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TServo2049
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Original Trilogy: Luke's lightsaber color
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6-Feb-2015, 10:41 AM

Oh, I was wondering if the original shot had some secondary animated light reflection off the ceiling beam that was incorrectly interpreted by the SE crew and redone as part of the actual impact. I just realized, no, they did misinterpret a light reflection in the live action as part of the animation. It makes no sense, you can clearly see it's still there before and after the impact animation.

I have heard the SE might have been a little rushed because stuff kept getting added to the workload - wasn't it originally just supposed to be a straight restoration with the Mos Eisley scene and some shots of the space battle redone with CG? (Back when it was just going to be a re-release of the first film - remember that the 1995 VHS promos said "This is the last time you will be able to own the original version *of Star Wars.*") 

But I digress.

Some of the work those other companies did could have been wipes/dissolves. Also, don't quote this as fact, but some optical work may have been done at Disney off-hours. Richard Edlund claims the infamous Mos Eisley "orange blob" optical clone-stamping color mismatch was done at Disney because ILM was down to the wire. Not sure if he got his memory wires crossed, or if that could be true. (I know Harrison Ellenshaw's work was done off-hours at Disney, and I think that's mentioned in the Rinzler book?)

And I think some of the lasers were also done by Peter Kuran, who would later form his own company, which was given a lot of the lightsaber animation work in Jedi. I have a Cinefantastique issue with an interview of him, let me check that sometime.