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dgraham414 said:

I don’t know if it’s just me, but the new effects for the crackle saber are almost too subtle compared to what kewlfish was doing originally.

These are kewlfish settings with the opacity pushed up. It could be the particle layer that softens the edges?

I’m not sure what Hal is doing but I’m using a pitch and tone shift of Kylos Saber with Luke’s sound underneither. The panning of the sound it gonna be more had work than the crackling effect, IMO.

I can’t see the difference between a dark/navy blue and purple or blood red and woodland green. It’s a nightmare being a colour blind graphic designer.

Damn, just thought. I’m not sure if my source footage has the Skenera’s LUT added. Once these scenes are done it shouldn’t be an issue to switch them out if I make a mistake. (Be awake 25 hours and counting)

Thanks. There is a swatch colour select tool but it seems to go a little green. I’m glad someone else did the purple Leia Saber cos I can’t see the difference. 🤣

DominicCobb said:

Looks excellent as usual. Will say the mist is a really nice touch but a bit too obvious, would tone that way down. As well I kind of think the added blue glow is a bit unnecessary, sort of overpowering. But then I’m not sure how much of that is what you’ve changed for this and what you’re doing in general in terms of color correction, as I’ve noticed, color-wise, your clips look a bit different than the film.

Yeah, I’m totally guessing the blue as I can only see primary colours. I made it pink at first thinking it was ice blue 🤣

I’ll give the other bits a toning down and give it another pass. Thanks for your help.

Thanks guys. It’s 9:30am and I can’t sleep so I started working on the Cave shots.

WIP Cave 1 Crackling effect V1

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1408391/action/topic#1408391

Thanks for the feedback guys. Here’s the next scene. WIP Cave 1 Crackling effect V1

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1408391/action/topic#1408391

WIP Cave Crackling Saber - Things I’ve changed

1. Added a crackling core effect
2. Added fire particles
3. Added a slightly bluer hue to the glow
4. I thought the cave would be damp and wet so I’ve added some mist
5. Toned down the whole effect as I had to up the brightness in order to see it compared to the day shots

Let me know your thoughts

https://youtu.be/LEq_ztkY9hc

Hal 9000 said:

There’s a pine tree in this shot, so we’re fine:

I keep getting into arguments with people about the extra Mustafar scenes having leaves on the trees but you can clearly see them in the original footage aswell as I think it all works as a scene. F the haters!

Motion blur does hide the particles when moving but you should see loads on the close-ups? If you compare it to the original there’s a lot going on. 😃

Yeah, I figured this was the first time seeing the effect so I ramped it up to 11. 👍🏼

Exactly! Hopefully I can still pick it up at some point but the girl I wanna use as Rey lives in Florida and we’re still on a travel ban here (can’t even leave my city).

I’ve just invested in a pro 4k camera, Hans dice and Kylos gloves for a small extra shot in TROS which I’ll now have to do all myself.

Delpheas said:

I was looking at Rey’s new saber in the final scene, and I was wondering if there was anyway that the framing of the jilt could be adjusted so that the whole hilt is in frame and then we see Rey actually ignite both sides of it?

There are hints throughout the film towards her having a saberstaff (when she’s training she pulls a stick to herself and uses it as a staff, and when she’s on the death star her vision has her with a saberstaff.) And it would be nice if that had some sort of visual pay off, even if it’s only in this final scene.

That’s a great idea. I think it can be done but the amount of time it would take to execute a good-looking scene would be way too much for a few seconds.

I was actually going to commission an additions scene of Rey building her Saber and merging Leia and Luke’s broken kyber crystals into one to give her the purple Saber but Covid has stopped that idea in it’s tracks.

Kewlfish did send me the templates but I ended up doing them from scratch because for some reason the whole template was out of position when I added my source material to the composition. (My computer is being a compete ****)

Hopefully I can use his version for the cave scene cos he did an amazing job at masking Poes face…

Cool. In that case this scene is done! On to the next…

RogueLeader said:

I really like it!

There wasn’t much blue in the original scene. Wasn’t sure if I over did it?

exitzero said:

Always thought this would be a cool mid-credit scene in Jedi-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELWmf-s-so

Damn, I can’t believe I missed this one. That’s pretty awesome!

New update to Rey’s crackling Saber scene

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1408265/action/topic#1408265

V4 of Crackling Saber Training scene
Things that I’ve changed in this version.

1. “Crackled the heck out of it”
2. Added fire particles to match Kylos Saber
3. Added more glow
4. Added more core crackle
5. Added more flicker to simulate the instability of the Kyber crystal.

Let me know your thought. I think this scene is close to being finished.

https://youtu.be/PZsOINkog4w

jarbear said:

Movies Remastered said:

How about using the footage of Rey waking up from TLJ and have the whole sequel trilogy a dream?

One better: Grogu wakes up from a dream and the sequels was just a nightmare. 😛

Everybody loves Grogu. Haha! (Looks at “The Child” Sideshow statue)

@Burbin - Wow, nice! Thanks for turning off the lights on the castle shot. Really nice.

Are you flexing? 😉

New update to Rey’s crackling Saber scene

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1408265/action/topic#1408265

How about using the footage of Rey waking up from TLJ and have the whole sequel trilogy a dream?

Why do you keep slagging off people that can’t be here to defend themselves? Really says a lot, man.

So, you wanna use and have access to their scenes before the final edit but you don’t wanna help them with costings despite them investing more than they’ll ever get back, and you’re against people helping them fund their projects? 🤔

They’re not charging for their finished feature edits. They’re just showing investors the progress of each scene which are being created from scratch using Hollywood grade VFX artists.

So, how about you stop bringing this drama to these threads and get back to the subjects!

Now you’re talking!

Can you keep Leia alive and have her pick him up on route flying there?

sade1212 said:

I posted a test of black robe Rey earlier in the thread, which might be the one you’re thinking of. I used EBSynth but it still required a lot of manual masking because the tracking wasn’t great. You can see around her shoulders where I had to mask the original footage back in because EBSynth kept wanting to spread the black to the background as the shot pans (probably would’ve made more sense to start with the ending frame and process it backwards…).

I did try a test of one shot of the end scene using Rotobrush 2.0 instead, but I couldn’t get that to track any better, so it still required me to do a bunch of almost frame-by-frame masking - ultimately I decided it added basically nothing to the film for the time investment and stopped working on it.

That’s the same issue I’m having with a few other scenes. Roto2 seems a lot better when colours are more distinguishable but it really struggles with whites, beige and greys.

I still think you did a great job using EbSynth. Hopefully a future update will make things easier.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Movies Remastered said:

TestingOutTheTest said:

The profit-making shit show that is Fixing Disney Star Wars

Dude, let it go! You have no idea how much they’re spending on each project nor how much is being donated. Non profile doesn’t mean designers/vfx artists/voice actors works for free. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Who ever it was used EbSynth from what I recall.

Yes, it’s true that there isn’t necessarily any profit-making involved. However, that still doesn’t give them the right to collect funds to create content based upon intellectual property that isn’t their own. Star Wars Theory funded his fan film entirely through his own funds, and he didn’t restrict access to seeing his work based upon whether you are paying him directly or not. If the Fixing Disney Star Wars team had a Patreon, and simply posted their content for everyone to see on YouTube while saying, “Hey, if you like us, feel free to support us financially through donations” then it wouldn’t be a problem. It becomes a problem when the content itself (which isn’t their property even if they create it) is an incentive to supply funding. Yes, it sucks to have to spend that much money on stuff, but they aren’t being forced to do any of that work. It should be coming solely from their ambition as fans of the franchise.

You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Star wars theory funds his films with donations and YouTube money. He even says “without you guys these fan films wouldn’t be possible”. It’s kinda boring having the same argument on different threads so I’ll leave it there.