The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 49

I don’t really care so much for the force shield. Rey’s a big girl and doesn’t need it. She’s standing in front of the men for a reason. Is Mace Windu up front with his bad motherfucker wallet? No.

Also, the whole final boss battle between Rey and Palpatine (as released in the theater) seemed a bit too dragonball-Z-ish for me and the shield just adds to that.

Leaving the shield in is better though because I can probably edit it out easily and then those who like it can use it for their edits.

I don’t know where jonh has been hiding but he’s another genius like poppasketti.

We have a potential hollywood director on the thread!
That looks fabulous.

jonh ok well we need you to be able to finish this so everyone should help to keep the scope of your scenes manageable. Then we can have a finished product soon. The force ghosts can just fade out as soon as Palpatine’s dead. The quarantine won’t last forever.

And nice work on the film for the telephone of the dead. I like how they put the guy saying “don’t fuck with me” into the trailer. Cool!

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised to learn you’re a big-shot pro! Thanks for sharing that. We’re glad to have you around.

Or to cause one. (A) Palpatine’s shenanigans begin again.

Looks great! With Luke stable, I think that portion is perfect now.

I wouldn’t want her to glow purple any further, but here it looks like it’s just the glow from the saber.

I’ve been thinking that it might be easier to create a Coruscant shot to replace the Ewok shot in the ending montage by possibly using the removed Star Destroyer matte to add to an already existing Coruscant shot from the prequels.
Here’s a very rough mockup that I did in like two minutes:

By doing this, we can avoid having to go to the trouble of rendering new models that might not fit with the original film’s aesthetic.
If we don’t want to go in this route though, I am more than confident in snooker’s abilities to create something awesome!

In saying that however, snooker, hate to be a nuisance since I’m sure you have better things to do, but I’ve had trouble motion tracking these two elements together (the crashing destroyer and the AOTC city) so might you be able to see if we can make this shot work by trying it out? 🙏 ☺️

If you don’t think that this shot from AOTC works much, I’m sure there could be another shot from the prequels we could use!

I think that if we are to use shots of Coruscant from the prequels they’d need to get a First Order overhaul, flags, Ties, destroyers in the sky, colour correction, perhaps even air pollution.

We could draw inspiration from something like this:
https://youtu.be/dFG0YgxEN2M

I was wondering if we could create a moving version of this piece of concept art from Duel of the fates, https://starwarz.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/duel-of-the-fates-concept-art-8.jpg.
It could be used as an establishing shot for the board room scene in Tros, and with some vfx we could have explosions added to it at the climax of the film.

Sounds delicious.

I’m not sure if this was discussed yet, but how will Rey’s parents be dealt with? In The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren described them as “filthy junk traders” who sold her for drinking money. The Rise of Skywalker retcons this to say that they sold her to protect her from Palpatine.

I’m not sure, but I might do two versions: Rey Palpatine and Rey Nobody.

In Palpatine version, it’s sort of addressed by Kylo saying “you were right… your parents were no one… they chose to be to protect you.” It’s still a “certain point of view” thing. But her mother won’t say “she isn’t on Jakku she’s gone” because my version of TLJ doesn’t require them to die on Jakku.

In Nobody version, I think it’d have to be that they truly were drunkard deadbeats who get killed. Rey feels angry that her parents were killed in principle, even if they weren’t great. She probably still has a sense of wishing for them, even if it was always sort of wishful thinking on her part.

Knight of Kalee said:
An easier change could be this: remember that establishing shot of Kylo and the Knights of Ren approaching the Steadfast in their respective ships? Maybe the background could be edited, so the three vessels are in the night atmosphere of Coruscant instead of outer space. The skyline of Coruscant could also be seen behind the windows of the Star Destroyer when Kylo addresses the officers.

I think the difficulty in that would be matching the background with the whizzing movement of the camera.

I feel like it could be interesting to try to incorporate Luke haunting kylo

Jonh if possible you should do a final release without any color correction to the lightsaber. Then anyone including yourself can correct it from that final version in their edits. (No purple for me personally)

I think it would be better to just extend the celebration scene instead of removing the Endor/Wicket scene, the celebration itself didn’t really feel long enough anyway; I don’t think removing parts will make it better, it was so short for a final celebration of the Skywalker Saga, I felt it needed to be more grand and have more locations from across all the movies. I hope someone out there eventually does something along those lines.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cIEpdOAmdSQ/Ts_K39U9LII/AAAAAAAABX0/-oo9Qb6bjNE/s1600/poor%2BJedi%2Btemple.jpg