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#389877
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THE STAR WARS REVISITED SAGA'S CUSTOM BLU-RAY/DVD COVER THREAD
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Thanks, guys, you are too kind.  I have been using Photoshop fairly heavily for about 10 years, I have also recieved some professional instruction (which made a huge difference!)

I don't have anywhere to host the full-size images but if anybody wants to PM me their email addresses I'd be happy to send them out... of course I am going out of town for Xmas for 4 or 5 days, so it might be a little while.

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#364559
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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adywan said:

thanks for the link Killbot but i refuse to pay that site for their pictures when they are uploaded by other members, many stole from other sites.

Understood and agreed, it is rather prickish of them to charge.  But on the off chance there is anything there that could be useful, and you can't find it anywhere else, let me know & I'll download it for you.

 

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#364270
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Hey Adywan, frequent lurker, infrequent poster here...

Anyway I came across this site and thought I'd point it out to you, they have some nice hi-res shots that might be good for reference, if nothing else...

http://www.moviepicturedb.com/

Unfortunately you do have to pay but its relatively cheap...

Just search for "Star Wars"

Also quite handy for those making DVD covers (that's how I found it)

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#336199
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Info &amp; Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Hey.  I don't post much but am a long time lurker/occasional poster.  Also I'm in my mid-30s and gre up with the original trilogy in a major way.  Here are some of my thoughts.

A long time ago, I threw out the suggestion that Boba Fett be omitted entirely from Jedi.  Not sure I was the first to voice this, but I might've been.  I definitely felt like Boba Fett was supposed to be a mysterious, high paid bounty hunter, paid by both Jabba and the Empire to find Han (& company) and I stick to my assertion that the way he found Han so easily is that he had some pre-existing knowledge of the Han/Lando relationship. 

Doesn't seem logical that he would suddenly have become part of Jabba's entourage, reduced to standing around and getting easily killed.  The guy should have been off on his next bounty, I daresay the only reason he was in Jedi at all, is because he had become popular amongst the fans. 

Now if it was possible for Adywan to create a satisfying showdown between Han and Boba Fett, I would be all for it, but given the existing footage I just don't see how, therefore I say the total removal of Fett is really the only way to go.  his death is basically pure slapstick, and only serves to lower the stakes of the Sarlaac battle, as well as reducing Fett to a bumbler, instead of a badass.

Also, I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but it has seemed like a weird continuity error to me for a long time, that the Tyderium needs a code to land on endor.  The holographic display during the General Nadine sequence shows the force field coming up from the sheild generator to surround the Death Star, clearly NOT covering the area where the Tyderium is presumed to land.  maybe this could be fixed with an updated holographic display? 

Another thing I mentioned before and I think others may have agreed, is that the shot where the sheild generator explodes depicts a ginormous explosion that would easily engulf Han and the others.  Watch the sequence:  After planting the charges, has comes running out like 50 feet away and ducks behind some reeds or something.  Then we see a monstrous explosion that looks like its decimating a 1/2 mile radius at least.  Then we cut back to Han, who doesn't have so much a a smudge on his face or a black puff in his foreground, his patch of reeds is completely untouched.  Total continuity failure.  

 

 

 

 

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#324370
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Idea: Any interest in 'The Last Unicorn'?
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The two US versions available, one is fullscreen, and the recent widescreen version has the word “damn” edited out.  Not sure whether the fullscreen has the edited audio or not.  Also not sure if the widescreen edits are audio only, or if a bit of the video is trimmed along with it…

I have a copy of the R2 PAL disc, which is uncut & has english audio (5.1 if I’m not mistaken)

Anyway I’d be willing to donate the disc if anyone wants to convert it…

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#319825
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Ady, I don't post too often, but I do a fair bit of lurking, and Im a huge fan of Episode IV: Revisited. Anyway (I know we're supposed to be talking about Empire) I'm thrilled to hear tht you're considering removing Boba Fett from Jedi alltogether-- what you said about him only being there in the first place because of his popularity with the fans is spot-on!

Anyway on to Empire, the color corrections are looking really good, I honestly hadn't realized just how severe the color problems were, until seeing the side-by-side.

Here's my two cents on some other stuff:

Regarding the Wampa scene, I'm glad that you're losing most (if not all) of the Special Edition shots, however there's a shot in the original version that always bothered me... (I don't think anyone has mentioned this, apologies if this has already been discussed...)

We see a glimpse of white fur through a hole in the icy wall, and I swear it looks like it's on a dolly, it's rolling horizontally, with no vertical/diagonal motion at all. I'm sure you have noticed this as well.

I actually like the 3D fly-through stuff at Cloud City, as well as the CG windows, I wouldn't mind seeing those bits stay in.

I like the suggestion of shortening Luke's arm to reduce the obviousness that Mark's hand is still there, plus it seems feasible in terms of effects...

Otherwise I'm very comfortable with your general if-it-aint-broke approach.

OK that's it for now!



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#313567
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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*Ahem* I always feel the need to preface my posts by apologizing for how rarely I post anything... I would really like to participate more, as I have been a huge fan of a lot of the fan-edit work that goes on around here for several years...

I just downloaded the final version of ANH: Revisited and Ady I want to thank you...
I am simply in love with this project, start to finish. The new Death Star battle is just brilliant.. the added shots have the effect of sort of maintaining the spatial relationship between the ships, DS and Yaavin, the whole thing just makes sense in a way that it didn't before. It's just so much more exciting!

Also I disagree with those who didn't like the music during the Vader/Obi-Wan battle, I thought it worked quite well, along with your editing- it really kicks the action up a notch. More so than I would have thought possible, really. Simply great.

And removing the wacky robot fights and jawa/ronto antics at Mos Eisley, The creature stuff in the cantina, It's all just so much better than I would have guessed would be possible.

My favorite cantina effect is Hammerhead squinting his eyes, man it just looks so natural, you would NEVER peg that as a post effect. In fact I'm still not sure it is, I mean obviously I KNOW it is, but... it just looks so good that it has confused my brain.

Anyway I know there are already tons of posts with gushing thank-yous, but I just wanted to throw mine on the pile, too. So...

THANK YOU ADYWAN!!!!



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#308719
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Info &amp; Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo

NOTHING in the movies indicates he is such a great bounty hunter. So he managed to capture Han Solo? Yeah, with the aid of a sith lord and a few dozen imperial troops. Even Greedo managed to find Solo....


When Fett is first introduced, Vader is adressing the bounty hunters, but makes a specific point of reminding Fett there are to be "no disintegrations." This makes Fett bad-ass in that he is the only one adressed individually by Vader. It implies that either Fett is notorious for disintegrating people in general, or there has been some kind of specific incident that Vader is reffering to... perhaps Fett has hunted someone down for the Empire or Vader at some point in the past, but disintegrated them? If that's the case, then why was he not only allowed to live, but called back for a new job? He must be bringing something to the table.

Then, when the Falcon disappears, Fett is the only one who figures out where it went. He arranges to have Slave One jettisoned with the garbage, and then somehow deduces that Han will head for Bespin. When Vader et all turn up at Cloud City, it's because Fett must've known about the Han/Lando connection.

In the carbon freezing chamber, Fett has the cajones to challenge Vader on his decision to freeze Han. Vader's response is to promise Fett money, instead of simply force-strangling him like he tends to do to other people who piss him off. Vader obviously either has some degree of respect for him, or at least sees him as too useful to kill.

Lastly Fett gets off the first few shots in his firefight with Luke, keeping him pinned down and escaping.

The guy's clearly a badass. Unless you bump his jet pack with a stick.

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#305281
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Info &amp; Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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For Jedi, I’d like to see Lapti Nek re-instated, but reduced/minimized to more of a background element. Jabba’s palace overall could stand to be a bit less silly, I wonder if removing certain bits like Boba Fett flirting or the crying Rancor keeper could help that. Maybe trim Salacious Crumb a bit, he is both wacky and muppet-looking.

I’d prefer to see the original sarlaac, and of course if anything could be done to give Boba Fett a less lame death that would be huge. At the very least the sarlaac belching could be cut. Honestly, I’d rather see Fett cut out of the movie entirely than to go out like such a bitch.

I would cut Chewie’s Tarzan cry on Endor. Takes me out of the movie big time. I also seem to remember that when the shield generator explodes, it is an absolutely enormous explosion, engulfing the area where our heroes would presumably be. I could be wrong, but I just remember it being way too big.

Also I always felt that when the Emperor is zorching Luke, it takes Vader just a bit too long to step in. That could just be tighter and more dramatic. Also maybe some extra work on the lightning effects to make it clearer that Vader is getting blasted with a lethal dose, it always seemed odd to me that Luke could withstand like five minutes of that, but five seconds was enough to kill Darth Vader.
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#287329
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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hi all, I'm an infrequent poster around these parts, but I lurk a lot, and I'm quite interested in the fan edit phenomenon, especially people doing their own effects work. So cool. Adywan I just wanted to cheer you on a bit with what your doing here, I absolutely cannot wait to see this when its done. I've watched a couple of the clips you've posted at rapidshare, the Aleraan explosion and the Falcon/Tie fighter battle, both of which look awesome. Also I'm glad you decided to omit the Jabba scene, its just plain extraneous.
I'm super curious about the facial movements for the cantina aliens.
I also like the idea of the battle droid and ep. 1 looking tatooine landscapes. There's such a huge disconnect between the OT and the PT, I like anything to tie them a bit closer together. Now if you can just replace the pod-racers with skyhoppers?
You know one thing I didn't notice on your list is that little bit of reversed footage with the Tusken Raider waiving his stick around (I'm sure you know what I'm talking about) although I'm not sure what could be done to fix it.
One thing I will say, is I kind of hate to see those blue insignias go, because as a kid I liked them. In fact it never occurred that there should be a "blue squadron" to go with those blue insignias, I just chalked it up to the rebels having mismatched equipment. I mean Biggs has some kinda black and yellow checkerboard pattern on his, doesn't he? Anyway I certainly don't want to be counted amongst the "complainers," and knowing now that there was once a "blue squadron" I can appreciate the logic in making them red.
So anyway bottom line is thanks for doing this, I am super-excited about this project.