Here's a new little experiment. Right now it's just a concept but with some more tweaking I think it could work very well (compare it with the crawl in the previously posted video, which was just Dark_Jedi's scripted upscale of the GOUT).

EDIT: Here's an improved version including a side by side comparison.

Harmy, what did you do the crawl?

Actually, it's more than that, here's a comparrison screenshot, top is the GOUT upscale from Dark_Jedi's latest sample a bottom is my version. Click to see in full resolution:

Here's an improved version including a side by side comparison.

I'd love to see how handle the original matte paintings of the rebel soldiers in the great hall and the y-wing in the foreground right before luke climbs into his x-wing.

I pretty much decided to leave that one.

And no comments on the crawl? Really? :-(

Harmy said:

I pretty much decided to leave that one.

And no comments on the crawl? Really? :-(

Oh sorry Harmy, I think the crawl looks awesome.

Which one did you decide to leave though?

Oh, sorry, the one with the y-wing is probably gonna stay, I think.

I'm finishing the crawl right now, so hopefully it will work well and I'll be able to use it :-)

For the new crawl, it looks like you took each line as it first appeared in the GOUT upscale, and then shrunk it as it receded, to retain the high resolution.

Very nice.

That's almost exactly what I did. But I actually took each line as it first appeared, luma-keyed it out from the background, hand erased the remaining stars, straightened it up in photoshop, made the whole original crawl text in 2D and then used it as a 3D layer in AE and copied the movement of the original crawl.

I'm now going to render the hopefully final version with slight sharpening of the first few lines at the bottom and a depth of field lens blur mask, so that it doesn't stay perfectly sharp the whole time, which looks un-natural. The rendering is going to take hours, so I'm gonna do it overnight.

Harmy said:

Oh, sorry, the one with the y-wing is probably gonna stay, I think.

Is there any chance you'd be able to rotoscope or matte it in, or just use the G-Force GOUT?

I'll see. Maybe but I don't promise.

That's cool.

The first five and the crawl are just killer. Each clip is better than the next. I just can't wait for this thing to be finished.

I like the fact that the crawl recedes at a wider angle in the side-by-side comparison shot, and the clarity is wonderful.

Harmy said:

That's almost exactly what I did. But I actually took each line as it first appeared, luma-keyed it out from the background, hand erased the remaining stars, straightened it up in photoshop, made the whole original crawl text in 2D and then used it as a 3D layer in AE and copied the movement of the original crawl.

I'm now going to render the hopefully final version with slight sharpening of the first few lines at the bottom and a depth of field lens blur mask, so that it doesn't stay perfectly sharp the whole time, which looks un-natural. The rendering is going to take hours, so I'm gonna do it overnight.

@ 005: Sure, I'm still tweaking it but I'll upload it later, when it's all finished. No problem :-)

I will be brigtening up the starfield and btw. in the 2004 SE it IS the same starfield behind the crawl as in the original non-ep.IV version. And the stars seem so much bigger and brighter because it is more cropped and therefore everything appears larger.