Sluggo

Ok, I think I understand the problem of the angles of the bottom of the Cloud City.  It is all about camera angle.  In the top shot, the Falcon is traveling perpendicular to the core of the city, which is on the left as seen from the cockpit.  

The shot of Luke hanging from the vane and the Falcon approaching is filmed as from the center of the city, or with the center of the city behind the camera.  Because of this, the city doesn't slope down from the left or the right, but appears to be sloping up farther in the distance.

I made up one of my rare mock-ups do demonstrate the camera angles.  Granted, I don't think the placement of the models (both the TIE's and the Falcon) is consistent in all of the shots, but I think the sloping of the city is correct and a slope doesn't need to be added to the shots on the vane.

Thanks to savmagoett for the stills.   And the top mock-up has Luke and the Falcon in each other's spots, but it is the camera angles that I am concerned with.

Ripplin said:

Ric Olie said:

I'm going to stick with my new avatar for a while, but that one will be next...

I'd be honored, sir! :) I'd do one of him with his helmet on, but it would cover way too much of his face. I could use him as a base for a standard non-handsome, non-observant Naboo pilot, though.

P.S. Anyone in particular in that pic, or just a standard ollie/ollié? <-- Woo!

Trick invented by Alan "Olié" Gelfand. Heh heh.

 If one was interested in a Lego-inspired drawing of his own self, how might one go about obtaining one?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20100324/US.Obit.Robert.Culp/

This is sad news indeed.  

Maybe that's the healthcare solution we need.  Only have hospitals be open 5 days a week.  Anyone could afford that.

The Postal Service?  Are they still around?

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Nice!  I can't wait to check this out when I get home.

HotRod said:

So, what was this nitpicky thing that guy was on about?

Coz I'm sure that there is no one here who is nitpicky at all....not one little bit!!

 

;)

 Did that snowflake matter ever get resolved?  ;)

savmagoett said:

Sluggo said:

I'm wondering about the above still.  Is Luke outside or inside?  The set makes him look like he is walking inside of a hallway when he ought to be in an alley between buildings.

Now that you're pointing this out, there isn't any window frame or anything, it feels to me the corridor ends on some kind of terrace without real ending, but it doesn't mean it's outside, it could just be the open entrance of the building…

 That's what I'm saying.  It just looks odd to me.  I'm not suggesting a change or anything, I just wanted other peoples two cents on it.

I'm wondering about the above still.  Is Luke outside or inside?  The set makes him look like he is walking inside of a hallway when he ought to be in an alley between buildings.

No brainer.

Krakatoa said:

 

 

 

 Very skilled work!  But why this 'S' for this logo?  Wouldn't the correct one be better?

Thanks for this!  I'd have never thought of making a cover for this one.  Now where did I put my copy....

28. Could be useful for a band that needs a drummer and all the band had were stormtrooper helmets.

are you trolling?

This is going to be a good one!

I cast magic missle!!!

.. you frequent a Star Wars themed internet forum.

You should be less curt, and maybe more amiable.

Sevb32 said:

Sluggo said:

Rogue Leader said:

corellian77 said:

 

I think Star Wars should be completely devoid of any transparent, floating, 3D projection computer interfaces.  I cannot stress how much I HATE those things. ...

I think they're kinda cool but unnecessary... It would take away from what's going on during the movie and would clutter the frame. In real life I would love to have on of those Tony Stark computer on the window-like touch interfaces but for ESB it's not needed. Very nice render though.

 So you rendered this for an idea of what not to do?  That's awesome!

Yeah, they look very high tech, but they will look just as dated in a few years as the monitors on the first Death Star look now.

 Yeah but Lucas put the same dated monitors on the Star Destroyer bridge at the end of ROTS.

 Yup, that proves the point.  The film maker uses his real world technology to make technology look high-tech or futuristic in the film world.  The cathode ray tube displays filmed in 1976 hadn't evolved much in 1982.  The same goes for about every other aspect of film production, right down to the hairstyles.  The displays filmed in 1976 look like they belong in 1976.  The ones in Iron Man or Minority Report or CSI look like they were belong to this current time period.

This is really a double-edged sword, as you want the audience to recognise what appears on screen, but shouldn't have the item (or what ever it happens to be - computer screen, spaceship or gun) be something right off the shelf so it risks suspending the audiences suspension of belief.  On the other hand, film makers shouldn't have the design of what ever they are showing be so radical that the audience is confused what it is and therefore also taken out of the movie.

Monroville said:

Sluggo said:

Monroville said:

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Even in the case of a vent for waste gases, it would still seem odd that you would have an antenna so close to something that could spew toxic chemicals out and damage your antenna...

 I guess I was thinking more of atmospheric gasses being vented. 

Rogue Leader said:

corellian77 said:

 

I think Star Wars should be completely devoid of any transparent, floating, 3D projection computer interfaces.  I cannot stress how much I HATE those things. ...

I think they're kinda cool but unnecessary... It would take away from what's going on during the movie and would clutter the frame. In real life I would love to have on of those Tony Stark computer on the window-like touch interfaces but for ESB it's not needed. Very nice render though.

 So you rendered this for an idea of what not to do?  That's awesome!

Yeah, they look very high tech, but they will look just as dated in a few years as the monitors on the first Death Star look now.

Unless you guys start talking in Apple II E, I'm not going to know what you are talking about.

Monroville said:

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Of course, you'd have to wonder who made the poor design of putting an antenna for things to get caught on right below a disposal hatch... You would think that when Luke falls onto the antenna, there would already be some clothes and junk hanging off that thing from previous door openings...

It's an exhaust vent, not a garbage disposal hatch.   It wouldn't be designed for bits to fall out, so the placement of the vane isn't a big deal.

And I think we are missing the point on the falling chunk of the vane.  The reason they put it in there is to emphasize the danger of Luke falling to his death.  It's a long way down and that thing falling shows it.  It really doesn't matter what it is, just what it does for the movie.