Laserschwert said:

The comparison looks great, except for two bits:

1-40-30/1-40-32 - that one looks more detailed in the 2.0 version (look at Luke's hair, for example).

That's on purpose to make the transition to the GOUT shot less jarring and in movement it really works pretty well. In v2.0 I tried graining those shots up instead but that didn't really work.

1-25-26/1-25-42 - is there a reason why the second shot doesn't use the cleaner and more detailed matte painting of the first shot?

msycamore said:

I would guess he wanted to make a really faithful recreation, even if the same matte painting was used for both shots, the results were not the same, one of them didn't come out looking that well in the original film.

Exactly.

Holy shit Harmy, that's some mighty impressive work! Beautiful job on the colors, didn't think it was even possible to repair them that well, incredible.

Thanks :-)

I don't want to give you more work but one tiny, tiny observation; there was two wires that was eliminated against the sky in the SE, above the left stormtroopers head in pic 0-53-09-06. I don't think anyone will miss them but I just thought I would mention it just in case you didn't know about it and want to work your magic on it in the future.

If I ever do another version, I'll look into it :-)

Fireproof710 said:

How did you do the dust removal? Manually or did you use something like PFClean?

No, manually, frame by frame, spot by spot - I missed some here and there but it really improves the over-all look of those shots.

chyron8472 said:

Which of these two looks better?

The bottom one's a bit better, I think. But I'm sorry to say I don't think this looks at all official, which as you say was your goal. I don't mean to be mean, just my opinion. But the important thing is that you like it after all :-)