Can you post an image example of the ATOTS outfit error?
Okay, sorry⊠LONG POST incoming.
First, letâs agree that the details of Fordâs portal outfit are extremely hard to see, because in all of the scenes itâs really in, itâs in a darkened basement. Â Itâs really kind of a dark blob of black and grey. Â But there ARE details! Â
Most of these pics have been edited to increase the exposure and do other things to bring out the details. Â But here, let me start off with what the outfit looks like in a straight screen-shot:
Hereâs what it looks like when you mess with the exposure and stuff:
So the basics of Fordâs portal outfit, besides its color are: the scarf around his neck; the overcoat has a hood in back (rather than the stand-up collar) and big outer pockets; there is a lighter bandage around his upper left arm; heâs wearing knee-pads; the strap across his chest is lighter than his shirt/sweater and has a solid buckle; and you can see some runic letters on his belt.
Hereâs a look at the outfit from the other side:
Okay! Â So right after this moment, like seriously less than a minute later, Ford goes upstairs to feed some lies to the newly-mind-erased federal agents. Â When he steps out onto the porch of the Mystery Shack, hereâs how he looks:
Thatâs not the outfit he was wearing downstairs. Â The scarf is gone (although that could be explained), but also: the sweater/shirt is now lighter than the strap across the chest; the buckle on the strap across the chest is different; this coat has the stand-up collar and no hood, and lacks the big square pockets; this coat also has a left breast pocket with a pen in it (his portal coat didnât); this coat has darker elbow patches (his portal coat didnât);Â thereâs no bandage on his upper left arm; the knee-pads are gone; the belt with the symbols is gone.
This is just Fordâs regular outfit. Â Which he doesnât change into until the NEXT scene. Â (But there isnât a full-length shot of him from the end of ATOTS, so Iâm using a shot here from DD&MD.)
The guess would be that the outside animation company got the production notes about Fordâs outfit change for the ânext sceneâ, but applied it too early. Itâs also a guess that they colored it with the default colors (seen directly above), and the mistake was only caught when the finished ep came back, and the only fix was to go in and color that outfit in shades of black and grey so it was closer to his portal outfit.  (Iâm not sure if there is actually an existing statement about that or not, but that certainly looks like what they did.)
Finally, two of the other animation errors I always notice in ATOTS:
(This is âWhat about you? Did you end up going to your dream school?â - âNot exactlyâ.)  Not only did they forget Fordâs belt with the symbols â although, unretouched, heâs just a black blob anyway and you donât notice â but his hair is flopping DOWN, like when he was younger (in the next scene), rather than floofing up (like all the other depictions of older Ford).  To compare:
Forgetting to color in the back of his coat. Â Whoops!
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