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Dre, do you have any tips on how to make a good LUT for an entire scene? I often find myself trying to find the best shot in a scene but it often produces unsatisfactory results in other shots. I saw a video from williarob from a while back where he basically makes a collage of shots and matches several at the same time, producing hopefully a better LUT for a batch of shots as opposed to a single shot. Do you recommend this? If so, do you know a quick way to get me to create a collage like that? Regardless, this tool is wonderful and what it achieves is astonishing, thank you so much.

Yeah, this is great. It has Kersh written all over it, phenomenal director. Especially in that movie.

Man, I loved this one. Lol. So corny. I had such a good time.

Juno Eclipse said:

jedi_bendu said:

Juno Eclipse said:

The quality has been more of a live-action standard

I have to take a bit of issue with this wording. Animation always seems to get looked down upon as an “inferior” medium, and although it’s totally fair for someone to prefer one over the other, neither animation or live action have any bearing on the quality of a story. They’re simply the vessel that brings that story to the audience.

A great example is how The Bad Batch, has been blowing The Mandalorian - a live action show - out of the water every week it’s been airing. Maybe The Mandalorian should start aspiring to be animation standard…

(I’m aware this is a very pedantic thing to point out but as a massive fan of animation I see this kind of treatment of it a lot)

It is simply praise for the show, in giving credit what Matt Michnovetz (writer & producer), Jennifer Corbett (lead writer) and Brad Rau (series director) and the whole team, for what have accomplished with the Bad Batch. I see a many comments on how much fans have enjoyed this show despite not being into animation series previously.

I think it’s poor praise, and prejudiced against animation as a medium, which sucks, as SW has had many high points in animation, like Bad Batch. Not to mention entire animated masterpieces like some Pixar stuff, a bajillion animes, western stuff like Last Airbender, etc.

Yeah that is strange, especially coming from a Force Unleashed fan. Interested in your thoughts.

Realistically you’re probably right, but I half expect him to show up and be really important in at least one episode… regardless of what we think here, the response to Luke in Mando and then BOBF was overwhelmingly positive, I’m sure Filoni would want to play with him at least a little bit more.

Since all of the new shows are inevitably leading to the ST, I think I’ll stick to Neverar’s Starlight and make a light edit of TLJ, with a “Luke Lives” ending and stick to that as the end of my canon. I do enjoy elements of the old EU but not very many, and I’m guessing we’ll get a Thrawn Trilogy Redux in Ahsoka with her and the Rebels crew (and probably Luke too?) so maybe best of both worlds? Still don’t like the reset in status quo in TFA/TLJ but if fleshed out enough over the next few years in actual good shows and books, then I might be okay with it. Sadly lots of setup going Exegol/Emperor’s Clone/TROS’s way which I want to disregard completely, so I’ll try to just headcanon that Snoke was a failed attempt by Palpatine to be cloned and remain in power I think, something like that. Still unfortunately bad but oh well…

I recently finished a rewatch of Rebels - a show I hadn’t seen since the original release, and I adored it. I always knew I loved it, and have always been a fierce defender of it whenever people criticized it, but I really, really loved it. All four seasons.

I’m with you jedi_bendu, I really love Season 1, I love spending some time with the crew, go on little adventures with them, they’re my good space friends and I want no harm to come to them. Little lighthearted, often low stakes adventures, really comforting in so many ways.

Season 2 gets more serious but still has that absolute charm, but I think the show manages to pull off the tonal shift from Season 1 & 2 to 3 & 4 really, really well. I didn’t remember a lot of Season 4 before this rewatch and now I remembered why - that last half to me was just one episode! And one of the best ones at that, absolute perfection from “Rebel Assaut” onwards. But I also love to bits one of the most widely criticized ones - “Fighter Flight”. Ezra slowly becoming more selfless and less self-centered (never really selfish), his relationship with Zeb, you know, I just love hanging out with them, could do it for two extra season of the so widely hated “fillers”. I kept an eye out for actual, true filler episodes that add nothing to the overall story and out of 75 there’s maybe two or three, so not a lot, huh?

In all or almost all something is added to the story, either a bit of character development, perhaps a new piece of equipment, meaning you shouldn’t skip any. And you shouldn’t want to, they’re all so delightful. Sometimes lightheartedly delightful, sometimes tear-jerking, full on ugly crying delightful. I love Rebels. Hopeful for Ahsoka.

Mocata said:

Except it is true. He moved out of collaboration and into hiring yes men. Particularly after getting rid of the people that wanted to change the ending of ROTJ to be darker.

Incorrect.

Emre, are you trolling? G&G’s point seems crystal clear, are you purposefully misunderstanding?

Very well put, NFBisms, I agree completely.

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino’s best film.

1. Andor
2. Rebels
3. The Bad Batch
4. The Mandalorian
5. Clone Wars (2003)
6. The Clone Wars (2008)
7. Tales Of The Jedi
8. Visions
9. Obi-Wan Kenobi
10. Resistance
11. The Book Of Boba Fett

Yeah, they’ve no idea what this show is about anymore. Mando isn’t Andor, doing what they just did isn’t the appeal of this show, nor has it ever been. Make a different show to explore the state of the galaxy in the post-ROTJ world since the VII-IX trilogy fucked up that part of the setting worldbuilding, but come on don’t put this in the middle of my nice, EIGHT EPISODES LONG show about Mando and Mandalorian culture (which they’ve been failing to make very compelling in this season so far).

Remove the Coruscant section from this episode and it’s pretty good… but only as a (literal) 10min epilogue to the previous episode. Putting those two Mando episodes in Boba Fett really was a poor decision in so many spheres it’s baffling - I wonder if they actively sabotaged themselves, or if one of the creatives or suits really had that bad of an idea.

As someone who hasn’t really seen the film since it left theaters, I noticed no seams. Couldn’t even really tell you what was AI or not.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

George’s ex-wife. As I understand it, she led the editing process for the first film.

George did, and the Death Star was always targeting Yavin. There just wasn’t the countdown element to it. “Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!”

Nev, that art is beautiful!

Really enjoyed Episode 2. Still one plot thread too much, no idea why that opening with the droid was there, ended up feeling out of place. The perspective switch was also a little bit wonky but pretty much everything else was great. Really interesting to see how Din and Bo are getting closer to reaching a middle ground between their beliefs. Also loved the Grogu action. Really solid, I’m excited now.

Congrats on v1.1, Nev. Truly an incredible accomplishment. Thank you for sharing the labor of your passion with us. 😃

Really loving this show! Yesterday’s episode was really incredible, think I prefer S2 to S1, but they’re both so great.

But… but… it was Favreau who wrote it… and wrote every episode in the Mandalorian universe so far…

Octorox said:

I know you’ve probably gotten this question plenty of times before, but have you given any thought to a Rebels: Refocused? Rebels is probably going to become much more relevant with the Ahsoka series on the horizon. Unfortunately, I think Rebels is harder to reshape because the progression is significantly more linear, but I’ve had friends that have complained that the first season in particular is hard to get through.

Funny, the first season of Rebels is my favorite season out of all SW animated shows, I think.

adywan said:

Ejn said:

I thought this was an improvement over the first video, with the only complaint being that he was a bit too flippant about Lucas adding and then removing Luke’s scream. (However, this again would’ve been a great time to note that according to Matthew Wood, it was an error that Lucas never approved of in the first place and that Ben Burtt put it in himself and must’ve forgotten to ask.)

According to Matthew Wood, the scream was added at George’s request for the '97 Special edition. It was when it came around to doing the mix for the 2004 DVD’s that Mathew , who hated the scream, removed the sound effect and George didn’t notice it had gone, so it stayed that way.

No that’s incorrect. He said George didn’t remember approving it for 1997 so they removed it for 2004.

Congratulations on finishing this and thank you for sharing, Eddie. This towers as one of the great achievements our little community has produced in my books, and it’s all thanks to your unstoppable efforts. Once again, congratulations and thank you.

Emre1601 said:

Star Wars Creator George Lucas Had A Simple Reason For Not Directing The Empire Strikes Back

https://www.slashfilm.com/1194844/star-wars-creator-george-lucas-had-a-simple-reason-for-not-directing-the-empire-strikes-back
 

‘One of the more common misconceptions about “Star Wars” is the idea that creator George Lucas directed and wrote the entire original trilogy. That idea leads people to wonder how the guy who created something as good as “The Empire Strikes Back” could later go on to make something so terrible with the prequels. How could Lucas’ films have fallen so far in quality so quickly?

The answer, of course, is that it was Irvin Kershner who directed “Empire,” and the screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. (“Return of the Jedi,” meanwhile, was directed by Richard Marquand.) Lucas oversaw the production and provided the stories for 5 and 6, but as a whole, the “Star Wars” original trilogy seemed to work as well as it did because of Lucas’ limited involvement. Even with the first film, which Lucas did write and direct, he was dealing with a lot of limitations that prevented him from getting too self-indulgent. Actors pushed back against his clumsy dialogue, and the editors made major cuts and changes to help with the film’s pacing.

Time has shown us that the less directly involved Lucas is with a “Star Wars” film, the better, but his decision to let Kershner direct “Empire” had a much simpler reason behind it. “I hate directing,” he told Rolling Stone in a 1980 interview. “It’s like fighting a fifteen-round heavyweight bout with a new opponent every day. You go to work knowing just how you want a scene to be, but by the end of the day, you’re usually depressed because you didn’t do a good enough job … It was easy to let go of directing.”

Probably should’ve kept letting go

'Not to pile on George Lucas even more than he’s already been, but considering how successful the approach for “Empire” turned out, one can’t help but wonder what the prequels would’ve looked like has Lucas stayed on as the story advisor and let someone else take over the script and direction. Instead, Lucas had complete control over both throughout all three prequel films, and unlike with “A New Hope,” there were far fewer constraints holding him back from his worst creative instincts.

It’s hard to hold this all against him too much though, because “Star Wars” as a decades-spanning franchise wouldn’t exist without him. Even beyond the surprise success of “A New Hope,” so much of what allowed “Empire” to surpass its predecessor was the creative freedom Lucas gave Kershner and the rest of the crew. Rather than cater to studio demands, Lucas made the bold choice to fund the movie himself, a decision that could’ve easily ruined him if things turned out differently.

“They were supposed to shoot [the Hoth scenes in Finse] in two weeks and they shot it in months,” Lucas later explained in a 2020 interview. “So it created a lot of havoc. We were projected to go way over budget and I’d already borrowed all the money that I could.” As the production continued to go over budget and behind schedule, Lucas borrowed even more money from a different bank to keep things running smoothly. It was insanely stressful, but no one today can say it wasn’t worth it. Lucas may not have directed the franchise’s best film, but he was a vital part of what allowed it to be so great in the first place.’

Awful article, and full of misinformation.

Funny you say that when Paul did re-record several Beatles tracks in his Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), which got pretty bad reviews and even amongst Beatles and Paul fans is seen as a pretty bad entry in his canon.