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After a trillion years, I finally finished the Alderaan Explosion sequence to a degree in which I find acceptable. The colors are a bit overexposed but at this point I’m too tired to keep on going (lol)

I adjusted the size of the explosions a bit to fit in more in-frame and fixed the little jitteriness at the start. If you may find it a bit lacking in quality, its WAY better in HD.
https://streamable.com/ut567t

Aside from this one, I decided to make two changes:
1.) I have decided to not do the speeder shadow removal + replacement because my current skills in editing isnt good enough to do that sort of thing, plus I can barely run any 3D rendering program such as Blender on this computer.

2.) I removed the Jabba confrontation scene in the SE completely using an iris wipe transition carefully masked to hide the transition from ILM, I’ll be posting that soon along with others.

As of right now the edit is heading its way into completion, however if I were to make a hypothetical V2, It would mainly tackle on the speeder shadow replacement + fixing the jump-cuts using fantamorph.

EDIT: Updated first post to update some sources and add these changes in

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Dat_SW_Guy said:

After a trillion years, I finally finished the Alderaan Explosion sequence to a degree in which I find acceptable. The colors are a bit overexposed but at this point I’m too tired to keep on going (lol)

I adjusted the size of the explosions a bit to fit in more in-frame and fixed the little jitteriness at the start. If you may find it a bit lacking in quality, its WAY better in HD.
https://streamable.com/ut567t

Aside from this one, I decided to make two changes:
1.) I have decided to not do the speeder shadow removal + replacement because my current skills in editing isnt good enough to do that sort of thing, plus I can barely run any 3D rendering program such as Blender on this computer.

2.) I removed the Jabba confrontation scene in the SE completely using an iris wipe transition carefully masked to hide the transition from ILM, I’ll be posting that soon along with others.

As of right now the edit is heading its way into completion, however if I were to make a hypothetical V2, It would mainly tackle on the speeder shadow replacement + fixing the jump-cuts using fantamorph.

Gorgeous!

-TGWNN

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Hey first time posting on this, the explosion looks good to me.

“Because you are a PalpaWalker?”

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Dat_SW_Guy said:

I adjusted the size of the explosions a bit to fit in more in-frame and fixed the little jitteriness at the start. If you may find it a bit lacking in quality, its WAY better in HD.
https://streamable.com/ut567t

Looks great!

“Always in motion is the future” 🌌

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I realized after posting that the laser beam looked janky and weird. I soon fixed that and made it thinner, similar to how Adywan did about this shot.

If anybody wants to use the Alderaan shot, shoot me a PM and make sure to give credit.

Speaking of Adywan, I will be implementing certain changes from his Revisited Edition sometime soon.

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Heres the “final” version of the entire Mos Eisley sequence with temp audio, as I simply didn’t have the skill to refine the drive-by scene. The main things in this are:

-The recut entrance scene which was a page taken straight out of Adywan’s Revisited edition
-Redone matte with the correct time-of-day outside of the cantina to maintain accuracy
(although the all of the outdoor scenes are inconsistent in the film, lol)
https://vimeo.com/628306487

I’ll eventually later on work on that drive-by scene for a future hypothetical V2 of this edit so until I get a better computer and learn how to do camera projection in Blender, it will be shelved for now.

To add some extra workload to my schedule for the benefit of this edit, I will be adding Yavin in the background of the battle scenes and will be basing this straight off of Adywan’s version to more effeciently do this.

EDIT: I realized that I uploaded the wrong file to Vimeo, but in the edit, the SE aerial shot of the speeder driving off after the mind-track scene is included.

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Hello, as an extra little suprise I decided to upload this snippet of the Jabba scene completely removed and replaced with an iris transition that matches the style of the original optical versions.

https://vimeo.com/628332734

I also updated the oriignal post for more information and updated changelist.

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Another change: “Despecializing” the scene of Vader walking through a dark corridor on the Death Star. In the Special Edition, they terribly attempted to fix it by tracking and hand-animating a 2D image of Vader’s face, chestplate, buttons, codpiece and leg armor in an attempt to make him more visible in the scene. This resulted in perspective errors in the mask and garbage mattes around certain areas of the armor.

I decided to just mask in the D+77 source through and fixed it to it’s original form. Although you cant see much of Vader, I feel it makes him more mysterious in the dark.

NOTE: I changed the edit title to “DSG Special Edition” to more elaborate that this is a SE/Adywan style edit, so sorry for the frequent name changes.

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Dat_SW_Guy said:

Another change: “Despecializing” the scene of Vader walking through a dark corridor on the Death Star. In the Special Edition, they terribly attempted to fix it by tracking and hand-animating a 2D image of Vader’s face, chestplate, buttons, codpiece and leg armor in an attempt to make him more visible in the scene. This resulted in perspective errors in the mask and garbage mattes around certain areas of the armor.

I decided to just mask in the D+77 source through and fixed it to it’s original form. Although you cant see much of Vader, I feel it makes him more mysterious in the dark.

NOTE: I changed the edit title to “DSG Special Edition” to more elaborate that this is a SE/Adywan style edit, so sorry for the frequent name changes.

looks amazing DSG!

-TGWNN

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Dat_SW_Guy said:

Another change: “Despecializing” the scene of Vader walking through a dark corridor on the Death Star. In the Special Edition, they terribly attempted to fix it by tracking and hand-animating a 2D image of Vader’s face, chestplate, buttons, codpiece and leg armor in an attempt to make him more visible in the scene. This resulted in perspective errors in the mask and garbage mattes around certain areas of the armor.

I decided to just mask in the D+77 source through and fixed it to it’s original form. Although you cant see much of Vader, I feel it makes him more mysterious in the dark.

NOTE: I changed the edit title to “DSG Special Edition” to more elaborate that this is a SE/Adywan style edit, so sorry for the frequent name changes.

Wow looks awesome Dat’s, I had never noticed it before but wow that’s much better now👍

And only now just seen the new alderan explosion scene😳😮 amazing.

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An experiment I wanted to try is removing some of the womprats of the SE scene of the Landspeeder entering Mos Eisley, similar to Adywan’s version.

https://streamable.com/4oexso

It’s still needs a bit of tweaking, especially with the tracking of the patch I’m covering the womprats over. I probably wont(?) actually add this in the edit but I heard that Hal9000 wants it for his edit, so I’ll fix it up for him.

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Dat_SW_Guy said:

An experiment I wanted to try is removing some of the womprats of the SE scene of the Landspeeder entering Mos Eisley, similar to Adywan’s version.

https://streamable.com/4oexso

It’s still needs a bit of tweaking, especially with the tracking of the patch I’m covering the womprats over. I probably wont(?) actually add this in the edit but I heard that Hal9000 wants it for his edit, so I’ll fix it up for him.

wow, can I get a copy as well I’ll try to remove the rest of those rats…

-TGWNN

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Heres the “final” version of the entire Mos Eisley sequence with temp audio, as I simply didn’t have the skill to refine the drive-by scene. The main things in this are:

-The recut entrance scene which was a page taken straight out of Adywan’s Revisited edition
-Redone matte with the correct time-of-day outside of the cantina to maintain accuracy
(although the all of the outdoor scenes are inconsistent in the film, lol)
https://vimeo.com/628306487

looks good,but at 1:54 you can see the dewbacks left leg is coming trou the small wall.

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benduwan said:

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Heres the “final” version of the entire Mos Eisley sequence with temp audio, as I simply didn’t have the skill to refine the drive-by scene. The main things in this are:

-The recut entrance scene which was a page taken straight out of Adywan’s Revisited edition
-Redone matte with the correct time-of-day outside of the cantina to maintain accuracy
(although the all of the outdoor scenes are inconsistent in the film, lol)
https://vimeo.com/628306487

looks good,but at 1:54 you can see the dewbacks left leg is coming trou the small wall.

Thats not a leg, thats the original Dewback puppet showing through the CGI one and thats one of the many compositing mistakes on the Special Edition. If I remember correctly it was mentioned here somewhere but your post helped me remember it.

I can’t really fix it since there’s too many moving parts and you don’t notice it until it’s pointed out to you.

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Dat_SW_Guy said:

benduwan said:

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Heres the “final” version of the entire Mos Eisley sequence with temp audio, as I simply didn’t have the skill to refine the drive-by scene. The main things in this are:

-The recut entrance scene which was a page taken straight out of Adywan’s Revisited edition
-Redone matte with the correct time-of-day outside of the cantina to maintain accuracy
(although the all of the outdoor scenes are inconsistent in the film, lol)
https://vimeo.com/628306487

looks good,but at 1:54 you can see the dewbacks left leg is coming trou the small wall.

Thats not a leg, thats the original Dewback puppet showing through the CGI one and thats one of the many compositing mistakes on the Special Edition. If I remember correctly it was mentioned here somewhere but your post helped me remember it.

I can’t really fix it since there’s too many moving parts and you don’t notice it until it’s pointed out to you.

That’s one of the fixes i implemented for ANH:RHD , along with the “two headed dewback” earlier on in the shot.

I can send you the clip if you want it. You’d have to regrade it to match yours though , plus i’m using the 2011 Blu-Ray.

ANH:REVISITED
ESB:REVISITED

DONATIONS TOWARDS MATERIALS FOR THE REVISITED SAGA

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adywan said:

Dat_SW_Guy said:

benduwan said:

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Heres the “final” version of the entire Mos Eisley sequence with temp audio, as I simply didn’t have the skill to refine the drive-by scene. The main things in this are:

-The recut entrance scene which was a page taken straight out of Adywan’s Revisited edition
-Redone matte with the correct time-of-day outside of the cantina to maintain accuracy
(although the all of the outdoor scenes are inconsistent in the film, lol)
https://vimeo.com/628306487

looks good,but at 1:54 you can see the dewbacks left leg is coming trou the small wall.

Thats not a leg, thats the original Dewback puppet showing through the CGI one and thats one of the many compositing mistakes on the Special Edition. If I remember correctly it was mentioned here somewhere but your post helped me remember it.

I can’t really fix it since there’s too many moving parts and you don’t notice it until it’s pointed out to you.

That’s one of the fixes i implemented for ANH:RHD , along with the “two headed dewback” earlier on in the shot.

I can send you the clip if you want it. You’d have to regrade it to match yours though , plus i’m using the 2011 Blu-Ray.

Yes, please do send it! Also can I also ask for some help in regards to the Womprat removal shot in terms of tracking and other factors?

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why doesn´t adywan work at disney?
he make a better work than the high professional mouse company…
thanks ady for your love on this!
😃 😃

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Ok, I forgot to update this post but the newly 50%-of-all-womprats-removed shot is finished, so shoot me a DM. I’ll be taking a little break on here for a bit and will resume operation later this December for the Yavin shots.

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On other news, there may be a way to do the Speeder shadow shot which invovles planar tracking and some Photoshop reconstruction, so watch out for that soon.

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