CT Whose decision was it to change color of TIE Fighters?

The TIE Fighters in ANH (or whatever you want to call it) are white, and then became blue in The Empire Strikes Back and remained that way in Return of the Jedi. Do you know or think the color change was a decision of Lucas' or Irvin Kershner's?
Or perhaps, is it written anywhere that the white coloring was simply for the squadrons stationed at the Death Star?

 

They were grey, not white, and they were going to be blue originally in ANH but changed to grey in order to better film against a bluescreen according to what I just found out on wikipedia.

 

Mine!

 

What version of the film did you watch where TIE fighters were white? I've never heard of this before

 

The ones in ANH always looked white to me, as well as the toy.
Either way, the question was regarding how they were one color and then they were another and that first color was never seen again. Asked and sort of answered in November.

 

The original Kenner Tie-Fighter toys were white, which kind of re-enforced the incorrect perception that they were white in the film. Of course Kenner wasn't exactly gospel when it came to color. They gave the original Luke figure a yellow lightsaber--understandable, since it looks a bit whiteish in the first film--but then by the time TESB came out, and it was clear that Luke's saber was blue, they not only gave his figure a yellow lightsaber again, they made the role play "The Force" lightsaber yellow too.

 

They did give TIE Fighters that cool ejection-wing thing where the solar panels pop off. That was in the movies, right?

 

I believe it was in the SE's

 

Probably to differentiate them. Blue Tie Fighters versus Red X-Wings.

 

Aren't TIE fighter's all black??

 

Uh, no.

Also, you can see a TIE pilot eject in the asteroid field in TESB.

 

Wait, what?! Screencap! Me wantie see!

 

I'll post one tomorrow. Most of them are grainy VHS screencaps on Google.

 

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TIE Fighters were never white

Plus white or black are not colors FYI

 

Regarding the ejecting TIE pilot:











http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?style=4&f=3&t=101224

 

Lucas never changed the models on the TIE Fighters between 77 and 97. They've always been the same color, once the final model design was completed.

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE/LN_starfighter

Originally meant to have a blue color on the hull, this was abandoned when blue-screen filming made the fighters transparent. The original TIE/ln fighters seen in A New Hope were relatively white in color; the TIEs of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were more gray with a gradual bluish hue added during post-production.

It would be interesting to compare photos of ANH TIEs with ESB TIEs.

 

My mind is just as blown as his TIE

 

i have read about this but the body (if thats in on the left size of the pic) seems to big to be a pilot. Has anything official every been said on this?

 

That's not just the body but the ejection seat as well.

 

So.... what does he do then? Just float around and wait to get picked up?

 

I rewatched this on bluray the other night - he basically disintegrates.

 

Haha

I'm wondering about the in universe explanation. It's something I always wondered about with the X-wings, too. The Tie Fighter Pilots have armor so they could theoretically survive in space. The X-wing pilots do not but one pilot tells Porkins to eject. Why?