Originally posted by: adywan

Simply darkening the Emperor doesn't work, i'm afraid. the problem lies with the difference in the makeup & his face shape now that Ian is older. I feel that mixing ROTJ facial features with the 2004 DVD version is the only way to go.

What is your opinion of the hood, Ady? For me, the hood is the worst part. In both TPM and ROTJ, the hood is laying flat over his head, framing his face in a certain way. In this shot, however (probably because they were trying to copy the original chimp thing) the hood is all folded over and it's a mess. I think this issue contributes the most to the Emperor looking a little "off".

That being said, I really love what you've done with the face and the rest of the darkening. I think the facial elements are 100% seamless.

Just as an interesting side note: While working on preliminary stuff for Reborn we were so frustrated trying to fix it that we had finally gotten to the point where we actually filmed someone in costume in front of a bluescreen and then used Ian's facial performace and the hood itself was what we had filmed, and composited all of that over a clean background plate. We haven't yet completed it because we became fully focused on ANH, but plan to pull all that stuff out again once we're ready to work on ESB.

But seeing the miracles you've pulled off with Revisited, you might crack it before we do.

Also, I don't think enough advantage was taken of the scan lines and crackliness of a holographic message. Especially since the Executor is at the edge of an asteroid field. The picture should be slightly interrupted by interference a couple times, like Palps talking to Amidala's court on Naboo.

--ID