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It seems to look a bit washed out and doesn’t pop as much when you lighten her skin?

200 pages, 5000th comment. Nice!

No worries, Dude.

Hmm… I overlayed the original to get sizing right. Not sure why it looks off on your images. I’ll revisit them once I get the dimensions.

I tweaked the red smoke, cleaned up Rey’s clothes, and reflection effect a little more as it looked a little dirty. It was nice to do some old school layering effects again. It’s been a while since I designed anything.

FINAL DESIGN

Hal, I’ve made this as printable quality as possible. If you need it to be a Bluray or DVD cover let me know the info, description, running time once finished etc

Knight of Kalee said:

krausfadr said:

So is the idea that Rey modified Luke’s lightsaber to make it crackle? If so why would she do this? Sounds iffy like people have run out of things to edit on this movie.

The reason why Kylo’s blade appears crackly and serrated is because when Kylo turned it red, the kyber crystal that powered it cracked. It serves as a pretty good visual metaphor of Kylo’s own nature, unstable and volatile.

So, making the Skywalker blade also distorted serves two purposes:

• continuity fixing. It acknowledges the ending of TLJ, where the lightsaber was split in half. Rey repaired it, but in an imperfect way, leaving the blade unstable as a result. The actual kyber crystal IS seen when Rey holds the pieces of the broken saber. So it’s less of a retcon and more of an actual consequence.
• storytelling tool. Rey wielding a crackly lightsaber represents her inner conflict and her struggle with the dark side. It mirrors Kylo’s blade, and also serves as a subtle irony when Ben finally claims his grandfather’s weapon, but it’s damaged and imperfect.

100% agree

kewlfish said:

And thank you all for the kind words and feedback. It seems like the changes that need to be made are: a more random crackle, feathering or smoothing of the blade, the log scene (which I fixed right before I went to work), and some masking issues (which I think I also squashed most of those on my second pass through).

Yeah, That’s about right.

Here’s a frame by frame breakdown. (nitpicking at the highest level

Beautiful work up til…

14:11 mask slightly off to the left blade point
14:13 mask slightly too wide
14:14 mask slight too wide
14:17 slight feathering around Reys wrist
15:00 a lot of feathering around Reys arm
15:09 remove noise on Reys leg
15:14 Noise dot on Reys belt
15:19 mask offset
15:20 mask slight offset
15:22 mask slightly too long, needs slight wider
15:23 mask too wide
16:01 feathering

perfect until…

19:07 slightly too wide at the tip
19:23 slightly too wide at the base
20:13-15 tip over the branch
21:01-05 Remove noise dot on Reys back
21:08 Noise dot on Reys right arm
21:14 mask cutting into Rey
21:18-22 Remove noise on Reys body
22:19-23 Feather over rock

fantastic up until…

57:16 feather around Reys hair
57:17 slightly wider at the tip
57:21 slightly wider at base
59:02-12 feather around arm

1:00:05-06,09 noise at base
1:04:17 mask off a lot
1:04:19 mask too wide and feather around target
1:04:21-22 mask too long and feather

from 1:04:17 to 1:06:14 crackling could be more defined

1:07:16 mask too short
1:07:18-19 feathering
1:07:21-1:08:00 noise over blade (was that intentional?) If so it’s not there on 1:08:01
1:08:03,05,08,09 weird shape, maybe feather?
1:08:10 noise over target
1:08:11 feather other target
1:08:12 noise over target
1:08:13-14 remove blade. should follow through

perfect up until…

1:09:08-23 feather around elbow. mask dances around a little
1:10:13-19 feather around elbow. mask dances around a little

Great until…

1:14:05 mask over tree
1:14:08 noise dot on tree
1:14:12 mask well off
1:14:21 feather
1:16:20 feather
1:17:04 noise on barrel

1:22:12 mask too big, overs barrel
1:22:13-23 over barrel

I love it when this forum builds momentum for another awesome addition. 😄

What about when Rey & Kylo stand side by side and maybe have an audio/visual cue of the Saber healing?

Nice find Chase!

After watching this Saber scene a bunch of times why does Rey always run with a lit Saber? Running with scissors is bad enough. It cuts from Running lit Saber to not lit to lit in the original. She did the sane in TLJ.

CHASE: Damn, I wish I wasn’t colorblind to Purple LOL

HAL: As much as it’s a cool idea having the Saber heal via the Rey exchange I’m not sure if that will come across in the edit. It may just look like a continuity issue. A Crackling Saber is exactly what TROS edit needs. I thought around the 1:04 mark looked off and the effect smoothed out a little too much so I’ll help Kewlfish work out the mask issues in parts of that fall short. Most of the scene is perfect though.

CINEFY: Someone posted around 100 pages ago. That dialog seemed to work really well as it was almost a like for like scene.

Hal 9000 said:

I think the sounds most in need is just static crackling like when it’s being held still. I won’t replace the other swishing sounds or anything like that. Just overlaying the crackle at times without overdoing it since her saber isn’t as fractured as Kylo’s.

The second clip I sent was a 3 minute static held?

skenera said:

Movies Remastered said:

skenera said:

Movies Remastered said:

What resolution do you need?

I think I could only find a 72dpi source image so I’m not sure if it’ll scale up to 300dpi for DVD cover.

I can’t find that star wars logo anywhere. Does anyone have it so I can finish this?

I’ve upscaled the source image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uRIjDiHL-lYgbFtDnVy3K6xd8fGSgjac/view?usp=sharing

I’m only on my phone right now. How’d you do that and what’s the resolution now?

I used Topaz Gigapixel AI, the resolution is 5400 x 8000 px.

I’ve not used that before. I upscaled from 72dpi to 300dpi and smoothed out some of the noise so the latest upload should be around the same size as you got?

Hal 9000 said:

I have some, but does anyone have a good set of various foley sounds for Kylo’s crackly saber?

I used this https://youtu.be/AzagAAKiK7k
https://youtu.be/haBn8msvph8

skenera said:

Movies Remastered said:

What resolution do you need?

I think I could only find a 72dpi source image so I’m not sure if it’ll scale up to 300dpi for DVD cover.

I can’t find that star wars logo anywhere. Does anyone have it so I can finish this?

I’ve upscaled the source image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uRIjDiHL-lYgbFtDnVy3K6xd8fGSgjac/view?usp=sharing

I’m only on my phone right now. How’d you do that and what’s the resolution now?

kewlfish said:

Hal 9000 said:

Well hey, if you’d like to make that change for the whole movie, I’d implement it! There may be a shot or two that’ll need it from Dominic’s version of the desert fight scene.

Absolutely, work has picked up quite a bit recently but I’ll definitely work on it in my free time and, at the very least, make it available for download for a loseless version

I’m not sure with route you’ve gone doing the fx but if I can help PM me.

If it happens then I can’t wait to see what it looks and sounds like in the underground cave.

It’s a lot of work but if kewlfish is up for it this would be awesome!

Still makes me laugh that Finn & Jannah get owned by that huge wave but no one cares. Lol

I’m glad someone is addressing the broken Saber in TLJ. Gold star 🌟

I really like this one. I feel it matches your Kylo cover better and has more punch to the colors? I’ve messaged Nate, just waiting on a reply…

I managed to get the other font sorted. (Work in Progress)

What resolution do you need?

I think I could only find a 72dpi source image so I’m not sure if it’ll scale up to 300dpi for DVD cover.

I can’t find that star wars logo anywhere. Does anyone have it so I can finish this?

Neerb said:

Movies Remastered said:

Or a darker version…

!https://imgur.com/a/NEEwar7.jpg

That one matches the old ones best so far, imo. Rey may need some sort of filter over her in the end, but what kind is questionable. The TFA cover has Kylo extremely red, but Luke’s effect in TLJ’s cover is more subtle.

Yeah, The designed varied between the two. I’m exhausted today but if Hal likes them I’ll tweak whichever he prefers

Or a darker version… (Work in progress)

Playing with this idea aswell… (Work in progress)

I’m colourblind so colouration is tricky. 😃