Re: Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon
The Tantive IV will also have scotchlite, because the five foot falcon was built and tested with front projection before ILM switched over to bluescreen, which means the first draft of the falcon (Tantive IV) would also probably have it, unless Lucas told ILM to redesign the falcon before they could even prepare the model for front projection shots.
Yeah, to put scotchlite on the Bandai falcon would be to make an obscure reference to an abandoned style of visual effects that to my knowledge never shows up on the film (at least with the falcon). For 99.9999% of people, I think leaving the scotchlite off is fine. Besides, the only time you would ever see it is if you photographed your model using the camera's on board flash, which I think is the worst way to photograph a model.
Definitely, when I think of visual effects before Star Wars, the only substantial thing that comes to mind is 2001, so ILM was probably following in their footsteps. Had the front projection been successful, I think we would have had a very different (and probably lower quality) Star Wars.
I'm not aware of the Scotchlite being used on any of the other miniatures, only the Falcon.
The Tantive IV will also have scotchlite, because the five foot falcon was built and tested with front projection before ILM switched over to bluescreen, which means the first draft of the falcon (Tantive IV) would also probably have it, unless Lucas told ILM to redesign the falcon before they could even prepare the model for front projection shots.
I'm still gonna leave it off mine. . .
Yeah, to put scotchlite on the Bandai falcon would be to make an obscure reference to an abandoned style of visual effects that to my knowledge never shows up on the film (at least with the falcon). For 99.9999% of people, I think leaving the scotchlite off is fine. Besides, the only time you would ever see it is if you photographed your model using the camera's on board flash, which I think is the worst way to photograph a model.
The big success of the front projection in 2001's Dawn of Man scenes possibly seemed the way to go??
Definitely, when I think of visual effects before Star Wars, the only substantial thing that comes to mind is 2001, so ILM was probably following in their footsteps. Had the front projection been successful, I think we would have had a very different (and probably lower quality) Star Wars.