vbangle said:
Octorox said:
vbangle said:
Octorox said:
I personally think that ESB needs the most effects work of any of the OT. Lucas barely touched the effects (unlike ANH, where many shots were replaced with CG). And thus, ESB feels very dated (effects-wise I mean, the story is great). ANHR has a very pristine feeling because Ady chose to keep all of Lucas's CG as well as touch up and clean up the effects himself. Coming off of ANHR and watching ESB 2004, the movie looks like it was made 30 years earlier. If Ady wants his OT to feel consistent throughout, then he needs to do a LOT of work on ESB. The only elements that aren't noticeably badly composited are the walkers, and even they could use some stop motion blur or something. Everything needs it's color tweaked for consistency and I think Ady needs to really clean up all of the effects scenes. As long as we get at least as much work as was done on ANHR it should be great. This is a Revisited project, not a Preservation effort.
Adywan did not "keep all of the 04 CG"....most of it was pure crap. Adywan replaced GL's CG (or added to it) with his own CG. Adywan also dumped quite a bit of it into the bin.....thank you Adywan. :)
Actually, the only cg Ady added were new TIE fighters in the Yavin battle and the only CG he removed were some of the silly and intrusive creatures and robots in the sequence entering Mos Eisley
Actually you couldn't be more wrong....LOL Maybe you need to visit the fisrt page of ANH-R....you might find that enlightning.....I seem to remember a new planet or something....a whole scene being REMOVED.....Aw wait wasn't there a brand new EXSPLOSION at the end of the movie?......lol.I could go on...
Wait I think my severed forearm and hand hurts just writing this.....
Actually he is correct. The only CG that was used (apart from graphic displays) was indeed the TIE's for the Death Star battle approach. All the other FX were created using photos of the models and other elements , like the planet and composited in after effects. The explosions are real explosions originally filmed against a black background that are available from the artbeats collection cd's.
But i think the FX in ESB are far superior to the ones in ANH. All i did on ANH:R was some recompositing and colour balancing. The original FX are still there. I'll just be doing the same with ESB. Admittedly more matte lines were cleaned up for the SE version of ANH than the other 2 in the OT, which does make a difference, but the quality fo the FX in ESB & ROTJ are far better than ANH