I saw the magazine ImagineFX at the bookstore today (and would have bought it if it weren't $16) which featured a piece on the art of Star Wars. I realized that much of the artistic design for the PT was pretty decent. I even had appreciation for the work of Terryl Whitlatch who designed Jar Jar. I definitely appreciated that she hinted she didn't like what was done with Jar Jar on the screen. I liked the hippy Yoda design. I liked that one of the vehicle designers criticized the excessive use of CGI which looked like "plastic" and that the universe ended up looking too pristine, unlike the OT which he loved for its realistic dirtiness accentuated by the film grain.

It all reminded me of the promise and hope for the PT that I felt before '99. And that even the designers who were so enmeshed in creating the PT realize the execution was not good.