SW Episode III - Reign of the Dark Side (* unfinished project *) — Page 45

Well, it's quite nice Bob, it strongly reminds to the ANH pod chamber. Perhaps Angel's new matte could have more piping to make it even more similar; but as it is now, it's already an amazing improvement.

 Regarding my suggestion of having Anakin going to Padme's after founding out about the chancellor, well, I've been watching some of your vids in youtube, particularly "opera scene take 7" (excellent, it work perfectly) and I think that you're getting to the point of really making the transition smooth as it should be. Anakin (who's the protagonist and the character people should feel empathy with, will feel dissapointed with the Jedi and generate that confusing atmosphere in which a bad guy like Palpatine would take control of the Republic). Those scenes (The Opera- Palpatine's revelation - Anakin in Padme's home - Windu and the Council planning to overthrow Palpatine), in any order you put them, are the main tandem in order to make the film believable, you've already fixed the Opera, wich was the weakest of all, thumbs up for you!

However the order of scenes could work best if it was an alternating story of what the Jedi are doing with Palps point of view... something kinda...

Opera

Yoda on Kasshyk, Obi to Utapau Council scene

Ani's farewell to Obi

Windu and the council SECRET scene (so as to make us think the Jedi are up to something)

Palpatine's reveal-

Anakin at Padme's-

Anakins turn.

Edit:

PS: Sorry Angel, once more, my english betrayed me and misunderstood

Was it the one armed man?

bobgarcia74 said:

Very small clip here, mostly looking for feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSQdVkJz3J8

Thanks to Angel for the concept first and foremost.

The masking done so far is very bad. Added some smoke to help cover it up. That will be perfected later. 

This is a further attempt to help GG come along more as a Darker bad guy thru his surroundings. Dark and gloomy over bright and Neon.

Any ideas are welcome.

Dude, I gotta be honest, I really can't remember how it looked originally.

Is it OK to ask for a side by side comparison picture/video? That would really help noticing the difference.

It might work better if it was a directed amber glow rather than magenta.

haraldo23 said:

bobgarcia74 said:

Very small clip here, mostly looking for feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSQdVkJz3J8

Thanks to Angel for the concept first and foremost.

The masking done so far is very bad. Added some smoke to help cover it up. That will be perfected later. 

This is a further attempt to help GG come along more as a Darker bad guy thru his surroundings. Dark and gloomy over bright and Neon.

Any ideas are welcome.

Dude, I gotta be honest, I really can't remember how it looked originally.

Is it OK to ask for a side by side comparison picture/video? That would really help noticing the difference.

 http://img593.imageshack.us/i/ajhs.jpg/

 http://img217.imageshack.us/i/aioushd.jpg/

EDIT: Never mind, I was mistaken, and people got there first.

Thanks, vaderios and Mithrandir!

Well, it looks different. I don't know how much better, but it looks different.

Maybe you could have these light bulbs (or whatever they are) shine, so that there's at least couple of objects that don't get affected by the pink saturation?

Or... I don't know, maybe you should consider changing the color a bit. Make it seem less burgundy and more redish? That way it wouldn't remind of TPM.

But, overall, I like it. And the whole idea of making GG seem more darker by putting him in darker places is just awesome!

This looks very cool. Has anyone mentioned cutting the dream sequence? Anakin talks about the dream anyway. Waking up from it would be enough imo. Thanks.

hmm, That looks better. and the dialogue makes GG seem like a bit of a nutter, which gives him an excuse for acting the way he does.

bobgarcia74 said:

Ok, second take on the escape pod room. Took away the red and went with a color changed version of the original room. Like the one Angel posted a few posts above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXWALOoKcVU

The section with Obi and Anakin killing the droids in between is not done yet, color or audio wise,  and I flipped around GG's lines just for fun.

 Excellent, IMO, it's far better than the first you posted. Well, wow... ROTDS it's getting more interesting all the time!

PS: Bob how you doing with the Mace/Palps confrontation? cuz I've seen several edits and videos of that scene (from different editors) and the "Are you threating me master Jedi" doesn't work fine except in the original. It feels too abrupt, or fast, or whatever...

bobgarcia74 said:

Oh yeah Buddha, cutting the dreams has been talked about. But I've decided to keep them with added lines from Obi, making it look more possible that the Jedi might not be as nice as Anakin has been lead to think. Helping Anakins turn against them.

You get a quick idea of what I'm taking about right at the end of the following clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c3tV_Qh6TQ

ok. I just always though it would be cool if he woke up right after Palpitine said "Soon I will have a new apprentice, one far younger and more powerful"

Bob have you considered adding the deleted scene of Yoda, ObiWan and Mace talking about arresting Palpatine before Grievous death instead of the one the film finally included?(it requires heavy edit of cheese, btw) I think it would add some nice touch to show that there's this "high command" of Jedi who are planning something, then cut to something else, then back the Council reunion where they don't say a thing aboute their plan, so that there's actually some "plot" to overthrow Palpatine right after Grievous death.

And about what I mentioned before about "Are you threating me?" line, what if you reduced the dialog drastically... Mace and the gang come to the office.

"In the name of the galactic...you are under arrest" (or they could even say nothing at all! and just ignite their sabres)
Palpatine, looking outside in his chair: "muahahaha (creepy laughter from ROTJ)... It's treason... then" (he stands up, and lights go off as you planned and the fight starts)

It seems a bit silly that Anakin's youth is seen as a draw, Sidious is meant to be the most powerful Sith Lord and he is hardly a spring chicken.

Yoda is seen as the most powerful Jedi and he's even older.

Is it possible to trim the "younger and"?

Having the birth dream on screen next seems to imply that Anakin's child will be his more powerful apprentice, coupled with the line about youth it does conjure up an image of a baby Sith apprentice.

Yeap, great point Bingo