Star Wars: (The) Clone Wars Episode List for All Series'

I got frustrated with the inconsistencies in the episode list for the CGI series and then got frustrated with the inaccurate timeline at Wookieepedia for the cartoon series. I don't know who put the CGI episode list together at StarWars.com, but they really pissed me off for calling their's definitive. So I decided I would put all the episodes for both series in their correct chronological order. (In progress.) And I could not care less about the EU books and comics, so I count this list as definitive. Episodes beginning with zero are the cartoon series. Episodes beginning with other numbers represent the seasons of the CGI series.

#       Ep#    Title [Run Time]
1       004    Battle of Mon Calamari [3:07]
                  Quarren Isolation League, Calamari, Kit Fisto, Crab Cannon
2       012    Battle of Dantooine, Part 1 [3:13]
                  Thumper Tank, Mace Windu
3       013    Battle of Dantooine, Part 2 [3:08]
                  Thumper Tank, Mace Windu, failed Jedi youngling
4       014    The Ilum Temple, Part 1 [3:04]
                  Luminara Unduli and Barriss Offee, Cloak Droids attack temple
5       015    The Ilum Temple, Part 2 [3:35]
                  Yoda recruits Padmé to go to Ilum, Yoda battles cloak droids

6       016    The Ilum Temple, Part 3 [3:12]
                  Padmé fights cloak droid, Yoda retrieves Unduli and Offee

7       006    Dark Acolyte, Part 1 [3:06]

                  Assaj Ventress fights in mercenary arena on Rattatak
8       007    Dark Acolyte, Part 2 [3:26]
                  Sidious, Dooku recruits Ventress
9       001    Tower of Muunilist, Part 1 [3:34]
                  Sergeant Fordo leads team to blow up gun platform
10     002    Tower of Muunilist, Part 2 [3:21]
                  
11     003    Tower of Muunilist, Part 3 [3:04]
                  
12     010    Dark Duel, Part 1 [3:16]
                  
13     011    Dark Duel, Part 2 [3:19]
                  
14     017    Dark Duel, Part 3 [3:19]
                  
15     018 Dark Duel, Part 4 [3:03]
                  
16     019 Dark Duel, Part 5 [2:56]
                  
17     005    Separatist Durge, Part 1 [3:13]
                  
18     008    Separatist Durge, Part 2 [3:02]
                  
19     009    Separatist Durge, Part 3 [3:06]
                  
20     020    Enter: Grievous, Part 1 [7:35]
                  
21     021    Enter: Grievous, Part 2 [12:46]
                  
22     301    Clone Cadets [22:33]
                  Kamino Training Grounds, Fives, Echo, Failing, Growth
23     115    Trespass [22:34]
                  Orto Plutonia, Pantorans, Talz, Riyo Chuchi, Jedi duo, 
24     105    Rookies [23:30]
                  Rishi Base, Fives, Echo, Droid Infiltration
25     302    ARC Troopers [21:21]
                  Kamino Training Grounds, Fives, Echo, Repel droid assault

26     216    Cat and Mouse [22:30]
                  Blockade of Christophsis, Admiral Trench, Jedi duo
27     116    Hidden Enemy [21:42]
                  Failed assault on Christophsis reveals traitor, Jedi duo
28     100    Star Wars: The Clone Wars (theatrical release) [1:38:23]
                  Jabba's nephew kidnapped, Ziro, Dooku, Jedi trio
29     111    Dooku Captured [22:34]
                  Anakin and Obi-Wan, Dooku ransomed by Hondo
30     112    The Gungan General [22:35]
                  Hondo ransoms trio, Jar Jar and clones provide escape
31     102    Rising Malevolence [24:17]
                  
32     103    Shadow of Malevolence [23:17]
                  
33     104    Destroy Malevolence [22:35]
                  
34     106    Downfall of a Droid [21:22]
                  
35     107    Duel of the Droids [22:26]
                  
36     108    Bombad Jedi [22:30]
                  
37     109    Cloak of Darkness [22:31]
                  
38     110    Lair of Grievous [23:23]
                  
39     113    Jedi Crash [22:35]
                  
40     114    Defenders of Peace [22:31]
                  
41     117    Blue Shadow Virus [22:32]
                  
42     118    Mystery of the Thousand Moons [22:30]
                  
43     303    Supply Lines [22:30]
                  Toydaria, Bail Organa, Jar Jar, Lot Dodd, Seek Ryloth relief
44     119    Storm over Ryloth [24:11]
                  Breaking the Blockade, Ahsoka's Squadron wiped out
45     120    Innocents of Ryloth [24:11]
                  Innocents used as shields
46     121    Liberty on Ryloth [24:20]
                  Ryloth liberated
47     101    Ambush [22:33]
                  Toydaria, King of Toydaria, Yoda, Ventress, for Republic base.
48     201    Holocron Heist [22:30]
                  Felucia battle, Jedi Temple, Ahsoka's disobedience
49     202    Cargo of Doom [22:30]
                  Cad Bane between the stars, escapes as stormtrooper
50     203    Children of the Force [22:35]
                  She, Mustafar, Jedi younglings stolen
51     204    Senate Spy [22:35]
                  Clovis, Separatist Trade Federation
52     205    Landing at Point Rain [22:18]
                  Second Battle of Geonosis
53     206    Weapons Factory [22:33]
                  Second Battle of Geonosis
54     207    Legacy of Terror [22:35]
                  Second Battle of Geonosis, Capture of Poggle the Lesser
55     208    Brain Invaders [22:27]
                  Geonosis, Ship between stars
56     217    Bounty Hunters [22:31]
57     218    The Zillo Beast [22:25]
                  Malastare, Testing Republic Secret Weapon
58     219    The Zillo Beast Strikes Back [22:32]
                  Coruscant, Senate, Palpatine's cold-bloodedness
59     209    Grievous Intrigue [22:15]
60     210    The Deserter
61     212    The Mandalore Plot [22:35]
62     213    Voyage of Temptation
63     214    Duchess of Mandalore
64     220    Death Trap
65     221    R2 Come Home
66     222    Lethal Trackdown
67     307    Assassin
68     304    Sphere of Influence
69     308    Evil Plans
70     122    Hostage Crisis
71     309    Hunt for Ziro
72     211    Lightsaber Lost [22:34]
73     305    Corruption [22:05]
74     306    The Academy
75     310    Heroes on Both Side
76     311    Pursuit of Peace
77     215    Senate Murders
78     312    Nightsisters
79     313    Monster
80     314    Witches of the Mist
81     315    Overlords
82     316    Altar of Mortis
83     317    Ghosts of Mortis
84     318    The Citadel
85     319    Counter Attack
86     320    Citadel Rescue
87     321    Padawan Lost
88     322    Wookiee Hunt
89     401    Water War
90     402    Gungan Attack
91     403    Prisoners
92     404    Shadow Warrior
93     405    Mercy Mission
94     406    Nomad Droids
95     407    Darkness on Umbara
96     408    The General
97     409    Plan of Dissent
98     410    Carnage of Krell
99     411    Kidnapped
100   412    Slaves of the Republic
101   413    Escape from Kadavo
102   414    A Friend In Need
103   415    Deception
104   416    Friends and Enemies
105   417    The Box
106   418    Crisis on Naboo
107   419    Massacre
108   420    Bounty
109   421    Brothers
110   422    Revenge
111   502    A War on Two Fronts
112   503    Front Runners
113   504    The Soft War
114   505    Tipping Points
115   506    The Gathering
116   507    A Test of Strength
117   508    Bound for Rescue
118   509    A Necessary Bond
119   510    Secret Weapons
120   511    A Sunny Day in the Void
121   512    Missing in Action
122   513    Point of No Return
123   501    Revival
124   514    Eminence
125   515    Shades of Reason
126   516    The Lawless
127   517    Sabotage
128   518    The Jedi Who Knew Too Much
129   519    To Catch a Jedi
130   520    The Wrong Jedi
131   601    The Unknown
132   602    Conspiracy
133   603    Fugitive
134   604    Orders
135   605    An Old Friend
136   606    The Rise of Clovis
137   607    Crisis at the Heart
138   608    The Disappeared
139   609    The Disappeared: Pt. II
140   610    The Lost One
141   611    Voices
142   612    Destiny
143   613    Sacrifice
144   022    Ghost Hand, Part 1 [12:27]
145   023    Ghost Hand, Part 2 [12:25]
146   024    Ghost Hand, Part 3 [12:20]
147   025    Ghost Hand, Part 4 [12:53]

Bounty Hunters Has Passed Out of My Hands

I just finished the Rulebook, SARD, card images, and Lackey CCG plugin. If it sounds like a lot of work, it was a lot more work than even that, because I completely redesigned the Rulebook for 3 different versions (Graphic, large-print, and printer-friendly) and rewrote many entries therein, sifted back through all the old rulings, restoring many and adding many to the SARD, redesigned the card templates for the images, and redesigned the LackeyCCG plugin, restoring the exact correct wording of each and every card and including errata, clarifications, and tips in a new "USAGE" column. (I made it all caps in order to show a clear distinction from the card's text.)

The Legacy of the Force: Bounty Hunters expansion should be available within the next few days. It's out of my hands now.

My ION and BOH Art Contributions and Disappointments

Because I go into detail about most of the cards I did, the following may get a little dry at times for those not interested in image design and modification. Following the information are all the images I was directly responsible for. Don't worry, they will load quickly. 

ION Images (2009)
Invasion of Naboo (ION) was as ambitious as BOE, with 180 cars. Due to the nature of the needs of ION, I doubled as the Graphic Design Chairperson to fill the void of Mixmaster's long absence (apparently an important personal matter that shook Mix for some time). Just like the card text at that point, some images needed redesign, while others I had to recreate, as the two people involved with their creation were AWOL with the original image files. But these were light, as only a quarter of the set's images had been finished up to that time. With my having to remake each card that had already been done, that means I compiled every image in the set. Only 44 images were not my creation. I will spare you the details, but I think it easier to provide a list of the cards I did not do, than a list of the ones I did and just discuss some highlight cards.

(25) I recreated, and/or did not do...
Grand Convocation Chamber
I Will Make It Legal
Political Maneuvering
Price of Anger
Q2 Hold-Out Blaster
Sith Master and Apprentice (A)
Little Real Power
V-19 Landspeeder
Advance the Cause
Corrupt Senator
Darth Maul (I)
Feint
Price of Serenity
Sympathetic Senator
Bravo One (A)
Mas Amedda (B
Darth Maul (G)
Price of Confidence
Senate Majority (originally on a different card)
Gungan Artillery
Price of Ignorance
Gungan Scout
Political Beauracracy
Senate Repulsor Pod (originally on a different card)
Senatorial Shuttle
Sympathetic Delegation (orignally on a different card)
The Phantom Menace

(13) I Recreated, and/or Modified...
Sith Master and Apprentice (B)
Bravo Defense Wing
Eddicus-Class Planetary Shuttle
Senate RotundaConsular-Class Space Cruiser
Coruscant Guard Squad
Lavish Transport
Coruscant Guard Squad
Senate Rotunda
Sith Fury (I chose a slightly different frame in the same action)
Sympathetic Delegation
Anakin's N-1 Starfighter (A)
Royal N-1 Starfighter
Aks Moe (A)
Royal Bomber (originally had a video game image as the bomber)

The rest in the set are all mine. In all, I did 136 images in that set in 40 days (along with recreating the above images). With recreated images, I essentially did all the work, just with less glory. Those that I have listed as ones I didn't do don't take into account the color correction and image nudging I performed on all of them. The rest that were done before I got there I changed the images on.

It was vitally important that the set be pushed out the door as quickly as possible, but this did not impede the quality of my efforts, and may have even contributed to their quality, as I kept certain tricks fresh in mind throughout their production that also helped move things along more quickly. Despite the time crunch I put myself under, I had a blast doing these images.

Payroll of the Trade Federation

In previous sets, most images were as simple or complex as they looked. But some images in this set (In all sets, really, but most particularly this one) were deceptively simple, while others were deceptively complex. Allow me to highlight three of those. I will start with the one that got the most attention: Payroll of the Trade Federation. When I presented this card in the IDC, I got more attaboys than for any other image except Judicial Executives (We'll get to that next). Payroll is one of those cards that is deceptively simple (at least to me; so much so that I was actually disappointed with how little time it took me to make the image, but I was extremely pleased with the result).

The hard part was tracking down just the right handshake image on the net I could find. When I saw it, I knew it was the one. So I then went to a good image of Mas Amedda that had similar lighting (only in reverse, so that I had to flip the image horizontally) and superimposed his upper body over the body of the black man in the image, carving out a place for the arm. I then blended Mas's robes where I needed to match his civilian attire. Then I used the coloring on his tunic to make the color of the sleeve. The Neimoidian's robes are simply black blended down. While I did this, I was careful that everything I painted or blended in matched the lighting on the hands. I then cut out both hands to color them.

At first, I thought the man's dark complexion was going to be a problem, but as I fiddled with the color settings, I discovered that the man's complexion was actually a blessing, as it preserved every detail of the hand and coloring it blue and adjusting the brightness was a cinch. I then tracked down the Neimoidian's left hand on the net, which still took a while, but not near as long as the handshake took to track down. Believe it or not, I actually used a negative image of the left hand to reverse the lighting to match the handshake. So I colored both hands simultaneously to make sure I could get the color just right for both, with the gray green, and then blended the tips of the fingers into the trademark Neimoidian fingers. When this was all done, I added in the background image and then used the gossian blur feature in photoshop to match Mas's focus with that of the black man in the image, and then did some extra gossian blur to the background. Garnish and serve.

Judicial Executives

Judicial Executives received about the same accolades as Payroll of the Trade Federation, if not slightly more. This was considerably more difficult. Originally, Cody requested that I use a supreme court picture of judges seated for their photo, but after hours of looking, I decided it wasn't going to happen. All the U.S. supreme court judges were just too recognizable even the older images. So I tried the state supreme court images, and they either didn't have their robes on or they just didn't look very Star Wars-like, and creating alien heads for half or more of them would have taken for ever. So I decided to go with just a couple of judges standing up close.

While it looks like I just pasted a background in with pre-existing image of the Falleen and Wookiee, I actually created both from scratch with two images, one of a real judge from England, and the Wookiee came from a ROTS promo shot I got from Wookieepedia. I actually had to shots of the English judge, wearing those robes. The robes were part of a failed judicial robe redesign in England, when a woman designer won a design contest and was asked to do the judicial robes. The judges rejected them for looking too "Star Trekish". But oh how they fit a future theme. They were perfect for the Judicial Executives robes.

At first I was considering keeping the judges face as is as a human, but it seemed to me that there were just too many humans running about to properly represent the Republic, so I decided I would make him alien. With a little thought and looking through my alien anthologies, I decided a Falleen appearance would be perfect, revisiting my work on Prince Xizor (B), and the juxtaposition of two emotional species acting in a judicial capacity somehow made perverse sense. I started by changing his complexion to what seems an appropriate shade of green and then blending his flesh over his hair until he was bald. Just as with Xizor, I created the look by brushing in the light to highlight the ridges, and then used his own tones to create the shadows of the ridges. The eyes were the hard part. I worked on those longer than I spent on anything else for this image. I wanted his eyes to look like typical seductive Falleen style, so I gave them the sleepy bedroom eyes look. After that, I added the black hair behind his head. Believe it or not, there are 6 colors in the hair. My goal was to make his hair look as real as possible. So I set my paintbrush at 1px and 13% opacity and lined in every strand of hair, using the various colors randomly. When I was done, I decided his face didn't look dour enough for a Falleen—He was too positive-looking—So I curved his mouth down.

The Wookiee was fun for me. The original looked too fresh to be a judge, so I aged him by reducing the saturation and increasing the contrast, then overlaying it over the original and erasing parts to get a mix of color and gray. I then cut his head and braids out and pasted it over the head of the second picture of the judge. I only had to increase the size of the judge's image just a little to match up to the Wookiee in comparison to the Falleen image. Because the judges image didn't go down far enough, I had to clone the lower part of the body and reblend it, being sure to include the correct lighting and shading. When I was done, I decided that instead of cloning over the left braids over to the left, I simply horizontally flipped the head so that the long braids showed.

To finish, I used the blurring tool to take out the rough edges around the images and put in the background image that I found on the net by searching for "Senate Rotunda" (a search for the judicial building turned up absolutely nothing, so I had to settle for putting them in the Senate). When centered, the image was just too bright, making the characters stand out as obviously fake. So I considered the image and decided to move it over and expand it by cloning the wall by hand, cutting and pasting angles of the stripes and broadening them as they got closer, and then using the cloning tool to fill in the holes.

Senate Bureau of Intelligence (A)

The most difficult image I ever worked on by far was Senate Bureau of Intelligence (A). I worked on it from my second week back on the IDC until two days before the set's release. After doing a little research, I found out that Wullf Yularen and Tarkin were responsible for the SBI during the Phantom Menace period. Considering that, I found two images of Yularen and Tarkin and the back of the Senate Rotunda, where the SBI offices were situated.

To depict the two men in their 30's, I had to do a lot of cosmetic work on their faces and hair. It took a lot of careful blending out the aged features and a touch of color and shading to bring out more freshness in the skin. Also, since Wullf's image was a painting, and Tarkin's was a photo, I had to make Tarkin's image look a little more painted, while I did everything I could to make Wullf's face look more realistic. I also gave the background a blurred sketch and paintbrush appearance to make it look painted. In the meantime, I used the original uniforms as depicted in their images, and conceived of their precursor uniforms with leathern breast pieces. I didn't bother with insignia, because they are supposed to be a spy organization like the CIA, but still depict a military appearance.

The real trick was in matching the lighting so that it looked like the two were standing together. There were thus three sources of light. One in front (which I had looked for a specific Tarkin image to match the forward lighting with Wullf), one to the back left, and one to the forward right. So Tarkin's shadow had to lay on Wullf, and Wullf's shadow from the light on the left had to mostly block Tarkin from it. But all three lights had to be reflected in their hair and on their faces due to their positions. Regarding the hair, I had to isolate their hair and change their colors and shades manually and then bring out their highlights manually in a similar way to how I handled the Falleen's hair in Judicial executives, and used layers to bring out the highlights. I'm grateful to everyone for not letting me settle on more inferior work. They kept pushing me to do better by pointing out the errors in consistency and lighting.

Summary of Other ION Images

Jar Jar Binks (D) - This originally showed a little too much smoke, obscuring Jar Jar, and the flames in the background, so I used layers to bring Jar Jar out of the smoke and brighten the fire. 
Scarab-Class Droid Starfighter - This was a very small picture of a model of the Scarab-Class droid starfighter that I modified the colors on, added some blurring for the appearance of speed by adding blurred layers and erasing to reveal the sharpened parts and painting in the background and blaster fire.
Trade Federation Drop Ship - Screen grab, but I had to readjust the colors and sharpen the ship, so I created a cut of the ship, a cut of the background, and a cut of the foreground, then matched the foreground to the background to look natural, and then used sharpenend overlays and colored overlays to bring the ship out in more detail.
Tobler Ceel (A) - This is an image of Jar Jar Binks. I changed his color while retaining the color of the beast and the background and cloning out Tarpals and his mount, then took Captain Tarpal's armor from the surrender scene, distorted and warped it to fit Jar Jar Jar and changed its color.
Naboo Resistance Fighter, Naboo Defense Fighter, and Bravo Five (A) - Each of these were different angles of the same displayed life-size fighter at Celebration III. They each required many overlays to make them work. Particularly Naboo Resistance Fighter, which required about twenty layers reversed, smoothed, contrasted, and many other techniques to bring out the shine that was deep within the sheen of the metal beneath the dust and tarnish, which you can see on Naboo Defense Fighter.
Trade Federation Blockade - This was the shot out of the yacht's window as they're making the escape, but I removed the window and cloned in blockade ships.
Palace Guard Squad - Believe it or not, the two guys at the center of the image were actually not standing together. The characters were too scattered in the shot to present them properly on the card, so I had to move parts of the image around and splice them together.
Royal Bomber - I grabbed a shot of just when the fighters pass the blockade ship, and spliced in a fighter and cloned its engines and wings and reduced their size, placing them on either end, then used a particular brush shape to paint in the static ball and then used smooth edged brush to fade it out.
Single Trooper Aerial Platform - This is a famous image. I had to cut out the other STAPs and clone in the grass in both the foreground and background.
Gungan Guard Squad -  This required the Gungans to be moved together and the background blended.
Sith Infiltrator (C) - This was an image from the Essential Guide to Star Wars Vehicles & Vessels. I grabbed an image of Naboo in for the background, and spliced in the ship, then darkened everything to the point that you can just make it out, in order to express the Stealth, and then painted the moonlight reflecting off the edges. Several layers were needed to get the ship's shades to cooperate, and I had to change the direction of the ship's shadows a little, and make the red window look more appropriate, all with many layers.
Booma Volley - This was actually 3 separate images. The background shield, the foreground droid army, and the droid getting hit by the booma. This took several layers, but the hard part was solely in the droid getting hit.
Gungan General - This was Captain Tarpals re-tented with a brown color. I also changed his fish-whiskers and put a scar on his face.
Vulture Droid Starfighter Squadron - This is the other part of the promotional image used for DFS-4NB. I had to cut out 4NB from the image and rearrange the position of a couple of the fighters a little. You will note that the explosion in the lower right corner is the same explosion found in the 4NB image.
Kedar the Black (A) - Originally, I was requested to use the same image that Decipher used for the CCG (The CCG community helped create the character), so I found the shot in the movie where he was in Chancellor Valorum's entourage on the landing platform, and felt that it wasn't going to look good and I didn't want to imitate Decipher, so I decided to find somewhere else where Kedar can be seen. I found him at the end of the movie, but couldn't get a decent shot of him, so I took a shot of one of the other guards exiting the shuttle and then blended out Palpatine's image by carefully cloning the building wall and bush in the background and stretching down the eve to the right. Additionally, I darkened the guard's uniform, and especially his skin. I had to use several layers to darken the face, while keeping the eyes visible, and then had to highlight the helmet ridgest to distinguish the dark helmet from his face. I also reshaped his lips and nose to be more ebonic.
Aks Moe (A) -The original image previewed was not actually Aks Moe. It was the politician from AOTC. But we were already using an image of Aks Moe on another card, so I flipped the image on Aks Moe and made manual adjustments to recreate Aks's face, repainting the mouth and nose, and cloning portions of the cheek and redirecting the antennae. I then painted in the necklace and redesigned the outfit to match Aks's attire to match the movie.
Yarael Poof (A) - Since there was no close up view, or any unblurred view of Yarael in the movie, I had to grab the image of him from AOTC and slipped in a different background and adjusted his color to appear like the seen in which Qui-Gon is in the chamber during the day. I also painted in the wall behind him.
Qui-Gon Jinn's Lightsaber - I had to use layers to bring out the lightsaber and even out the shading in the whole image. 
Captain Panaka (B) - Though this image looks simple, I had to actually use layers to enhance the color of his blaster fire and bring out his eyes and facial features, which also took some blending in his features, and even his glove and hat.
Droid Starfighter DFS-8NB - I added the blaster fire and the consequent lighting on the fighter.
Darth Maul's Lightsaber (A) - I had to blend Obi-Wan out of the image and recreate the left blade. 
Eddicus-Class Planetary Shuttle - Len Fowler had originally started this image, but I had to re-grab the shot of the platform to get a better resolution. Len had spliced in a new background, but it didn't match the lighting on the platform, so I took a grab of the scene as the shuttle is still approaching and the platform is still in the distance. This provided the proper angle and lighting for the background.
Jedi Master and Apprentice (B) - Required low light static removal and isolated color enhancement with layers.
Sith Master and Apprentice (B) - I had to bring out Maul's face by intensifying the color in his face and eyes using layers.
Bureaucratic Vessel - The ship and platform are actually the image from the KOTOR II video game added to the Coruscant background. I added in the platform lights and used several layers to adjust the lighting on the ship and platform to match the lighting of the background.
Consular-Class Space Cruiser - This was another image from the Essential Guide to Star Wars Vehicles & Vessels added to a shot of Coruscant. The composition was originally Len Fowlers, but I was dissatisfied with the discontinuity of lighting and shades, so I used several layers to create shadows and lighting for the vessel, and repositioned it. There are actually three layers that create the shades on the forward and aft of the ship. It also took a lot of tonal correction to get the ship to the right color and shade.
Militiagung Squad - With this, I wanted both kaadu riders to be prominent on the image, but they were on opposite sides of the wide screen. So I had to cut out the space between them and splice the soldiers together, and I cut out the shield and tanks and spliced in another image of the shield and tanks in order to make them match from one end to the other.and make their angle match the scene better.

BOH Images (2009)

Before I left, I managed to do some images for Battle of Hoth (BOH). My contributions included Weapon Turret, E-Web Repeating Blaster, Imperial Walker Gunner, Thundering Herd AT-PT, Imperial Munitions Specialist, Snowtrooper Officer, Death Squadron Star Destroyer, Rogue Squadron (A), and Stalker (A).

Thundering Herd AT-PT and Rogue Squadron (A) required special efforts. With the AT-PT, I took an image of an AT-PT model from an ad, an used about fifteen layers to establish the correct look and shades and reflections, painting in the shadow, the blaster bolt, the reflection of the bolt in the snow, and the shading of the debris cloud on the walker. If you put the full size card image through a spectrum analyzer, you would even find a pilot driving it, and the reflection of the men running through the upper, down-leaning window pane.

Rogue Squadron was done by taking several grabs as the speeders are flying from the mountains to the foreground and splicing in the various versions and shading them properly, as the lighting changes throughout the shot. I then went in and manually added the red color to several of them that are absent in the original shots.

Imperial Munitions Specialist also required quite a bit of shadow lightening and color balance, doing what I could to bring him out without showing the reduced pixel depth. It required a couple of layers to make the adjustments and highlight what I could.

On the other hand, there are several points of contention that I have with the handling of the BOH images. Some of those images were, I think spitefully, replaced with less gracious images. I had an Attack Pattern Delta image that matched the delta pattern, and showed a close-up of the cable attached to the speeder on Tow Cable, and showed a menacing close-up of the AT-ATs on Thundering Herd (A), Rebel Gunner originally showed an actual gunner controlling the anti-infantry laser battery (the card itself was also changed to not represent anything even remotely to do with a gunner), and a prominent image of General Carlist Rieekan. Each were replaced by less effective images. There are other cards that I think I might have done, and others I think were replaced, but I can't be sure, so I won't highlight them.

Besides these things, there were several very poor image choices in the set. First and foremost was 501st Legion (B) which replaced the image I used to replace it in the first place. This image choice was an unfortunate lapse in either judgment or effort. You can very clearly see that it is spliced. Now, with a little effort, the shine could have been blended or cloned out, and the snowtroopers could have been adjusted in tone and shade so as to make it look like it is a real scene from the movie. I myself had cut the troopers in the foreground and placed them in one of the Rebel tunnels with appropriate lighting adjustments and isolating each figure to make sure it fit in the shot.

The second worst image in the set was 501st Legioin Dark Trooper. Not only does it look fake, but the 501st Legion Dark Trooper is a cyborg in gray armor, (Phase II) not a droid in gun-metal armor. (Unique Phase III prototype.) The third worst in the set, is Renegade Commando; this had the potential to be brilliant, but it instead ended up sad. First, the background was entirely the wrong choice. There were half a dozen scenes he could have chosen from, but he chose the easily identifiable scene in which Threepio is making the run for it. Also, he should have made some effort to make the toy figure look more realistic, such as modifying the fingers, or reshaping the lower body which I did to it with very hard work and many layers, but was replaced with the original unmodified image by the vindictive graphic design chair that replaced me.

Other unfortunate images that I had replaced and then were replaced again by the crappy originals in the set include Command Post not depicting a command post, Hoth Mountains showing undistinguished mountains, Ice Cavers showing the wampa cave, DLT-20A Blaster Rifle showing IG-88 (he could have made some effort to cover the droid with a snowtrooper), Evacuation Order doesn't show much of anything, Clever Scouting and its quote depict the wrong scene, Rebel Camp is very clearly not a rebel camp, Leebo has so many better images, Imperial Walker Driver shows the gunner instead (simply reversing the image would have been fine), Snowtrooper Battalion doesn't depict a battalion and is a poor shot, Dash Rendar (C) doesn't depict Dash Rendar at all, and Chewbacca (O) lacks any color adjustment or contrast.

I'm not the only one from the IDC who feels that way about the images in BOH. In fact, BOH is mine, and I think the entire community's, biggest disapponitment image-wise, and a conspicuous black stain on Mixmaster's record. It was a half-assed effort that deserves a full bird and no respect.