23rd March 2003, 9:03 AM
Amen to that.
The clone in that screen looks sharp because everyone in the movie looks sharp. They filmed the entire thing with digital cameras, remember? They even got the suit textures to look a bit like plastic, which is something that ILM has been doing with these movies to make certain things look a bit like the old trilogy stuff. Actually it's even more striking that the clone looks that realistic while being so clear and so sharp; it means that they're not using any shadows or blemishes in clever ways to hide the model's faults.
The clone in that screen looks sharp because everyone in the movie looks sharp. They filmed the entire thing with digital cameras, remember? They even got the suit textures to look a bit like plastic, which is something that ILM has been doing with these movies to make certain things look a bit like the old trilogy stuff. Actually it's even more striking that the clone looks that realistic while being so clear and so sharp; it means that they're not using any shadows or blemishes in clever ways to hide the model's faults.