That's great. I wonder if it would work in the Coruscant chase scene.
It does work very well in that scene, for toning down the bright yellow and green speeders.
As a matter of fact, this desaturation looks great on every scene; I'm tempted to just apply it to the whole movie (but I won't).
All of the ones that stand out to me as looking "CG", with overly bright colors. If it doesn't irritate me, then it will most likely not be changed. But definite changes are the first scene with Palpatine and the council, the Coruscant chase scene, the Jedi Council scene, the Palpatine/Anakin scene, and the droid factory scene.
Of the "half bluescreen half CG" shots, are you going to desaturate parts of the shot?
It does work very well in that scene, for toning down the bright yellow and green speeders.
As a matter of fact, this desaturation looks great on every scene; I'm tempted to just apply it to the whole movie (but I won't).
BTW, I still say leave the muzzle flash out entirely. It isn't really realistic to have a bright white flash everytime a blaster fires. It's not like they have any powder to burn. The only light from a blaster should come from the beam itself.
I'll think about this.
MTHaslett: I would love your specific suggestions on how to pull this off. If it could be established early on that Obi-Wan is actually preventing Anakin from rescuing his mother, then the whole film would make more sense and become more powerful. I'm very interested.
It's "Attack of the Clones" unless someone else can help me out and do a new crawl for "Attack of the Separatists", "Dark Force Rising", or "Shroud of the Dark Side", all of which are titles I would use. But at this time, I don't have the means to do a new crawl.
Which of the CGI shots are you going to desaturate?
I'll think about this.
MTHaslett: I would love your specific suggestions on how to pull this off. If it could be established early on that Obi-Wan is actually preventing Anakin from rescuing his mother, then the whole film would make more sense and become more powerful. I'm very interested.
Have you decided on a name yet?
It's "Attack of the Clones" unless someone else can help me out and do a new crawl for "Attack of the Separatists", "Dark Force Rising", or "Shroud of the Dark Side", all of which are titles I would use. But at this time, I don't have the means to do a new crawl.
Which of the CGI shots are you going to desaturate?
All of the ones that stand out to me as looking "CG", with overly bright colors. If it doesn't irritate me, then it will most likely not be changed. But definite changes are the first scene with Palpatine and the council, the Coruscant chase scene, the Jedi Council scene, the Palpatine/Anakin scene, and the droid factory scene.
Of the "half bluescreen half CG" shots, are you going to desaturate parts of the shot?
No, that would get really difficult really quickly.
And for the record, I dubbed the first bit of Anakin dialogue today and synchronized it with the film to see how it would work. Just a tiny clip in the garage scene, when Anakin says, "I hate them!" at the end. Man, my voice is hoarse after doing that a dozen times! But I'm really pleased and encouraged with the results.
I'm reconsidering and thinking that perhaps I'll do the dubbing first, mix that into the original film, and then start editing after I know what I've got to work with. Then, I can always redo some lines if I need to. But I don't really need to edit the whole film before recording the dialogue; I've almost got everything cut, color change, or dialogue change I'm going to do on paper.