To be honest, at the moment, I am too.
I told him (this particular voice actor) what I want for the character, but he has his own spin on it that he wants to pitch to me first.
Curious to hear what he's got.
So far it seems like feedback has been generally positive toward the new voice of The Good General, even if the clips I made public aren't part of the film per se...
I was always kinda reluctant since I didn't really know professional voice actors willing to take a stab at it, but how's everyone feel about maybe hearing the Gungans in Episode I-III in English?
I already posted these in my thread, but I think these two babies are a perfect example of how hilariously bad things could go if one were so inclined:
And now I give you another scene...
That has no place anywhere near "Star Wars: Episode III - Fall of the Republic". :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzaRGYEDSY
And yes, this is why it takes me years to get shit done... for every 1 finished scene that gets into the film, there are countless more like this, done for no real reason at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YghZpY7d1I
Like I say in the description, I could explain the context of this...
But I'm not going to.
I went ahead and added one other thing to the youtube page tonight.
A discarded alternate ending to "The Clone War" from back in 03.
I was going for a WTF "I am your father"-like plot twist at the end of the film at one point, but ultimately decided that it might be too tricky to make it work, knowing nothing of Episode III at that time.
Surprisingly, Balance of the Force has been up there for like 2 years and the first few parts of Clone War have been as well.
Sony & LFL raise copyright objections to youtube every time I upload a part, but they allow the videos to remain up.
I just receive this message a message that my video contains content owned by Sony & LFL each time and then told that no action is required on my part but that ads by LFL and Sony may appear next to the video.
In essence, they don't care because they're using my edits as a free billboard which is fine by me.
Just uploaded the last part of Clone War to youtube.
No promises that I won't be tinkering more, I'm almost certain I will be, but at least a cut of the whole film is up there and watchable.
I did always think a lunar look might be cool for Geonosis.
vaderios said:
What shot? I can help
-Angel
Honestly, I find your shots pretty amazing, each time I look at them.
Have you done the whole flick? I'd love to take a look at what you've done color correction wise.
I threw this together in about 20 seconds, so its a little on the green side, but something like this?
EDIT: haha, when you posted "I hoped you'd show yours", I thought you meant me. I felt kind of puzzled since I said earlier that I hadn't done any color correction and then thought to myself, "I guess I better whip something up."
Those Geonosis shots are really amazing. I was just looking at those scenes and noticing the cartooniness as I got that sequence ready for youtube.
As for the above question about the night-to-day shot in Balance of the Force, its been there since the original version I did, I think.
Its the scene in where Jar Jar & the Jedi reach the lagoon and swim to Otoh Gunga. Its a night time scene in balance.
If you mean which scene with the lightsabers, there was infamous changing Dooku to being a fallen Jedi, so driven to destroy the Sith that he embraced the Dark Side to do it and making his lightsaber yellow/gold.
It was a sort of double homage. One, to Luke's action figure when I was a kid, which had a yellow saber, and to the original idea for Balance of the Force, when I was going to give Qui-Gon a yellow saber, did a few scenes and said to myself, "You know, he uses his saber an awful lot... F*#k it." and gave up out of sheer laziness.
Also, in Episode III since Palpatine loses his saber out the window, I explained that away by him obtaining someone else's saber shortly afterward, which is the one he uses against Yoda.
Probably DL first.
What did you have in mind, Oracle?
Aside from switching once scene from day to night in Balance of the Force, I hadn't really done any. Though I may recolor some vehicles and the occasional lightsaber changes color.
I didn't really notice any atrocities on par with the 04 OT dvds.
Thanks. Glad you guys liked the redubbed droid. I thought the "May the Force be with you" seemed like a nice touch when I thought of it. It just seems like the Jedi would program their droids to end conversations like that.
Maybe I'll debate a bit more whether to use this scene in place of the diner scene and rework the youngling scene and the hangar scene to work with this....
Also, since I didn't start this thread, who would we need to talk to in order to get it renamed 'Magnoliafan Edits - "Balance of the Force", "The Clone War", & "Fall of the Republic"'?
The shortest one redubs the droid in the archives from the deleted scene, who tells Obi-Wan that the dart comes from the Kamino system and where that is located. It bypasses the diner scene, the younglings "Lost a planet, Obi-Wan has", and the Jedi Hangar scene with Mace. I suppose it also replaces the Jedi library scene, but I cut that one anyway because the librarian's performance is just horrible and without the "Lost 20" conversation, the scene is just meaningless.
It was something I did as an experiment, and though I like the way the Analysis droid scene turned out, I don't really have a problem with the diner scene or the youngling scene, and I like some of the information conveyed in the hangar scene. So its a shorter alternate cut that I made, but not my preferred cut, if that makes sense.
Here is a look at the deleted/alternate scene from the shorter cut:
Add Stinky the Hutt and Ziro the Hutt to Episode I and Jedi.
Timstuff said:
I just want one that has no voices for Gungans or the Neamodians, because they're the ones who I'm interested in dubbing over.
Use the Ultimate Edition Phantom Menace soundtrack and you can find nearly all the sound effects online. For Phantom Menace, anyway, its very doable to reconstruct a Gungan & Neimoidian free sound mix.
I should know. That's what I did for Balance of the Force.
Episode 2 & 3 are trickier because they have not released complete scores & the fan ones have vocal bleed over.
I was about to post, it would be hilarious if someone did a dub of this...
Then I scrolled further down the thread.
Just amazing!
Edit: I ripped the 6 parts he has uploaded on youtube in 720x480. I sent off a message to him to see if I can get him to burn me a copy of his original disc.
This just seems too good not to get out there for everyone to see.
One other thing I will throw out there.
From time to time, people gripe about the reversed, garbled foreign languages for Jar Jar, the Viceroy, and a few others.
I'm not particularly opposed to dubbing alien dialog over them, per se. Its just that the few times I've seen people dub into pre-existing films its been pretty laughable. If any voice actors want to volunteer and send me some voice samples at magnoliafan78@hotmail.com, I'd be glad to check it out and give them consideration.
Timstuff said:
Yeah, that screen shot of Qui Gon's spirit at the end had me really excited.
Its taken about a year to finally get that scene working in motion.
Though I did ditch the close up.
I've been pretty much dormant for a few years, working on other more pressing projects, but I just figured I would drop some info out there for you guys.
You guys can see a slightly updated version of Balance of the Force on youtube. While I was putting the segments together to upload, I find myself going a tad Lucas on the thing and making mostly minor alterations ( a few extra lines of dialog here and there, etc).
Here's a link to that:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=34E13B985D72F267
I'm also about halfway through uploading a slightly reworked "Clone War" up there as well:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=21AA1FFFE793F80B
When I've got Clone War all uploaded, I'll finally put together some features for these and maybe a commentary and get a DVD out there for you guys.
Any requests for particular features on the discs? Right now, I've just kinda got some abandoned concepts (hilarious alternate failed attempts at dubbing Jar Jar, etc), a few deleted scenes or alternate sequences, and then Episode II, I think I actually have 3 different cuts sitting here on hard drive (a shorter one, the regular one which is my preference, and then an extended one that adds in additional scenes that while cool, aren't really needed to move the plot along).
And in case anyone was wondering about progress on Episode III, I just completed the toughest shot that had been holding that up, though there are a few time consuming hurdles left to tackle. Still, its almost done and should be out in the next couple months.
I also threw up a twitter, if you guys want to follow the progress or just bug the hell out of me, to light a fire under my ass to get this stuff done.