Dat_SW_Guy

Yea, for “I’m a Jedi” just give it a slight pause in between those words.

It was supposed to jump into hyperspace at the final frames, but the animation looked extremely weird and I couldn’t get that hyperjump trail that poppasketti did.

For reference, this is how the shot looks without compression
(I added way too much film grain so it looks noisy)

Speaking of extending the ending of TROS, heres a test shot of the Falcon moving across space trying to match the look and lighting of TROS. Unfortunately, Streamable has decided to clip the dark and light values again making it look more contrasty than it should.

https://streamable.com/sf26a8

I might extend the final shot down to two shots: The Falcon flying off from the homestead, and another showing it flying away from the planet itself into hyperspace, for more adventures to come.

This might give extra room for the score and to keep the pace relatively smoother and not make it feel too much of a rushed ending.

(I might need help finding some footage of dusk sunsets on a pretty flat-looking desert)

Also, I’m pretty sure the Tatooine suns would be in the horizon of the homestead during sunset as shown in ANH.

I pretty much got the model untouched from Sketchfab but I removed the landing legs. I’m still a novice to Blender so I don’t really know how to make textures, models and stuff.

At the end, anything that looks weird will always be hidden in motion. A good motion blur + match grain from the original Blu-ray would hide any “over-perfections”

I’m also trying not to make it look as real as possible, just trying to line it up with the visual aesthetic of the film. TROS isn’t too overly-photorealistic with its VFX (and they probably didn’t care nor have the time to finish it due to the rushed nature of production) and so anything floats under the sun.

I attempted to recreate the lighting of the Falcon in TROS using Blender 2.92, it somewhat looks more like a miniature than a CG ship. I’m planning on probably fixing the last shot wherein it will fly away from Tatooine, but instead of the sunset, it would go straight into hyperspace from space.

I wonder if you can re-do Adywan’s Emperor scene to deepfake/EBSynth ROTJ Palpatine onto an actor.

I attempted to hand-animate the shadow on the bottom of the landspeeder but it turns out more difficult than I thought and it doesnt look like the shadow actually “moves”, rather it looks like it slowly pans, similar to how the TIE Fighters in the trench run were shot. I really need help on this, so any VFX help is appreciated!

https://streamable.com/x1phd3

I feel like the neck is a bit too low into the body, and the darkest parts of the head do not match the darkest parts of the robe. But otherwise it looks great!

sherlockpotter said:

Yeah, I think Streamable just uses some pretty hefty compression. It’s great for showing off tests and mockups, but less so for sharing something in high quality. (I’ve been uploading my finished clips to Google Drive instead.)

Ooh, hmm, I don’t know! My gut was telling me that the lightning should be fairly big and bold and dramatic at this point - and I adore how it looks right now - but I’d definitely be interested in seeing a slightly more subtle approach that Rey would barely notice.

Seriously loving it though, Dat_SW_Guy. Thanks so much for helping out with this shot!

(Depending on what sort of sound effect people want, I can certainly add mine to the finished VFX shot. I can also try a version with Snoke’s sound effect, just so we have a fair comparison and can all decide what works best!)

Yea, are you able to re-do the effects to add a more subtler sound? I’m afraid I’m not that good with audio design haha

Yeah, I watched the theatrical cut of this duel and noticed that Rey didnt care that she literally Force-pushed the shit out of Finn there, how much more if she straight up electrocuted him in this cut? LOL

I can see how Rey barely reacts to it, I’ll probably make the scene similar to the removed lightning sparks on Palpatine’s hand in the beginning of the movie, it’s visible to the audience but not to Rey.

Hello, thank you all for your suggestions. Firstly, The shot of Finn recieving the blast wasnt created there. However, I just whipped up a quick “proof-of-concept” of Finn a actually getting hit with the lightning, albeit it looks alot more deadly, overkill and less “subtle”.
The sound effect was from YouTube and I just did a right-left pan to sonically flow with the visuals a bit more. I completely cut out the wide shot of him flying back and left the last shot unfinished (since I’m too lazy to edit it now, but I’ll finish this shot sometime tommorrow) but also since I’m not so sure as to how to structure the shot.

I don’t really know how to make it subtler, so any help is appreciated! https://streamable.com/gyj6k2

SIDENOTE: I edited the shot with 16-bit colorspace, but the one being uploaded to streamable seems to have completely clipped the highlights and shadows so I don’t know what’s up with that.

Heres a test VFX shot of Rey shooting out Force Lightning instead of the Force Push to signify her instability, the compression makes it look slightly weird but it’s okay: https://streamable.com/cqtffo

Heres the finalized explosion for Alderaan’s destruction scene, although I still can’t figure out how to add in the laser and make it smooth enough to fit in the rest of the sequence. It’s a bit overkill but it still lines up pretty well.
https://streamable.com/mfldg5

The scene is great, but I think the pause between “You will kill” and “Palpatine” should be a tiny bit longer, as it felt slightly jarring for me.

Another update: I’ve been toying around with an online tool called Comixify AI to remove the hand-drawn landspeeder shadow in the 139-frame shot of the speeder passing through the street heading to Mos Eisley and it seems to work quite well, albeit there are artefacts. But that can be fixed through masking and tracking anyway.

https://streamable.com/ei7wzm

EBSynth is pretty much a “style” transfer deepfake, wherein it animates a scene using the style of another artist, or using a scene thats been repainted to match a different style. See the video below for further clarification:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fILG1J6gMBs

Using this concept, we can pretty much transfer the “style” (which in this case is the single frame still image of ROTJ Jabba edited into ANH CGI Jabba) to the entire video and animate it using AI. Sorry if it’s a bit convoluted but after you watch the video, you’ll see what I mean.

Technically, you can do that with EBSynth.
Just rigorously photoshop ROTJ Jabba into a still frame of ANH Jabba (do this a couple times) after which you use it as a reference frame for EBSynth to slap the face on and you’ll get a passable result (after masking everything else out to maintain quality), however you may need to do those in sections, as there may be moments wherein it wouldn’t track and it would look inconsistent, but morphing and masking can do the trick (most of the time, anyway)

https://youtu.be/iXqLTJFTUGc

Heres a new breakthrough in Deepfake technology: Lip-sync and vocal synthesis and stitching done in less than a minute.

I presume this can be really useful in a lot of cases, letting the actors say what we want them to say through the use of AI.

Yeah I can definitely do that, I just need to do a lot of tracking since the shot has some camera shake.

One thing I just realized: The shot here shows the cantina from a distance with the added buildings but when they reach there, it turns out to be barren with no buildings in sight which directly contradicts this scene here. (which was probably why the ronto was added in the first place to cover up the obvious discrepancy)
Do I remove it for continuity sake?

ANOTHER CHANGE: here is a new matte of the Mos Eisley wide shot, showing the SE buildings without the comical and stupid Ronto/Jawa antics.

https://streamable.com/cnowdi

Here is the somwhat-finished shot, but I’ll probably replace this with the SE Dewback for more dynamic-ness of the scene. The moving puppet Ronto is animated digitally similar to how Harmy did it in his 2.5 of Despecialized.

EDIT: I forgot to add, I found Adywan’s ANHR:HD sample reel on YouTube and seeing he did a similar change to mine, I used some of his footage to improve the circular landspeeder quality so credit to him on that.

https://vimeo.com/545378766

I might help with some of the editing work for the Vader Castle shots needed, but I havent backread far enough to know in what context it will be used for? (I assume its going to recontextualize the opening scene wherein Kylo grabs the wayfinder)