mostly with faded earth tones and grays, Empire: blues and reds, Jedi: stong earthtones and green
4. (Most important) It would make the whole scene more imposing. The death star comes from a dark and dead world. It serves as great contrast when we see it approach Alderan.

If you'd like, I can see what I can come up with... there was guy who had a website with a lot of really good planet maps.. his name was 3d-Duckboy/diabloblanco17 but it seems as if his site has gone away but I downloaded the maps many moons ago. Let me know if you are interested.