hi all, I'm an infrequent poster around these parts, but I lurk a lot, and I'm quite interested in the fan edit phenomenon, especially people doing their own effects work. So cool. Adywan I just wanted to cheer you on a bit with what your doing here, I absolutely cannot wait to see this when its done. I've watched a couple of the clips you've posted at rapidshare, the Aleraan explosion and the Falcon/Tie fighter battle, both of which look awesome. Also I'm glad you decided to omit the Jabba scene, its just plain extraneous.
I'm super curious about the facial movements for the cantina aliens.
I also like the idea of the battle droid and ep. 1 looking tatooine landscapes. There's such a huge disconnect between the OT and the PT, I like anything to tie them a bit closer together. Now if you can just replace the pod-racers with skyhoppers?
You know one thing I didn't notice on your list is that little bit of reversed footage with the Tusken Raider waiving his stick around (I'm sure you know what I'm talking about) although I'm not sure what could be done to fix it.
One thing I will say, is I kind of hate to see those blue insignias go, because as a kid I liked them. In fact it never occurred that there should be a "blue squadron" to go with those blue insignias, I just chalked it up to the rebels having mismatched equipment. I mean Biggs has some kinda black and yellow checkerboard pattern on his, doesn't he? Anyway I certainly don't want to be counted amongst the "complainers," and knowing now that there was once a "blue squadron" I can appreciate the logic in making them red.
So anyway bottom line is thanks for doing this, I am super-excited about this project.