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Post #374078

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Darth Venal
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Date created
20-Aug-2009, 5:53 PM

Anyway, I was tinkering with the Death Star hangar shot of the Emperor's arrival. I always hated that matte painting - the shuttle is wrong (as it is in all the paintings in Jedi) and some elements are just far too badly painted.

I've tried to correct the shuttle as much as I can without having access to a model to re-photograph it (which would definitely be the best option for realism), removed the mess from the back left corner and removed the saturated colour. Oh, and added part of Endor just to see how it would look. I think I prefer it with just stars, but it was worth a try.

 

And with the live action composite in (roughly)...