NeverarGreat

Originally, yes.

Staaaap

This is pretty excellent. In fact, much of his stuff is excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbiQJp-gPQk&list=UUjnRga_fzuVMeLUjiD8f0xA

Itz a Wulf. See, dat's the hed and dat's the tale.

Tack said:

nutting maxs me happier than cing my frends getn wit day wont

Lemme summrise for you Duracell:

"nutn mAx me hapyr thn xing my frens gtn wt dy wnt"

Dere you go.

I like your declaration; it's kind of strange that you're both a stormtrooper and a rebel though.

Welcome to the forums.

Oh wait, wrong forum.

I dunno, I thought that the X-wing displays were supposed to look more primitive than the TIE fighter displays so as to indicate how desperate the rebels were, like they were using old tech out of necessity. The rebels can use displays of higher quality, such as on the Mon Calamari cruiser, so I don't think it's a design ethos thing. The Y-wings were also beaten up to look like the old workhorse ships of the Rebellion. The problem with using old tech repurposed from an earlier era is that the prequels didn't show these technologies either. Granted that the focus was almost never on a poor planet, but even Anakin's podracer had a display which looked more advanced than the X-wing display.

If the brain was located in the feet I can see why Jar Jar seemed so slow-witted.

darklordoftech said:

TV's Frink said:

Why are you bringing up either Nolan or Earth, neither of which have anything to do with Star Wars?

I was trying to say that a Star Wars movie that takes place in the same universe as te EU (what some are advocating) would be like a Batman movie that takes place in the same universe as the Batman comics.

The comics and the movie are two different takes on the character. Different universes. The EU means Expanded Universe, not Different Universe. This is why Lucas specifically forbid writers from delving into the Clone Wars period and tried to make the prequels fit with the EU instead of disregarding it completely. However, since he doesn't have a good grasp of continuity as it is, the effort was rather wasted.

I believe that a good writer with a mind for continuity could play off of the expectations created by the EU to heighten the dramatic effect of Episode 7.

mverta said:

Well I absolutely promise the next one will have lots more video :)

One request, though, guys, for all the Obvious Reasons, please don't repeat what you've heard here, publicly.  Pretty please.  With sugar on top.

 ^Just bringing this to the next page as a reminder guys.

Adywan has always graded the Star Wars Revisited movies to be neutral gray in areas where it makes sense for them to be neutral, such as the Death Star walls. However, what makes sense and what the film really looks like are sometimes two different things. In the original film, the Death Star walls were all over the place, green, blue, and even gray occasionally. So his versions are idealized and standardized versions of the movies, not necessarily supposed to be accurate to the theatrical coloration (though I assume he's tried for this in many scenes).

Hal 9000 said:

I tend to appreciate it when an author (or filmmaker, or what have you) makes an effort to keep continuity with what came before.

 QFT

It shows first that you know what came before, second that you care about it.

The talk was less revealing than the last one in terms of the restoration itself, but more interesting in terms of the stories behind the restoration. It was more tell than show, but people forget that the story of this restoration is remarkable and well worth sharing on its own, regardless of what else is shared.

The show was great, lots of information!

He did say we were going to see some real dirt today...

I'ts my suspicion that they will (unfortunately) include Chewie in the sequels. If this happened, however, it would only invalidate the EU back to and including the Yuuzhan Vong war, which is when I stopped reading the EU anyway. So it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me by any means to include Chewie, and it might make more sense (from their perspective) to leave the EU accuracy vague as to what was cannon before the Yuuzhan Vong.

The Lego Movie.

Wow. All praise to this movie for being excellent, then really good, then wonderful, then awesome.

Usually I have gripes with a movie no matter how good, but I don't want to even touch this one as every piece contributes to its wonderful-ness.

Alright, the Star Wars references seemed a bit forced (...) but that part was brief and obligatory.

GO SEE IT!

Feallan said:

I do speak for myself. Read my post again. -.-

As much as I appreciate what you're doing to other restoration projects, I hate the attitude of "I'm doing something awesome, and you're never going to see what, because reasons!". It's cool you don't want to share it. No, really. But starting up whole forum dedicated to the project? You want attention, but you're not going to do anything to deserve it.

What's the purpose of showing a couple of previews in 2014, if this thing will be released in 2076?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtYGZt7aI4

SilverWook said:

They could scan the original miniatures to make the CGI versions as accurate as possible?

 ^I read that line in the Anchorman style of "I'm Ron Burgundy?"

If they're including the Falcon, they should totally rebuild it with some differences to account for all those years of faithful service. Then they could build a life-sized version and after they are done filming it can be a tourist attraction.

OH MYYYYyyyy!

ESB is my personal favorite as well, But I really don't know where I'd begin that one. The highlights are even more crushed there than in ANH, so the broadcast version may not even fix that issue. Plus as you said there isn't anything to base it off of, colorwise. So I'm not even considering that right now, unfortunately.

Frink. Frink. STAHP

FrankT said:

I've also sent some money over. I don't know if it's enough though - for all I know it might've ended up as just 0.20 CZK or something...

 Thanks for sharing your 2 cents.

;)

waspattck said:

Donated. Wish it could have been more.

 Same here.

Calvin sums it up for me:

http://writeradept.blogspot.com/2013/03/ive-almost-started.html

The writer is also not too far off the mark.

In short, I've just upgraded my entire system and and editing software, so the previous settings which were used for the DVD (and ported to the Blu-ray) are woefully outdated, and are being rebuilt from scratch. This is a good thing, as I've found better and simpler ways to achieve the same (or better) results. For example, I've found a way to change the color of of certain gradients which were inaccessible with the original settings. However I'm happy with the look of the previous examples, so they shouldn't change too terribly much in the final version.

We're still on track to get this sorted by the end of the month, from there I'll give the ETA for the completed project.