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***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress — Page 7

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I appologize for the bump, but I saw an image on another thread that had a merged emperor:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/emperor.jpg BY PAULISDEAD2221

your thoughts? I'd like to get this one used; with a few touch-ups (ie the box effect being removed) it could look great in motion.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Am I seeing things wrong or does the hood need to come down a little more onto the head in that shot? Looks like he's a pointy-head.

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That would be because of the box effect.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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I'm not going to try and mix the two Emperors in that way, but I have started again from scratch on that scene, because I can do a better job of it. It will now look even more like GOUT (but still with Ian McDiarmid)

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Originally posted by: Sluggo
"Excellent" - Darth Sidious


Mr. Burns, surely?

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What does the time table for this project look like? I'm looking forward to it, I just was Ep. IV and really enjoyed the blend of the new effects and old class. Excellent. Thank you for restoring the music to the Mos Eisle cantina. Will you please do the same for the music in Jabba's palace in Ep. 6? It will undoubtedly be appreciated with a cry of thanks that will ring through out the known star system!
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" -William Shakespeare
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Any chance of painting out the shell casings ejected from blasters when they are fired?
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Originally posted by: Bluefoot
Thank you for restoring the music to the Mos Eisle[y] cantina.

You're welcome!... I don't know what you're talking about, but you're welcome

Will you please do the same for the music in Jabba's palace in Ep. 6? It will undoubtedly be appreciated with a cry of thanks that will ring through out the known star system!


I'll give it a go, sure. I'm a bit reluctant to use GOUT video, but in this case there may be no other option.

Originally posted by: Clone 007
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Any chance of painting out the shell casings ejected from blasters when they are fired?


I painted them out when I did my un-released from-LD ANH edit, but those that I'd noticed had disappeared on the DVD, presumably a victim of Lowry's clean-up. I will paint them out where I notice them.

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Here's a screenshot showing 1) the original Emperor 2) my first attempt 3) my new (in-progress) attempt. What do you think?

Emperor evolution

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Niiiiice. Of course seeing it in motion is going to be the real test, but it looks great. Maybe adding "hologram scanlines" would take away some of the fuzziness.
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Arrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!!


Tickle me Emperor!
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Elmo likes the dark side. Hahahahaha. Watch Elmo make force lightning! Hahahahahaha. With each passing moment you make yourself more and more Elmo's servant. Hahahaha.
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Here's a screenshot showing 1) the original Emperor 2) my first attempt 3) my new (in-progress) attempt. What do you think?

Emperor evolution

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Wow, great stuff.

I like somewhere between #2 and #3. On #3 his irises look a little too 'white' or maybe just look too white since his skin colour change towards sepia - they jump out at me like night of the living dead zombie eyes. (although that could be a good thing?). I like #3 though with the extra darkeness under the hood, and the way that the hood looks less like a tea towel, even if it is a bit far towards soft, I still like it better.
Of course in motion with the flickery effect etc. it probably looks totally different, and the above is just personal opinion.

Just out of interest, why the skin colour change? Most of the holograms tend towards blue-white blowout in the OT (or do they, I've spent so long with my head up my bum on ANH I haven't looked at the other movies for so long in any detail) the last one feels a bit more force ghost than hologram.
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Just out of interest, why the skin colour change? Most of the holograms tend towards blue-white blowout in the OT


It's meant to look a little closer to the original Emperor, who has a green cast to his face under the blue hood. Funnily enough, the preceeding holograms of the Star Destroyer captains are almost full colour...

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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Hmm, that's a good question... how's this?

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/07/84/10/emperorelmo.jpg

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Hello new wallpaper! That's awesome.
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Just out of interest, why the skin colour change? Most of the holograms tend towards blue-white blowout in the OT


It's meant to look a little closer to the original Emperor, who has a green cast to his face under the blue hood. Funnily enough, the preceeding holograms of the Star Destroyer captains are almost full colour...

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Ahh, as I said I really haven't watched ESB for a long while. I liked the idea of him being a lot darker under the hood in your third image, the first time I saw ESB the emperor was a 'mystery' figure and so hardly being able to see his face kept him mysterious as you couldn't tell who he was, of course the prequels changed all that...

In my mind I was thinking of something tending towards this colour pallete (very bodgy quick mockup), but if the rest of the holograms are not like this (my memory is a piece of crap these days, along with my concentration) then I am probably way off base.

http://www.mudgee.net/ot/empo.png

Nice job on the background plate restoration, I did one a while back but it wasn't as good as yours.
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That looks a million times better than how it was originally in the 2004 release....I really like lasermans version with the slight tweak in the 2nd picture

"The Empire can't stop us now..now its our turn" -Luke-

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Honestly, I never liked the new cloak; the hood just seemed too 'open', for lack of a better word.

Yours looks much better.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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#3 is a improvement over #2, which was already better than the original Lucas redo. Get that?
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bkev, I thik it was Lucas' subtle way of saying "Look!!!! We changed this shot!!!! It's Ian-freaking-McDiarmid". Now, if the hood wasn't so retarded looking, how would you know that?
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Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
Now, if the hood wasn't so retarded looking, how would you know that?

By his fat neck perhaps.