ImperialFighter said:vaderios said:It seems ImpFighter that the Executor has enough big ass to be a bit on screen :)
First i tryied to be closest the the angle/camera/position with the render of this shot:
You can see it,
and secondly i find something interesting...( maybe wrong)
it seems that Mr vader isnt standing in one position during the falcon pursuit.
The window that he is talking to luke is the no 3 in this^ image
so i assume that when he sees the falcon enters to hyperspace we see him in the center window, so he was walking during this conv.
Fingers crossed :)
-Angel
vaderios, I've now had a chance to look at your examples above, which have led me to some other things during that sequence, that I didn't realise before....and that I can't believe that I never picked-up on before. But it's another write-up that's a little complicated to do, so I'll need to come back to it. I'm not sure that Vader was actually looking out of the window you think he is though, and I'll go into why shortly.
As far as seeing the hull from our vantagepoint inside, I can only say that I still think it's a subjective 'perspective' issue, as far as all the 'window' views we see are concerned.
What I mean is, that for me anyway, the level of all the 'camera angles' show a view that I'm content to believe are correct ones, when seeing 'straight-ahead' from those camera positions, out of what is supposed to be a higher-up 'Bridge' Tower.
(I've posted 2 examples in my post immediately above this one, that give a better indication of just how much of an angle the 'Executor's' hull 'slants downwards', and 'away' from our higher 'Bridge' Tower position).
It's subjective I think, about exactly how you view the 'camera angles' that have been used to shoot the 'interior' shots, and I'm in the 'straight-ahead, not downwards in any way' camp. In fact, when it comes to some of these trickier-to-judge 'vanishing point' perspectives, there's a case to be made that the 'camera positions' are meant to give the impression of things being seen from a 'slightly lower than straight-ahead' position, even. That's why I can easily believe that we'd only see the 'starfield'....and none of the ship below us.
But that is only my own way of looking at these 'window' views, and Adywan may be looking at them in a similar way to you.
The positioning would all depend on which version of the bridge tower was being used. The EU has named different Destroyers with different details as different classes in the fleet but chances are the majority of the variations were just down to the model makers not really expecting us to be going over each shot with a magnifying glass.
Hopefully my luck in posting links has changed for the better and you can all see this comparison of the various bridge pods?
While the bottom one is labelled Executor Bridge, the one above it has a domed protrusion which matches the window configuration of the interior set/matte.
That would place the control centre just above the centre of the pod.
There is a similar shape on the one labelled as being the Executor but that is in relation to the whole a lot smaller and higher up, which would make sense if the pod is larger than those on conventional Destroyer class ships (though I always assumed they were the same size).