To the flipper debate: You should go with what you feel works like Pizza-the-Hut said (interesting I'm parroting someone whose screen name harkens from the same movie, no?). I feel that the flipper is a bit too unrecognizable as an appendage as is; the shot goes by too quickly to really understand that the orb-shaped thing was holding the blaster unless you know the original cut of the movie and are clued in to whose hand it was really supposed to be. Perhaps, if the flipper could be shaped to show individual fingers within the flipper, it would be more understandable (e.g., with one part of the flipper extended as the trigger finger in a loosened grasp pose).
To the flipper debate: You should go with what you feel works like Pizza-the-Hut said (interesting I'm parroting someone whose screen name harkens from the same movie, no?). I feel that the flipper is a bit too unrecognizable as an appendage as is; the shot goes by too quickly to really understand that the orb-shaped thing was holding the blaster unless you know the original cut of the movie and are clued in to whose hand it was really supposed to be. Perhaps, if the flipper could be shaped to show individual fingers within the flipper, it would be more understandable (e.g., with one part of the flipper extended as the trigger finger in a loosened grasp pose).