Star Wars Prequels 35mm 4K Filmized Editions by Emanswfan (a WIP) — Page 21

Octorox said:

It's interesting but It doesn't look very OTish to me. It reminds more of a modern orange and teal grade.

Thats some of the greatest insult I can only think of for a project of it's kind.

The original Prequel Trilogy has so much colors, so vivid, overblown and the whole thing looks like a ugly mashup made by a colorblind person. So any efforts made to get away from this look is a masterful decision on it's own.

So I wish the absolute best for this project, still.

I agree you simply can hardly get rid of the PT look. But as long those pre-Star Destroyers have their magenta color ting removed and magenta all over the walls at every place, that's a great improvement!

Now It might become hard to not steer into Teal/Orange territory. Maintaining a natural blue not steering into the turquoise and maybe reducing the red's (skin) a little tiny bit would be second priority.

Can you explain to me what the purpose of your project? 

I do not understand.... you said your goal was to make these movies to look older and with less color. Your last clip had more color than the original movie, i don't get it...

Yeah, that's really it. The skin tones are more saturated and warm and the blues have been pushed to turquoise, I think that's what gave me the orange/teal impression.

okay, well the plan is I am thinking about doing two different versions of the grade.  One that looks older and more like the OT, and one that looks newer and so reflects some more modern grading styles.

I've watched the entire ROTS movie (and part of ATOC/TPM) with both types of grades and they improve the films on a visual level a great amount, but in different ways.

But, more importantly, the reason I decided for this split is that so far I haven't felt very satisfied with my OT-like color grade.  It looks straight out of the late 80's in some parts and in other parts look like the footage was processed to hell.  I really want an OT version just as much as many of you want, but until I can perfect it (which is going to be a while), I prefer to release a version that looks much better, but is distinct from the OT look, which makes it easier to accomplish given the source.

An example of the OT grade issues I've had is the highlight recovery.  There are certain parts where the Bluray compression limits REALLY show through, and it ruins it.

This looks great. I'd second the request for a screen shot comparison from there as well. 

Oh man, this is awesome! Love the new clip, and the clarity you were able to get out of that deleted scene - very impressive. Looking forward to seeing both versions of this project once finished!

Hate to be that guy, but I cannot understand the notion that you started all over again, making a contemporary yet traditionally shot film look more contemporary.  Bringing it closer to this over-used color palette kind of defeats the purpose, since SW films have a classic, timeless cinematography that never succumbed to the flavour of the month (or decade in this case). The footage and the screenshots both feel dominated by orange and teal to the point it is somewhat distracting.

That said, the Battle of Coruscant clip was an interesting alternative viewing experience. I especially liked the contrast and the grain. I can't help but wish you had stuck to the style you had gradually perfected in the months prior, though.

Would love to hear an update!  I find this project very interesting.

I hope so, too.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/111433

Much improved. Thank you.

Glad to see an update. And that pic is brilliant.