I’ve often wondered if DVD extras had been a thing back in 95-97, would Lucas have just put the ANH Jabba scene in as a deleted scene extra…? Would he have added ANY of the deleted footage (like the reunion with Biggs on Yavin 4)?
Agreed. This was excellent. Starkiller base was blowing up but I was thinking about what Snoke said. Lol.
In the original film, this subject/idea/concept is not addressed again directly so you kind of forget about it. But placing it here at the end of the film wets your appetite (so-to-speak) for future events. It’s on your mind as the film ends. Excellent.
Using JEJ’s vocals from the Bible, you could have him say “Let my people go!” Moses style 😉
Putting this here so I don’t forget it:
https://youtu.be/sGbxmsDFVnE?t=76
Concept: pan down from the crawl onto a starfield which matches this shot of the Falcon going to hyperspace. Proceed directly into Rey landing on Ahch-To.
I had the same idea. Here was my mockup (transition happens around 2:20) I like that it’s a fresh intro style that’s still Star Warsy.
https://vimeo.com/248649293
That’s pretty rad! 😉
Watching this “your mother” scene several times lately and noticed something that hadn’t dawned on me before:
Vader: conduct your search and bring his companions to me
Then no search is ever shown. It doesn’t affect the plot. Just a throw away line that doesn’t matter. Shame.
Also this hadn’t dawned on me before until recently. THIS is the scene of Luke confronting Vader that Yoda said needed to happen. As a kid I assumed Yoda meant another lightsaber battle needed to take place. Luke did too I guess. But without this conversation, the throne room scene could’ve been quite different. …right?
The lip sync is seamless.
This is quite nice, Sir Ridley. However, I don’t think this single line spells it out to the audience. I hope Adywan will consider this for his edit:
A fascinating video - ‘Behind the Scenes of Star Wars: The Original Trilogy ILM Special Effects Makers’:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85MK2GDkoxo
a 1 hour documentary focusing on the people at ILM doing the special effects for the OT movies. Try not to let the length of it put you off, the video flies through the time and leaves you wanting to know more! 😃
Yep. From the saga bluray extras. Good stuff.
I thought you were gonna post this:
A nice piece on John Williams (although I don’t know why they didn’t deinterlace it for youtube):
I, uh, just came across this:
This idea sounds promising…
Shameless plug for more weird things I come up with:
Yes that did it! Yeah, because there seems to be possible romantic chemistry at this point in the movie between the two heroes, it makes sense for the question to come up. But yes this works great.
Love how this scene play out now!
Love it! Still don’t like the boyfriend line, though. 😛
I’m okay with it. A little humor is totally okay in Star Wars. And of all the forced humor, that single line is far from the worst.
I think what’s slightly off-putting is when he repeats himself and adds the word ‘cute’.
Thought you guys might get a kick outta this:
Woah. Just came across this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/bbllh1/resound_anakin_vs_obiwan_no_music/
- Luke’s scream. Only used in the 1997 version, and a bizarre addition which was thankfully removed in all future versions. Without this, the 1997 SE would be about neck and neck with the 1980 version for me.
Unfortunately that scream is burned into my brain. So, even though it’s not on the Bluray, I still hear it in my head. Every. Single. Time.
Yeah you’re right. I’m looking into the whole light wrap thing. Thanks!
I do like ‘Battle of the Heroes’ on its own, but the final confrontation of Anakin and Obi-Wan shouldn’t be ‘epic’, it should be upsetting.
Love your sound design. And I agree about how the music should be upsetting.
I thought I’d post this one SFX shot and see if I could get some feedback. This is me still at the beginning stages of learning After Effects. I know what needs to be accomplished, but I don’t think I know the best way to get there:
I’m just having a hard time making the ship blend in with the background.
I think I went about rotoscoping the wrong way. I used the pen tool to basically make an outline around the ship, but now I’m seeing other videos that say the best way is to use simple (but multiple) shapes (w/the pen tool) to be more accurate.
I did use the color match (premiere) button but still adjusted the colors because it made it too blue. Still, it looks off to me.
Also you might notice the background looking a bit off. I used the content aware tool to remove the Naboo fighter. I tried to adjust the movement of the Jedi Starfighter to pass by just as the image looks really funky but you can still see it anyway.
Anyone care to comment?
snooker, I had a couple of thoughts on a video you posted a few pages ago (not quite sure where it is) of a new introduction for Anakin in Watto’s shop. I like what you’ve done with it. Something I noticed watching it again is that you can hear the “door bell” sound effect and Watto uses the same greeting when he greets Qui-gon and company. Whether this was intentional or not, it appears Watto is greeting a possible customer walking in the store. If this is the case, you could really sell this idea by cutting in an altered shot of the door (with Jar Jar leaving the store) to imply either there are no customers or show a figure walking by the store. It would imply Watto’s business is not doing so well. Did that make sense? Sometimes I have a hard time describing this stuff. 😛
Another idea (in the same clip) is Anakin and Sebulba’s exchange before the pod race. I don’t know how you feel about it, but I’m not a huge fan of the words “Bantha poo doo”. You could potentially remove that whole sentence and simply have Sebulba laughing at Anakin as he walks away.
Food for thought.
That was quite nice 😃
Thanks for sharing! Damn…lotta work you’ve done. But the crawl looks great!
Can I ask, how did you go about matching the font? What key words would I Google to look this up? Or is there a good YouTube video to watch?
That’s what I was- well, I was suggesting one of two things:
1: Deepfake him to look like the actual Wedge
2: Change him visually (like hair color?) as well as vocally to make him someone else