My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.
Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.
This is not perfect (link good for 2 days) but it’s pretty good:
That’s brilliant.
Last night I had one of those classic, ‘dreaming that you wake up’ dreams.
In the dream I wake up and make my bed. I then go downstairs I walk to the far end of the hallway. The electricity is out so I am in pitch darkness. I suddendly bump into a giant but still unseen humanoid form. 7 or 8ft tall. The being shunts me towards the door with its body weight alone, it never lays hands on me. I try to talk to it but get no reply. Just being pushed along. In fear I wake up. Only I still havent really woken up. Im back in a house which is nothing like my real home but using dream logic I know it is my home somehow. I can hear loud electrical sparks from the garden. There is a work bench. A wired device that looks like cylindrical drill or an electrical screwdriver is overloading. I open the sliding glass doors to the garden and carefully switch off the powerpoint from a free standing console. For some reason the previously empty garden is full of covered workbenches and each has somebody working away with a handtool on some project. One guy, a Canadian with wavy white hair and a beard asks if I switched off the malfunctioning power point and explains that he had tried to earlier but he could get close enough. I then wake up with my alarm…or do I?
He might come back. We dont know whats going on in his life. I hope it’s nothing bad.
Is the bluesky account genuine? I noticed its not been used yet. If you needed someone in a B-wing Bingowings seemed an obvious choice😁 maybe I could change my name to Xingowings. Though I do look more like an Ewok at the moment.
Angus MacInnes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacInnes
"They are on levels 5 and 6 six now Bert"😁
Great work as always. The colours really pop.
SSWR has done this before. Maybe he has a lot on his plate. Things happen out of the blue. I hope he is well. I really enjoy our conversations. He has developed his skills greatly over the years. AOTC is the most problematic prequel. Not as disappointing as TPM but narratively much more important. It needs the sort of work SSWR was doing like no other Star Wars film does… And he is a good friend.
Yes I tried sending funds but It won’t let me. To be honest PayPal feels more dodgy these days.
It has been suggested elsewhere but now that we have more material maybe having another try for an edit where there is only one Death Star. It would mean swapping the ROTJ look for the Rogue One look. The attack in ANH only slowing down the construction so Yavin can be evacuated which is finally completed in ROTJ.
My friend, chemist, Paleontologist poet and all round nice person Alice Purnell OBE. Former nurse, founder member of a number of gender based organisations. She leaves a collection of thayltvwould seriously rival and museum of natural history.
Superheaven called.
It’s Jackie Chan not Jackie Han.
Merry Christmas
When the stormtroopers break open the door to the guard post over from the hanger they all knock their heads and pass out allowing Threepio and Artoo to stroll passed their concussed bodies.
I wish they would update the digital actors. Tarkin has dated like Jabba97
Were there any weird cropping of frames in ROTJ releases like those corrected by Ady in ESB:R?
The new one looks more sandy. No wonder Vader stayed on the ship.
I’ve just finished watching and while it isn’t perfect it was clearly tarketed by the AntiWoke brigade. I would remove the established characters completely and go for a more linear approach if I were to turn it into a movie. Some of the younger Jedi give less than stellar performances. I would trim them out. The senator subplot goes nowhere so I’d remove that. Remove all location names. It was so off putting.
I can’t get the link to open on my phone.
Here’s a Google Drive link for anyone unable to access mega:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oCpOK1TkwVQ8l5YlCL-nlXc_3-gl5gf5/view?usp=sharing
btw, great color ady!
Many thanks.
Very vibrant collars.
No worries. Sometimes a pause to think how a difficult idea could be realised generates new thinking.
Something I never noticed before but during the deleted scene with Padme’s family the actress playing her sister is doing very weird stuff to her food. Maybe they eat differently on Naboo but that would certainly be worth fixing.
I can’t get the link to open on my phone.
collars
It’s an older code, sir, but it checks out.
This is why we need a like button. 👍
I think what you may be unaware of TDS is that everyone starts out with ideas, but it’s important to measure those against practicality. As a rule, it’s found that most of the work gets done here by people deciding ‘I’m going to do that myself’ rather than ‘Can someone else make this idea work?’ There are lots of free programs, and free teaching, that people use to realise their ideas, and they are accessible to people without any experience - the vast majority of us here are not professionals and had no or minimal experience in any of the fan editing disciplines before embarking on our projects. Similarly, at this point, the vast majority of ideas that can be had about especially the earlier movies have been had already, and more radical ones (like replace a character) are still outwith practicality. I’d recommend reading through the ideas threads, and the threads for the most successful projects, to see what the process looks like, and help refine your vision, and then consider picking up one of the tools required to realise it.
When I came up with this thread (too scared to look). The ethos was to think outside the confines of what is obviously doable (though by no means easy) such as trims and adding deleted content and come up with ideas that really shake the prequels up and make them closer to the sort of films a viewer from 1983 would have anticipated.
There are some really great ideas in these many pages. Some that would have been very close to impossible when the thread began are now possibly doable thanks to AI voices and deep fake technology married with the ancient arts of model making and acting. This thread has always been and hopefully shall remain a place were imagination and ideas are more prominent than solutions (though both are encouraged). It is nice to see it still going.