Re:umm..what's he big deal?-Snap, crackle, and...o (Score 1)

During preproduction for Star Wars, the original ship designs were sleek and shiny. Unfortunately, at the scale they were built, they had a tendancy to reflect the camera and crew back into the image. Thus the discolored sheetmetal with doodads tacked on. Only with the advent of computer rendering do you begin to see polished surfaces on spacecraft more often...