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"Star Wars was painted. Almost impossible to believe that most of the epic widescreen sci-fi images in the first 3 Star Wars films were done by 3 matte painting artists. These are fake sets made with plexiglass and oil paint. Even the 100s of stormtroopers were painted." - Ewan Morrison
angelbott
Ooh wow.
iwishjtmoneywasstillavailableitsmyoldvideogamemoniker
I mean yeah, not much CGI back then.
CulturallyEmbiggened
That is amazing, seen it 100 times and never assumed it was a matte painting.
Justinicus
Wait, are you telling me that people are surprised that in 1977, movies weren't CGI?
Novazo
All the ship scenes, Battle of Yavin for ex, were stop motion. They had every model ship suspended and took photos of every angle you see.
iamdanman
I always looked for those scenes
RealityPolice
That's why I love the OT Empire. They have the human touch.
thomasthetankimgurine
The ambient light detail on those Stormtroopers still amazes me. Techniques from 80s movies are far more impressive than anything today.
xn1992
My favourite of this technique is cliff-dive,Butch Cassidy&Sundance Kidd.It’s a cherry-picker over a swimming pool with painted landscape
TheOneThatGotBanned
he can paint my house.
terryr
Now a computer does the painting.
Camelspotting
A person does the painting on the computer. It looks fantastic if the studio gives artists the time and money.
MyBigMouth
KaJuN
My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians.
saganworshipper
I believe that most of us know this but I'm old.
bs13690
And it looks 100% better than these fake ass CGI extras they put into movies nowadays.
kirmokum
you mean BG stills of low detailed troopers are better than animated digidoubles? apples and oranges.
bs13690
Great, now I'm hungry.
buzburbank
Aren't you a little two-dimensional for a stormtrooper?
graehall
In the film they're one dimensional! :D
PeterOlintoowesmeacoffee
JimNazium
Darth Matte? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ffCICQ-bU
stren
You mean the death star landing was faked?
BigHero3000
Anyone know where these are today? I would love to see them.
BenGoodal
Impossible to believe in this day and age of computers. But back before they existed people did shit by hand. Just scale was different. 1/2
BenGoodal
Which is true of basically everything but the live actors themselves for the whole trilogy.
OutoftheDarknessIntotheLight
One of those matte painters lives in my hometown of Auburn, CA
MonsterNotWar
The amount of commitment that went into the original is the reason why it will always be better than any of the new movies.
CathyGarrett
And now, put out a casting call for 100,000 storm troopers, you'll get half a million applicants, no less than half have their own armor.
NegentropyX
So we never landed on the moon after all, did we?
Gover57
Yes we did, and we did it in metric.
SwedishFlopper
Did someone just watch the corridor digital video of vfx artists react?
idontlikepickingusername
Yeah, just released their LoTR one too
glovelyday
With that mustache are you sure this isn't for the porn version of Star Wars?
justafartinthewind
Porn wars
Idontspellcheck
Star Whores?
OneTrueSaviour
Nope, just the 70s
gtotherizzle
The light saber blades were hand-animated as well
yeagoodthanks
After I watched the originals for the ninth time, there is a couple scenes where you can tell :/
LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
R2D2 was voiced by the Arp 2600 synthesizer.
AnthropomorphisingEverything
In the first movie (New Hope) they were sticks covered in reflective tape. That's why half the beam is dull/invisible when at angles.
justarocknroller
That is true, however the coloring was done by hand
GondwanaCraton
Blaster fire was the sound of striking a cable supporting a telephone pole.
Gover57
Guy wire
MrTrevorBelmont
I thought it was shot on location in space...damn
wozat
That was the tagline for Hardware Wars IIRC.
Vysh2
Hey man. Lucas was no Kubrick.
GINGIVITISSS
Alright listen here you little fuck.......that was funny +1
toddlerfights
Analog CGI
wjfloater3000
Cuts down on the payroll
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
I was beautiful. I say "was" since several of the matte paintings were replaced with cheesy CFI when remastered. Crime against art IMO
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
^IT... I mean, I'm no looker. SO CLEARLY I meant "it"
InherentlyWrong
I'm sure you're pretty fellow, go easy on yourself.
pm1001
Til. It was George locas who did it. I assumed it was done without his consent, but nope, he likes it
magila
WTF is CFI?
FeastofAlvis
Conductor fault interruptor
Lolpezatron
Computer fenerated graphics
Lolpezatron
Wait, I mean images. I'm drunk...but still hilarious whatever
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
CGI. I'm struggling to type today.
magila
Thank God. I thought I got old and missed and entire new technology.
ThatShiftyMonkey
Crime against the original art. I despise that Disney doesn't at least give us the option to watch the originals unremastered on Disney+
ThatShiftyMonkey
Every "remastered" scene is painfully out of place. I see what they were going for, but the technology wasn't there yet to make the added
ThatShiftyMonkey
scenes seamless. Instead it looks like they inserted cartoons over live actors and practical effects.
palmo
Should the Star Trek TOS "remasters" pretty much all space scenes have been replaced with really bad CGI.