adywan said:
also the whole continuity problems will mean that unless i can get new shots of the ESB AT-ST to insert into this sequence, then it will have to go from the shot where luke looks up to see the AT-AT explode. One minute its there and the next its gone

To be honest I was never convinced with the composition of that shot (as much as I love the ESB AT-ST it always seemed a little flat there) but it might be possible to take the element and put it into a different shot where continuity isn't an issue.

Monroville said :

In this case, I like the original DVD shot better. I could see adding an AT-AT in the mid ground on the left (to balance the far off AT-AT and the foreground one - one that is mid size between the 2 we see) but the matte Ady is using looks very fakish. I could see maybe doing something with the cloudscape, but the back"ground" should stay the same (just color corrected).

I can't agree with you there, the original looks like what it is (a nice painting propped behind the models and hidden behind a weird tint) Ady's shots have much more depth to them, they look less like a theatre backdrop and more like a real landscape.