I'll be using the matte painting of the soldiers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0NSOdzM4U

As to the lightsabres, I'm taking the same approach as with Empire, I'll be rotoscoping a few but most of the time just brightening and colour-correcting them. For some lightsabre scenes I'm actually gonna use Ady's AVCHD because he already fixed a lot of the issues with the lightsabres and it's just too much work to do all over.

Harmy said:

I'll be using the matte painting of the soldiers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0NSOdzM4U

 

 

Hell yes, that looks pretty damn sweet!  

Is this final though?  Are you going to use all of the original painting or just the part with the soldiers in the foreground?

The Blu-Ray set will not have the OOT. Harmy, you're our only hope!

Not to put pressure on you or anything ;)

Harmy said:

I'll be using the matte painting of the soldiers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0NSOdzM4U

 

As to the lightsabres, I'm taking the same approach as with Empire, I'll be rotoscoping a few but most of the time just brightening and colour-correcting them. For some lightsabre scenes I'm actually gonna use Ady's AVCHD because he already fixed a lot of the issues with the lightsabres and it's just too much work to do all over.

 Hey Harmy can you post a video of the SE version of that matte painting? Sorry to be so gay about this, but I've never seen the SE version. Oh man I can't wait for ANH to be complete. I don't mean to press you, but if you had to take a wild ass ball park guess, when do you think ANH will be completed...weeks...months? I'll go watch ESB again while I wait for your response.

I think I'll just leave the trooper matte the way it is in the video I posted as using the pillar part of the matte would just make it too noticeable, this way you're only seeing the troopers peripherally, so it looks good IMO.

I'm still struggling with the crawl  right now and man is it giving me headaches! I thought it was all done now only to find out it speeds up weirdly towards the end, so I'll have to re-time and re-render it again and it takes like 3 hrs to render that one shot because I'm using two 3D layers :-(

Oh, and as to the time-frame, I think weeks but I can't say for sure, I don't wanna rush this.

ator said:

Harmy said:

Oh, and as to the time-frame, I think weeks but I can't say for sure, I don't wanna rush this.

 That's good; I'm sure it will be worth the wait.  It's amazing that a few guys with computers can do in a few months what we've been wanting LFL to do for over a decade. 

OK, finally, I'm proud to present the original STAR WARS 1977 crawl in HD. It's not 100% perfect but I'm quite satisfied with it :-)

You've done a man's job, sir.

Harmy said:

OK, finally, I'm proud to present the original STAR WARS 1977 crawl in HD. It's not 100% perfect but I'm quite satisfied with it :-)

Excellent work Harmy!

Gorgeous.

It's practically perfect in every way.

Thanks everyone for the positive responses, it's nice to have my hard work appreciated :-)

Here's a new version of the Falcon in the DS bay matte enhanced using this technicolour screening photo (original GOUT matte is top, the new enhanced one is bottom):

Let me get this straight:

You made that from a sideways picture of a movie screen?

I'm completely blown away.

Well, a combination of that, the GOUT and the SE.

I'm glad he likes it and I'm glad he took at least some pics :-) But it's a pity he didn't know before, not only could he have taken higher quality pics but he could also have taken pics of some more original matte paintings, as those would have been an invaluable source for this kind of thing :-(

Also, Looking for some SW pictures I randomly stumbled across this site and I found, to my surprise, that it featured my my HD crawl recreation video. So please give me a vote :-)

Anyway, having found out that it may reach a wider audience, I decided to write a detailed commentary for the crawl on you tube, so I'll repost it here:

Here is my May the 4th (be with you) present to all STAR WARS fans, to at least slightly compensate for the disappointment of the Blu-Ray announcement :-D

This is a recreation of the original 1977 crawl using the original elements - I took the STAR WARS logo and each separate line as they first appear in Dark_Jedi's 720p upscale of the 2006 DVD crawl, luma-keyed them out from the background, hand erased the remaining stars, straightened them up in photoshop and made the whole original crawl text in 2D. 

Then I used the 2D crawl as a 3D layer in AE, copied the movement of the original logo and crawl and superimposed it over the starfield in HD taken from the HD broadcast of the 2004 SE (which is surprisingly the same one as in the original, it just needed some brightening for it to show). Additionally I gradually sharpened the area of the first three bottom lines and slightly blurred the crawl at the top of the screen, to simulate depth of field. The result isn't 100% perfect but I think it's not half bad either :-)

And the 2D crawl I made for this can be found here as a photoshop PSD file :-)

Harmy said:

And the 2D crawl I made for this can be found [url=http://www.ulozto.cz/8890231/crawl-test-2-psd]here[/url as a photoshop PSD file :-)

It's Czech, my mother-tongue :-D But come on, how long have you been surfing the web? There's a little flag in the upper right corner and when you click it, you can actually magically turn the whole site to English :-D