Return of the Jedi Renewed (released) — Page 14

Very slowly. Unfortunately many things happened, and I also got Covid along with all my family.
I’m thinking about showing the opening in the next few days.

Yikes! Hope you and the family are on the mend!

Thank you. Yes, it was slightly more than a flu.
Meanwhile, here’s the opening. Still not 100% finished, but quite close.

https://vimeo.com/692379322

I’ve restarted working on this more actively. Things can change anytime, as I’ve not yet found a damned job (Italy is just doomed).
I’m using this edit to experiment and try different changes.

Top: original.
Bottom: edited.

Slightly increased contrast, removed blue-ish tone, added slight glow to reduce puppet effect on SD, added sun, replaced Endor.

Slightly increased contrast, removed blue-ish tone, added slight glow, added force fields.

Slightly altered color, added force field and added floor reflection (missing in previous versions).

Lowered image and replaced Jabba’s palace and sky.

Improved hologram and replaced beam. Slightly recolored background.

Replaced Jabba’s palace and sky.

Replaced background, recolored image, added sunlight to match new background.

thats great, good job.

Thanks

Thanks! Every added stuff is just still images.
The Endor shot… I found a background image online from a Battlefront game. I masked the original background, softened edges and added it. Lastly, I added a light beam with Sony Vegas in the front, to match the new background.

Jabba’s palace shots are still images from Book of Boba Fett.

The hologram is a combination of a TV effect from Sony Vegas and a “hologram beam” video from YouTube.

And the planet-view Endor shots are, again, still images from Google images with a very basic motion tracking to match the original moving background.

Looks great, but one thing stood out to me: Where you’ve added the sun in the space shot, that conflicts with the light/shadow on the second death star. The sun, as the brightest point of light, should be what determines the shadow, so you need to position the two objects with the shadow line perpendicular to the line between them.

You’re definitely right.

EddieDean said:

Looks great, but one thing stood out to me: Where you’ve added the sun in the space shot, that conflicts with the light/shadow on the second death star. The sun, as the brightest point of light, should be what determines the shadow, so you need to position the two objects with the shadow line perpendicular to the line between them.

What about this?

I just got around to watching the first version, I must say, the opening logos alone got me hyped up.

Here’s a clip with comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpOP8U9g-4c&list=LL&index=7

The terminator line on the Death Star is clearly tilted at about thirty degrees, meaning that either the light must arrive from the extreme upper right side of the frame or the Death Star itself needs to be rotated thirty degrees clockwise in the frame to match the current sun location.

Of course, realistically the terminator line seems to be bisecting the sphere of the Death Star almost precisely in half, so there would be no way to view the sun in the same frame as the Death Star at this distance. as it would be far to the right of the moon.

… but it’s not something I really care about, in all honesty, as long as it looks cool, haha.

Of course. As long as it make you happy, that’s all that really matters 😃

Excuse me, does anyone have a link for telecine’s ROTJ edit? The remade blaster bolts and lightsabers would make me spare so much time…

IlFanEditore said:

Excuse me, does anyone have a link for telecine’s ROTJ edit? The remade blaster bolts and lightsabers would make me spare so much time…

I do, check your PMs

Here’s a short playlist of some clips and comparisons, if anyone’s interested.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_VHT-NpoeegO4qLZH3db68d55DgCrlQ

BrotherOfSasquatch said:

That’s some great work there! However, wouldn’t make more sense for that to be the surface of the Death Star rather than Endor since it’s a really high tower on top of it?

Damn, you’re right! I’ll try search for some HD images of the Death Star surface…

I also just think it’d be way better to keep the stark look and feel of the Death Star scenes rather then having a nice pretty bright planet in the background.

Ok, just a couple of things.
I don’t know if I can add the Death Star surface, simply because I’d have to add it to every window, and with the moving camera (especially during the fight) I’m pretty sure I can’t motion track a still image.
Also, the planet outside would have been only in that single scene (Vader and Palpy talking), just to give the idea that the Death Star is moving between scenes.
So… I’ll either leave it as the original or keep the planet only in this scene…