Star Wars A New Hope: DSG Special Edition (BACK TO WIP) — Page 7

Yeah, they duplicated Luke’s X-Wing throughout all the CGI Yavin sequences which are sort of obvious but would be incredibly hard to composite unless I had to go in and manually 3D camera track and put 3D models of the correct X-Wing patterns and droids.

Here’s an update: I updated the Jawa sandcrawler matte to have a more realistic, yet arguably more expansive shot of the sky that somehow looks more 70s/90s than the SE version.

This is a shot that I’ve always hated, which is the Sandcrawler at night panning shot, because this shot has been messed with in the SE and we don’t really have any high quality sources for this because in 4K77, this is a heavily optically printed shot, along with Look Sir Droids, and the even worse Sandcrawler cresting over Tatooine at day static shot. The SE version featured a more consistent starry sky, but decided to add a horrendous power window in the upper portions of the image and on the shadow side of the sandcrawler, essentially crushing all of the blacks to make it look less like a “day-for-night” shot which was how it was filmed in the first place.

I basically overlaid D+77 over the SE shot using a Lighten blend mode with 50 opacity, then I had to camera track and add in a new sky because I didn’t like both the theatrical and SE versions of the sky, as they both are terrible quality. I then preceeded to match the OOT timing of the Look Sir Droids scene.

https://streamable.com/bewxwh

These looks really nice! If I’m gonna be picky, I would say in the 2nd night sky shot the matte line looks a bit too blurry.

It’s meant to be a little bit blurry as it’s in the background and out of focus in comparison to the foreground element.

I see. I guess I didn’t notice.

Another day another shot: I replaced the sky of the R2 canyon shot as I found the original SE version to be too creepy and mysterious especially with the black clouds. Instead, I decided on a more awe-inspiring look, to make it look more bright orange and blue, reflecting the other two matte shots I did, so they are chronologically consistent, with each matte showing how the suns are quickly setting over time and making the sky bluer and bluer.

Love it!
I always sort disliked the SE shot becuz it was a little too busy for my taste. The sky kinda melded together with the rocky backdrop (off on the left side) so I couldn’t distinguish where the break was very well. In this one you’ve created, I can. Very nice.

Vladius said:

I think it should be kind of creepy and mysterious given they’re about to get ambushed by jawas and put in the dark room with all the weird droids.

I get the point that it’s meant to be mysterious, however Jawas aren’t all that creepy in the way they’re portrayed in the film and I found the clouds to be inconsistent with the rest of the shots, with the other two mattes being starry.

It’s a bit unnecessarily creepy for my tastes, as Star Wars isn’t creepy, and I’m mimicking Adywan’s approach to this scene, except he added the binary suns in the background which I try to avoid to save the reveal for later during the Binary Sunset scene.

Vladius said:

I get that you’re not going to change it and I understand your reasoning, but I have to wonder if we even watched the same movies, if you think that there aren’t parts that are creepy or at the very least mysterious in Star Wars. Obviously the overall tone of all the movies put together is heroic and adventurous, but there are lots of parts that stand out as weird or eerie. The jawas themselves aren’t that freaky, but the inside of the sandcrawler with all the strange droids and the music weirded me out as a kid.

Well I guess you’re right, because I kind-of generalized the statement. But yeah I think I might have a go at it again as I’m still going through the backlog of shots needed for V1 to release by the end of this year hopefully (unless Adywan releases ANH:RHD out of nowhere) and V2 will just be revisions or adding more things to the film.