Kurgan, this is going beyond silly now. The examples you give with the TIE colouring mean absolutely nothing. You have boosted the saturation (not contrast) of a model that originally had the correct colour and not one that was recoloured in post production. The panels remain black which is the way they were supposed to be. But like i have said before the colouring was added in post production and tinted the panels blue (which is more like the right hand picture but done a different way and not as extreme). You keep pushing that "you are right and i'm going to totally ruin the edit by making the TIEs grey" thing until it becomes troll like. And then you say that someone can recolour the TIES in a new edit after mine is finished. But that wouldn't be a new edit at all. It would just be recolouring TIEs, which is something i wouldn't be too happy with. If you want the TIEs blue then just watch the SE colour corrected version i will be releasing soon. You are becoming obsessed with this whole colour thing. Just let it go man before it eats you up. lol
I haven't even started the FX stage of things yet and things could change. I just don't know yet until i start that phase. but i'm just stating in advance that i prefer the grey look to the TIEs.
You mention in the thread you started that it wouldn't be that hard to recolour the TIEs correctly. I tried to explain just how hard and time consuming it would be but you just ignore that and continue. If its so bloody easy then why don't you do a complete scene with correctly coloured TIEs, without using new CGI models or using a blanket colour overlay. Make all the panels black as they should be. Make the highlighting correct and not just some recoloured piece of crap.
Trying to get another website to come over here and continue your argument and clog the thread up with repetitive argument to pressure me into making the TIEs blue is nothing more than bully tactics (but i notice you haven't had much success). And (not saying you said this by the way) so i'm bloody anally retentive because i am an artist that hates when colouring is wrong and i want things to look correct? So when a CG artist cringes at incorrectly done CG then he is being anal? Same with every other profession where they see that something is clearly wrong and want to fix it. Give me a break. You say that most people prefer the blue TIEs? well where is the evidence of that? Its been pretty even, with more of a swing towards Grey TIEs than anything else.
You say that they should be the correct colour that the model were(even though the photography process bleaches out the light blue colouring anyway). does that include everything then? If that's what i should do then i guess i have some more colour work to do on a certain ship then:
Now that is a shot taken from the pre-2004 version of the SE. ILM forgot to recolour the Executor to give it the deep blue hue. So what you see there is the true colour of the ship as it was photographed. as you can see it has nothing to do with any colour problems as this was from the TV broadcast version taken from the theatrical print and the blue lights on the Executor are still intact along with the orange lights at the front of the ship.
So, since you posted that thread over at stardestroyer.net to get people to come over here and back you up then maybe i should repay the courtesy and post the link to that thread (which i can reply to because i can't register because it won't accept my ISP's email address).
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=128493
If i could redo all the TIE FX with new CG models then i would be able to keep the proper model colour but that is going to be impossible
Lets just give this whole thing a break now Kurgan. I'm not going to reply to it anymore. I hate arguing with anyone and it seems silly to do so over something so minor as this. At least wait until i've begun FX work on the damn thing :)