Darth Venal said:
he "skin" doesn't look enough like Mark Hamill's skin, it doesn't match, so the prosthetic is too obvious.
The hand in the picture is a real hand... but it is not Mark Hamill's hand. He was not present when the closeup effects shot was shot.
Timstuff said:
I think that the "deadness" that some people have complained about with the prosthetic could be solved by adding a bit of red around the edges, though.
The upper arm is also too thick and cylindrical. It needs to taper so that the wrist has a more natural shape.
I think also that some very slight movement could be added when the actor flexes the hand and wrist muscles.
Oldfan said:
It looks like there are already some small red l.e.d. lights inside his arm, so if ady wanted to add a little something to the shot, he could probably just make a couple of the lights blink once or twice and that would be enough. The whole glowy blue neon thing, while cool-looking, seems to be too much.
Indicator lights should be there to indicate something. It would make sense to lit a red light only to warn if there is a malfunction or risk of overstressing in the hand.
When industrial designers put a blinking/strobing/pulsating light in a device that is idle just for aesthetics, users complain and hand in the device for service or return it to the store.
Anakin had to settle for a metal prosthetic, wheras only 20 years later, it's possible for someone to get a bionic hand that looks like the real thing.
Btw.. Anakin's robotic hand starts lower down on his arm in ROTS than where Dooku made the cut it in AOTC..
An in-universe explanation for this goof could be to say that they were able to regenerate parts of the body near the trauma. A section of Anakin's arm -- the skin on Luke's hand.