adywan said:
On the whole light source direction thing...... I guess everyone has forgot the shot of the belly of the Executor where the light source is completely different compared to the following shot? ;) And throughout the whole film the light sources are different between shots. For one example, when the stardestroyer is chasing after the falcon after it leaves Hoth.
True, the shot of the 'Executor's underbelly is lit very differently to how it looks in the wide shot that we immediately cut to afterwards, and that's a good example to mention. (I've shown the enhanced 'Revisited' version at the bottom)
Thankfully, you've been able to nicely match the look of those 2 shots together now...but I just think it'd be a pity if we ended up with a different, even more jarring example of badly matching lighting in it's place, than the underbelly shots were (depending on which option you decide on, of course).
Anyway, here's the actual shot sequence from the 2004 release so everyone can properly study the 'lighting' throughout at a glance, and the link to the latest preview clip (which I've still to go into sometime) is at the bottom to see how things move in motion once again, too -
Light source hits the right-hand side of this 'bridge tower' -
Light source also hits the right-hand side of these ships (*note* - this is very start of shot, before the shadow of the 'Executor' affects the lit half of the nearest one) -
And this is approx. the end of the above shot, where we now see the 'Executor's shadow on the lit half of the hull -
And this is the start of the next shot as the 'Executor's shadow now begins to envelop the 'bridge tower' seen here, too -
And this is approx. the end of the above shot -
And the 2 halves of the underbelly of the 'Executor' are badly lit at this point -
Whereas the 2 halves of the underbelly are better lit during this shot, in a way which makes it (correctly) seem as if the overall lighting is still coming from the right-hand side of the Stardestroyer beneath it -
And here's adywan's correctly-matching version of the 2 underbelly shots -
And here's the link to the actual clip again - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=415356061905210