The opening crawl was filmed at Industrial Light & Magic, circa March 1980.






When Darth Vader (David Prowse) revealed his secret to Luke, Hamill was hanging onto a pinnacle above mattresses placed on cardboard boxes about 30 feet off the ground.






Phil Tippett and Jon Berg stop-motion animate a shot with all three walkers (the background walkers are cutouts). Originally the plan had been to photograph the walkers against four-by-five Ektachrome transparencies shot in Norway; when these didn’t work as planned, matte artist Mike Pangrazio copied select Ektachromes onto large scenic backings.




more here
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/10/the-making-of-the-empire-strikes-back-201010?currentPage=all&ref=nf

N'uff said

offroadaz wrote:The opening crawl was filmed at Industrial Light & Magic, circa March 1980.


more here
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/10/the-making-of-the-empire-strikes-back-201010?currentPage=all&ref=nf

:Oit was not real???:( thanks chris now i am hurt stars wars was all fake. now what to do with my tie fighter?:mad:

I'll take your TIE Fighter. Is it's Darth Vader's TIE, the Bomber TIE, or just an attack TIE?

I cant figure out the title shot sequence. Did the pull the camera along that line or did the words underneath slowly slide out?

alanzona wrote:i'll take your tie fighter. Is it's darth vader's tie, the bomber tie, or just an attack tie?

hello!! I am king of the dark side!!

Skatchkins wrote:

Looks like it will end horribly lol

at least they have their clothes on

offroadaz wrote:at least they have their clothes on

LOL

That was a fun trip, though. Chris was there. Randy was there. Paul was there... seems like a long time ago.

Yeah I saw you saw me who saw bob who saw a googlebot viewing that thread :)

I saw you seeing him as I saw me seeing the bot and I wondered to myself, self... what is going on here!

Red shirt guy looks jealous.

dang it I can't find the backdoor buddies picture

Red Shirt Guy is Randy / Quadfire.

He was jealous. Good call.

alanzona wrote:Red Shirt Guy is Randy / Quadfire.

He was jealous. Good call.

Ah well we've never met and Im not too good at connecting names with screen names.

Hi Randy Im Caleb.

AZCA jeeper wrote:Ah well we've never met and Im not too good at connecting names with screen names.

Hi Randy Im Caleb.

:-) yea one of these days
Hi Caleb

alanzona wrote:christmas party... christmas party... christmas party...

your place this year?