Fruit672 said:

Thats incredible, maybe just composite the shadows and coloring matching the reference and it should look good. Don’t know much about blending but maybe this can be used for other deleted scenes too… maybe deepfake could also help

Hay thanks for the Message. The Problem with DeepFake is that It needs a Face to Latch onto, There is no information in the original shot that it would understand where to put the deepfake, I’ve Tried

THIS IS REALLY Excellent Work my dude
It’s Always amazing seeing other people tackle this awfully Damaged deleted footage
I can learn a lot from the process you’re doing in certain places on my Repair work

GREAT WORK dude 😃

kg1977 said:

really great stuff here. Seems like you had a long break from your initial 2018 postings, glad to see your back at it here in 2022…BTW it is your work that inspired me to take focus to the deleted scenes and even my extended versions, so very excited to see your latest.

but seeing yours now I see it can be done (I would not use the turbines, but your landspeeder model as a base for texture from footage on top of that verses a different skin might work (I would leave out the engine in that initial running in shot or at least go just a mesh and dark as opposed to turbines spinning but that is just me. The original does not show the rear engine, so kind of threw me when I first saw it, but it certainly is clean work you are doing with CG.

…but I see you use of 3D CG used in a good way and it makes me re-think. I do think the houses in the background of treadwell and like scene where he is miles out in the desert are too must as the scene works without all that I think. I live around farm land and it just goes for miles with nothing, so feel that is more real for a desert farm, but each has their own take so I am not knocking, just I don’t think you need all those extra elements. If you are offering later 2 versions for people… that works.

Your usage lately w/CG as a compliment to fix damaged stuff is really great use case though. I do like the rear shot of the landspeeder that scene only has two shots and is very boring without some extra, the side shot in itself is really damaged and lots of under exposed, so not sure how yours will look, but interested in that one. Keep up the good work. Also like your luke in the cave fix for ROJ deleted scene. The shot of R2 and like side view looks great.

Thanks for this Detail Message… just Looked at yours now and it looks pretty awesome… It’s always nice to see other fans doing stuff like this, cos to be honest looking at my own work kind of gets boring and seeing others do a similar thing is always refreshing and inspires me and I’m always learning from other people by looking at their work

It’s very flattering to hear that I inspired you, that’s the best compliment anyone can get… so Thankyou

you also mentioned my long break, the truth is I didn’t take a long break, what happened was I hated my work, with all the extra buildings, etc and overall it was a poor job… Some people on here hated it and told me about it, It kinda upset me as i had put so much hard work into it… BUT THEY DID ME A FAVOUR… they weren’t being nasty or anything negative, They were showing me things I didn’t see… THEY WERE RIGHT… when I looked at my work I thought " what the hell am I doing, this looks like Crap" lol
so now if you’ve seen my previous posts ive removed all the extra crap, tried to keep it simple to its original form, and only added stuff when I absolutely had to, for example, to cover really damaged area or something like that…
So going back to the long break, I didn’t upload for a long time just because it was taking me so long to do, Frame by Frame clean up… I only started posting when I had something to post…

Just like now, I haven’t posted in a while, But I’m still hard at work on it every day after I finish work…

Thanks again and stay awesome my Dude

Fullmetaled said:

I know that I meant the new effect.

Ahh Yeah I’ve changed it for my version of the Edit, if you’ve seen my previous Video links you can see what I’ve done

Fullmetaled said:

Sky_ said:

Work In Progress

Not sure what your going for with this.

The Fortress scene when SUperman speakes to his Dad in Superman 2

This sounds Legit

Work In Progress

Grand Master_ Luke Flywalker said:

Dude, that looks amazing! Especially that back shot.

Sorry, My Dude I just saw this, Thank you for that 😃

Hi Guys so Here is a Little Update, as I havnt put an update over a week or so …
I just couldn’t bring back the detail in the face of this shot. So I replaced it with a CG version of his head
Below you can see the final output of the shot

oh Yeah in the Bottom shot his Hand disappears, Im aware of this and it will be fixed

HANDS DOWN SHAW…
I heard all the reasons about Hayden and the Redeeming nonsense created his ghost to become young again lol,
crap…
Plus I don’t know why Haydens Ghost looks Directly at the Camera like a Pervert, What’s all that About??.

Ok FINISHED…

Hi-Res version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QaIgXA7aawA95SUAi5six3M-LxXHgyL4/view?usp=sharing

I’ve inboxed you clean plates

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Okay, everything looks good! I’m wondering if u added motion blur to the shadow aswell. Also, just finish composting the shadow itself to match the other shadows and we should be good. Also, if you can send me the clean plate (speeder without shadow) and shadow element, I’ll try and composite it myself.

yes Motion Blur is on there… Ive Still not finished it yet. I need to add Match Grain to the Elements and and clean up certain Maskings in this footage

adywan said:

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Also I think you should base the SE shadow as reference, and if you can, also trim down the speeder a bit to make it thinner like it is shown here:

Don’t use the SE version of that shot as a basis on how thin the speeder should be. They made a mistake when they did that shot for the SE and cut the bottom off the speeder. Sky_'s version has the correct speeder proportions.

Thankyou… When I was doing this Addy, I did Notice the Special Edition had Just Cut the Bottom off, I did start with that, So you are Correct here in everything about that…
anyway I sent you a Thankyou on FB for the link you sent me Last week so thanks for that

Dat_SW_Guy said:

I suggest you to just do a 2D reconstruction of the guy’s legs, it’s a bit easier puppetering it rather than doing a full CG model, although an alternative can be to project the leg texture to the CG model, which can be difficult. Also I suggest to match the speeder shadow to the surrounding elements, and some of them do periodically “light up” which you should match to retain consistency and shot believability.

Also I think you should base the SE shadow as reference, and if you can, also trim down the speeder a bit to make it thinner like it is shown here:

Im already doing a 2D reconstruction of the Legs. I also tried 2D reconstruction from the Special Editions to dit in this but it stands out like a sore thumb… That shadow is correct as it’s created in 3D space. I also used the angles of the shadow placement of each of the characters on the screen to reposition the shadow of the speeder as it changes position on screen… following the original or what the special edition did was kinda off

Below you can see the Shadow is in 3D space, and also Ive RotoScoped the Legs now

May I have a Link Please Thanks

Ok so here is an Update, Still need to add grain to add the Added elements Like the ground, Shadows, etc
but the Guy in front is really Pissing me off, Even on the original footage these parts of his legs Disappear,
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO… I May have to CG the legs … MAYBE
also the shows of some of the Characters are differnt shades throughout, start off dark and some get Lighter, I don’t know if I should do the same with the Speeder Shadow… anyway A lot to think about, Its 5:03 am here in the UK and I’m off to Bed

Hal 9000 said:

That looks really good!

Thankyou My Dude

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Sky_ said:

Here you go Dat_SW_Guy… I still need to Roto out the guy at the front as you can see he disappears, and still a few bits that need doing in this clip, no point explaining them as you can see it… anyway just an update dude

Looks amazing! My only issue with it are some parts were kinda lagging out, and the shadow color looks a bit too grey and not sandy-colored but other than that its amazing!

Yeah I know, Im gonna also Redo the Shadow, and yes Things are lagging but once ive done all the Rotoscoping I will fix it all

Here you go Dat_SW_Guy… I still need to Roto out the guy at the front as you can see he disappears, and still a few bits that need doing in this clip, no point explaining them as you can see it… anyway just an update dude

You need to check you private messages

ifjg said:

Isn’t Luke’s face dark in the original because his hat is casting a shadow over his face? It might not be necessary to try to bring out the detail in his face.

Yes, It is But not to the extent it’s Pitch Black…

Phase3 said:

Sky_ said:

One quick question: I see you added turbines to the landspeeder’s engines. I thought that the original vehicle had a mesh grille there, not turbines?
Are the turbines your own unique addition?

There is Mesh on there, But you can’t see it in the Gif. And yes The turbines are my own Addition, I may take them out to be honest

Guys I need your help

as you can see from the top image Luke’s face is really Dark, no matter what I do I can’t bring the face details out.
so I had to replace it with a CG Luke… but im not sure if this was the right way to go, there is a point where I tried to Blend CG luke with real Luke, but I don’t even know if that works, the Main reason is, the HAT is slightly different and this is because I can’t seem to model it correctly…
if there is anyone that can help me with creating that?, that would be awesome.
I also don’t know if there are enough people viewing this thread to see if I need help here, anyway worth a try

Thankyou For reading

by the way, the CG Luke was ripped off from the Star Wars Battlefront II game. The Hat and Goggles were created by me in Cinema 4D, and it’s an awful job as I can’t model for shit

Edit -oh Yeah Roto Still needs cleaning Im aware so Ignore that Part

BandobrasTuk said:

Absolutely awesome, you are a genius Sky! 😃

Thank you kind Sir, Sorry for late reply, Just near the end of finishing this so Been busy on that

Grand Master_ Luke Flywalker said:

Do you plan to restore the deleted scenes for the whole trilogy?

ABSOLUTELY

ifjg said:

That first shot looks incredible. Never noticed it before, but kind of a funny continuity error in the original where the first shot shows them driving on a flat surface but the second shot shows it being super bumpy.

Yeah I know, I’ve changes it to flat surface for the continuity reasons

also i dont know why the had the Speeder titled to one side, so that was the reason i also changed it

cosmicjazz said:

This stuff is fantastic. Are you going to add the speeder to the old lady yelling scene?

Firstly Thank you for your kind Words
Its Funny you asked about that shot, I was working on that Shot On the Weekend…
Just didn’t know what to do with it, but now You mentioned the Speeder I’m sure I can add it in there somewhere
But shes saying something and I don’t know what Shes saying plus it has no Audio