New CGI VFX #1 - STAR WARS - The Empire strikes back 

This is great and all, no doubt, but it also makes me appreciate how good the practical effects were

Excellent! I do have one very minor criticism, though: ion cannons don't do explosive damage; they work by disrupting a ship's electrical systems and thus disabling it. Because the captain of the stardestroyer was overconfident, he hadn't raised shields and so the ground-based ion cannon was able to disable his ship with just two shots. (You can see in the original version that the ship's systems shut down when it is hit, but that the hull isn't physically damaged.)

It’s amazing that even after many decades the original effects are STILL better than what people can come up with today. Good effort though.

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Lenses. Exposure. Emulsion. I applaud your effort, but on top of what everyone has said about the practical models, there’s so much to the romantic gaze of film, this exercise does a great job of illustrating why so many of us keep coming back to the OT.

Not an improvement. You also miss understand what an Ion Cannon does.

Beautiful work... really beautiful.. but ION cannons don't work that way. They are like emp pluses. They take out electronics but leave the ships undamaged. Quite different form standard blasters.

While the speed of the snow speeders and Milennium Falcon are off, the fact you did this by yourself rather than a full crew from ILM is a testament to how far CGI tech has come in 44 years. Excellent work!

Vader's watching all of this from the bridge. "Huh. Neat."

What happened to Darth Vader's super Star destroyer 🤷‍♂️ I see he fixed the millennium falcon dive against the Three Star destroyers👍 in the original video he made the falcon just slides out of the way😆

I love being able to see the Destroyer actually changing course to pursue the Falcon. Top notch job! MTFBWY

Impressive, most impressive. Granted, that the CGI isn't as polished as it could be, BUT given that the original was accomplished by how many dozens of people, if not hundreds, over an innumerable amount of man hours, and this person now has the tools to complete it from their own home computer. How far we have come technology wise. Simply amazing!

Excellent work all round. The modelling work is great. However, I would say that the Snowspeeders and Falcon need to move a little faster. The Speeder search and Falcon exit from the hangar in particular.

Can't say I saw anything particularly different or better than the actual movie.

Dude your animation is top notch! I swear I wish Disney would give all these talented RU-vidrs money to make Star Wars content.

Vader was on the bridge of the dark coloured super star destroyer not on one of the small white ones.

In the Star Wars Universe....snow is flammable.

Everything looks great with the exception of the probe droid sequence. Keep up the good work!

Appreciate the effort that went into this but for me, it just shows how practical effects and models have much more weight and realism to them - even almost half a century later.

Even the "best" CGI still cant compete with well done real SFX using real props, real props look real when on film and viewed. Even the best CGI still looks flat and lifeless. As good as your recreation looks it still doesn't hold a candle to the original. Its nothing to do with nostalgia. When you know someone has put real effort in to making real models it also makes it more special as in wow they did this for us, they appreciate us the audience and we appreciate them.