Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist — Page 140

Beautiful matte's, Darth Venal!

Works such as this will go a long way in improving on ROTJ.

Davnes007 said:

Top = Palpy zaps Luke

Bottom = Palpy base jumping ;)

Dang, I have ALWAYS hated that matte, ever since I was a kid. A new and improved one one that doesn't look so obvious would be on the short version of my ROTJ wishlist.

 Yes, in about three years' time. A quick mock-up to tide us over?

vaderios said:

First pic I replaced a good blade with a crappy one. Wait! Im confused.

Second pic I add the missing part on saber's hild and i made glossy the bubble eye of R2 to march with the rest of saga.

Great work Angel! That lightsaber emitter not matching up to the prop always bothered me.

Is there any way to make the Jedi duels look more like they did in the PT?  Nothing drastic.  Mabey have them hold on to the saber with 1 hand or something.

Also, I would add CG buildings on Endor because I never bought how the Empire had one little room controling things.  Make it look intimidating.

I think there needs to be a bigger battlefield.  Show different places on Endor and do some airial shots of Endor to make the battle feel larger.

I think most people would like to see the PT duels look more like OT ones but Mark Hamill frequently asked if he could use different fencing styles and was told by Lucas that lightsabers don't work that way (always in motion is the future, the past....).

It would be very difficult, if not impossible to do convincingly (just look how fake some of Dooku and Sidious' acrobatics look) and to pull it off you'd possibly have to stick Mark's head onto someone else's body.

It would be easier to do with Vader but only a little bit, unless you removed him altogether and replaced him with a double in a suit and matched it perfectly (something else they couldn't do in the PT).

Beefing up the ground battle is much easier and there are plenty of suggestions on this thread for how to do that.

Ghost:

Also, I would add CG buildings on Endor because I never bought how the Empire had one little room controling things.  Make it look intimidating.

You know, I really like that idea. Not overkill, but I think some angle like the Empire destroying the forest to build its base would be a great addition, and deepen the nature vs technology aspect.

Hmm, that's got me a thinking.

The industrializing of Endor  comes up every once in awhile, I wouldn't mind Lucas doing that for a Final Cut. I remember thinking in 97 that there would certainly be more dishes or reactors or whatever on Endor, having just seen what was done to mos eisley. Instead we got...an extended musical number? the hell?

I think it's fine as it is simply due to the fact that Palpatine allowed the rebels to know the location of the shield generator. If there were many buildings around it, it would be a give away/easy to find.

That's why I suggested having a big troop approach sequence (while the Rebels are in the bunker) showing them marching and flying in to take out the small band of Rebels, seen from many angles, so the audience thinks,"How the hell are they going to get out of this one?"

The assembled troops we see in the current versions are about the amount of troops you'd expect to be there anyway, not the entire Legion that Palpatine boasts about.

What was the EU explanation for that? Can't see the Troopers for the trees?

I don't know?

Maybe IG-88 blew the extra troops up trying to take over the universe in revenge for all the battle droids killed in the Clone Wars or something.

Hell hath no fury like a robot scorned.