Tuesday 16 August 2011

SPECIAL EDITION CLASSIC IMAGE: THE "CAPTURED FREIGHTER"


Here's another SPECIAL EDITION image from George Lucas' revised universe of 1997 that I think works very well-a shot of the captured Millennium Falcon in one of the Death Star hangar bays. The expanse of the hangar bay is better realized, the Falcon, though a little longer at its front end, is more detailed, the floor pattern tilings match better from left to right and the bay's right side wall has continuity to Imperial design from later films in comparison to the one originally created in 1977 by effects legend Harrison Ellenshaw. No disrespect intended to the brilliant Ellenshaw though, as, at the time his painting was originally done, no real design continuity for the saga had yet been mapped out.

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