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Interesting.I had always thought it was all a painting, but...
"Now, since I was coming in a bit late, I thought, why don’t we do things a bit differently, that is, use a photograph of this thing. It’s a technique that nobody really said much about because a lot of people thought it was cheating.
The shot happens at magic hour on Cloud City; there needed to be a real glow to it. So we took the model outside in the parking lot of ILM and we waited for a magic hour and I took my Hasselblad camera and I photographed it with natural light, with the cross-light of the sun just as it was going down. Then we took that to a still lab and had them blow it up onto color print film. That’s what got placed on the glass."
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Of course they flipped it since that is technically the wrong side
"Now, since I was coming in a bit late, I thought, why don’t we do things a bit differently, that is, use a photograph of this thing. It’s a technique that nobody really said much about because a lot of people thought it was cheating.
The shot happens at magic hour on Cloud City; there needed to be a real glow to it. So we took the model outside in the parking lot of ILM and we waited for a magic hour and I took my Hasselblad camera and I photographed it with natural light, with the cross-light of the sun just as it was going down. Then we took that to a still lab and had them blow it up onto color print film. That’s what got placed on the glass."
‘Empire Strikes Back’ at 40: How iconic Slave 1 matte painting was done
Behind the scenes of the Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back matte painting with Harrison Ellenshaw. Boba Fett, Slave 1, Industrial Light & Magic, ILM, VFX,
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Of course they flipped it since that is technically the wrong side
