I haven’t been following this, but I’ll look forward to making this my method for preparing for season 2!
I would prefer if the line “the mighty Chewbacca” is used, that it not resemble Jabba’s delivery in ROTJ.
Has anyone thought of using this as the ending of the movie? The music and everything make it more powerful than the original one.
https://youtu.be/XaAXOCa15uE
Maybe it can be used for the Rey Nobody cut?
Been over this a few times, but the short answer is no.
For which one?
Palpatine’s speech would be too on the nose, and I would like it if the Kylo thinking shot could be extended.
lol, that would be way too on the nose for me.
Muffy, I prefer to leave that sequence as I’ve got it but thank you for mocking up your idea. 😃 😕
And I don’t have the ability to smooth out slowed footage. Can anyone stretch that shot, though? It’d be seamless if smoothed.
They were still pretty not smooth, though. Ridley has smoothed video before, I know at least.
If someone with the frame-smoothing ability can process it, even an extra second is welcome.
I feel like I joined this forum at the vest time. Loving all the input and how the group process is working. It keeps it so fresh.
TFA:R was fun, too. Especially working to finish it in time for a pre-TLJ premiere viewing.
The gist: no one steps up to execute the common idea of moving SKB’s firing to the third act, so I reluctantly try. I succeed in part, but it doesn’t totally work, and I feel dissatisfied with it being something that really wants to work, but doesn’t really.
Then, in early 2017, NeverArGreat and Sir Ridley (in particular, there were others like Jackpumpkinhead) swoop in from nowhere and do a ton of FX work. With new doors open, we all have a process going with an eye on December 2017. We largely succeed, though put out a more polished version a month or two later.
I put out a V3 (and then a mostly technical issue-correcting but also Palptine-tweaking V4) with a few more changes that are broadly welcomed, deciding not to restrain myself like I had, given that 8 and 9 would receive Hal9000 edits after all. (I had naively hoped the ST wouldn’t need fan edits, so TFA was treated minimally invasively.)
Updated OP with a tracker for specific things needed from other people. Cool to see a short list! We’ll get this thing out the door. Baby steps, and no rush.
Seems like that would imply the TIEs are acting as troop carriers, maybe?
I’m okay with the theatrical Mustafar scene, so if we end up not using an extension it’s really okay. It’ll just be a well-explored but closed off avenue. We’ll see!
Chase, I don’t think Kef Bir needs to be altered, as it looks pretty similar to Endor already, moreso maybe even than two different sides of Earth.
I’m going to use the Ochi ship shot, and I’m glad the group process got it to look as good as it is now!
Mustafar… There’s no chance of me removing the sequence, as doing so heaps on pacing problems that it can’t bear. I like the idea of buffering the opening with some more footage, and as it is it’s the same soundtrack piece we hear in the scene extended in reverse from that point. I’ve never been a gamer myself and the troops don’t appear weird to me at all, yet I keep hearing that that footage genuinely bugs a lot of you because it begs a sense I must not really have. I don’t want something dodgy as the first couple shots of the movie, so I’ll stew on this for a while longer.
I like the newest Ochi ship shot, too. If it lets the pace slow down for a second, I think it’s worth including.
Here’s an intended-as-final Mustafar sequence.
I’ll do the regular Palpatine version, and then a Nobody version once Dominic has blazed that trail at some point later.
I think the blade whispers is one of several things one would leave a first viewing maybe having missed, after all.
How do we all feel about the newer Ochi ship shot from poppasketti? I think it’s very much improved, but it may be too iffy to be included. He’s said so himself. Eh?
Ap’Lek: 6/8
Kuruk: 8/1
Ushar: 5/1
Vicrul: 8/3
It seemed to me to break up the moment too much, and too heavily imply Wicket was gonna pop up again later to help. It seemed more effective with just a short shot.
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Yeah, augmenting it would be ideal. If the original painting could be grafted onto Kef Bir that’d be incredible, too. (Like just that chunk of it.)
Is that the only shot of Kef Bir from space? You could probably swap the most visible texture parts of the two moons with each other. Just need to rotoscope the Falcon.
I believe it is the only shot. If you think it would work that’d be great since the shot clearly is intended to say “See, Endor is here and then over here is this other thing.”
Make it sentient, verbal, and pissed.
Yeah, augmenting it would be ideal. If the original painting could be grafted onto Kef Bir that’d be incredible, too. (Like just that chunk of it.)
Well, removing it would probably be good, but to be fair I hadn’t noticed that until you pointed it out.
I don’t think it being from TFA would matter much, but I think it’d be a little clunky.
I like the previous mock-up better, too, with the troops pouring out.
The music is extended backward from where it matches the Kylo Ren cue, so it’s totally authentic. I’m glad natm and the rest of you guys suggested it because I wouldn’t have realized that.
Wow, great job on this! Can I get a link to these?
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