Wow!, that latest preview was a nice surprise adywan. Fabulous work as always, and the combined effect of all your enhancements (whether big, small, or miniscule) throughout the whole clip blew me away. :)
Anyway, here's some things that came to mind, so please bear with me -
I'm happy to admit that I was one of those who never actually noticed that 'Slave I's peeling paintwork and detailing was different between the 'Han being loaded aboard' shot and the 'taking off' shot, until Jaitea brought it up a few pages back! Thankfully, you'd already sorted it perfectly anyway. Remarkable stuff once again.
But something else struck me as really interesting in your new new shot shown in the comparison pics above - namely, that the main body of 'Slave I' is no longer raised higher above the landing platform, compared to the original shot...
Now, although I personally used to like the original look of the ship perching/hovering(?) higher off the ground upon it's protruding 'Repulsor Generator' (as shown in this diagram) - http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/archive/0/0b/20081015144046!SlaveI_egvv.jpg , I can certainly understand the change, as your new positioning makes it tie-in nicely with the way it was shown lying very 'flat-to-the-ground' in 'Episode II' instead...as seen in this shot example - http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070815224521/starwars/images/9/99/Slave_I.jpg
(Bloody prequels... - due to that very different landing position seen in Ep.II, and because I didn't like the change of colour-scheme the ship was given, I've previously chosen to look at it as merely being a 'similar-looking' type of ship as 'Slave I'...but not actually THE 'Slave I' that older 'Boba' eventually pilots in ESB! Of course, I sometimes prefer to look on the current versions of the official prequels as being nothing more than some kind of bizarre 'alternate universe' version of 'Star Wars', totally unrelated to the Original Trilogy movies altogether! But I digress, and seeing as it's meant to be the same ship, I just wish George had also used something resembling the classic ESB colour-scheme for Ep.II in the first place, albeit newer and not so beat-up at that earlier point. Ho hum) :)
However, as you're thankfully planning to revisit Ep.II one day anyway, then this new 'flat-to-the-ground' landing position in 'ESB:Revisited' will be one continuity difference less between your versions. I could just continue to 'imagine' that 'Jango' uses a *different* ship in Ep.II, but on the other hand, I guess the likes of the protruding 'Repulsor Generator' and any other details that are seen to stick out a little beyond 'Slave I's underbelly can just be 'imagined' as retracting back inside a little, when it comes in to land...and retract back out again a little, as it takes off... So it's all good at the end of the day. :)
Anyway, coming to my *main* point about this particular new shot in ESB:R, I just wondered if there should also be a subtle hint of the 'boarding ramp' seen in Ep.II added to the right-hand side of 'Slave I''s main body when Han is being loaded aboard? I only ask as the ramp noticeably juts out slightly further from the main body of the Ep.II version. It's certainly no biggie, but for a better look at how the ramp fully extends and retracts on the Ep.II version, check out the 0 mins. 14 secs. mark, and the 2 mins. 41 secs. mark on this clip here -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tMZdrUx8eM
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Onto a couple of other small queries now, and here's a link to your latest clip to make things easier to refer to - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=862811780401072&set=vb.223279371020986&type=2&theater
1. As a big fan of the additional 'life' that your added 'distant ships' bring to the city shots, is it possible after Boba's close-up to include even just one tiny, moving element in the background somewhere when we cut away to your new shot of Han being loaded aboard Slave I at the 4 mins. 16 secs. mark? And also/or to your new shot of Slave I taking off at the 4 mins. 51 secs. mark?
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2. And I'm also a big fan of the idea of seeing an occasional 'slowly blinking' red light atop a building or two, again to add some additional 'life' and 'movement' to the city shots. There's certainly the odd shot where that could potentially done, so again, perhaps you could consider if that's something that's worth doing or not.
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3. And going back to something involving added 'distant ships' - I see you've altered the ones on your shot of Slave I seen through the corridor windows seen at 4 mins. 39 secs. But because all three of them are moving in the same kind of *upwards* trajectory compared to the non-upwards trajectory we've seen of 'distant ships' in other shots up till then, it kinda makes it look that the ships are already starting to get the hell outta the city at that point...
...but Lando hasn't been seen to give his announcement yet at the 8 mins. 42 secs. mark which comes a good bit after that particular Slave I shot appears, so do you think it might be better if at least a couple of those new elements could revert back to just flying in a horizontal flightpath instead, still unaware of the announcement that Lando's about to make?
It now looks like the ships are evacuating already *before* he makes his announcement, if you see what I mean, because they are *all* travelling upwards in your new shot. But if you were to consider altering things back to the more horizontal flightpaths that the current Blu-ray elements have, we would then get our first look at several ships evacuating upwards in your 'Lando and Leia in corridor with windows' shot seen at 9 mins. 47 secs. in the clip.
I just think that would be a far more impactful and effective shot to initially see the reaction to Lando's announcement from a little earlier, and we then see all your further 'upwards trajectory' elements that continue to escape in other shots that come after that 'corridor windows' shot, of course.
(By the way, your lowered Slave I platform in that shot to the same level as our running heroes is a really neat improvement. Love it!)
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4. Another little thought about the 'Han being loaded aboard' shot - should the length of your new, thin Slave I 'shadow' be made *slightly* longer on the left-hand side of the shot to indicate the sun is beginning to lower in relation to the city at that point? I'm not quite sure about this, but I think it might tie-in even better with the moody approaching 'evening' skies look of all your other terrific backgrounds, that follow soon afterwards. Once again, see what you think.
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5. And just a last little query - I see that the lights surrounding your Slave I 'landing platform' shots seen at the 4 mins. 16 secs. mark and the 4 mins. 51 secs. mark of your clip, are quite yellowish-looking compared to the very white ones that are seen on your Falcon 'landing platform' shots. But should the Slave I platform lights be equally white as well?...or is this a slight difference you're choosing to do to differentiate the look of the two separate platforms? Just curious.
(The new shot of Slave I taking off is also terrific by the way, and it's good to finally see that added 'canopy' in motion!) :)
