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Star Wars - Ultimate Edition (* unfinished project*) — Page 2

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Charles Threepio said:

I don’t expect perfection with CGI people, mind. I just hope to make it look as good as the CGI Leia in Rogue One did, and many, including myself, believe she was handled better than Tarkin was (it helped her case that she only appeared in one brief scene at the end).

Leia in R1 is perfectly believable right up to the point where she speaks and we’re right back in uncanny valley again like with Tarkin.

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I’m quite excited about this 😄

Italian faneditor.

EDITS LIST:
Episode IV - THE HEIR OF SKYWALKER. Episode VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI RENEWED. DYAD IN THE FORCE (3-into-1 sequels).
PM me for links if interested.

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Charles Threepio said:

Do you think I should incorporate this reimagining of Obi-Wan’s final bout with Darth Vader into the Ultimate Edition? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2SMng4u1k

Nah. It’s great as a fun standalone project, but putting it into the movie would be a bad idea, because it would stick out like a sore thumb. The point of fan edits is that you aren’t supposed to notice that you’re watching a fan edit: the point is that you’re supposed to feel like you’re watching a real movie. I’d just update all the visuals, clean up the grain and noise, color-correct the “pink” skin tones, and also improve the VFX, matte paintings and models throughout the trilogy to be more in line with Rogue One and the sequel trilogy.

The unfortunate reality of the Star Wars prequel and Disney trilogies is that they will always be around. Forever. They will never go away. It can never be undone.

I also prefer to be referred to as “TNT”, not “Freezing”.

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Well, so I have a way to kill time in the age of COVID-19, on 12 Beran 0 A.C.V. local time, I figured I might as well do some actual work on the effects. For example, I was hoping to include an option for viewing parts of the opening sequence, i.e. most shots that take place in outer space, in IMAX, kind of like how IMAX redid that part of the film for a Nova documentary on special effects. For the time being, of course, I’m going to have to do the IMAXified shots in Blender, and since I feel I’m going to need some guidance for such a large-scale effort to recreate the shots in IMAX in a way that meshes well with Rogue One and the sequel trilogy, I’ll do a gradual breakdown of the sequence.

Linked below for the next week is my Blend file in its 1.0 state. No animation, just an initial attempt to get Tatooine and its moons in a good position for where the very first shot finishes up.

https://we.tl/t-6wH9WT3Es6

ETA: Forgot to mention, there are also no textures in this incarnation; I figured I’d ask for input on the texturing before I applied anything. However, there is an initial rendition of the IMAX starfield, which I created using this tutorial.

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Version 1.1 of the Blend file is linked to below for the next week. Still no textures nor animation, but preliminary materials and lighting are set, plus corrections have been made to account for the possibility of using a 100mm IMAX lens like the ones used in some old outer space documentaries made by IMAX.

https://we.tl/t-gozupcRn2n