astromech said:Episode IV had 'The Great Hand/Flipper Debate'
Episode V has 'The Great Green/Red Laser AND Meteor/Probe Droid Debate'...!
I wonder what Episode VI will bring....
Probably the great Boba fett dies/ lives debate.
This whole "probe droid" debate is getting a bit out of hand. There is no need to do an editing to that scene whatsoever. It is the same crash seen from 2 different points of view. The whole suspense thing is built up because we have already seen what emerged from the crater . Now when the Taun taun begins to get jumpy we think that it has sensed the probe approaching. You are expecting that to attack and then WHAM its something completely different. This is how i have always thought since seeing it in 1980, and as Darth Bo said before me.
It wouldn't have gone after Luke because its probably not programmed to detect life signs but instead technology. The Empire is searching for the new Rebel base so sending out hundreds of probe droids that scan for life forms on all these planets and report back would be a huge amount of time wasted sifting through all the information. But if it were only programmed to detect certain types of technology then only important information would be sent back to the Empire. If it could have detected Luke then why didn't it detect Han & Chewie waiting ready to ambush it? It wasn't going to investigate them but just steadily going about its business.It only reacted when Chewie stood up and roared. Then knowing it was ambushed and the high percentage of it being disabled or captured, the self destruct set in. If it could detect them then it wouldn't have fallen into the trap.
professa adyfan said:but if that was the probe landing by luke it was no distance away from the base, han made the journey by tauntaun twice and spent time talking to chewie, threepio, reiken and leia and changed his clothes twice and a night passed and the rescue took place and luke healed in bacta all before the probe droid got to the power generator.
There is a picture of a storyboard somewhere from ESB where the Probe is caught in the snowstorm and gets buried in snow which would explain why it took so long to get to the generator. The cold could well have affected its systems.
Isley said:
If you look at the background of this shot, you can see what looks like a destroyed defense turret, which seems odd since the battle hasn't started yet.
Yeh, i noticed that. I will be doing something with the background on that shot
doubleofive said:Wait a minute:
Are those footprints from the guys who set the explosive charge?
I didn't notice that one though. I will have to do something about that.
Octorox said:TheoOdo said:sgdelta1771 said:
I really like this. The difference in color always bothered me, so this just looks so much better to me.
ditto
Sorry, but i have always preferred the Executor to be blue (as it was originally, not the mess it became in the 2004 release). It really makes this ship stand out as something important. Having it grey just makes it another stardestroyer. This is how it will look in ESB:R. Taken from my colour corrected version:
The TIEs though, after colour correcting, i really don't like them blue at all. They just don't look right at all. That was the good thing about ANH that the space battles were very muted in colours, almost like watching a black & white movie and gave the feel of old world war 2 dogfights. The TIE colours were boosted to the point of oversaturation in ESB but in many shots they are grey (and that's in the original version and not just the 2004 version). So the TIEs are now definitely going to be back to grey. The Bombers will have the original colouring because they are different ships. TIEs were grey in ANH, so i want to keep the consistency there
Some good news: I have now completed 1hr 43 minutes of the colour correction on ESB. Totally worked my ass off but it has been great to be able to get back to it. Probably just after X-mas you may start to see a few new FX clips appearing :)