Yeh, that reminds me I was thinking about making the electric field between Anakin’s podracer blue instead of magenta (actually that’s how I have it in the workprint version atm) but maybe it will seem like an obvious use of teal and orange color grading.

Each movie seems to have it’s issues, TPM has certain scenes where colors are horribly off from what they should be and seem harder to tweak for ironically having been shot on film and scenes where even regaining doesn’t quite fix the damage done by excessive DNR. AOTC has simply horrid color work, probably because it was the earliest days of digital blockbusters, making some scenes nearly impossible to make look pretty, most of which sections heavy in CG and greenscreen. Sections shot mostly practical outside seem to be easy enough to make look like filmic eye candy. ROTS has decent digital color work, the only star wars movie on the bluray set that has tolerable colors. The struggle is there is simply making things look practical and shot on film, being it is the heaviest in greenscreen and CGI.

In reality the majority of the work for workprints is technically done (like 60% probably), but there are large sequences that seem to be a complete pain to work with, causing me to go through numerous iterations. I’ll probably end up with some sections I won’t be completely satisfied with, but maybe my perfectionism will allow them to be at least noticeable improvements if not complete fixes.

I’m promising to get something of sorts out to see by the end of December, maybe I’ll post large segments compiled together that I’m confident in showing, and ready for critiques to perfect. I wish this wasn’t always taking me so long, and I had taken better advantage I had of the free time and lower stress life I had when I started this project.