Add a heart monitor to Greedo’s neck throughout the scene, with a recognizable and prominent heartbeat pattern of beeps during the whole conversation. After he is shot and Han starts to walk away, the beeps resume.
I think I even know the day I saw it the first time. This had not come to mind since I was a child, but I remembered that my grandmother gave that VHS tape to me on Valentine’s Day. I remembered associating the purple-pinkish color of the vacuum on the cover with that because of the holiday. And given landmark events in my family, it had to have been 1995. So V-day 1995 it must’ve been. I then, out of boredom and curiosity, found a list of VHS releases and videos from YouTube of the openings. The “V2” 1994 reissue put out in November’s commercials felt very familiar, so that was the VHC I had a copy of. The memories I have of watching that tape at her house have a specific range of time, all being when I was age 5. So this movie takes me way back! I’d only seen it probably five times or less after that point until recently, though two of those were as an adult.
I think it’s the one-two punch of Oxtorox’ recent efforts that have it looking better than ever and seeing it with my own kids.
It’s a reflection of the rising sun through the window on the face of a toaster. It’s from the opening scene of The Brave Little Toaster, which I’ve recently enjoyed from Octorox’ restoration efforts. It’s one my first movies as a small child and one that certainly left a formative mark.
Wonderful.
Of Restructured, not Starlight.
I forgot to mention in the notes that I used that LUT, applied at 60%. Dang it, forgot about that. I can’t even remember for sure who supplied it….
Seems like an inordinate amount of effort for something I don’t really see a benefit to.
If anyone wants to help disrupt this bootlegger, go for it.
https://www.ecrater.com/p/40783571/star-wars-episode-ix-the
Luke Skywalker has, understandably, been the center of my interest in Star Wars. So, from the moment the sequel trilogy was announced I was very interested in seeing how things have gone for him since ROTJ.
I was saddened not to get much of him in TFA, but was super excited about the promise of TLJ. Even though Luke turned out not to have successfully capitalized on his new purpose at the end of ROTJ, I’m glad his journey was mythically resonant in TLJ and found he had something to teach me in his journey. I feel TROS basically said about Luke, “You failed but taught a lesson in the process, and Rey will recapitulate your journey and incorporate this to carry it out later.”
I’m glad TLJ gave Luke a journey to go on, and one I’ve found personally very significant, even as evidenced by taking a bit of time and wrestling for me to reach that point.
I blocked off a half day on Friday to just have to myself on the down low from the family, but a kid got sick and so I need to take tomorrow off and open that Friday time back up. 🙄
V6 going up now, updated changelist in the OP.
TFA said, “The prequels were stupid.”
TLJ said, “No, you’re stupid.”
TROS said, “I’ll show you stupid!”
Not for that one yet. Hoping to do one other minor thing first, since 4K83 has scratches during the DSII explosion shot.
Version 4.1 of Empire now available through the usual venues. Only change is these four Boba Fett lines. No visual changes, just that audio change.
I really like how R2’s lights look there. Perfect. That darkening as it switches really helps.
Anybody who would like a copy of this project can PM me, as I have started to host it at Nev’s request to unburden him.
So let me know, and I’ll getcha a copy.
Hey, that’s perfectly fine! Whether Poe is daring or the mission is daring, he’s certainly trusted by Leia, and I don’t really have a desire to put the crawl (or Ridley) through another permutation. It’s not like I would just tweak two words and hit export.
You might be right about secret. I don’t know either, so I’m hesitant to undo something and regret it. I like to do a deep dive, nail it down, and then surface again. Lol
I think it was because we wanted to make the mission “daring,” and needed something to describe Poe. Not entirely sure, though! I suppose one could say that his “trustedness” goes down at the start of TLJ.
I’m not looking to revise the crawl for TFA:R, as it requires Ridley to go through a big rigamaroll, and I’m genuinely all right with what it is at present. I’m hoping to button up the revision and then probably be finished with this project for good. Well, at least until the next Starlight-type project blows it open again.
Great to see R2’s light like that. I notice the Falcon traveling much closer to the Death Star in that one shot, which is cool.
The blasters. I tend not to like efforts to make the blasters in ANH or the OT look similar to subsequent depictions by adding a core, because it never seemed to blend in right and would often be too thick. This, however, is totally perfect. Looks pitch-perfect in its goal and does not at all feel out of place. Color me impressed.
R2’s light looks good, but I wonder if mimicking Adywan’s effort for Revisited back in 2007 a bit closer might help further. When R2’s light changes in Revisited, it seems to get darker during the transition, and I wonder if that helps sell that some mechanism is pulling a tab. Here, the color just changes left to right and can feel like a digital alteration. I’m not sure how else to get at what I mean.
Stellar, man!
If Obi-Wan encounters R2-D2, I’m not sure which I’d prefer…
“Get out of my way, random droid! I don’t have time for random droid nonsense.”
or
“Wow, hello there, old friend. Good to see you again. But next time we see each other, let’s pretend we’ve never met.”
Another thread to keep a close eye on. Sounds like an ambitious changelist, and I have learned my lesson about underestimating what’s possible. I like several of your ideas, so I’ll do what I can!
PM sent
Feel like what?
That is the true burden of all masters.
When Rey looks off to the distance before she and friends head off on their mission toward the start of TROS, add the ghosts of her parents.