Monroville

Knightmessenger said:

Thanks for posting those. What did you do to make them appear? I think for the worm it would be better to focus on the frame of the Millenium Falcon cockpit. That's too big to match up with the next exterior shot. So just changing the grid outline (which I think someone has already done in another part of the trilogy) I think would be the easiest way to fix that.

Actually, an even easier way is:
when you post a message, do you notice the grey area above the message area (where the B I U are?)?  Over on the right side you will see 3 symbols: an upside U, a green screen and a blue box.  Click on the green screen (when your mouse cursor goes over it, it should say "insert/edit image") and copy and paste the web address of the picture on the top line that says "Image URL".

All I did was copy and paste each image web address onto that top line with my post, and WALA!  The pics appear!

Also, when you want to break up the grey box that contains a quote from a previous poster, using the "-double quotes character that highlights as "Blockquote".  If someone has a REALLY big post and you want to comment on one thing at a time, you can break up the quote this way and insert your answers so everyone can tell who is who.

Knightmessenger said:

Okay I don't know if it's too late to make these revisions or if they could even be done at all but I finally got a chance to record some stuff off the Empire dvd. Here are my pet peeves none of which were fixed in 1997 or 2004.

That lame symettrical ceiling. Yeah I just don't like it. This is supposed to be in a hidden base that I assume was hastily assembled. It looks too well made and professionally done. And I don't like the design either. Boring!

It looks like pre-fab construction.  If anything, that's exactly how a hastily put-together base would look.

The wall behind C3P0. It seems like it's supposed to be a cave wall carved out of ice. Instead it looks like a cheap set of prefabricated plastic molded to look like a cave wall. Would there be any way you could make the wall look more like ice instead of shiny plastic?

This one I can kinda see where you are coming from.  It never bugged me, since it looks like someone did some carving with some sort of tool (laser or otherwise) and it looks good enough I never really noticed.  Even then, not sure what you can do with it other than add some slight texturing (like how light glitters off of snow: a good example would be some of the Jor-El Krypton scenes in SMALLVILLE of all places to see what I mean.

And this one really gets me. When the Millenium Falcon is inside the asteroid worm it displays this unbelievable ability to shrink itself. This also happens when they escape the mother ship from Independence Day. I just hate how the audience is basically told "from this scale there's no way they can escape *wait* the scale has been changed and the ship is a lot smaller in the next shot. They're going to make it after all." It just seems like it's cheating. 

In other words the scale of the cockpit window to the worm's teeth does not match up with the exterior shot scale of the ship slipping through the teeth.

 

I think the problem is that (without seeing the footage in motion) the mouth is closing too much in the 2 earlier shots compared to the speed the MF is moving towards the teeth.  Either the mouth shot in the 2 first images should be bigger (ie the MF is closer) or the mouth needs to be open more (so when we get the 3rd shot above, the MF speed matches with the mouth closing movement).

If you go by the mouth movement in the first 2 shots, by the time the MF closes the gap it would have hit the already closed mouth and exploded on the inside of the teeth... unless it used its guns to blow one of the teeth out to create an opening for escape.

Here is an image in reference to the bottom of the SnowSpeeder and the big box under Luke's SS when it takes off in the hanger:

http://img141.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=98565_sw5_1_122_226lo.jpg (SS in upper left corner)

(the box would have to be digitally erased and the hanger in the background recreated if this shot is to be altered)

But something else I never thought of before: in a lot of TIE fighter shots from behind you never really see the red engine lights on their ION engines.  Here is an example:

http://img137.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=98589_sw5_6_122_701lo.jpg#

Maybe we could have some fainting Taun-Tauns?  Maybe?  No?

Or better still, you could replace the AT-ATs with giant Taun-Tauns with stormtroopers riding their backs.. you know, unlike LORD OF THE RINGS.  It wouldn't be anything like LORD OF THE RINGS.

adywan said:
Not the cockpit thing again. Tinting the windows red would mean i would have to tint the inside of the cockpit red too. natural light is lighting up the inside of the cockpit which means that inside would have to have the red tint too or it would be totally unnatural, which i'm not prepared to do just because of one shot and only one AT-AT has a red tinted cockpit.It is a totally unnecessary change.

Cool enough.  Like the green AT-AT lasers, I'll do this on my own.

Giving the Taun Tauns ears movement could well be an impossible task and keep it looking real at the same time. I'll give it a go but i'm not promising anything

One thing you could do is watch a few shows with goats, cows and other animals with similar ear shapes and just watch how their ears move.  For example: every so often the ears on a pig or cow will twitch or wiggle rapidly for a second or two.  You could even have the ears prick up right before or during the Taun-Taun acting up as it hears and smells the Wampa approaching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMcbtmfDrVs

ImperialFighter said:

adywan said:

Adding red windows to the AT-Ats would mean that i would have to tint the insides red and fake lighting looks just that.. fake, and i am not prepared to do that, especially when it doesn't need to be done.

One thing you have to remember is that i am not a miracle worker. I can only work with what footage i have available.

 

You know, not to beat a dead horse or anything, one could always color the windows red and keep the cockpit interiors the same.  Remember the X-wing and snowspeeder pilots had tinted goggles to prevent blindness from laserfire, so the possibility of red AT-AT windows could work in the same degree (being that Veers didn't have any protection, so to speak).  I'm going to work on the cockpit shots to see what I can come up with and post them later.

Regardless, this looks like something I'll have to work on.

Ripplin said:

I think a lot of radio hosts do that, not just Bob and Tom. I mean, if they don't laugh, it's just kinda dead air. And most suck up to the host anyway. :p

No, you don't understand.  For the most part, when they laugh, it's fairly natural and you're pretty much laughing with them (because whatever they're laughing at is usually pretty damn funny), BUUUT there are those special moments when a comic says something that's eh, kinda funny, and Bob or Tom LAUGH... BADLY.  I mean that fake, forced laughter that some suck-up does that is so obvious you want to bitch-slap them like Terrance and Phillip did to animated Brooke Shields.

That is how SE Wampa looked after getting his arm sliced.

And I'm in Louisville (you know, the city that gets nuked at the end of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD)

And Ady?  I would just keep the original JEDI ending strickly on Endor.  Regardless of how long it would take for word to get out, it just felt like extra FX being shoved in with a convenient universe sized night-club party.  While the "nub-nub" song nubs on my soul, after watching the SEs it's one of those things where you realize the original way was still better (read: less convoluted and more straight-forward).  You know, like after watching the Sci-Fi DUNE mini-series, it just made me appreciate the David Lynch DUNE that much more.

Then again, you could always have Carrie Fisher's Life Day song play over the end credits.

Just as long as the Wampa looks like this:





and not this (I think it's the lack of a nose and recognizable face that's kinda odd - besides, I like the Yeti look):



Not to mention that bit with the NeoWampa waggling around in pain after his arm was lopped off looked pretty hokey (you know, kind of like when Bob and Tom start doing the really loud fake laughing just to make their guest feel good?)

TheoOdo said:

No central, identifiable sympathetic main cast and no nasty antagonist. I was ready to accept Darth Maul in that role but that didn't really work out, did it?

Hence all of the Darth Grevious stuff (Vaderized Darth Maul)

TheoOdo said:

Rhikter said:

I don't like the idea of all the Jedi having blue lightsabers. It seems too tyrannical and uninclusive which is not what the Republic is about.

Well, I hadn't ever thought of it like that. What I really wanted was to show that Luke's new green lightsaber of ROTJ was a whole new age for Jedi, a symbol of the new republic and something that had never existed before.

It's not really supposed to be about uniformity but rather to give Luke's green saber that much more significance.

Well, let's keep in mind that most religions are nothing BUT about uniformity.  The blue lightsabres just show that all of the Jedi are on the same path to enlightenment (I really love the earlier idea of the Jedi and Sith seeking 2 different ends of the Force and not being connected to any governments).

TheoOdo said:

I posted about it earlier, but here's two examples of gray colored battle droids which (I believe, anyway) look more mechanical an thus embody the nature-technology conflict that's present in a lot of Star Wars and could go some way to making them a little more intimidating...

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Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I personally like the idea of all Old Republic Jedi using blue sabers.

Okay, now I'm just having fun but here's Maul-Grievous. It'd certainly give Maul more purpose, but might be damn difficult to actually get in there.

THAT is pretty freakin COOL!  I concur with all of the above!

and NO MIDI-CHLORIANS!  Jeez, either the Force is an energy wave that encompasses all living things (you know, GOD) that people can tap into or it is microscopic bacteria that you have or you don't.  In the later case, why even say to someone "May the Force be with you"?  Either it is or it isn't.  Don't have midi-chlorians?  Sorry buddy!  My bad!  It makes anyone saying the line stupid or an a-hole and damn near negates everything Obi-Wan and Yoda say in ANH and ESB.

Jebus Ady, this is going to take a loooot of work.  I do not envy you on this one.

ben_danger said:

getting rid of 3po would mean the throw away line "have the protocol droids mind wiped" would go too (please!) i do like the idea that r2 and 3po have probably been wandering around the tantive IV corridors endlessly for 20 years. so they just end up bitching at each other out of boredom eventually.

not sure if this is too personal ady, but where exactly are you from? i was pleasantly surprised that you had a midlands accent!

Let's not forget that the reason 3P0 and R2 have personalities is BECAUSE they've never had their minds wiped!  To do so would turn them into Bender without his brain.

adywan said:

RoccondilRinon said:

I just found this thread and have to say I love the idea of removing references to Naboo and calling the planet Alderaan. If it can be pulled off, it should be done.

But you would have to remove the end battle from TPM totally for a start. Remember Leia says "Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons"  yet the Gungans do and Naboo have starfighters. Then there's the matter of Bail organa. Now in the PT a senator represents the planet. Palpatine is senator for Naboo then becomes chancellor and Padme then takes his place, but Bail is also a senator. There are just too many things that would need to be changed to make Naboo into Alderaan without making the PT even more conflicting with the OT than it is already

 

I would have to disagree with you there, Ady.  Granted, it would take some work, but here is how you can do it:

(1) weapons: being that this is a good 20 to 40 years before ANH (if not 50), you could make it in Episode 2 or 3 (whenever the Emperor gets his complete power over the senate to create the army) that some or all worlds agreeing to the Chancellor getting his war power have to disband their own personal armies - thus Alderaan (and alot of other worlds) become weaponless and thus more open to Imperial entanglements.  All it would take is one or two lines of dialogue (and not even from a main character) to state that.

(2) Padme is the Queen: she shouldn't even be in the senate.  Granted, they have the bit where she gives up her Queenship to become a senator, but that can be removed or rejiggered so she is still the Queen.  Thus, Palpatine is the first acting senator, who is then replaced by Bail Organa, with the Queen making her presence in the senate to warn the other worlds of the consequences of giving the Chancellor the war powers act.  It would be no different that us having a President AND a representative at the UN.

- Also, get rid of the stupid "I got voted Queen again" bit.  Votes and Royalty do not mix.      Either you're King or Queen until death or you're something other than a monarchy.

Also also keep in mind that Leia is a princess, thus Padme almost has to remain a Queen in order for Leia to retain her royal heritage (which is kind of odd if her father is not a member of nobility).

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Another idea is to go by the first draft of THE STAR WARS, where upon Alderaan was the capital of the Empire, not Coruscant.  I always imagined one of the reasons Tarkin picked Alderaan was not just that it was Princess Leia's home, but that it was the former capital of the Old Republic (which was replaced by Coruscant with the creation of the Empire - ie the contrast between Rome [the old empire] and Constantinople [the new empire]).  Destroying it would be a final symbolic gesture that the Republic was truly dead.

The bottom line is that Alderaan should play a major part in the prequels to give the destruction in ANH some more weight - you know, other than the billions of people dying and all.

Besides, isn't Alderaan a much better sounding name than friggin Naboo?  I mean, that sounds like something Mork would say!  It's like Django Fett.  Hey, if you're going to bring up Django, why not call him NERO Fett (as in Franco Nero, who played Django)?  Doesn't that have a better ring to it than Django (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/)?

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Speaking of which, why is it that the simplistic and one could argue goofy names in the first 3 STAR WARS films sound cool or fitting (Greedo, Jabba the Hut, Han Solo, Darth Vader, Lobot, Rancor, Sarlacc, hell, even EWOKS, etc) and the names in the prequels sound stupid or beyond childish (Jar Jar, Padme, Naboo, Darth Maul and Sidious, COUNT DOOKU, etc)?  I mean, Lucas named a villian after a Number 2 fer chrissake! 

If he was intending that, couldn't he have just called him Count Bono (http://www.metatube.com/play/6374/South-Park---More-Crap.html)?

from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjurEMpGrwY

I agree with the above poster that the AT-ATs need to be spread out a little more on 0:59.  Maybe have the front 2 or 3 AT-ATs shoot in the first volley shot (right after the binoc reveal).  It also looks like the AT-AT on the furthest left doesn't move (looks like it is sitting still)  As a suggestion, you could create 2 "V" patterns of 5 AT-ATs to suggest a formation as opposed to a random group.

And I really wish you would reconsider taking out the red windows.  It would have been really cool to see all of those AT-ATs with the red windows (especially in the close-up head shots; we could have seen Veers and co. inside).  It would really help take away the "modelly" look.

I would also have the snowspeeders from 0:49 to 0:58 go forward and up as opposed to just forward so it doesn't look like they are on tracks.  Also check out 0:22; is that large boxey area underneath Luke's snowspeeder supposed to be there (or is that there for the crane that was lifting the mock-up)?

Notice that the boxey area underneath Luke's SS goes all the way down to the bottom of the wings.  If you watch the fly-over at 1:08 the bottoms are relatively flat.

Also, should there be an extra SS on the right at 1:11 to 1:12?  Everything seems to be bunched to the left of the screen.

Octorox said:

Well maybe the force led him there to find Yoda? Idk. I understand your point, I just think the way Dagobah looks it could easily be Hoth or Bespin. Perhaps if you had the clouds move across the surface? There could be more cloud cover than ROTS but perhaps it's moving so that no area stay's bare for long. Luke could shoot for a bare spot but by the time he gets there the clouds have reached that point.

Maybe that's the trick then: alter Bespin's look to be more like Yavin.

I can understand Dagobah retaining the heavy cloud cover per Adywan's arguement, but Octorox has a point in that all 3 planets look damn near identical.  Granted, Yavin doesn't have to look red-orange like Yavin, but something has to be done to "Jupiter" it up, so to speak.

On link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUYU2G4Fp0w&feature=related

Beginning on 2:50, if you follow Lando and the group through the city hallways, you will notice that some of the windows show blue sky outside (even though it was dusk at their arrival at the landing pad).  Later on, when C3P0 is shot and the door closes, when Chewbacca shows up, you can see the orange tint from the outside lighting.

You will want to keep an eye on the windows to make sure the outside lighting is consistent.

And just to ask, on 3:37 I believe you mentioned you will be using the original "Who are you?" audio clip.  Granted, I understand the voice was the way it was so as to develop the mystery, but would you consider making the voice sound like the Stormtroopers in ANH (with the mike sound and voice pitch)?  No biggie, just an idea.

But please get rid of the stupid red thing that was added to the left side of the shot in the SE on 1:11 here (this clip has the original unaltered scene): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHwBJuwpD6E&feature=related.   This original shot is so much better.

You may want to consider altering this shot too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKo1yLgKbK8&feature=related at 3:49).  Considering the earlier scenes with Luke jumping down from the carbonite platform, going into the tunnel, fighting in the hallway, and then they are outside a large pod inside the central core under the cloud city - how did they get into the top of the pod?

Look, I apologize for all the Luke-Leia-Vader stuff; it was pretty late on my end and it was something that bugged me for over 15 years and I just started venting.

The bottom line point (if nobody's figured this out, which they have) is that Lucas has been pulling monkeys out his arse since the first movie.  Yeah, yeah, yeah its STAR WARS - there is no possible way to explain it other than it happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, or so I heard.

There is not much you can do to fix some of the more arse monkey things other than try to twist your mind around them and justify them to the point of absurdity (you know, like Republicans with W. and Democrats with Clinton.  BTW, That is THE BEGINNING AND END of political mentions - notice I insult/compliment both groups.  The end).

I guess just as long as the Hoth and Endor battles are tremendous I'll be okay, stupid and sporadically useless Force powers and all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThHuHoo5L0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSIlAlSFMm0&feature=related

"Quick man!  Grab tenaciously to my buttocks!"
"BOTH of them?!?!"

Rhikter said:

Originally posted by Monroville:

"...who you think would have force sensed Luke in the first movie..."

I think that Vader was so consumed by his rage and determination to finally kill Obi-Wan that he was blinded/ignored everything else going on around him until after the job was done and he'd basked in his victory for a while.  "This will be a day long remembered.  It has seen the end of Kenobi.  It will soon see the end of the rebellion."

Uhh, Darth was over Tatooine in the beginning of the movie!  Even if he couldn't force sense either Luke nor Obi-Wan due to distance (maybe his long distance Force bill wasn't paid yet or he didn't have any "bars"), he WAS able to force sense Obi on the Death Star (being that he was on the MF just a few yards away).  Granted, he may not have recognized it until later, but if he could pick up Obi he could pick up Luke, especially since EMPIRE and JEDI amped the Force sense thing to 100,000 mile+ distances!

Let's not also forget that Darth Vader kinda GREW UP on Tatooine, built C3P0 and knew what R2-D2 looked like among other things.  I mean, if we are to pretend that the Prequels exist as part of the real STAR WARS universe (which I don't), then NONE of this makes sense: would Ben be so stupid as to hide Vader's kid on the same planet Vader grew up on?!  And in the same exact TOWN?!?  And again, if Vader could pick up Luke from a shield generator image a few light years away, I think he could pick him up a few FEET away on the MF after it arrived on the Death Star I, not to mention when he was SHOOTING AT HIS OWN KID in the Death Star trench!

And let's not even talk about Vader NOT knowing Leia was his daughter when he was interrogating her with a MIND PROBE!  Sure, she could have hidden her knowledge of the Death Star tape whereabouts, but everything else would have been an open book, especially with his super sith force powers.

Besides, Vader wasn't consumed by rage or determination or anything.  When he said the whole "day long remembered" it was just a speech.  He wasn't doing a Nuremburg Hitler thing nor a Gary Oldman THE PROFESSIONAL thing either.  THAT would be consumed by rage and determination,

as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k08A0aVs8OI

and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs

notice the animated movement and extremely loud voices - hence, consumed.

DarthRayne said:

Rhikter said:

Originally posted by Adywan:

"So in ROTS you will not have Anakin named as Vader or even see him don the costume. The last we see of Anakin is being led away in the life support chamber after it leaves the shuttle."

Does this mean that you are not one who believes that the entire Star Wars saga is about the downfall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker?
Also, doesn't not having Anakin in the suit conflict with Obi-Wan's line: "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil..."?  How will you get around that?

 

Yeah Ady, you may want to reconsider that one.

 

That always bugged me since JEDI: how is it that Luke Skywalker was sent to Tatooine to hide out from his dad (who you think would have force sensed Luke in the first movie, much less on the Death Star on multiple occasions OTHER than "the force is strong with this one.. wait just a minute... HOLY CRAP, THAT'S MY KID! ... did those things just go in?... Oh crap) and yet whoever hid him was stupid enough to use his real name?!  I always thought that maybe Vader was the real name and Skywalker was the alias.  Darth could still be a title (like Duke), but Vader wouldn't have to change his name whereas Luke would (being in hiding).

And I still think the sister gag has to go.  Darth being the dad is enough without things going into CRACKED magazine territory...

Leia: "So , are we going to get married now?"
Han: "I don't know.  I could be your uncle."  (or maybe your DAD considering Harrison Ford was 40 and Carrie Fisher was 21 when EMPIRE was made... and yes, Harry was boning the Princess).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ynI9kV7IY

http://www.cracked.com/article_16570_6-most-depressing-happy-endings-in-movie-history.html

Um, are they going to eat Yoda?!

adywan said:

As for the stardestroyers i won't be changing their colour to match the Executor. The stardestroyers have never had a blue tint to them. If you look at the OUT you'll see that the stardestroyers colouring is now correct.

And i have mentioned before that i won't be adding any form of red tint to Veers AT-AT cockpit. it is red in 1 shot only. All other shots the red tint does not exist. So I'll be removing the red cockpit from that single shot.

I wish you would reconsider (and maybe make a test to see what it look like).  Kinda stinks about the non-red tinting - that would have been pretty cool and maybe even consistent with the TIE cockpit interiors - which may not have had a red tint, but had a lot of red lighting inside (would you consider at least showing people inside the cockpit, at least on the AT-AT head close-ups?).  :<

Maybe if you had red lights behind veers ala the TIE cockpits as opposed to a complete red wash over the image?  That way you could keep the red AT-AT windows and still have more natural colors inside the cockpit shots.  Also, would you consider overlaying graphics on the AT-AT windows when we see the driver perspective shots (ala ANH with the Death Star view screen)?

As far as the SDs go, I was just mentioning how brownish they look.  I understand that they should stand apart from the Executor, I'm just saying that they may be a little too much on the brown side.

Just compare a lot of the SD shots in EMPIRE to the earlier image of JEDI with Vader's shuttle leaving to the Death Star 2 (or the alternate Needa shuttle shots).

I know it's a ways off, but when Luke pulls off Vader's mask in JEDI, here is a possible take on what to do with the reveal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6JloWnQRp0&NR=1

at 5:08: "I imagined that beneath the mask Vader was hideous; his mouth was cut away, and he had one eye hanging low..."

Maybe instead of seeing Ani's whole face, you could just do a close-up on the eyes with Luke giving a disgusted, saddened look (?)

DarthBo said:

Or she's at the same wall, but the camera's on the other end...

I have to say this shot never really bothered me, I had a look at the AVCHD, so the flip wouldn't confuse me, and it's quite obvious to me that in the first shot we're looking at Leia from where Han is (at the door). We then move to the other end of the room (passing Leia) to the general, we turn around, and now we're looking at Leia from the other end of the room.

           General
            
Leia      
             
             Han

Thus, Leia can't be at 2 ends of the same room at the same time.

Have we proven ourselves to be Star Wars fans yet?  And can someone bring up the snowflake again?

DarthBo said:

The flipping was done for a reason, why flip it back?

EDIT: the flipping doesn't put Leia on opposite ends of the room, Han is the one that moves from one end to the other, so obviously if Leia's in the middle, she should be "flipped".

The problem is that the first shot puts Leia on the left side of the room (she is by a row of consoles against a wall, so she can't be in the center of the room; she's either on the left wall or the right wall).  When we see her next, she is on the right side of the room.  Han comes in on the right side of the screen, moves into the center of the room towards the left side where Reiken is.   We see the 2nd shot of Leia AT THE SAME CONSOLE but on the right side of the room instead of the left side (which Han is at now, which should place Leia directly behind him according to the first flipped shot).  Han then turns to leave, looks to the right side of the room and then talks to Leia.  Leia can't be on both ends of the same room.  THAT is why the shot is a problem.

I know you just did the color correction, but would it be possible to make the Star Destroyers a little more blue-gray (or at least take the brown out) to better match with the Executor?  I'm not saying make them THAT blue, but as it stands, they are pretty brownish.

Regardless, here is something to keep an eye on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yws5hO89l3U&NR=1

(1) at 0:35, they show how the first shot of Leia seeing Han enter the command station is flipped (putting her on the other end of the room from Han) and then the other 2 shots are presented correctly, putting her back on the opposite end of the room.  is there any way you can "unflip" the first shot to keep the consistency?

(2) Also check out 4:23 and 4:50 for more Wampa action!

(3) You will also want to keep an eye out for some of the matte shots where the live action doesn't mesh well - such as 2:10 to 2:13 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isRZxiDiH58

(4) In regards to Imperial fleet shots, you could stand to add more ships to the shot at 0:35 and 0:44 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrZrVav1i4&NR=1

(5) You may want to have the snowspeeders lift up a little as well as move forward so they don't look to much like they are on tracks from 1:42 to 1:50.  I guess another idea would be to animate the pilots inside the more distant snowspeeders, maybe do something with the men inside the blown-up snowspeeders (like Rev's when the cockpit gets blown off and we can see the full body of the pilot - maybe put in some arms shielding the face or have the body get sucked out of the cockpit?)

(6) And I'm guessing you will add a red tint to 2:52 to 2:56 (the AT-AT control room with Gen Veers)?