Help Needed: Reference pics of the ROTJ Videomatics ILM Previs for the Death Star Attack

[joez2391]

Hello everyone, I am a Star Wars prop collector and have come across some hand painted character cutouts used for pre-visualization shots of the Death Star Attack in Return of the Jedi. The only reference I have been able to find so far is this short clip:

https://www.starwars.com/video/jedi-videomatics-a-moving-storyboard-narrated-by-ken-ralston

Has anyone come across any other clips, stills, etc of videomatics from the death star attack scenes in ROTJ? Id love to try and match up more, i remember seeing photos of the pilot cutouts but i cant seem to find anything. Thanks in advance, any help is greatly appreciated!!

So far, I have matched two of the cutouts to the above video, admiral Piett and the imperial officer right before the a wing takes down the star destroyer.

 

[Halliwax]

Pretty wild!! Thanks for sharing this, unfortunately i have no experience with this

 

[joberg]

Hello everyone, I am a Star Wars prop collector and have come across some hand painted character cutouts used for pre-visualization shots of the Death Star Attack in Return of the Jedi. The only reference I have been able to find so far is this short clip:

https://www.starwars.com/video/jedi-videomatics-a-moving-storyboard-narrated-by-ken-ralston

Has anyone come across any other clips, stills, etc of videomatics from the death star attack scenes in ROTJ? Id love to try and match up more, i remember seeing photos of the pilot cutouts but i cant seem to find anything. Thanks in advance, any help is greatly appreciated!!

So far, I have matched two of the cutouts to the above video, admiral Piett and the imperial officer right before the a wing takes down the star destroyer.
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Try to contact Mark Austin; he's on Facebook

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

I’d like to see that one, I’ve only seen the speeder bike animatic.

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[Halliwax]

I’d like to see that one, I’ve only seen the speeder bike animatic.

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Incredible what Joe Johnston did..

 

[joez2391]

Pretty wild!! Thanks for sharing this, unfortunately i have no experience with this

I was really excited to have found them! there are a few others that i got too but the imperial officers are the only ones from the clip i could match up.

Try to contact Mark Austin; he's on Facebook

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I’d like to see that one, I’ve only seen the speeder bike animatic.

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That's an awesome one too! Wish some more of these videomatics would come to light, its so cool seeing the early renderings of these scenes. I could swear ive seen some stills of the videomatic a wing pilots at some point.

 

[joez2391]

Still on the lookout for references of the ROTJ videomatics if anyone can help

 

[joberg]

Still on the lookout for references of the ROTJ videomatics if anyone can help

Maybe PM Duncanator and see if he can contact Ralston