Couple more updates...
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Thanks to the always impressive skills of mr Rogue-theX who kindly did the crawl text for me, here is the lastest opening to the edit...
https://vimeo.com/102714773
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- The pan down is still a work-in-progress. Animating it so it smoothly pans down in just the right way is waaaay harder than I thought it would be
- Added newly created "The Star Wars" logo
- Replaced the "Far, far away" title
- Includes the two new Tatooine mattes I made
- Reworked the score a little
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I was watching 'Machete Kills' for the first time and was fairly surprised to see that he stages a getaway from Mel Gibson's headquarters in what is more-or-less Luke's Landspeeder!?! Knowing that this edit was missing a shot of Luke arriving at Anchorhead I decided to have a play around and see if I could use the footage.
Turned out the shot of Machete pulling a skid-stop in the "Landspeeder" didn't work out the way I wanted. But an overhead shot of him driving down a dirt road worked quite nicely once I'd matted-out/erased the motorcycles that were chasing him (The B&W also helped by hiding any green colouring to the foliage). While I was at it, I animated a new shot of Luke pulling up to Anchorhead. The new sequence turned out not half bad...
https://vimeo.com/102758754
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Still need to do some smoothing of the proverbial edges though.