Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.2 a WIP) — Page 26

New comp:

https://streamable.com/ad1w7b

Had to replace the explosion, background, and left X-wing.
Thoughts, comments, or concerns aren’t only allowed but encouraged.

Vert nicely done - that really does look impressive. Kudos to you TGWNN 👍

Here’s a higher quality comp of a previously finished shot (with a few adjustments).

Streamable: https://streamable.com/zb0sy9
Thoughts, comments, or concerns aren’t only allowed but encouraged.

Rors said:

Fuck, that looks amazing!

thanks.

Little progress report:
I’m about 60% done with DevEd V.2. I found a hard drive with a bunch of master renders of effects shots I did on my old stolen computer; they were unnamed (my fault), but it made things much easier—not having to re-do most of these shots. The majority of what’s left is re-painting the lasers and lightsabers, as well as some recompositing work. I’m not gonna give a release date, but it’s gonna be here sooner than we expected.

honestabe said:

I have been eagerly looking for this for a long time.

I think a few months back you were going to have Vader’s fighter light speed away after getting shot by the Falcon. Is that still accurate?

Yup. Still there.

The first finished sequence of V.2 is coming tomorrow, 4/27.
Stay tuned.

Sorry about the delay. Got sick last few days. will render soon.

Hey, again apologies for the delay, I just restarted work on rendering the sequence, should be ready soon.
In the meantime, here’s another finished shot to hold you over until then…

Streamable:https://streamable.com/lnk27m

I changed the Tie Fighter flight path to match the previous shot and replaced the explosion with a higher quality re-colored source.

Thoughts, comments, or concerns aren’t only allowed but encouraged.

This is a call for help or advice:
There is a continuity error during the last battle after Obi-Wan is killed and Luke is firing his blaster like a madman… Han tells him to lock the door, and he shoots the door panel- fine.
The problem is that once we cut to insert the door panel, it is a completely different version, and it seems to be a zoomed-in version of a previous explosion during the Cellblock ambush. Using visual reference, I’ve constructed the door panel (which there is no example of online) using simple shapes. I need someone to create a 3D model of not only the panel but the wall so that I can comp in an explosion. If anyone has any experience with 3D modeling, that would be very helpful. Other advice or ideas are also welcome.

Insert shot:

Previous shot:

Correct panel vector illustration:

Thanks for listening. Any other comments or questions would be very helpful.

Here’s what I have so far, banged out relatively quickly:

Any pointers or things I should add/tweak?

The Star Wars Purist said:

Here’s what I have so far, banged out relatively quickly:

Any pointers or things I should add/tweak?

PM’ed you.

Finally finsihed this shot:

Streamable: https://streamable.com/s64hjz

Thanks to TheStarWarsPurist and TheOnlyIDontEvenKnow for their incredible Modeling work!
Thoughts, comments, or concerns aren’t only allowed but encouraged.

That’s awesome. Love the dedication.

Hey everyone, quick question… for the Greedo sequence, do you prefer the subtitles to fade in and out, or just to end?

It’s done:

Re-did the Falcon shot without all that stupid added grain. I don’t know what I was thinking putting a layer of grain over the already over-grained Blu-ray:

Streamable: https://streamable.com/j2tjo1

That guy with no name said:

Hey everyone, quick question… for the Greedo sequence, do you prefer the subtitles to fade in and out, or just to end?

For some reason the original hard pop-out method is easier on the eyes. When I added some titles to my cut of Jedi, I was surprised that the original titles didn’t fade, but after trying it both ways, the hard cut felt so much better.

That guy with no name said:

Finnaly finsihed this shot:

Streamable: https://streamable.com/s64hjz

Thanks to TheStarWarsPurist and TheOnlyIDontEvenKnow for their incredible Modeling work!
Thoughts, comments, or concerns aren’t only allowed but encouraged.

I love it! Your timing on the hit effect is so flippin’ crisp, and the CG work is SUBERB!

This is teeny-tiny niggle from an animator who has composited WAY too many blast effects - you might wanna adjust the opacity/blending mode of the smoke effect that is sitting over the sparkler to better match the wide shot. I used to composite blasts the way you’ve got it now, but after doing a million of them, I switched the way I layered/masked them and the results were much better.

You don’t need to change what you’ve got, I’m the only one on Planet Earth who will notice, lol! But if you composited the effect in AE, I’d be happy to take a quick look at it. Bottom line, this is amazing work!!!