Well I have good news.... I ploughed into visualizing and doing sound clips for what I have left on "my list" to mock-up and visualize and complete what I started 2 months ago... Quite a bit of progress was made yesterday and I am thinking or believe that I will have a complete rough cut of ROTJ of my vision and in some cases our vision by the end of the weekend if not begining of next week.
I will not be able to share it in whole here due to forum restrictions but I will be sending a link to Darth_Ender, Mr InsaneA and fishmanlee atleast for their refererence. But I will share the clips here.
I have completed the executor arriving at Deathstar II and the parting of ways after the sail barge blow up now on tatooine and many of the missing shots to luke finding the falcon on tattooine. Done Vaders Audio Lines for the new opening also. Rough Title crawl is also done. And Audio cuts to Mon Mothma in the briefing
Whats left on my list?
1.Lars Homestead and the Haboob sandstorm with inclusion of deleted scene Luke going to the x-wing.with flashback sequence not sure how this will turn out but I'm hopefull
2.Adding Some Audio to the opening and a quite a few new shots and the inclusion of Vaders lines from interactive boardgame re-using footage from ESB Bobba fetts console animation.
3. Adding drumming to the Rancor pit entertainment (FX not required)
4. Add elements of jerry goldsmiths planet of the apes to the opening and the sarlac pitt see below (FX not Required)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnBF3Taf4A
5. Add luke saying "yoda" after Vader says in the final duel "Obi-Wan has taught you well." (FX not required)
6. insert the middle journey to endor speeder bikes etc & insert celebrations and end credits etc (FX not Required)
7. Might expand the final space battle with the inclusion of darth_enders cues on falcon gunners re-using some ANH footage. @Darth_Ender if you can colour correct the Death star surface shots and some of the approach from the star tours DVD you got I will include this also and put it in the falcon cockpit window. I plan to do a cockpit shot of a ship slamming into the shield also if i can. And the falcons approach to Deathstar 2 using star tours 2 cgi footage too. But may not have time for all this extra stuff but I'll do what I can.....
8. 1 shot remaining to complete Lukes arrival at tatooine and finding the falcon + insertion of audio lines.
on it's way soon hopefully.... I only have 5 days left on my CS5 trial so any effects shots after this point are not possible for me to do and is my deadline at present.
It is only a rough cut but I am excited to finish this now.... this is also a bit of a reference list for myself so sorry for the long post All FX shots will take preference first everything else later So hope I am not underestimating but I probably am I will not be including Jerjorod targeting Endor because I don't like this idea.