I’ve seen a few attempts to trim down the ‘water pipes’ gag with BB8 during the opening sequence, and tried making one myself, but never saw one that really felt right.
Can anyone recommend anyone’s work on this scene? Perhaps there’s a good one out there I haven’t stumbled into, but you have.
(First double post in a while)
I’m pleased to report that our very own Sir Ridley and snooker have just provided me with the final three FX shots, enabling me now to commence an encode of a release candidate.
That takes considerable time, and my life is hectic right now, but it shouldn’t be longer than 2 weeks at the absolute most for this to be fully distributed, still well ahead of time for any pre-IX viewings.
Gift baskets or other accolades should be directed to Sir Ridley and snooker’s (separate?) dressing rooms.
Absototallutely.
In a week if I still haven’t received them I will proceed to render out a very watchable version to serve until I can put out V6 proper. It’ll have everything, all audio and subtitles and stuff, except those two or three shots.
It’s all completed except for one piece I’m waiting on from Angel. It’s worth the wait though! (The droids being removed from the birth scene.)
Hehe, that suits him. Maybe he’ll befriend a defected Resistance member, give him the jacket and nickname him ‘Funn.’
Can you use deepfake technology to replace each and every Rebel extra with forum members?
Done.
Render the opening crawls in Aurebesh.
Hal’s final (at the time) version over a year ago
I want to see what you’d do with the Hobbit. Would it be at all influenced by the book (versus films), or not so much?
I’d bet RJ was obligated to include Maz and Phasma in TLJ.
can i please get a copy of this?
Sending a PM.
Film grain wasn’t added once I switched to Schorman’s HDTV preservation as the primary source, which was either V2 or V3.
It seems like Lucas overdubbed basically anybody who was British (except Alec Guinness) in the first film. Though somehow General Tagge survived. Maybe because his working-class East End voice didn’t sound like a stereotypical upper-class Brit.
Probably it was Irvin Kershner on ESB who decided to let the Imperials use their natural British accents, for the American Revolution symbolism. Lucas, by contrast, thought of the Empire as more like modern-day America, so most likely he wasn’t the one who came up with that.
That’s very interesting. I hadn’t ever considered that, and it makes good sense.
I think what is there would make a perfectly fine addition to your edit, given that you had already removed the Phasma fight.
It’s obviously a bit subtle, though, and ‘January 2018 me’ would probably have found it a little annoying that it was. FWIW. But again, adding this doesn’t hurt anything about your edit and makes removing the Phasma fight a better option than before.
Hmmm… if it were me and a set of a few 7-10 year olds, I guess I’d plan on this:
Introduce the original 1977 SW (ANH), allowing any desired rewatches. Let it sit there a while, maybe a month or two. Use your OOT preservation of choice.
Introduce ESB likewise, letting it breathe before adding more. Let them wonder a bit. Again, OOT preservation of choice.
While the ‘Liar Obi-Wan Order’ has merit and can be fun, I think a 9-part saga is better paced by keeping trilogies from interrupting each other. So, I’d just go onto ROTJ next in the same way. Let it breathe, use OOT. If the kids like to read, maybe introduce Shadows of the Empire somewhere between ESB and ROTJ, if you want.
Then I’d introduce your preferred version of Episode I, maybe digging out the old N64 and playing Ep1 Racer. Feel free to introduce any EU material (Legends or Canon) you like in this and the following eras.
Then I’d do the same for Episode II. Afterward, I’d want to introduce the Clone Wars Microseries, the ‘Samurai Jack’ style one. Again, feel free to introduce any books you’d like. Or the CGI Clone Wars show, too.
Same story for Episode III.
Maybe introduce Rebels.
I’d schedule a set of viewings to lead up to moving into the sequel trilogy. This would consist of:
Then I’d introduce TFA, TLJ, and TROS the same way I have the prior moves. (Ran out of time to type on my phone.)
I don’t have much to add, but I like RogueLeader’s take on interpreting a political reflection in the ST.
Luke.
Molly posted in Adywan’s thread that he may be able to lay some more mothers on us.
And I’ll send you the audio for that scene from my timeline, Ridley. You’re a treasure.
Finn didn’t think it was possible, but is pretty sure he knows how it’s down, given that it is.
“Wow, I didn’t think it was possible to encode video that fast. Must be a fast GPU that works the way others do that I’m familiar with. Gee whiz.”
Well, if you wouldn’t mind I’m sure that’d be very helpful. Evidently there’s dozens of instances of the phrase “your mother.”
It may help to get more of the audio source Ridley was working from, since the rest of the audio on my end is the 1997 SE mix.
I find myself genuinely surprised at how well changing Vader’s line to Luke in ROTJ to, “Your mother once thought as you do” works. This is due largely to the audio work Sir Ridley and others have brought to bear. I’m not 100% sure, but I imagine it would be worth making at least an alternate audio track for a ROTJ project.
Here’s how the best version so far, from Sir Ridley, sounds when fully baked in. I included a few lines from Vader before and afterward. What do you all think about potentially going this route? Content-wise, it seems to be a meaningful alteration, given that this is a fan project which does not threaten the availability of the OOT. Padme beckons Anakin in ROTS, now Luke echoes this.