benduwan said:
can someone colorized the deleted black and white scenes from star wars? that would be great.
Unfortunately, in the present state of colorization, that would be only fair. The reason is the computer is being used only to speed up the same old, mediocre procedure of tinting. (I had high hopes for Legend Films but, alas, they too are stuck in the past.) Rather, the computer should be used to recreate color.
How? Instead of overlaying a tint directly on an object for it's color, the tint-color is considered as the base of that object's color. As the luminance of the object varies (from highlights to shadows), calculations are made for how the tint-color would look in those varying lighting conditions and the object is colored accordingly. [Another one of my pet projects.] :)
Below is an old, crude proof-of-concept using only low-medium-high new-color generation (by hand) instead of continuously variable new-color generation (by computer). I blanked out the color in the center section and "colorized" portions of it (uniform and head only) for comparison with the true-color sections:
;)