NeverarGreat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

I think most people would agree that something about unmasked Vader looks off, and it’s been off from 1983 to present. Whatever visual change is implemented, the audience should probably feel pity and empathy at the human who has suffered so much with the consequences of their past mistakes.

In keeping with the stated purposes of this edit, whatever is done should lend more realism to the scene, so I’d suggest having places on his head where the helmet has rubbed the skin raw, such as around the cheeks and perhaps the sides of his head. I’d imagine that just having had a long and difficult fight, he would be sweating profusely. And finally, since we see the Emperor’s electricity coursing through his skull, there should be freshly burned areas of skin on his head.

To be fair, we aren’t supposed to know he’s a janitor at this point in the film, and that oscillator seems to be in walking distance of the primary habitable and command center areas so it’s a good bet he’s cleaned that really long bridge a time or two.

I think it’s more the dark circles and the red lips that make him look a bit clownish.

suspiciouscoffee said:

this droid is named Buford.

That’s B-U4D to you!

Probably not in a good way.

Speaking of:
https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6

Very nice indeed.

What if you faded in the sound of R2 searching his files from the end of Chewie’s shot? As it is it might be a bit sudden for first-time viewers.

Coco:

Another excellent movie from Pixar, even better than Inside Out.

Sir Ridley said:

I’ll upload an uncorrected version when I have time.

Thanks!

My original reasoning for the second wipe was that there was a significant enough time and space gap between the Falcon flying towards the planet and Finn disembarking for it to be weird to have a hard cut, but maybe I’m wrong and it would be better with one.

I would like to take another crack at the color and attempt to match it to the surrounding scenes, but to minimize quality loss it would be ideal to have Ridley’s work without correction.

I think that’s just an issue with there being a mechanical noise at the same moment. Not much to be done about that.
Leia still trips over ‘this First Order’ though, which is a shame.

I don’t particularly care one way or another about the eyebrows, since if he really fell into lava he’d be dead before he hit the surface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW56dMH0T2s

I notice that you can still see the detail in the red light to the left as well. Very nice.

yhwx said:

A Tetrahedral Holster Pup

I like this.

Since it’s Thanksgiving week, I’ll go ahead and say that I’m thankful that we’re getting a sequel trilogy featuring the original leads and John Williams scores, with likeable new characters and made with a clear love for the original trilogy.

Jim Smith said:

Shopping Maul said:

The bigger issue with the ‘Leia as other hope’ thing is the fact that she simply couldn’t have been an option at the time of Yoda’s original declaration in ESB. When Yoda said “there is another”, Luke was flying off to Bespin to rescue Leia - the same Leia whose fate Yoda could not see and who Yoda had just encouraged Luke to sacrifice for the greater good. She simply wasn’t an option at that point, sister or no.

Great catch. Yoda does basically want Luke to sacrifice his friends for the greater good and stay on Dagobah to finish his Jedi training. Yoda pulled his line of, “There is another.” directly out of his green ass.

Or Luke pulled the idea of Leia being his sister out of his not-yet-Jedi ass, and Ben just let him believe it.

Here’s the demuxed audio from the deleted scenes, as unprocessed as it gets:
https://mega.nz/#!XAFjnThK!YmNeMUPv07ENlpg66t5sFFjaw7D_ePh3aj0OlonZG4A
The relevant audio sections are at 1:16-1:21 and 4:21-4:36.

Here you go:
https://mega.nz/#!6ctjVQIa!OYbFfKse73xYRWcVTAG-uG05WZwnc_UyXjSkoTXxNIE

I altered the audio of ‘this First Order’ to make it sound like ‘the First Order’, since the original sounded like she couldn’t decide which word to go with.

Also, I don’t know if this is a Vimeo compression thing or not, but the scene looks a lot more blue than Ridley’s grade: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/0B1NNN8U

Sir Ridley, is it possible to upload a version without color correction? I’d like to take a crack at matching it more closely to the other scenes. 😛

That Porg shot really shows the awkward side of practical effects.

Yes, that’s the Blu-ray, though seems like all of the bluray Special Edition shots are even worse than normal in terms of color.

Dre, there seems to be some artifacting going on, especially around the engines and wing cannons in the last bot example.

The first shot had too much blue in the shadows compared to the rest so I tried to make them all self-consistent, though perhaps not consistent with the rest of the base. it’s more ideal than reality on my part, but if Hal wants to make it consistent with the rest of the base that would be just fine. 😃

Very nice indeed.

That fighter take-off shot actually looks really natural on the print, despite the low contrast!

For comparison, here’s the blu-ray (and then some of my own adjustments):
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/WL7NNN8X