Darth Venal said:

Hey guys.

This is a sequence composite of my new and hopefully improved Alderaan destruction for my own Star Wars edit. The keen-eyed will know that I've borrowed the shockwave around the planet from Star Trek Generations. I could create my own, but it wouldn't look any better and it would take a very long time.

Hope you like it. Any suggestions welcome.

DV.

(PS Thanks to my buddy Mr Ghostface for uploading it)

I've taken the liberty of shifting this over here so I can comment on it without taking the ESB:R thread off topic.

It looks great and I can imagine it working really well.

It adds another possible alternate model to the OUT, SE, ANH:R and this fun alternate, which also uses a Star Trek element, the Xindi attack in Enterprise : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcWBVZIWfCk&feature=related

The idea of the planet being engulfed in a the green energy of the beam is an interesting addition (would that still be the case if this was carried over to the destruction of the capital ships in ROTJ ?).

I agree with DarthBo the Death Star dish needs to be pointing more within the ballpark of the target but it's a great proof of concept of the idea and certainly shows you have a flare.

And like Bobocop I'd really like to see this in motion.

I'm not sure if the Death Star is firing twice or if it's the same shot from two different angles, if it's one shot it might need a bit of repositioning to get the idea across (and that way you possibly wouldn't need to see the far off Death Star element because we have already seen the dish firing).