I enjoy Harmy’s videos, showing work on lots of details oft missed while watching the completed Star Wars. Though, referring to this clip as “finished” is premature. Everything is up for change up until it’s version is released.

The multi-compare video (posted above) presently shows v3.0’s color moving in a wrong direction – away from v2.5’s near-cyan detention center and towards 4K77’s more obvious cyan. To be fair, all the displayed shots share a common problem, which is ever-more loss of lush and distinct color. This loss appears to the eye as a “veneer” that flattens the “depth” of it’s reality.

For this demonstration, I used v2.5 as a base for the quick “corrected” shot, aimed at restoring the missing “depth” … with truly black uniforms, full-bodied flesh-toned faces, a neutral-dark detention center, light-panel buttons that actually glow, and just look at that floor – the eye eats up that depth!

Caveat for the corrected shot: I curve-lightened my correction to more closely match the surrounding shots’ brightness (for an apple-to-apples comparison). Such lightening somewhat reduces color strength.