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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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2-Nov-2010, 8:55 AM

Hello, I know I'm probably a few aeons late with this, but I recently found the updated Cloud City approach shot on youtube again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oehCAWqibFs

It's fair, but has a few issues IMHO. First, it seems to suffer from orange-itis, which is to say many films these days - particularly Star Wars Episodes II and III are guilty - suffer from an apparent inability to contain other colours than a deep, brilliant orange. It's almost monochromatic, and somewhat out of tune with the generally more natural coloration of the OT. The clouds are largely fine, but the falcon and the city itself should probably show more of their natural colour rather than being almost chameleon like in their pigmentation.

Secondly, I don't know wtf is up with the shading on Cloud City. I know it's from one of the old mattes? But it's not a particularly good matte TBH. The way it is lit it would have to be... well, almost paper thin actually.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/118/673913-cloud_city_large.jpg

If you see here this matte has a lot better shading with a small but smooth transitional band from direct sunlight to ambient light, which is generally how round things shade when they are matte. And the shot should probably be updated to better reflect the circular nature of the beast.