towne32 said:
kk650 said:
Yes I agree, it looks like GL was experimenting with CG at the time and CG Jabba was nowhere near the level that it should have been to actually be included in the film, irrespective of all the narrative problems it creates.
On the other hand I felt all the CG additions in Mos Eisley were of a much better visual quality overall. Excluding the droid slamming the other one and the swinging jawas, I really like the additions that were made to Mos Eisley, making it feel more like a lived in city rather than a set, I felt it was one of the things where GL really improved on the UOT and one of the reasons why I made these Semi-Specialised Editions.
What are your thoughts on the Sarlacc CGI? I think it looks terribly dated, especially the "beak" part. Again, it reminds me of 1990's video games and ruins the mystery and absurdity of the monster. Since you say your V2 of RoTJ is in final colorizing stages, you have probably already decided whether or not to deal with the Sarlacc?
I've never had any problem with the CG of the Sarlacc pit, I thought it was fairly well done. That said though, I've always been one to believe that when it comes to making something frightening on screen, less is more, so in that sense I prefer the original sarlacc that had a lot more mystery to it and was scarier without all the beak IMHO.
The problem is that there isn't blu-ray level quality footage of the original sarlacc pit, so if I wanted to include the original sarlacc I would have to be constantly cutting between SD footage and HD footage. I tried it in the past when I was first creating these Semi-Specialised releases and the results were not satisfactory, the difference in image quality between the two sources kept jarring me out of the film. For the time being i'm going to go with the SE sarlacc until a high enough quality source with the original sarlacc pit appears so the changes between the SE blu-ray footage and the original theatrical footage are not jarring, then i'll most likely switch back to the original beakless sarlacc.