Prequels, etc, but I do love the look of the ARC-170 Starfighter.
Prequels, etc, but I do love the look of the ARC-170 Starfighter.
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Originally shared by Andrew “Incomitatum” Chason Hit Me with your Horror I am looking for some horror flicks. The newer the better. Good is good too. I liked House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects . I liked both the new Texas Chainsaw movies. Hills Have Eyes 1 was good (never saw the second . Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2 come to mind as well. A little camp, and/or "back woods" can't hurt. Any of you have any recommendations? Lets try and not go too far back than mid 90's. Aside: How was the new "Freddy" movie? Suggested So Far • Bones (2001) • Drag Me to Hell (2009) • The Grudge (2004) • Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) • Dog Soldiers (2002) • The Decent (2005) • Creature (2011) • The Last Winter (2006)
The prequels had tons of super creative and talented people working on the design and effects. It's a shame that a lot of it went to waste.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Naboo designs are great because they're so unlike everything else in Star Wars. Smooth and new and not dirty and greebley.
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you look at the modeling for the original trilogy, and most of the vehicles are simple shapes. Fighters are shaped after letters (the TIE Fighter is known as an H-Wing in the timelines where Palpatine's coup failed). The Death Star is a sphere. Star Destroyers and snowspeeders are wedges, the Mon Cal corvettes and Cloud City are ellipsoids. A Corellian Corvette is ... an I with heavy serifs? (reaching here, I guess)
ReplyDeleteYou also had simple animal shapes (AT-ATs, AT-STs, Slave One)
Even when the modellers started compounding shapes, like with the nebulon frigate and the cloud car, they stayed simple and joined the compound shapes with narrow beams so that the simple shapes were the ones that defined the design.
I found much of the modeling for the prequels was much muddier and less distinctive. The models I liked were the trade alliance blockade ships -- just toruses and spheres. The spider walkers were distinctive too, they really drew the eyes. Obi-Wan's fighter from Clones had a nice simple wedge shape. The ARC-170 is a bit busy but it's okay to me.
I thought that much of the rest of the vehicle modeling was really blobby and undistinctive, like nike swooshes glue-gunned together. The Naboo fighters and the droid fighters in Phantom Menace were the same basic shape, having much the same front-on profile. I suspect they made the naboo fighters schoolbus yellow so they'd be recognizable on the screen.
I do like that the Naboo stuff is shiny, though, a nice visual cue that we're dealing with a more genteel age, before the polishing droids were melted down into AT-ATs.
The droid ships do nothing for me. I take that back, when they're walking I like the vulture droids.
ReplyDeleteI've always been partial tot he ARC-170 too. Love it.
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