Some quick mock ups on x-wing detail and some final thoughts.
I put a display section on the x-wing cockpit to see what it would look like… So yeah I actually like this but I think it would be pretty difficult to do. But it looks like that particular section of the cockpit has exposed rivets and a sort of horizontal rack or screw mount where the display module is meant to fit.
“All the scopes are dead”. My thoughts on this are that there are not any scopes because the display panel is actually missing! But if the display module was included in the cockpit the main display should perhaps be showing some kind of static interference.
So In conclusion on this it’s something that is not easy as it is a travelling overlay and it would also require blurring when the rest of the cockpit would Blur also so many reasons against doing this but I wanted to talk about this and how I feel about it plainly.
This mock up put’s the top detail in which R2-D2 resides so that it matches the model shots of the x-wing as this version of the x-wing just does not have that top detail present. This is actually a fairly simple thing but it does cut in to the steam rising from the near side engine so a downside yet again for doing something like this is that it means an extra steam effect would be required to be added to cover the overlay that has been added.
So you can clearly see the motivation that I desire the x-wing to be more familiar to our first exposure to seeing it but even I will admit it is not without some fairly sizeable hurdles which put it perhaps at not worth the effort but I wanted to show these 2 mock ups just because I think it aligns the x-wing in ESB more with the x-wing in ANH & ROTJ.
Now there is one last thing I care to get off my chest about this particular sequence and It’s not anything related to special effects. But it is more of a very simple thought about Luke and R2-D2 in their predicament and something I have pondered.
Should Luke ask R2-D2 if he is ok?
That might sound a bit silly but it’s something that is a small thing but I think would have added quite a lot.
a simple “how you doing back there?”
or a “You ok?”
Basically they both stop talking to one another and it’s a shame their was no interaction between Luke and R2 after they crash. There is nothing in the script so there never was any interaction planned for that bit as far as I am aware.