Star Wars V- XXTELECINE 7XX version 3.2

I am please to announce Star Wars V (version 3.2) will be released in the next few days.  Though this is a Fan Edits Forum, I did no editing to change the film from a story perspective but this is more for other fan editors out there in the community who would want to use my work is totally OK.  Some might like the visual effects changes I made, others will not.  This is simply put a library source (digital clean up) if or so others wish to use clips or parts of the movie that I changed can.

 I wanted to cut some scenes from the specialized version, but I do not want to break the DTS 7.1 audio mix, because simply put it's Awesome!!

Some people on these boards know me from my ROTJ beta 2.0, I have had private requests to do the same work on empire, actually I already have, it just was not finished. 

Things done---

Laser blasts rescoped

lightsabers rescoped

Muzzle flashes added

Impact effects added

Luke now has Sith eyes (in the Vader costume)

Falcon Engine changed to Blue

Various smoke and other effects added to certain action scenes.

Below are some screen shots.

Those who want to see higher quality shots can be found here: 

http://imgur.com/a/gYPby

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Version 3.2?  Is there a thread for any other version of this project?

TV's Frink said:

Version 3.2?  Is there a thread for any other version of this project?

 Not on this site, 3.2 is my personal version tracking system to keep track of how many times I changed things an re-rendered the movie.

Really excited to see this one. 

Me too, ROTJ was quite good.

Here is a quick cut-up of some of the stuff I cleaned up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwZRIvTvFY

Well they are even pointer in SW Rebels.  lol 

adywan said:

I see you have made the lightsabers "prequelised" by giving them the pointed tip :(

 I actually kinda like the pointy tips, never really noticed them until III though.  

Yea I thought EP 3 the light sabers were horrible.  A lot of times they were improperly screened and they used some type of ILM proprietary software and they keyed the tips to look exactly the same for every shot.  Looked too cartoonish.

This was way back before Mocha and AE hit the markets.  Actually out of all the prequels EP 1 light sabers looked the best in my opinion because they used old fashion roto-scoping/..

Star Wars Rebels has me worried of how JJ A., is going to animate the classic light sabers. (not the new dark lord cross blade).   I personally think they should not be as skinny and thin as they are now in Rebels.

As far as adywan opion of mine being too pointy, I think he only looked at the stills, and not the actual cutup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwZRIvTvFY

Can't wait.  Whenever I finally get all my Inuyasha-editing out of my system and get around to my ROTJ edit, I will be using your ROTJ as a base, so naturally I can't wai tto see your ESB as well.

As far as the sabers go, I'm just happy they have white cores again.

adywan said:

No, i looked at the video before commenting. Lightsaber tips were always rounded until Episodes 2 & 3 (they were old school in episode 1) , when the pointy option kicked in. It's just something i can't stand about the prequel sabers.

As for Rebels, then i can't see why that would make you worried about the sabers in episode 7. Rebels designs are heavily influenced by the classic Ralph McQuarrie designs/ concept paintings. The style of the sabers are taken directly from those, as Dave Filoni has himself said.

 The concept images they use in rebels look like shit.  I mean I understand your point on the pointy tips in EPIII, but these are just too skinny and unrealistic as far as using a light saber this thin to deflect laser blasts. (Lets now use a golf club shaft to hit baseballs now in MLBS.)  Concept art should be left alone it is a concept and that it.  It does not really mean it will translate well in motion.

I can assure you my ESB version will not anywhere look like EP III sabers (point tips. More somewhere in between.

As Rebels go, once it goes to BD format i have future plans of re-scoping those (THIN) sabers.  I mean they got James Earl Jones back to reprise his role as Vader, that alone warrants my attention in this series.

Everyone I guess has there cup of preferred tea. That is why this site exists I guess.

The pink lasers are no good. Use this as a proper reference This color to the lasers look amazing even if it is red shifted the lasers are not pink.

I have to say I really do like the tie fighter laser coloring you did though I think it's the glow you added that makes them work well although goes a bit fat in places but on the whole I like it.. And some of the falcon engines shots were cool as well but what you have there in terms of color is the hyperspace colors not the normal engine glow color.

Ever thought about extending what you are doing to all of the hand painted effects?

Here is an example something I have been wanting to do for a long time, you might like it? this was a test on trying to bring out the original colors in the FLAK Bursts

Good idea on the sith eyes... That is really quite a cool idea. I'm into that, it's abstract anyway so it really has no harm in it. Good Man Good! More Yellow though.

"The pink lasers are no good. Use this as a proper reference This color to the lasers look amazing even if it is red shifted the lasers are not pink."

If you screen a red energy in a bright white snowy conditions you end up with pink. 

If I set the transfer mode to normal it would look red but also too hot or "fake".  

I think most of the Star Wars community has accepted this as moving forth even Star Wars Battle front have the "pink" lasers in the battle of hoth...

Oh god really? They changed the lasers to pink in the new battlefront oh dear.

The reason the lasers are pink are because they never bothered to re-rotoscope the lasers after applying the Blue Blanket color filter to the film on the hoth scenes.

They were going to be blue for a short period of time but then they decided to eventually make the lasers red. See Below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CroqdjDv82s

And by the way I am not saying the actual rotoscoping you did was bad, I just disagree with the color on the hoth lasers quite strongly that is all, and you did put the title of your video as "What it should be like" or something so I thought I would point out that I do not agree with the color.

But I am not knocking you... The Lasers, engine glows and lightsabers and all other hand painted effects were one of the last things to be added in the process and that you are doing this is something that should have been done for the Special edition that is also why you see shots in that trailer where they were using sticks because they had still yet to be hand painted over.

This is where the Special edition if you like got lazy and added a blanket color filter changing the colors away from what they originally were and also not performing any re-paint or re-rotoscope to the hand painted effects as they were originally one of the last visual processes to be performed.

The top left laser is not screened, and presents a unrealistic red glow which any beam of light or energy source does not deflect light unless it was a physical object. (We are talking about energy. ) 

The other examples are lasers transferred in screen mode. In this mode I feel the lasers are accurately presented realistically. A good example of this is if you watch a thunderstorm lightning does not have that glow you see at night if it happened in the middle of the bright day.

The Laser drawn directly over the Walker is in screen mode and since the background is darker then a bright sky or snow, it presents for of the glow based on background lighting conditions.

As far as roto scoping the sabers, I was limited to scoping on top of what was already there, so it sometimes will screw up the actual transfer of the glow effect or look a little to thick.  There is only so much you can do  with this.  Original laser blasts can be removed, but light sabers are next impossible because of all the movement.  I think the only way you could remove original light sabers is to roto out the actual actors, and do a background replacement, and have to have "clean plates" for ever freaking frame. something which I am not willing to do because of the ridicules time involved for this. 

I only just looked at it properly as a comparison.

I think now they did rotoscope the lasers again and made them deliberately pink.

Because many shots in the original theatrical film on Hoth have no white hot or bright cores.

So going back to what you were saying about bright light in the day time it does make more sense that the lasers in daylight or fairly bright conditions lose / diminish their bright white cores due to them being subdued from the surrounding daylight. They are also fairly transparent and not solid.

but if you really want to keep the white cores then keep the pink.

And the Red would also go a different shade because of the daylight like a bit more pinky purple red but not full on pink... The original is more crimson with no white core.

Please search via usual channels. 

Might need 12 hours to replicate on search sites, PM me if you need help finding it.

I am please to announce Star Wars V (version 5.0) Is now availablE.   Though this is a Fan Edits Forum, I did no editing to change the film from a story perspective but this is more for other fan editors out there in the community who would want to use my work is totally OK.  Some might like the visual effects changes I made, others will not.  This is simply put a library source (digital clean up) if or so others wish to use clips or parts of the movie that I changed can.

 I wanted to cut some scenes from the specialized version, but I do not want to break the DTS 7.1 audio mix, because simply put it's Awesome!!

Some people on these boards know me from my ROTJ beta 2.0, I have had private requests to do the same work on empire, actually I already have, it just was not finished.  Now it is  

Things done---

Laser blasts rescoped

lightsabers rescoped

Muzzle flashes added

Impact effects added

Luke now has Sith eyes (in the Vader costume)

Falcon Engine changed to Blue

Dude, you do really good work, I loved your ROTJ and I look forward to watching this ESB, but YOU CANNOT POST THAT HERE.  There's a link to the torrent directly on the page you just linked to, you should definitely edit that out.  Judging by the way you worded the post it almost seems like it could be an accident, but either way that's a serious offense around here.

Thanks possessed.  I copied and pasted from an iPhone.  I did not relize that link was live.  I wanted it to be a search parameter not a direct link.   I edited that post.  

STAR WARS V The Empire Strikes Back (Version 5.0) BD 22 Final XXTELECINE 7XX

(FANFIX) not FAN EDIT

I am please to announce Star Wars V (version 5.0) Is now availablE.   Though this is a Fan Edits Forum, I did no editing to change the film from a story perspective but this is more for other fan editors out there in the community who would want to use my work is totally OK.  Some might like the visual effects changes I made, others will not.  This is simply put a library source (digital clean up) if or so others wish to use clips or parts of the movie that I changed can.

 I wanted to cut some scenes from the specialized version, but I do not want to break the DTS 7.1 audio mix, because simply put it's Awesome!!

Some people on these boards know me from my ROTJ beta 2.0, I have had private requests to do the same work on empire, actually I already have, it just was not finished.  Now it is  

Things done---

Laser blasts rescoped

lightsabers rescoped

Muzzle flashes added

Impact effects added

Luke now has Sith eyes (in the Vader costume)

Falcon Engine changed to Blue (looking back it should be more of a Teal color but I am not going back as It is the same color in all of my fan fixes)

(Update)  I have now about 7 leechers the closest guy to seed is stuck at 9 gigs (possessed?)lol, he might have turned off his PC. I only plan to seed this for a week, while I want others to share the load. My upload pipeline is getting overloaded.

I'm downloading it, if it's as good as the ROTJ was we'll be in good shape.

 Our power just went out it's been out for hours so you just lost the seed    

Powers finally back on :)