NeverarGreat said:
Looking good!
There's still a lot of purple in the flashes however.
GOUT comparison:
I included the other frames because I saw something kind of cool; the squib in this shot seems to go nuts, flying right off the wall over the actors! I watched the movie a hundred times and never noticed this.
Thanks, glad you liked it! :)
Hmm, thanks for pointing that flash out. You got me rummaging through all my stuff to find my limited edition star wars bonus dvd haha.
I've never really considered the bonus dvd to be all that useful as a colour/brightness/contrast/saturation reference and having a look at the disc again after more than a year really reminds me why. That whole shot on the gout dvd is really desaturated, hence why the flash looks more white than in my clip. The different hue on the flash on the dvd is also most likely connected to the overly red fleshtones of luke and leia and so is also most likely incorrect if one wants to recreate the look of the film prints.
You can actually see that the fleshtones of luke and leia on the gout dvd are wrong in that whole section and indeed in the whole film IMHO, WAY too much red, only its not so obvious because everything is so desaturated that the fleshtones almost look normal. Only problem with that approach is, all the other colours are desaturated as well, not just the reds in the fleshtones, so everything else just looks so grey, dull and lifeless, totally unlike those shots taken from film prints and screenings that have lovely rich colours.
If this section on the gout dvd was at the same level of saturation and contrast as my clip, luke and leia would look like sunburnt lobster men.
No, i'm happy with the flash in the screencap you posted from my preview clip, the gout isn't at all reliable as a source colourwise IMHO when trying to recreate the look of the film prints, its totally desaturated and the fleshtones are off due to being way too red, so most likely the rest of the colours can't be trusted either. A film print pic of that flash or indeed any frame in that shot though would certainly be far more useful in ascertaining what the colour of that flash should be.
As for the squib, haha I never noticed that before! Very cool indeed. :)