SilverKey said:What I meant is that sometimes, in my opinion, you boost the contrast too much, which makes some of the shots look a little unnatural because we're seeing way too much. Your adjustments make every little detail visible, and that makes the shots kind of "flat". All the subtleties are gone, and every little detail is there, screaming for our attention.
An example: the shot of Amidala's ship landing on Coruscant in AOTC. The platform is very "busy" now with every little thing we see on it. I like that the original shot was a little more "quiet".
That said, I do like how you changed the color palette of the scene. You got rid of the purple-ish tone that hangs over the scene and made the scene look a little more industrial. I also like how the yellow of the fighters stand out a little more too.
I don't mean to rag on your and others' color adjustment work, but I think there is a little too much of a "Let's make it more dark and faded and it'll look like the OT!"-mentality going on here. I agree very much that TPM (the horrible pink) and AOTC (to an extent) could use some color adjustments. In AOTC's case, I think we have to keep it subtle: bring out some more details, and tone down the cartoonish stuff.
Hope I haven't offended anyone :P
In certain mockups i boost the detail because especially in AOTC everything is blured.
Its interesting that the platform gets busy because what i did is to replace the silhouettes of coruscant buildings and add some others that had some highlights that indicates depth and perspective. as for the crushed blacks you will notice that OT is full of big black (sometimes hard) shadows so im trying to do the similar effect to PT. Plus in AOTC because the elements are so bad composited and for some scenes (yoda and mace in hologram room) the cgi and compositing are so obvious im based on how on ROTS should have look without looked tho like a pic that have all the levels sliders in the wrong place ;). ROTS has crushed blacks. You can name it more as illustration from one movie to another for better continuity.
In AOTC case as you said IMO always you cant keep it sublte. ROTS and some parts of TPM has that, not AOTC.
You havent offended anyone :P Good feedback leads to better results :)
-Angel