I would also like to point out that the original blade was rotoscoped so badly that it covers some of the hilt making the process of fixing the problem very difficult. Half the time the blade was nowhere near the direction the hilt was pointing.

I attempted this a long time ago until Adywan came out with his first test shots which blew me out of water in terms of quality.

At that point I had created a clean back plate, a clean chewie in the background who was covered by the mis-aligned blade and created a mask of Luke's hand with the hilt. Even then the original blade made that part very difficult to compensate and not look odd.

At one point I even considered creating a new hilt but it was out of my skill range.

I must say Adywan's fix of that scene is fantastic and has managed to turn a very badly done old effect around. I'm sure a lot of hard work went into that 143 frames of footage on board the falcon. I love Alderan's new destruction and loved the Jimmy Smits version too but I gotta say I got more excited when I saw the fixed lightsaber scene. That and the mssing window behind the stromtroopers on Bespin in ESB are two things I've found very hard to ignore.

Thanks Adywan!