So, with the imminent release of The Force Awakens on Blu-Ray, I decided to drop everything else and start working on TFA Despecialized. I will be starting a new thread as soon as I have some samples to post. The plan is to make TFA look like it was shot immediately after ROTJ - this means getting rid of CGI characters and replacing them with puppets or prosthetic makeup, adding matte-lines and matte-boxes to all spaceship shots and probably re-shooting some with models or replacing some backgrounds with more hand-painted looking matte-paintings. Kylo Ren’s lightsaber should also be replaced with something that looks more hand-animated, like the old sabers - the jury’s still out on the cross-guard.
I would like to cooperate with Adywan and the rest of the Revisited team, because those guys already have experience with shooting models and stuff.
Since this is probably going to be very time-consuming and I expect it to take at least a couple of years, all other Despecialized efforts are on hold for now.