Obi-Wan's Revenge of the Sith lightsaber. How many variations are there?
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Exhibit hilt appearances:
Jedi Council meeting
Private conversation with Yoda:
Mustafar Duel:
Grevious’ Elevator:
Theory disclaimer: this is a theory
Going through-
ILM, Gillard, and Belt Touring.
All feature neutral brown-tone necks and windvanes.
The only instance I see matching this on film are the force pull gag sequences (Gillard) and the digital model sequences with General Grevious. (ILM) I cant pick out the costume touring hilt.
The Red and Gold windvane and neck combo is consistent with the stunt hilts, belt hanger (373), and closeup shots (Exhibit).
Personally, Im theorizing they began shooting with their artist proof hilt and made the beauty (exhibit) hilt for closeup. The rest of their color scheme for the stunts was based on these, castings were derived from them.
The digital assets and warmer browns could be late production after color grade (off the blue/ green screens) was established and they wanted the digital reference, pickups, and touring hilts to match up with the post-color grading.
Could anyone with the Rinzler book confirm if this is plausible? He usually formats the book by film order no?
Jedi Council meeting
Private conversation with Yoda:
Mustafar Duel:
Grevious’ Elevator:
Theory disclaimer: this is a theory
Going through-
ILM, Gillard, and Belt Touring.
All feature neutral brown-tone necks and windvanes.
The only instance I see matching this on film are the force pull gag sequences (Gillard) and the digital model sequences with General Grevious. (ILM) I cant pick out the costume touring hilt.
The Red and Gold windvane and neck combo is consistent with the stunt hilts, belt hanger (373), and closeup shots (Exhibit).
Personally, Im theorizing they began shooting with their artist proof hilt and made the beauty (exhibit) hilt for closeup. The rest of their color scheme for the stunts was based on these, castings were derived from them.
The digital assets and warmer browns could be late production after color grade (off the blue/ green screens) was established and they wanted the digital reference, pickups, and touring hilts to match up with the post-color grading.
Could anyone with the Rinzler book confirm if this is plausible? He usually formats the book by film order no?
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Here is the touring hilt, it had a chrome pommel and I think sold at a propstore auction? I also believe the star wars identities tour is the only one to ever have his saber on his display. I guess a wild conspiracy could be it is an MR? I've lost my eye for the EP3 saber
sakanade
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Out of the 3 auctioned hilts, this is the one that has the chromed pommel, control box and emitter right?
I hope to see a replica of the "Exhibit" Hilt in the future, that's my favorite version so far.
from what I remember yes
I know your a busy man, can you link photos to these names?
Oh I’m workin on it
God bless you Bryan rogersOh I’m workin on it
But hasn't the neck color here been adjusted quite a bit with a photo editor? The grenade almost looks blue!
I’m adjusting some color from photos to pull out certain tones, yes.
Some color modding here but primarily to highlight the notable differences between the hilts and their coloring. Propstore not helping with the way they light and crop things-
Also trying to keep the hilt angle relatively the same to poibt out differences in length features.
Rymo’s thread with photos of the exhibit hilt has muuuch better photos: just not the angle I need for the side by sides.
*edited the list above, thanks for the guidance Teecrooz.
Adjusted for being re informed
Worth noting we don't officially know which hilt would be the ILM digital model reference, the MR reference being the current assumption.
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Color was edited *some* to combat the yellow lighting cast on the original photo
As an aside, I always read the Force-pull version seen in the Mustafar conference room as the digital model, not a physical prop. I haven't frame-by-framed that shot in quite a while, though.
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