sans_fi said:
That new shot of GL really annoys me. There is not 1 physical model in that shot. Its all GC and it really does show how artificial the models can look. The argument about more models were used in the PT than the OT is total rubbish too and just some garbage that PT lovers try to use to defend the prequels. Models were used for the ships in the OT and full physical sets were built . The Pt was a lot of greescreen sets for which they build model sets or CG sets. Only TPM used any form of physical models for ships. AOTC & ROTS all the ships are CG.
no updates on the progress i'm afraid. there are a few things going on in my life at the moment, and my health isn't too good either, that is preventing me from starting on the models. Hopefully it won't be long before i can start though.
While it is true there were few physical ships built for AOTC and ROTS, there were plenty of models Lucas could have surrounded himself with, it just wasn't practical. Or he could have surrounded himself with TPM only ships, would have been fine. Queen's Starship, droid control ship, etc.
THe main reason minature sets were build, like the GEONOSIS arena is he wanted more exotic looking enviroments, not to be Earth bound by forrests, Snow, or desert only. What would be the sense in building the entire Geonosis arena in full scale? Read Sculpting a Galaxy, you'll see how many miniatures were built physically.