wow, that was some reading. my brain is fried now. lol
well first, the executor interior problems. Well its not just a few shots that are messed up but pretty much all the bridge scenes. As you can see from the pic below, the bridge is nowhere near the control room and is in fact up the stairs, so the final shot of vader walking down the stairs is correct
So you can see that the first interior shots of the Executor when they receive the probot transmission, Vader should really be coming from up the hallway and not appear suddenly as if he just walked out of shot. as if the bridge is just out of shot. then, later on when they are pursuing the Falcon from cloud city the shots of Piette in the control room are totally out of place. I'm tackling this now by changing a couple of shots to not only fix this, but also the problems with Piette suddenly on the other side of the bridge. Also i have fixed the problem of vader being at the side window one minute and looking out of the front window the next. I have added a couple of brief shots of Vader walking down towards the front window.
I've also fixed the control panel that breaks away when the stardestroyers collide (thanks seven for pointing that one out. I totally missed that). It was an interesting idea having sparks coming out of it as it breaks away but in the end it would have just made the build quality of the Executor look shoddy so i just made it so it doesn't break away.
I won't be using the 2 stardestroyers from ANH for the cockpit scene prior to the collision because the angles are all wrong and the FX aren't very good , which is why i changed that shot in ANH:R
Nice matte by the way, Vaderios. I probably won't be using that matte painting though because it just stands out too much as a painting with the live action. I'm hoping to create a new matte but i may have to build part of the hangar and then photograph it to use as an element to give the matte a more 3D feel
Now onto the hull being in view during the bridge interior shot. I don't think that you would see any of the hull due to the camera angles. After seeing you mock-ups it makes it look like the hull is pointing up so i can confidently say you wouldn't see any part of it and adding it in would make it look odd to me.
TheTome said:Adywan, I have a question. At the end of Empire when the Mellenium Falcon is trying to escape the star destroyer, it seems to get really, really close, and yet it's out of tractor beam range. Are you planning to do something about this? Or can something even BE done about it???
Well when Piette says "they'll be in range of our tractor beam in moments.." the falcon is pretty far away. Its doubtful that the Executor would have a tractor beam as powerful as the Death Star so, plus they would have to lock onto the target so i dont' think there needs to be anything done to this.
Another fix just done is just after vader cuts off Lukes hand you hear a very faint sound of the lightsabre being turned off, but its so quiet that it looks odd when we see it is off in the next shot. You now see the lightsaber disengage.