A, not the same distance if you're going to be picky about it. He's in the middle of a machine that is 10m wide by your stance. So in my clip you see him less then a meter away. In your clip we have to account for as much as 5m. Which of those is the smaller distance and thus better to judge with... (you don't have to answer that, its just there for the point).Captain Seafort wrote:Are you taking the piss or something? Since Luke is much closer to the camera than the AT-AT he will appear much larger relative to it. In the screencap he and the AT-AT are the same distance from the camera, removing this problem.
We also have in the shot where the snowspeeder is stepped on, an over head view. The ATAT foot and mount, the speeder and Luke. We see there the foot, again, isn't 5m as it doesn't cover the whole of the speeder.
This is important for the next part. So keep the figures in your head.Give or take a bit, yes.
This is my fault as we see the toes at two different angles and I didn't state which I was talking about. The toes are about 1m wide by 2m long in your pic. I take this because we see that Luke fully stretched out is the same height as the toe. Again, this is important for later.Wrong - they're closer to 1m
The problem is that you've got a lot of "maybe" in what you're putting up. Maybe the effects were off because of movement, maybe Luke is moving (we know he is, just a point here), maybe the FX was off, maybe the model scale was off. This all means that there is a lot of guessing.Wrong again. The main part of the foot is 30 pixels wide in the screencap, making it four or five metres wide. Very close to the size derived from the clip, despite the inaccuracy inherent in guestimating from a moving image.
However, in the live action shot. We get both a side view and over head view. No FX, no distortion from being a hundred meters away for the cut scene. Just a straight shot. From that shot, we can tell that the FX shot was off. That the scaling was off. AND, most importantly that the FX is there by not a reliable source and not really needed since we have a live action shot in place of it.
The FX shot was wrong. By the model, the ATAT is not 30m tall. I don't think its 15.5m either to be honest with you. But its a lot closer to what we see live then by a single FX view that we can look at and tell isn't right either. Both shots leave us guessing, but the live action shot is closer to the canon statement there for thats what we go by.