adywan said:mrbenja0618 said:That is freakishly awesome, Ady. What did you do to the asteroids to make them look so good?
the whole background asteroid field i had to rebuild from scratch. The original was just a doubled matte and looked blurred. then there is about 30+ different layers of asteroids added on top to fill the background and give it more depth. The on top of that there are all the single larger asteroids added. The each layer has to have a separate motion path given to match the main motion of the shot. all in all the cockpit shot alone had almost 100 different layers to create it. Even my quad core struggled to render all that so i am so glad i dropped the 1080p idea because i now know it would have been impossible.
The whole asteroid sequence is having a makeover so be prepared. lol
Remember when this was just going to be a color correction / de-SEification? LOL
The new clip looks amazing. I read your explanation of all the layers before I went to bed, but I still gasped when I saw it for the first time this morning.
Ripplin said:B'oh! Yes, sorry about that. See, I already downloaded that, then placed it in a folder on my desktop called 'ESB Re extras.' What I watched was an older video called 'asteroid_chase_comparison' rather than the proper one. :p I'm going to watch it now.
That's why I added timestamps to the front of all of my videos. Also helps so I can see the progress that has been made. Here is my listing, for those curious:
2008-03-01 esb_revisited_v2_teaser.mpg
2008-05-22 esb_revisited_comparison.avi
2008-06-04 dagobah_split_screen.avi
2008-06-08 hoth fix 1.avi
2008-06-12 ESBR_preview_.avi
2008-06-12 split screen.avi
2008-06-13 preview_with_proper_colouring.avi
2008-06-22 esb_split_test_2.avi
2008-06-24 cue test.avi
2008-07-01 opening_test.mp4
2008-07-03 vader_emperor_test_track.mp3
2008-07-06 the__old_with_the_new_fun.avi
2008-08-01 esb_1080p_test.mkv
2008-09-21 yodacomparisonsept2008.mkv
2008-09-22 bespin_comparison_sept2008.avi
2008-09-22 yoda_latest_test_xvid.avi
2008-10-02 newest_preview_xvid.avi
2008-10-23 comp_1_23fps.avi
2008-10-24 bespin_hybrid_tester.avi
2008-11-04 asteroid_chase_comparison.avi
2008-12-11 approaching_dagobah_720p_sample.avi
2008-12-11 approaching_dagobah.avi
2008-12-12 hoth_battle_revis.avi
2009-01-01 yoda_tweaked.avi
2009-01-02 yoda_tweaked_FINAL.avi
2009-01-06 asteroid_comparison_xvid.avi