BingoBongo275 wrote:
..and as with Vader it was a last minute idea to get roud the lighting/definition problem
I think this may be only half the truth. All the helmets looked the same, looked bland and kinda uninteresting... just see what they did with the X-Wing helmets. Totally different in the cock-pit scenes than seen in the hangar scenes - I think they did it to spice things up a little so you could tell the individual pilot apart in the cockpit - same with the TIE helmets in the DS corridors vs in the cockpits. Maybe it started out as for highlighting effect, but then turned into something more.
Well... just speculation, but based on the X-Wing changes... it's plausible.