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SW Episode III - Reign of the Dark Side (* unfinished project *) — Page 13

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Nice, but... well, it doesn't feel right at that particular point of the battle. Note that in original RotS Anakin has Sith eyes during especially, how to put it, enragin moments - Seppie slaughter, being burned.

I think that the most appropriate time to put Sith eyes in battle with Dooku is after Dooku says "You have hate, you have anger, but you don't use them" (if you use that phrase). Imagine: Dooku says that, as Anakin pushes Dooku away, his eyes turn red, and are in that state until Anakin chops Dooku's hand off. When Anakin catches Dooku's sword and camera pans down to his face, his eyes turn to normal again. And he coldbloodedly, mercelessly kills Dooku.

I think that would be much more cooler, after all, Anakin doesn't kill Dooku in the state of rage or something, he kills because it's HIS OWN choice.

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Well the end idea is semi like you stated, His eyes will turn as he starts his attacks after Dooku taunts him. During the shot that i posted, his eyes will be sith thruout, This was sort if a test on doing the slow fade from normal to sith eyes. The eyes will remain untill after Anakin kills Dooku.

I understand your point about when Anakin has the eyes in the Original tho. But alot of things are changing from the Original, for the sake of better storytelling.

Also, this was kind of just something I decided to try, editing wise. So it actually might not even make it into the edit. Havnt decided on it yet. But at least I know it's possible for me to do it. When I really want to add a slow fade to Sith eyes is when Obi is telling Anakin that he's not on his side. During the closeup of Anakins face, right before he does the backflip to start there duel.

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This is one idea I don't agree with. The way I always saw it, the sith eyes were something that developed from years of corruption by the darkside. Not something that suddenly appears due to the character's mood.

Same goes for Palpatine's Halloween mask features. I don't agree with that either. The first time we should see prune faced palps is ESB if possible.

Edit: Having said that, it DOES make Anakin's fall seem more believable and less of a conscious decision. You can see he's giving in to his hate, rather than making a conscious decision to do bad things.

So basically, I'm on the fence. Your way works a LOT better than the original though :)

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I loved Dooku's (ye gads I hate that name LOL) reaction to seeing the eyes

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bobgarcia74 said:

Next possible change, Watch in HD and watch Anakins eyes, if you blink you might miss it.

*Edit, this is just a idea. If I use this, it will be added to more shots of the scene.*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwpTE1ckgEs

Can that shot zoomed in? It's hardly noticable. Just a few second, but it changes the whole meaning of the duel.  It's a great idea, at last something emotional happening in the shot!!!!!

I think something like this:

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That could be interesting. Do you have another example of the sith eyes just appearing?

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Perhaps they could gradually appear more and more with each shot of Anakin right after Obi-Wan is crushed?

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Perhaps they could gradually appear more and more with each shot of Anakin right after Obi-Wan is crushed?

A vampir.... A sith i meant make his teeth also bigger :D

Well a good idea is that anakin has no more sith eyes when the vader mask enters so actually he is not a sith but just a wretched reminent body.

 

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Ive never liked the yellow eyes thing with anakin. It worked with darth maul because of the overall design of the character. Darth sidious' eyes looked ok with the over design of the character but with anakin it looks wrong.

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I agree it does look wrong long term

but you have to agree that little flash of it added some (DESPERATELY NEEDED) emotion to the scene

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I'm a bit on the fence on this as well. I always thought it was just for Maul til ROTS came around.

It does add a little more emotion...you get the sense of what is happening inside Anakin...which helps because Anakin always looks pissed off anyway.  ;)

But it still sort of seems like a gimick...I don't know...lol

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For me the Sith eyes thing is silly.

If Dooku is a Sith why didn't he get them, if it's a hulk thing and they only come on when the power is on why didn't Anakin have them in AOTC, why doesn't have then all through his Vader moments, why doesn't Luke get them in ROTJ?

It's just another stupid thing Lucas threw in without thinking about it.

The edit looks good but idea itself doesn't make sense.

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If Dooku is a Sith why didn't he get them, if it's a hulk thing and they only come on when the power is on why didn't Anakin have them in AOTC, why doesn't have then all through his Vader moments, why doesn't Luke get them in ROTJ?

 

As far as I understand, the Sith eyes appeared for Darth Maul as means to make him cool and menacing (I wouldn't call Palpatine's eyes in RotJ Sith eyes... they're relatively normal). Then, in 2003-2004 (AFTER AotC, mind you) KotOR games have been released, where those who follow the Dark Side slowly change appearance (most notably the eyes). The idea was then applied for the 2005 RotS in a way.

This is just another example of Lucas thinking about something on the way, as he was doing ever since the first sequel to Star Wars was in the making.

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I checked out the videos you posted and I must say you have some interesting ideas. Although I do love when Palpatine says "Do it!". Great stuff.

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Farlander said:

As far as I understand, the Sith eyes appeared for Darth Maul as means to make him cool and menacing (I wouldn't call Palpatine's eyes in RotJ Sith eyes... they're relatively normal). Then, in 2003-2004 (AFTER AotC, mind you) KotOR games have been released, where those who follow the Dark Side slowly change appearance (most notably the eyes).

Nah.. he is cool even without the sith eyes ;)

The concept can work

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Why is it implied that the color of his eyes has to do with him being a sith?  Did he grow horns out of his head simply because he was a sith?  I highly doubt it.  I think the fact that he is a species other than human can easily explain the eye color.  Recoloring his eyes to human is as big of an error (if not more) than making all sith have "sith eyes"

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Agreed...the last picture actually makes him look a little sad, like someone kicked his puppy.

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He looks like he has Disney eyes, sadly.

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Here is some facts. Assuming always.

in OT we have a dude with a mask, never see his eyes and an old lady with yellow eyes. Both their face are white/gray and damaged/deformed. Assuming have an old lady palpatine with yellow eyes it could make contrast with his weak appearance.

In PT we have a tattoo guy, a droid general and a fallen jedi plus anakin.

Maul has evil orange red eyes that complete his appereance as...evil.

then we have dooku that got nothing. and GG that is a lizard cat eyed creature.

Now we got explained by PT that the "masks" have fall from palpatine's face and now he cant hide it anymore.

Mixing up an element that was not used properly even its from bad script of from  visuals yes it might cause confusion. And again we dont know what a "zabraak species" is. Taking reference from games that was set on something wrong its naturally it will cause confusion and debates

A solution is that only palps can have the eyes before and after his transformation, or add partial hits of sith eyes here and there to all the bad guys. A bit of evil something that gains someone when is in rage.. Yes you can make the difference adding the sith eyes to known jedi puting the dilema who is good after all. Or may have them indeed keepers of the peace and never fall into darkness.(aka blade runner you never know)

Or indeed dooku for example can get a desaturation/pale tone to show that he is a "sith". Anakin too.

As i said before each editor sets its own rules and aesthetics to their edits. It might be star wars-y or not. which defies all the above sayings ;)

 

-Angel

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vaderios said:

Farlander said:

As far as I understand, the Sith eyes appeared for Darth Maul as means to make him cool and menacing (I wouldn't call Palpatine's eyes in RotJ Sith eyes... they're relatively normal). Then, in 2003-2004 (AFTER AotC, mind you) KotOR games have been released, where those who follow the Dark Side slowly change appearance (most notably the eyes).

Nah.. he is cool even without the sith eyes ;)

The concept can work

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 OMG angel uve ruined my image of maul!!! noooo!!! haha only jokin. Im actually impressed how maul looks without the eyes, i think i actually like it more without yellow eyes. I think someone else mentioned it earlier but its like a gimmick anakin has, dont like it, don't think i actually ever will. Hate that stupid little clip of anakin lookin at the camera which deserves a caption saying 'hey look guys, im evil now. my eyes are yellow, look! loooookkk!!!!!'

Angel anychance you could possibly have a go at taking out the colour out of palpatines 'evil face' and making it paler like ROTJ style and replace the yellow eyes with normal eyes?

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ThrowgnCpr said:

 HAHA!! Darth Puss in Boots!

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DuTwan said:

Angel anychance you could possibly have a go at taking out the colour out of palpatines 'evil face' and making it paler like ROTJ style and replace the yellow eyes with normal eyes?

Palpatine was iconic. Even he was very little in ROTJ he was more memorable from the timefiller maul.

As redletter media said the characters from ep 1 to two are whole different persons. thats why i dont know how the idea maul - grievous can work as Bingo suggested. Maul never speaks. GG is speaking all the time.

So id rather make normal palp with evil eyes rather the opposite ;)

 

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