The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 41

jonh said:

https://vimeo.com/409560575
password:jedi

I really love that. By far the best execution I’ve seen of this concept. My only criticism (besides the minor tracking thing HAL mentioned) is that Luke appears a bit small.

Do you intend to add Anakin? If you found some appropriate raw footage to use, I could attempt to age Hayden up for you (with FaceApp, EBSynth and After Effects) to match the others so he wouldn’t look quite so jarringly out of place. Vader was only 45 when he died, but I’d have to age Hayden Christensen up to look at least as old as ~65-year-old Mark Hamill (playing a 53 year old ghost!) since it would be weird to have the father appearing younger than the son.

Bonus fact: in ROTJ, a ~68 year old Alec Guiness is playing the ghost of a man who died at 57. Every ghost Jedi is cast older than the actual character - well, except for Frank Oz’s Yoda…

Hal 9000 said:

I think Anakin ought to be included, personally. Before the movie came out, I wondered whether Hayden could have been given a partial morph into Shaw, but that might work for such a slight glimmer of an appearance.

This is a neat take on that: https://imgur.com/gallery/5Dn7l
Although not in motion obviously.

I like the morphing idea between Hayden and Shaw, if only because we only really have two shots of Shaw from ROTJ that’d be appropriate. I’ve headcannon’ed that Anakin’s ghost can shape-shift depending on who he’s around (Shaw for Luke after seeing him without the mask, Hayden for his “base appearance,” and Vader-like if he wanted to frighten a guy), so it’d work for me.

Loving the progress on the force ghosts, and that Anakin morphing work is wild.

Hal 9000 said:

• Some sound clip or soundalike of masked Kylo Ren saying, “You were right” to replace “I never lied to you” before going on to say, “Your parents were no one.”

I tried my hand at recording my own voice and processing it to sound like a helmeted Kylo-Ren to try and tackle this one. Let me know what you think:

https://vimeo.com/409663975
PW: fanedit

EDIT: Link wasn’t working at first but is now!

Damn, I definitely think that is passable. The “right” sounds a bit off in comparison to the existing dialogue, hard to explain, but I think this is this first test is a pretty solid example that redubbing Kylo in order to change the narrative is possible.

Yeah I agree, I can tweak that “right” a little further!

Oooohhh, Poppa’s getting involved…

“I’ve got a really good feeling about this!”

Just made a tweak to it, same link!

It fits in really well, I think. Honestly, I bet if you showed this to someone not on this forum, I think it would be hard for them to notice what was changed.

Bringing back that helmet was a blessing in disguise. Don’t say JJ never did anything for us :’)

Hal 9000 said:

That’s some very nice work. However, I think the only way I would actually want to use it as if it is so subtle that it’s almost hard to notice on the first viewing.

??? jedi ghosts v4…with anakin
https://vimeo.com/409718237
password:jedi

jonh said:

Hal 9000 said:

That’s some very nice work. However, I think the only way I would actually want to use it as if it is so subtle that it’s almost hard to notice on the first viewing.

??? jedi ghosts v4…with anakin
https://vimeo.com/409718237
password:jedi

Very good.

idir_hh said:

jonh said:

Hal 9000 said:

That’s some very nice work. However, I think the only way I would actually want to use it as if it is so subtle that it’s almost hard to notice on the first viewing.

??? jedi ghosts v4…with anakin
https://vimeo.com/409718237
password:jedi

That looks very good! Though I’m not too keen on reusing the shots of the ghosts from the Endor celebration.

I’ll try to find other shots

Chase Adams said:
Quick suggestion, it sort of sounds like he’s pronouncing the words as “You were rate” instead of “You were right”

Yeah, I can’t unhear this either. It sounds just like Kylo, but saying “You were Reyght”.

Glad we got something going, even if it needs more work!

idir_hh, I recorded with a Yeti Pro into Adobe Audition, pitched it down, and then added a couple distortion effects to it. In premiere, I also added a couple sounds from other helmeted Kylo dialogue to texturize it a little.