Star Wars Trilogy SE bluray color regrade (a WIP) — Page 5

I finally managed to do a proper correction of the Technicolor print scans for the Luke/Obi-Wan exchange. I think it’s looking pretty good.

Looks very good DrDre!

Now, given these same settings, what does Luke look like during that same scene?

Here’s the Luke frame with the same color grading:

Here are two more frames from the same sequence.

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

Great looking stuff Dr. Dre!

Interestingly, that shot with the greenish corner is how Harmy’s 97SE looks (which is the version I used for 2.6).

Is it just my display devices, or does the sky have a bit too much green in it? I tinkered around with it, and came up with this:

and my edit:

What do you guys think?

I think R2 is a little pink in your edit, but I agree there’s too much green. Here’s my edit:

The issue with the green artifacts in the Obi-Wan frame has also been fixed (I’ve updated the image above).

Another regrade of the Luke meets Obi-Wan’s sequence.

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

Here a updated color gradings for two other Tatooine shots.

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

Here’s a regrade for the scene, where uncle Owen buys the droids.

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

DrDre said:
Bluray regraded:

Obi Wan looks kind of scary here.

Wazzles said:

DrDre said:
Bluray regraded:

Obi Wan looks kind of scary here.

I agree about this shot. Something looks quite wrong, here. Is this the shot that contains the wipe, or the one before that? If it’s the wipe shot, it’s understandable that it might look a bit off, but hopefully it can be made to look better. And, since this is the SE, you don’t need to worry about the Hut shot looking somewhat unnatural as a result. The priority should be original footage of course.

The current iteration of most of the rest looks great. The desert shot of the droids has more of the unnatural colors removed. But I think the shot of Owen looks green and kind of strange still (but what do I know).

Coming along nicely!

I think most of your edited images in recent posts, look good DrDre. However, I thought this one of Obi-Wan, looked like his cloak had a bit too much green in it, so I adjusted that, and I upped the saturation just a bit.

The original:

And my adjusted:

opinions?

dlvh said:

I think most of your edited images in recent posts, look good DrDre. However, I thought this one of Obi-Wan, looked like his cloak had a bit too much green in it, so I adjusted that, and I upped the saturation just a bit.

The original:

opinions?

I’m currently only on a semi-calibrated monitor. But I thought the cloak looked okay before and your change has brought some reds into the shadows and face that don’t look quite right.

In fact, given Dre’s previous comment about R2 (which I agree with), your calibration might be a bit on the cool side, masking some of these pink effects (and increasing the greens you’re seeing)?

Here I reduced the yellow somewhat in the Owen shot:

That looks pretty nice! Could probably fool me into thinking it’s an excellent film scan. 😃

Edit: It might be nice if the first post collected the latest/greatest versions of each shot that you’ve done. It’s quite impressive looking at all of the optimized ones!

towne32 said:

dlvh said:

I think most of your edited images in recent posts, look good DrDre. However, I thought this one of Obi-Wan, looked like his cloak had a bit too much green in it, so I adjusted that, and I upped the saturation just a bit.

The original:

opinions?

I’m currently only on a semi-calibrated monitor. But I thought the cloak looked okay before and your change has brought some reds into the shadows and face that don’t look quite right.

In fact, given Dre’s previous comment about R2 (which I agree with), your calibration might be a bit on the cool side, masking some of these pink effects (and increasing the greens you’re seeing)?

Agreed… dlvh, your redo gives obi-wan a kind of “hot orange” face on my monitor.

Dreamaster said:

towne32 said:

dlvh said:

I think most of your edited images in recent posts, look good DrDre. However, I thought this one of Obi-Wan, looked like his cloak had a bit too much green in it, so I adjusted that, and I upped the saturation just a bit.

The original:

opinions?

I’m currently only on a semi-calibrated monitor. But I thought the cloak looked okay before and your change has brought some reds into the shadows and face that don’t look quite right.

In fact, given Dre’s previous comment about R2 (which I agree with), your calibration might be a bit on the cool side, masking some of these pink effects (and increasing the greens you’re seeing)?

Agreed… dlvh, your redo gives obi-wan a kind of “hot orange” face on my monitor.

WOW…i just went to my other monitor, that has much better colors, and I see what you guys are saying.

Thanks much for the input fellows…I will get this fixed here soon.

dlvh

Here’s an update of the Obi-Wan/C-3PO/Luke shot:

Here are all the regraded shots in chronological order (I’ve also put them on the first page as towne23 suggested):

Color looks much better. It’s still a bit contrasty, but that might be correct?

Yep. That’s a hell of a gallery right there. 😃

Do you think it would be feasible to complete a render up to the point you’re at now? It’s actually probably not a bad stopping point. About a quarter of the film done, and almost none of the previous sets will be reused.

Though, I am not sure if you are skipping some of the scenes (Sandcrawler interior, garage, dinner, sunset) or just not posting them yet.