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Those look fantastic. I’m digging the Mos Eisley shot…which makes me wonder: are you keeping the CGI “crane” shot as the speeder moves into the city? I love the idea of that shot but there’s so much I can’t stand about the execution of it. The main complaint is it’s too fast and too polished of a camera move. One should see some imperfections in the movement of the image (slight camera shake, focus pull, etc).

But the reworking you did of Mos Eisley and Bens hut does look really nice. I would love to see more things like this done to the movie. It’s too bad the CGI can’t be redone in the end battle to blend in and look more model like. To me, some of Howard Day’s stuff looks like a really nice blend (even though it’s all done in the computer).
http://www.youtube.com/@HowieDay82

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

Those look fantastic. I’m digging the Mos Eisley shot…which makes me wonder: are you keeping the CGI “crane” shot as the speeder moves into the city? I love the idea of that shot but there’s so much I can’t stand about the execution of it. The main complaint is it’s too fast and too polished of a camera move. One should see some imperfections in the movement of the image (slight camera shake, focus pull, etc).

But the reworking you did of Mos Eisley and Bens hut does look really nice. I would love to see more things like this done to the movie. It’s too bad the CGI can’t be redone in the end battle to blend in and look more model like. To me, some of Howard Day’s stuff looks like a really nice blend (even though it’s all done in the computer).
http://www.youtube.com/@HowieDay82

The crane shot of Mos Eisley greatly overexaggerated the size of the location in my opinion, and its so ridiculed with outdated VFX elements meant to fill every frame of the sequence with life that it comes off as quite overstimulating, so while initially I included it, I later decided to cut it out since it looked too much like a 3D render demo reel and doesn’t serve much function to the story aside from helping extend the score a bit.

Even if AI gets to a point that it could retexture all the bad stuff in the shot, it kind-of defeats the cinematography established in 1976 which had a more documentary-style look to it anyway that the miniature SE shots still retained. I just cleaned it up to match the on-set location a bit more since they literally shot it in a fishing port.

Also, I’m hoping for Dr.Dre’s new incredibly powerful algorithm to recolor some shots of the Yavin battle to make the colors and materials feel a bit more like miniatures and less like demo reels, but even then I still find them appropriate for the time anyway. I’m treading a fine line of CGI and 70s elements to ensure they all line up pretty well.

The crane shot of Mos Eisley greatly overexaggerated the size of the location in my opinion, and its so ridiculed with outdated VFX elements meant to fill every frame of the sequence with life that it comes off as quite overstimulating, so while initially I included it, I later decided to cut it out since it looked too much like a 3D render demo reel and doesn’t serve much function to the story aside from helping extend the score a bit.

Even if AI gets to a point that it could retexture all the bad stuff in the shot, it kind-of defeats the cinematography established in 1976 which had a more documentary-style look to it anyway that the miniature SE shots still retained. I just cleaned it up to match the on-set location a bit more since they literally shot it in a fishing port.

Also, I’m hoping for Dr.Dre’s new incredibly powerful algorithm to recolor some shots of the Yavin battle to make the colors and materials feel a bit more like miniatures and less like demo reels, but even then I still find them appropriate for the time anyway. I’m treading a fine line of CGI and 70s elements to ensure they all line up pretty well.

Excellent points on the Mos Eisley shot.
Dr. Dre’s algorithm sounds intriguing!

Heres a new update: fixing the R2-D2 continuity error where R5-D4 pops up behind him after he explodes. Let me know what you guys think!

(The rotoscoping isnt 100% perfect yet, I’ll fix it but heres the shot as a whole)

The black droid isnt really seen in any of the shots after R5-D4 explodes. But I’ll try to add him I guess.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Heres a new update: fixing the R2-D2 continuity error where R5-D4 pops up behind him after he explodes. Let me know what you guys think!

(The rotoscoping isnt 100% perfect yet, I’ll fix it but heres the shot as a whole)

Thank you so much for this! This bugs me. Fantastic job.

BedeHistory731 said:

You kind of created a second continuity error by not having the black droid in the shot. It’s good work, but it just looks kind of “off” now.

Here is a screencap of the fixed shot with the black domed droid in the background!