Sevb32 said:

Sluggo said:

Rogue Leader said:

corellian77 said:

I think Star Wars should be completely devoid of any transparent, floating, 3D projection computer interfaces. I cannot stress how much I HATE those things. ...

I think they're kinda cool but unnecessary... It would take away from what's going on during the movie and would clutter the frame. In real life I would love to have on of those Tony Stark computer on the window-like touch interfaces but for ESB it's not needed. Very nice render though.

So you rendered this for an idea of what not to do? That's awesome!

Yeah, they look very high tech, but they will look just as dated in a few years as the monitors on the first Death Star look now.

Yeah but Lucas put the same dated monitors on the Star Destroyer bridge at the end of ROTS.

Yup, that proves the point. The film maker uses his real world technology to make technology look high-tech or futuristic in the film world. The cathode ray tube displays filmed in 1976 hadn't evolved much in 1982. The same goes for about every other aspect of film production, right down to the hairstyles. The displays filmed in 1976 look like they belong in 1976. The ones in Iron Man or Minority Report or CSI look like they were belong to this current time period.

This is really a double-edged sword, as you want the audience to recognise what appears on screen, but shouldn't have the item (or what ever it happens to be - computer screen, spaceship or gun) be something right off the shelf so it risks suspending the audiences suspension of belief. On the other hand, film makers shouldn't have the design of what ever they are showing be so radical that the audience is confused what it is and therefore also taken out of the movie.