Sluggo said:One last gripe and then I am done. No disrespect to our pal Adywan, but he is too well liked, if you take my meaning. All we see on these threads is "Ady should do this and Ady should do that". I would love to see some other members on this board step up and learn some of the skills Ady is famous for. Imagine what could be done if three or four people had his talent. So it isn't a complaint about Ady, but about pretty much everyone else. ;) Not sure why it bugs me, but it does.
I agree with you on that Sluggo, it would be great if there were several 'Adywan types' out there who could work on other different movies that are also well-loved, but in need of a nice fix or two.
However, it's not just a case of lots of us learning how to use certain software. What Adywan has in abundance is an artistic skill. He has a gift for 'composition' and 'layout', and has a clinical eye for detail on top of this. As far as the technical side of things, it also seems that he is very, very advanced in his knowhow of software in general. Sure he might need help with certain things, but I believe he's quite exceptional in general.
Software knowledge without the 'artistry' is not going to give the same results as what we are getting here. I think that's why quite a few people are keen to add their 2 cents for his consideration, as there is unlikely to be such an enhanced Star Wars project as his particular 'revisited saga' project again. So we hope it has as many of the little things added to it, that we individually always wished to see.
Who'd have originally thought there was so many potential fixes and changes that could be done on 'Empire:Revisited' when this project started. There's already been a multitude that we know about, and I'm sure there'll be quite a few yet, that we won't see until the eventual release.
As Sevb32 alluded to, it's just a shame that this level of commitment and thought (and er....obsession) wasn't done in the first place in so many instances to do with the eventual SE of the OT....considering the resources, technical staff, and years of planning that there was at the time....