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Post #389612

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savmagoett
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Discussing about scales of ships in star wars
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Date created
21-Dec-2009, 5:28 PM

Bingowings said:

I hate to be a git (I hope I'm not) but it's clear all the scales of almost all the vehicles and ships are pretty much mucked up not just between movies but sometimes (as proved) within shots.

So it presents fans, artists and editors with an eye for consistency with either an unshakable headache or an entertaining free canvas to stretch or shrink to the best of their abilities.

The only way to square circles of this kind is to play it by eye.

If it feels right it probably right for you and whatever you do someone will complain because lets face it, we are all nerds (nothing to be ashamed about nerds are often the best people in the universe).

I completely agree with you, but as I stated in my intro:

savmagoett said:
…My goal here is to propose a possible scale chart, giving an average dimension to each ship seen in the saga, that would work with most of the major "scale establishing shots" (as I call them) such as scenes with actors around ships, the blockade runner inside the ISD, the Falcon behind the ISD, the Falcon docked to the medical frigate, etc…
And therefore isolate as less shots as possible that needs fixing (and also given the possibilities of fixing we have)…

…I don't claim there actually is scale consistency in the star wars saga, I just know it's filed with discrepancies. What I seek is to find the best choices one can make (when it comes to fix things) to make the whole saga more consistent.

I was a little busy lately (including search and drawing for the next ship I will discuss here) but I'm not giving up and I do hope to find a chart that will please most peoples, future will tell, but I think I can do that…