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Alright guys, I have a confession, I’ve been working on my prequel edits for nearly 4 years. I haven’t been active on the forums very much but I am slowly but surely chugging along in my edits, but I am faced with an obstacle. Over the years I have brainstormed, edited, brainstormed, re-edited, re-edited, and re-re-edited my prequel edits. I’ve been getting better and better and I believe I’m excelling in my technical ability to change scenes, mix audio, and make some pretty radical story decisions. My problem, however, is that I’m not talented or skilled or well equipped in the area of special effects, so I humbly come here to ask for your guys’ help.

Anyone with basic rotoscoping abilities/software would be of great help, I mostly need to remove certain characters from a handful of shots along with other little changes. I have masks for most of the backgrounds that I wish to alter as well as a TON of obscure visual sources such as videos, behind the scenes images, and even 360-degree on-set photos.

I will be on here frequently as of now and I will be posting whatever shots I need done, I will supply any help I can with these works and anyone who chips in will be highly credited as part of the project. Soon I’ll be posting exactly what kinds of shots and scenes that I need help with down below.

Also, since my thread hasn’t gotten much attention in a while now, be sure to check out my thread, I have some pretty abstract changes in my version: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Smithers-Star-Wars-2-part-Prequel-Fanedits/id/17329/page/1

Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329

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I’ll help with whatever I can!

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Can’t say I can offer much help, but it’s good to see ya back Smithers!

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SUP3RDeathStar said:

Can’t say I can offer much help, but it’s good to see ya back Smithers!

Thank you!! I’m gonna be a lot more active soon, I’m not letting this project fade away.

snooker said:

I’ll help with whatever I can!

Right on! PMs will be sent out soon.

LordZerome1080 said:

My voice acting skills are at your command!!

Pleasant surprise! I’ll see soon enough if I can use you!!

I’d like to make this thread a collection of random resources for prequel faneditors to use, all special effects that I have done myself or have done for me will be collected in my own little database of editing resources, I will include some really obscure stuff in there too which I can be useful. I hope that by the time the edit is done, if someone doesn’t like it and thinks they can do it better, they’ll be free to access all of the bonus material that I’m able to gather, hopefully spawning more radical and creative edits.

Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329

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Smithers said:

Also MAJOR UPDATE: I’ll be recording Anakin’s dialogue with a child actor soon, the equipment’s all pretty good and my lines are all written. If anyone wants their own lines recorded; just ask and I’ll supply the goods.

Excellent!

Just thinking out loud here: If the line delivery ends up being substantially better than the original versions, it might be a very useful resource to have all of the original Anakin dialogue re-recorded. It would be quite the endeavor, but just having an isolated voice track for a major character would be useful for faneditors.

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NeverarGreat said:

Smithers said:

Also MAJOR UPDATE: I’ll be recording Anakin’s dialogue with a child actor soon, the equipment’s all pretty good and my lines are all written. If anyone wants their own lines recorded; just ask and I’ll supply the goods.

Excellent!

Just thinking out loud here: If the line delivery ends up being substantially better than the original versions, it might be a very useful resource to have all of the original Anakin dialogue re-recorded. It would be quite the endeavor, but just having an isolated voice track for a major character would be useful for faneditors.

Defenitely some of it will be the same just for the sake of convenience to other editors, but i won’t be including some of the more awful stuff (ex: are you an angel) but yea I’ll record most of the stuff that moves the plot along

Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329

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Just an idea, would it be possible to have little Anakin say something about how he found 3PO ravaged in the desert and fixed him up? Instead of appearing to build him from the ground up?

My stance on revising fan edits.

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I have a idea, What if you redub the clones with Dee Bradley Baker’s clone voice?

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