adywan said:
corellian77 said:
Quick question for you ady... Leia's apartment: judging by the first pic, you've decided against changing the look of the exterior building in order to jive with the interior layout? Or have you altered the interior? Or... is this another one of those things that has never really bothered you?

BTW... where'd you get the buidings used in the Cloud City background in the landing platform shots? They look terrific.

i tried a few variations, making the window smaller, adding and apartment next to leias, amongst others others but nothing really worked out. the focus was always taken off leia so i just went for removing the upper part of the apartment roof to fix at least one continuity problem. i guess its one continuity error i'll just have to live with. there's another that i just can't fix either and that's a flipped shot of chewie and R2 as they run away from the stormtroopers on bespin. oh well. :)

Too bad the shot proved to be so difficult... although I must confess, I don't think reducing Leia's visibility is necessarily a bad thing. I kinda like the idea of seeing an establishing shot of the building, with Leia only being noticed on a 2nd or 3rd viewing (I'm thinking something along the lines of the opening shot in Blade Runner, where the camera dollys in on the Tyrell building and only at the end do we realize we're seeing the window to the room in which Holden is standing).

http://www.truveo.com/Blade-Runner-Opening-Scene/id/1932031672 (shot in question starts around the 2:20 mark).

At any rate, thanks for the explanation ady :)