And, Ridley, that looks great! I’m already able to render my own crawls, using JackPumpkinHead’s Blender template that mimics Adywan’s crawls. I just had to tweak the timing. BUT, if you wanted to render a version of yours, it couldn’t hurt for me to compare them and decide if either of them edges the other out. It’s up to you, though.
Sure, I can render a clip! I takes a while, so it might be better to save it for later in case you decide to change the text again. But I might render it anyway, I’ll link it here if I do.
I think technically my version looks a bit closer to the original one (after all, they used After Effects for the TFA crawl). I closely matched things such as the blur on the text in the distance.
http://i.imgur.com/3KBqQuu.png
I changed the font of the title to match the crawls of VI and I-III but I might change it back to the original again (IV, V, VII) as they will probably keep that one going forward.
Haha, gorgeous. Yes, I would love to have you render out yours, even after tinkering with mine for so long. When someone with power tools offers to help, put down your hand tools. I would, however, request using the same font for the title as the theatrical version of TFA.
However, I think that it would help the narrative if it is shown that the Resistance is actually trying to warn the Republic and hopes to get their help. That would be possible by inserting the deleted scene in a similar fashion to what NeverarGreat proposed and possibly by using a suggestion I made before that has someone asking if the Republic will send help during the briefing scene. If the proper audio could be found, we could use the cut shot of Leia right before 3PO’s line about the Republic fleet to have her answer that question with “No.” or “No, they won’t.” Then we’d only need to get a shot where we could have someone ask “Will the Republic send help?”. I’d place the added lines right before Poe says: “We’ll go in there…”
That’s… a very not bad idea. Good call with the cut shot of Leia. I’ll hunt around for dialogue for Leia, if people would like to send clips of themselves yelling out, “Will the Republic send the fleet to help?” Or something like that.