Monroville said:
(6) you could simply make the radar guns into smaller ion cannons (not make the dish-guns spherical, but just change the energy glow on the dish to blue) and change their laser bolts into the electrified blue bolts as seen in Vaderios' ion cannon shots a few pages ago. Maybe you could also show the effect of an impact where the ion blast seeped through the armor and a leg stops moving or begins to stutter or slow down - Vaderios: I was wondering if you could create a mock-up of this concept with the above pictures.
It actually crossed my mind at the time, to suggest these small weapon systems could be like 'shorter range' ION cannons, when I speculated on altering the colours of the laserbolts from the current 'pinkish'/'rainbow' ones, and that they could have a similar 'electrical' blueish look to vaderio's previous mock-up!
I guess I ended up focusing on colours that I thought would stand out more against the white/blue backgrounds of the AT-AT battle, but in hindsight I definately should have added that as an option anyway. (I guess the 'electrical' effect from these ones doesn't necessarily need to be the whitish-blue of the bigger 'long-range' one!)
I agree. It would indeed be neat to see a vaderios mock-up example of this using these particular shots, if he's willing. Ideally I'd love to see 4 comparison colours of the same version he could come up - 'greenish yellow', 'whitish orange' (seen above) , 'whitish yellow', and yes, his 'whitish blue' too. But I know that's a big ask. Even one would be nice to see though.
As far as this whole backgrounds/skies issue goes, it's not something that has ever troubled me personally. I can certainly see the appeal of it all having some kind of total consistency throughout, but I know the whole amazing sequence was just akin to being a tabletop or 2 covered in baking soda, with a piece of artwork behind it at the end of the day. I've always been more interested in additional touches being applied to the elements within these inconsistent surroundings, such as the AT-AT's themselves, and therefore Adywan's extra touches during the sequence will no doubt be just what I'd hoped for. If he somehow plans to convert the existing backgrounds into some sort of '3 Dimensional' version of vaderios recent 2D 'cyclorama', then I would be dumbstruck, as that is far and away beyond anything I'd expect him to attempt.
He's going to be able to ramp up this sequence even more than it is already, in plenty of other ways though, Gawd bless 'im.
vaderios - that is a fabulous concept with the 'falling AT-AT' there, but then the following shots of it might also need to be worked on to tie-in with it too. And liking your idea of some 'camera shakes' in some shots, as well. Loving your skills on these things. :)