The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread — Page 107

SilverKey said:

I do like your color adjustments of the opening of AOTC, Vaderios. You did take them a bit too far in my opinion, but as I said before, I like how playing with the contrast reveals a little more detail in this case on the ships and the platform. It makes them feel more real.

I like your feedback and im open for constructive criticism. Yes you are right i tried to make it look more real and eliminate the CGI result. Even some ships are actually models they lose their authenticity into this fog thing whatever thing. In what part you think i went too far? Feel free to suggest things. As you know i return to previous mockups and I revisit them ;)

thanks again

I like the idea of dialing down the brightness of the Kamino interiors. But I like the sterile lab environment of the overall look.

In the lab scene in Nostromo (ALIEN)i was sterile enough without looking like glossy plastic. Again color correction ruined the small set piece.

-Angel

How about something creepier?

The Borg have invaded Kamino.....AHHHHHHHHH

Ithilgore said:

As for the "dirtying up" of Kamino, I disagree,

I prefer to say make it more real rather dirtying it. More grounded as set and visuals. Like THX 1138. pure white thing but it has its texture parts that ground them. And i did that mostly to avoid the similarities with the tantive IV.

ANH and Alien, both out in the late seventies, were the films that really made the whole "used future" concept popular in sci-fi films

yeah. thats the point of my mockups

-Angel

I think the problem with Kamino isn't so much that it looks too clean and sterile but that it looks too fake. I know there was a lot of practical work done in the prequels — McGregor was probably on a real set at least most of the time — but it *looks* like freshly-rendered CG and nothing in a movie that's trying to be photorealistic ever should. Anything that could be done to make it look more like a real set is welcome and I think Angel's work is an example of that — albeit an extreme example, as any further in that direction looks too dirty. I suggest that someone who is doing this sort of work view some older films which try to present that sort of environment — ones made before digital grading and enhancements made it possible to look like Kamino — and see the little imperfections and things that mark it out as being a physical set, and try to work them into AOTC. 2001 might be an example of such a film. I haven't seen THX 1138 but from what I can gather it also has some examples — maybe someone else can confirm?

Now that was an amazing set.

In some parts maybe too rough but it became with ROTS standards :D as well from OT too.

-Angel

i love it (vaderios's mockup) looks very realistic while the left pic looks like something from lego star wars lol

vaderios said:

How about kamino is more grounded as brightness like Nostromo and less like tantive  ?

-Angel

This is some kind of wondeful, Angel! :D

Although, I like the idea from Davnes007....green might look cool and unsettleing...kind of a Matrix look? I'm thinking specifically the blue pannels could be green...?

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

Although, I like the idea from Davnes007....green might look cool and unsettleing...kind of a Matrix look? I'm thinking specifically the blue pannels could be green...?

Im trying to avoid color layers to lead to these kind of effects. not that im not love them ofc :)

Well im hoping that ady will deal the kamino thing with props. if you notice the useless space that is in that place you will see that something wrong is going on. Again remind me what blue panels? :)

Something that ive noticed and i was sure ROTS were more accurate is that there is no film grain to any of the CGI parts of the film. So we see filmed actors with lot of grain and a background that is plain like a baby's ass.

Im trying to find references of what and how several effects should look in retro films and trying to simulate that feeling without forgetting the 21st century.

-Angel

Anyways.

I d like to make that shot similar to ROTS because it looks so fake and hasbro  toy like. Plus less CGI like yoda.

In the second i tried to unfocus the eyes from the windows without make it invisible ofc. Pallette from Nostromo once again.

-Angel

Zak said:

The problem with the second one is that the whole corridor looks fake. No matter how you change the colors it'll always look fake.

Awesome....

Suggestions?

-Angel

Zak said:

Sorry. Didn't mean to sound like an ass :P I know it would take a huge amount of effort but i thing that it would look more realistic with a "simpler" shape? Like changing the top of the corridor to something flat instead of round (something solid with lights?)? And making the windows less reflective? It looks like they're in a bubble.

Blu screen game time :)

-Angel

Octorox said:

What bothers me is the super high DOF, everything is in focus, even far into the background.

Very nice. I thought adding a lens blur but i thought a bit reaction of why we dont see the clones in the BG. no idea then

-Angel