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Monroville said:

adywan said:

Now onto the Carbon chamber issue. I was looking over your plans to have the chamber at the top of the shaft but this creates more problems than it solves. That is a hell of a long way for Luke to travel to find Vader and really doesn't make sense. Why would Vader run all that way away from Luke just to lure him to the vane? All that needs doing is redesigning the actual vane so it can contain the carbon chamber at the top and explain where the corridors that led them to the chamber disappeared to. Its quite plain to see now i have gone through the Luke jumping down from the chamber to the pipe that you can clearly see that behind him is the base of the carbon chamber as the architecture and piping is very similar. It is meant to be one complete sequence as you see Luke drop from the chamber (even though you can clearly see that he jumps from hanging onto a pole in the first few frames of the pipe sequence, but this was just to simulate his drop during filming). So this means that the carbon chamber is indeed meant to be built into the vane. Now it looks like i'll have to build some sort of model for the vane shot and do a lot of redesigning, but at the same time keeping the look of the original. 

Also i won't be extending the actual carbon chamber in any way. Although it does look pretty cool in the McQuarrie paintings i feel that the limitations reached during filming actually helped the scene and gave that claustrophobic feel that this scene needs. Make the chamber look to big with all these extending platforms and your treading too close into PT  territory for my liking. if you look at the PT everything is just so expansive and flashy which just became a show piece and did nothing to help create any sort of mood for the scene. Less can be more.

Fair enough, but will you make the connecting arm to the Vane thicker to account for having to hold up the weight of the Vane itself?  I guess that's one reason I never thought the carbon chamber was in the vane itself but either above it or within the shaft wall, and that the tunnel Luke went through was the connecting rod TO the vane - the connecting post to the vane/pod (whatever you call it) just didn't look strong enough to support a structure other than something that was mostly empty or a bunch of corridors.

Yeah that's what I thought.

rcb said:

but if word got out, adywan may get in trouble and those who've downloaded any revisited versions of the films.

That's just unwarranted fear mongering.

Hey Ady I was wondering if we're still gonna get a comparison copy of the yoda tweaks? I showed a friend the one we have now and he couldn't tell what was different. Keep up the awesome work. =)

Wow, had I been standing up while watching that my rear would be firmly planted into the ground now.

But it says they're playing it through the 24th.

Are there any clips of this anywhere?

Sounds awesome. Perhaps....after you've completed this project you would maybe think about a Force Unleashed movie?

I've always thought it would be interesting to replace the DS in ANH with the Star Destroyer that captures the Tantive IV. So you have the princess rescued from there. Though that does leave a window open about Alderaan.

That's cool SKot, so he made a dvd copy from the original then?

I'm not entirely sure but it sounded like he did from what he said.

Hey everyone, I think I might have found a new copy of the Holiday Special. Back around February I was browsing around on Youtube and found this pristine scene (for youtube) from the Holiday Special. I'm no expert on the various copies floating around out there but it's the cleanest copy I've ever seen. So I contacted the uploader asking about where he had gotten his copy and he told me the following:

One that I found myself! The guy recorded it at SP mode on a VHS tape, if you believe it. It's too bad he didn't leave the commercials in, but other than that it's complete.

Rick

I told him that you guys might be interested in it and he was completely open to being contacted about it. What do you guys think?