Laserschwert said:
The workprint looks great! Still, I've noticed a few things:
During the crawl and the pan down you've got a wonderful gate-weave effect going on, but it stops after the pan down, so that the stars, the planet and the moon now are rock solid, which is slightly distracting. Would it be possible to add a slight movement to the background, or - if that's not possible due to the layers - the whole image? I bet it wouldn't really matter if the ships flying by are moving a bit as well...
That's actually one of the things on my list.
In the shot of Luke igniting and swinging the lightsaber for the first time, the background (wall) is flickering.
Yeah, there's more of that going on. I think it's already in the source but it gets more visible due to the brightening I did.
In this shot the dome on the R2 unit (and the sunlit parts of the stormtrooper armors) is really blown out, and although I know that it looks like that on the GOUT as well, the JSC version (and the Blu-ray as well) definitely shows that there was more detail in those highlights before:
Have you thought about darkening your whites just a tiny bit and overlaying the JSC highlight onto those areas, to get the missing detail back in there? If I had both versions of the shot here, I'd really love to try that...
Well, if you want, I'll be happy to upload the lossless version of the shot for you (it's something like 600MB) and you can give it a shot.