Sojourn

doubleofive said:

Sojourn said:

Congratulations on the camera, ady (man, you got me, too!)! I know I haven't really been vocal much recently (work has been a little hectic), but I've caught up on the past week or two of posts, and it looks like things are moving along splendidly. I'm going to need to dig deeper back to find the source of all this shooting-new-sequences talk so I can figure out exactly what you're going to be doing, but I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it! And, as before, if you need some help, let me know.

 

Take care,

Sojourn

 

Here is Ady's list of new things he needs to film.

Thanks for the link! I had seen that, but I meant that I wanted to read about when the idea first came up, and what his motivation/vision is. I'm curious to see how any new elements fit in with the existing film, but there's no one I trust more than adywan to do new footage right. :-)

Thanks,

Sojourn

Congratulations on the camera, ady (man, you got me, too!)! I know I haven't really been vocal much recently (work has been a little hectic), but I've caught up on the past week or two of posts, and it looks like things are moving along splendidly. I'm going to need to dig deeper back to find the source of all this shooting-new-sequences talk so I can figure out exactly what you're going to be doing, but I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it! And, as before, if you need some help, let me know.

Take care,

Sojourn

I know I'm a little late to the party, but I just wanted to congratulate you on the new asteroid field, Adywan -- it looks spectacular. And now that I've seen the TIEs firing, it just looks wrong without it (if you watch the comparison clip, and look at the 2004 version, it seems so anticlimactic to have the shot of the TIEs following the Falcon, and then cut to the Falcon without any laser bolts coming at it)!

Take care, 

Sojourn

adywan said:

hey, sojourn, good to see you around here again.

I'm a bit worried about doing any more tweaking to Yoda because it could become overdone and smearing would become very noticeable through the warping technique used to animate his face.

Likewise. :-)

That makes sense, about Yoda; are you using the standard distortion tools in AE, or something like the Puppet Tool in CS3? I've done my share of warping and I know what you mean about not wanting to overdo it; it may just have been that I was looking for the movements in his face, and therefore overanalyzing what I was seeing, that made it look unnatural. You've always been great at using the distortion tools subtly, which makes the changes organic rather than obviously digitally manipulated.

Thanks for your response,

Sojourn

It's been a while since I posted here, but I've been checking in occasionally to see how this project has been progressing, and, as always, it's very impressive! I just watched the most recent clip, and I love how Yoda actually looks like he's pronouncing the "w" in the words he's saying. And, of course, the color correction work you've done is incredible -- Revisited is worth watching just for that, not to mention all the other fantastic tweaks. I agree with what others have said about the Yoda clip still needing a bit of work to make it fully believable, but I do think what you've done so far is wonderful.

All the best, as always,

Sojourn