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Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:36:15 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:
> In lugnet.starwars, Peter Merryman writes:
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> > This reminds me of the mirror trick used in "Star Wars". In a couple of
> > shots,
> > to make the landspeeder appear appear to hover a mirrored skirt was placed
> > around
> > the supporting structure below the chassis, hiding the wheels and reflecting
> > the
> > surrounding ground plane.
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> Do you have a source on this? I've sort of made a minor hobby of researching
> ILM's techniques (especially the early ones, from Star Wars and Empire- back
> when they were still fairly low-tech :D ) and I've never heard of this.
>
> I'm not challenging it, I'm just curious. This would be a new one on me, so
> it's kind of exciting.
I don't remember where I first read or heard it. I'm not near my home library
right now, and I may have heard it at some presentation or another. A quick
search on the web for confirmation yielded this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx/fxguide/fxuemore1.html
from PBS's "Nova" pages. Not a primary source, but more reliable than just some
guy posting on Lugnet (me).
Quite a few fan sites dedicated the Special Editions make reference to the
mirror, since it was cleaned up digitally for that release.
http://index.echostation.com/trilogy/jundland.html
Anyway, neither of those places is where my info came from. I'll try to track
it down to whatever article or notes I've got in it.
Yes, I'm that lame as well.
-Pete
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