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This reply’s probably a little useless, but I wanna say I really love a lot of the ideas presented in the edit! Be it radical, like the complete rewriting of Anakin (I especially am a sucker for him calling Obi-Wan Ben), injecting actual chemistry into Anakin and Padme’s dynamic, many of the small visual performance tweaks, or even how some scenes are restructured (the removal of the nightclub especially is clever).

Look forward to seeing how this forms!

Already an interesting idea on opening it. Always love the rare edit that kills off the Ambassadors at the start to demonstrate the Federation, or in this case Sidious’ cruelty. I look forward to seeing the full workprint when it’s done!

I honestly was blown away by the finale, primarily the Obi-Wan and Vader parts (Not to say the Reva and Lars part was terrible, of course, but that’s not really the focus of the series).

The duel honestly felt like such a wellmade emotional bookend to the PT era, with the reveal of Vader’s true face being both the breaking point for Obi-Wan (and honestly, thanks to Ewan’s acting, it hit me pretty hard too), while also being the start of how he learns to accept it, with the lie of Anakin perishing by Vader’s hands.

Honestly my only real point of, idk, is Reva’s motivations in the finale. Really feels like they wanted to kill her off, changed their mind, but couldn’t think of anything for her to really do, other than somehow make her good in the end. Which sucks because I honestly really liked her in the rest of the series, and feel her being killed by Vader would’ve been a great end to her story.

In general I’d say I really liked this series. There were a fair few slow moments near the start, but when it started to pick up, it really began to soar.

Honestly really interested in seeing the film edits people do of this one.

That WIP looks pretty great! Really interested seeing how it’d look in a more complete state. The only thing really missing (minus the obvious cleanup some shots need) would probably be the planet, y’know, actually exploding. Honestly probably the best modernized Alderaan explosion I’ve seen. The scoring is also phenomenal, and intercutting Ben’s reaction with a more slow, built up explosion is a really interesting approach.

Huh, that sounds interesting actually. I have seen one edit (The Jedi’s Apprentice by Cat’s Prime Cuts) that makes AOTC the Episode 1, using the end of TPM near the start. I’d be interested in seeing your ideas to combine them in action, if the workprint’s done enough to send around.

NeverarGreat said:

But I’m sad that this conflicts with the fanedit idea that Anakin wasn’t part of the Temple Massacre. I guess if somebody does this in a ROTS edit they will have to accept the conflict with Kenobi.

I mean, if you’re gonna delete chunks of canon plot material from your edit, you’ve already kinda agreed it’s its own continuity lmao.

fmalover said:

OK. After five episodes what’s the general consensus among you guys? Is this series worth watching?

I feel no real desire to watch it.

I’d say it’s really good if you know how to be fun and not overanalyze everything.

TheAlaskanSandman said:

Na, I had already done most of the Palpatine scene already and a glimpse of it is at the end of the Trailer.

Oh yeah, saw that, fantastic work!

Honestly 5’s probably my favorite episode now. All that’s built up is beginning to pay off, and the flashbacks to the Prequel era were really cool, especially using a sparring match between Anakin and Obi-Wan as essentially a framing device for the whole episode.

Plus seeing Vader destroying ships and kicking someone’s ass is always cool.

Woah, that’s actually an interesting take, and shouldn’t be too hard to do.

TheAlaskanSandman said:

I think one of the biggest things is getting good 3d models, even just for space scenes. I would like models for the ships on Naboo and to do an aerial battle over Naboo. This is one of the more ambitious scenes/shots I would like to pull off. This would be when the Federation is first attacking Naboo, not the climax.

Yeahh, getting the models is always the toughest part. I think Battlefront 2 has some good models for the Naboo Starfighters though (the game’s a treasure trove of high quality Star Wars models.

TheAlaskanSandman said:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OAPox_wluQTwhzTjFwJnSAevRE3uXBy4/view?usp=sharing

And maaan I can’t get over how good the trailer looks! I really hope you’re able to get them through. Adding the Order 66 scene from Obi-Wan Kenobi is an interesting idea, wonder how that’ll pan out. I did see someone doing a mockup of it in the radical redux thread.

The HDR control also looks great so far!

1 is by far my favorite

Yoo, happy to hear this project’s still kicking!

Honestly wish I could offer help in some regards, I do have some experience using Blender, though mostly in animation and the like, and I’d still consider myself fairly noobish.

I honestly again loved Part IV, and generally the series thus far.

I think I prefer the greener tinge to the bottom image, it generally feels a lot more natural to me compared to the middle version.

Huh, interesting premise for a project! So far the provided clips look great (only issue grading wise I can really name is a few shots, Leia’s interrogation especially, looking a little too saturated/high contrast, with blacks vanishing into the ether. Though that could just be an inherent flaw with the sources). The new sound mix sure is interesting too.

As a side note, mrbenja0618’s idea of making the PT look/sound more vintage does sort of intrigue me…

Again, I personally really loved this episode. Especially the moments with Vader and Obi-Wan, further fleshing out Obi-Wan’s fear over what he created, and Vader’s burning (no pun intended) hatred for Obi-Wan.

I get some of the complaints, but I even really liked the duel.

Sure, if it was the only one, it would kinda suck a bit out of the rematch in ANH, due to Obi-Wan so blatantly losing, but I’m pretty sure it WON’T be the only one, solely because of how much it’s been built up. Pretty sure it’s gonna go smth like “Obi-Wan eventually does manage to speak to Qui-Gon, and after a pep talk regains strength and bests Vader, who now believes he’s still a learner” or whatever.

Vader letting him go super easily was pretty dumb though, I must admit.

Again, sorta viewing this knowing this isn’t the full story, but I think it does it’s job as the midpoint quite well.

NeverarGreat said:

Just finished watching the first two episodes. My take: It’s fun. Leia is wonderful, and Obi-wan is great as always. Sure, I could complain about a few aspects of the Inquisitors such as their accessories, makeup, costuming, design, direction, choreography, backstory, acting, purpose, and existence, but they are meaningless noise obscuring the strong signal which is measured, thoughtful character interactions, and I’m here for it.

Honestly same. A lot of the complaints I’ve been seeing have been pretty surface level imo.

But hey who knows, we’re only two episodes in. Could be the best or the worst thing ever, hard to judge for sure on what’s basically the first act.

I do think the color grading could use a little work though.

Honestly I think the first two episodes were great.

Honestly kinda agree, just a raw ver of the OG movie with this color correction/continuity fixes without the re editing would be appreciated.

Dazman said:

Does anyone know which is better for creating cinemating objects and environments now, Blender or Unreal engine 5? And which is easier to learn from scratch?

I haven’t actually tried UE yet (might have to some time), but Blender 3.0’s been pretty easy to pick up and learn for me… with the only caveat that Cycles render times are a nightmare and a half. Then again, guess that render quality is kind of overkill considering the rest of the CG in the films

Hope progress is going well! v1 Is probably hands down my favorite TPM edit, solely due to how much it radically altered the original film, the changes for v2 look and sound great so far!

EddieDean said:

Another option to preserve Otoh Gunga, though more radical and mutually exclusive from the above ideas, would be to have the Jedi visit the city upon their RETURN to Coruscant, failing to convince Boss Nass to help them but at least convincing him to meet the Queen, transitioning then into the Queen-meets-Boss-Nass scenes where she wins him over.

The Ancient Lore actually took this approach, and it worked surprisingly well

Another older set of fan edits I’ve been trying to find are MagnoliaFan’s Episode I and II Edits, Balance of the Force and The Clone War, as well as maybe their recreation of the New York version of the Phantom Edit, known as The Phantom Re-Edit?

Also, I’ve sadly had little luck with acquiring Attack Of The Phantom, I’ve been unable to locate the recommended reddit thread, and have no idea where to find and contact Possessed (mostly due to me having zero clue how to use fanedit.org lmao).

Hope my dumb pursuit for ancient edits isn’t too annoying.

I might be able to help with simple VFX shots as well! I know a relatively small around of Blender (my biggest drawback being only really having knowledge animating models, rather than making them), but a couple days ago I whipped up a quick VFX shot of the Jedi’s ship arriving on (implied to be) the forests of Naboo, using a free model and stock footage I found. Not the best but it’s mostly a demonstration.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/126lblFu6SejRELI-3ZLTn9hA1qMwcu9b/view?usp=sharing