Maybe redoing the laser blasts and explosion would make that scene more real looking? To me the X-Wing laser blasts are HUGE when compared with the scale of the buildings, and the explosion and fire is what looks fake.....
I have attempted this after your suggestion but matting out the original lasers proved difficult and even with reducing the size of the lasers the shot still looks crappy.
yes, the rapidshare link is still active.
Ben's Death & TIE Fighter Attack
There have been some changes to this sequence since i posted it, new colour correction, added stars in the background of all the docking bay window shots & the opening shot of the TIE fighter cockpit window they don't start firing until the Falcon is in view.
one of the worst mistakes for me, has always been the lightsabers casting shadows and not really illuminating it's surroundings. Even in ROTS, the mistakes still ocurr. Do you think it would be too time consuming to actually remove every shadow?
I have attempted this after your suggestion but matting out the original lasers proved difficult and even with reducing the size of the lasers the shot still looks crappy.
"I've tried using HDTV footage from Jedi for the surface and added lukes X-wing diving in whilst blasting away..."
--Sounds interesting...Since you're not using that shot, you wanna post it?
sorry but i deleted this shot because i'm running out of hard drive space very fast.
Interesting idea but this is one thing i won't be adding.
Ady, Did you post a clip a while back of Vader vs. Obi with the final/completed versions of the lightsabers?
--Sounds interesting...Since you're not using that shot, you wanna post it?
sorry but i deleted this shot because i'm running out of hard drive space very fast.
Hey ADY. This is really stupid, but I was wondering if it is possible to put alien heads on some rebels bodies, just so it doesn't look all human if you know wat I mean. I know it's stupid, but just tell me wat Ur thoughts R on it.
Interesting idea but this is one thing i won't be adding.
Ady, Did you post a clip a while back of Vader vs. Obi with the final/completed versions of the lightsabers?
yes, the rapidshare link is still active.
Ben's Death & TIE Fighter Attack
There have been some changes to this sequence since i posted it, new colour correction, added stars in the background of all the docking bay window shots & the opening shot of the TIE fighter cockpit window they don't start firing until the Falcon is in view.
one of the worst mistakes for me, has always been the lightsabers casting shadows and not really illuminating it's surroundings. Even in ROTS, the mistakes still ocurr. Do you think it would be too time consuming to actually remove every shadow?
I attempted to remove shadows a while ago but i gave up because this was so difficult to do. shadows cast on walls were easy to remove but when they are cast on clothing and moving objects it is a lot more difficult to do so i dropped doing it. I will leave this for someone else to fix in their edit.
Now onto my progress:
I've had a break from FX work for a few days and have redone all of the colour correction i did for the death star interior scenes. I didn't like the video noise that the original correction caused, mainly when removing the blue from the horribly oversaturated walls. I've tackled this a different way and now have nice metalic grey walls without the noise so i'm happy with it now.
I will be having a short break from everything next week because i have just ordered parts to upgrade my PC. Finally getting my 2.4ghz core 2 duo machine, so its gonna take me a while to reinstall all the stuff i have on this machine now. But once its done i will be getting straight back to it. Yesterday i rendered the whole film as it stands so far and watched it on my PS3. The Ps3's DVD upscaling is great and i was surprised just how good it looked even with a single layer render. I counted 4 shots that i wasn't happy with the colour correction ans 1 FX shot that just didn't look quite right but i'm pleased with everything else.
And one final thing. RemixerBoss, i thought that you had decided to leave the boards after your little hissy fit? You proved you were only here for attention so you really don't have the right to tell someone in here to stop spamming especially if you had bothered to read the posts from DGC General X, then you would see that he wasn't. So please just do what you promised and bugger off, you are not welcome in this thread.