Bingowings

Ric could you possibly describe to us what a typical forum page on originaltrilogy.com looks like?

I'm sure we would all love to know.

Typographical errors are a facked of life ;-)

We all do it so please be kind to each other's mistakes.

Piett isn't Vader, the Tydirium had an older code so he was a bit suspicious about it, he freely admits he would have let them pass anyway but he picks up on Vader's hesitation and speaks up.

Vader on the other hand knows Luke is there but wants him to land without making a fuss about it (Vader doesn't seem to be the type to chin-wag with his underlings on his coffee break).

Sorry but this is something of an obsession of mine, if Boba Fett can go so can those pesky medical droids :

21B or not 21B?

doubleofive said:

Darth Venal said:

The line seals it.

Piett was about to clear them even with the older code and after hearing where they were going.  There is no hint of suspicion on Piett's part, IMO.  To me, the scene almost plays as if Piett goes through this all the time with Vader and is playing along as Vader stares off into the distance for a minute or two.  Why is Piett even doing this, since the Executor probably doesn't hang around the DS2 all the time.  Shouldn't the DS have its own group to handle this?

The new shuttle design comes from the idea that Vader and Palpatine should have executive shuttles and the Rebels having the same design for "parts and technical" seems rather odd.  You'd think they'd have an older shuttle to go with their older code, and for a design we've never seen until this movie (SE notwithstanding), it just makes sense to have an older/different design, at least to me.

I can see why they wanted to give the shuttle model a lot of screen time (it was expensive and it looked great) but shuttle says personnel to me and since the SE we have had the larger transporter which screams materiel at me.

It's sufficently obscured in ANH:SE to get away with using the cockpit of the shuttle as the cockpit of the transporter so all we would need would be a new model.

A new craft for the Emperor creates problems because the underside of the set would have to match any new model you make (which would mean not only making a new matte or model but designing one that matches the bottom of the shuttle).

Removing the shuttle status from the Tydirium frees up some nice shots of the model to use on Vader's landing or Palpatine's landing for added impact.

Darth Venal said:

but you're forgetting, the fact that Han says they are conveying parts and supplies is the reason Piett and Vader know they are lying, so the shuttle should stay as it is.

If we want/need to vary the overused shuttle design, it's far simpler to alter the Emperor's shuttle as it's only seen as a matte painting and then a couple of shots of the terrible studio mock-up. That can be replaced far more easily.

I don't know where you got that idea from.

Piett is sceptical because the code is older and he is possibly picking up on Vader's hesitation (people have been choked for less).

If possible I'd alter the dialogue so Vader says,"Your mother once thought as you do" but even without it the waterfall (and maybe with a snippet of a delicate version of Across The Stars) would be enough to get the idea across.

I don't have a problem with Vader's shuttle but I do think that Tydirium should be a transporter because it's cover is transporting parts and supplies and a bigger ship would allow for more Rebel troops and materiel in the ground battle.

I had a little go with a smaller waterfall :

If the waterfalls could be made to work it would add so much to that scene, especially Vader's plaintive gaze at the end.

It's a subtle way of working Padme into the film without being hamfisted.

Maybe the set could be saved if Angel applied some of those Nostromo texture and lighting effects to those awful plastic walls.

Something like this??? (say is that David Prowse down there with the cap on?):

As for the holotable adding a bit of under seat lighting does put a bit more life into the set:

Sweet, which one?

The daytime or the nightime Angel/Bingo hybrid one (for something not all my own work that one actually took me much longer to do)?

Like you are finding out, matching another persons ideas can be difficult.

Boing, Fizz, Boing, Fizz, Boing, Fizz!

Great stuff.

When that happens I copy the address to the address bar, works 98.765483211% of the time.

All those guys around a conference table would be hilarious.

Ripplin said:

The Uzay stuff is great. Reminds me of my Space Power Warrior. (Vader knock-off) I'll have to take a pic of it sometime. Got it at the dollar store. :)

Oh, so many Darth Phonies to choose from (no not just Jake and Hayden):

http://geek-orthodox.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-find-your-lack-of-authenticity.html 

If only we could get them all in one scene, it would be the cat fight of the century.

I think she's bewildered and happy at the sudden resurgence in her fame/bank balance (most of which she will probably give away to her boys and the various other charities she supports) not bad for a 92 year old.

She also took those bloodthursty guttersnipes, the BNP to court for using her music to promote it's vile perverted politics.

A national treasure.

If only she could get together with Joanna Lumley and run the country.

Dame Vera Lynn has kept the Beatles off the top spot here in the UK.

It says something when recordings from the 40's steal the crown from recordings from the 60's in 2009.

That's what she said...(arrrrrgh I'm turning into Michael Scott this comedy personna thing is infectious).

BTW malodorous = smells bad.

Don't worry Darth Chronus, the problem with typographical errors is that often they are only spotted when you see them in quotes and then even if you correct them the whole world can see them (you know, like the one I made which you quoted when responding to fishy's quote of yours....frel!).

fishmanlee said:

i wonder who this vaderois guy is....

He's Angel's French cousin.

Nice proof of concept (why is it whenever I see animated GIFs Yakety Sax starts playing in my head?).

^^That's Luke's fault for making his saber blade so fat.

"I see you have constructed a....oh shit...sorry....is it supposed to be that big?" 

Lovely Angel.

Now try putting a waterfall on the other side.

How about attempting to turn the Uzay blister cards into scenes in the movies (a giant calculator in the superlaser control room would be mega cool) :

http://theswca.com/images-speci/yglesias/uzay.html

P.S. I think Blue Stars could actually work in a Star Wars film:

"Always with you it can not be done"

The reflections are doable.

The film has forward footage from the biker's point of view, loop it, flip it and you have a reflection element.

Take the same footage and render it as a silhouette and you have a tree shadow element (after a bit of distortion).

It doesn't have to be very accurate as most of the footage doesn't need reflections and those that do are mercifully short (the bikers are also not wearing mirrored lenses so that can hide a lot of kludging).

It's not easy but it's not impossible.

I got a glimpse at the fully installed *beeep* and the sad thing is only nerds like us will notice (but I'm sure Ady is used to people assuming his hard work was there all along).