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vaderios said:

You want doable? HUH?

Thats for SWWR because i have promised to him that i will fix it someday. (thanksgiving day today!)

-Angel

 You're so good to me , Angel   lol! Very nice indeed! I like the lights added to the front of the ATAT.

Since we've been talking about (in the following scenes) making it more clear that it's morning time (with altered lighting)...would it be possible have the sun start to come up at the end of this scene? Just a thought...  :P

I like the chewie and speeder pics too! And yes I think the reflections are doable...at least to some extent...like Bingo said.  :D

Angel! I think I'm in love!-...wait...I mean...the pictures! Awesome stuff! I've been waiting for someone to tackle this scene!

The blue lighting from above...the smoke elements...the eyes...everything you've added really helps! Even if Ady could only add the blue lighting...that would help tremendously! Whatever can be done to better blend all the elements together will help! I agree about the part with the rancor picking up Luke...the giant hand doesn't move right...it doesn't have wieght...

I agree about the rancor sounds too...sadly you can't really isolate any of the rancors sounds from the DVD mix....the mix in this scene is absolutely terrible. It just sounds so...muddy.

Oh, this new opening for ROTJ sounds exciting, Angel. Keep us posted!

doubleofive said:

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

Oola needs to go.

Love the new endor shots, Angel! Have you looked into fixing some of the Rancor shots yet? ;)

You know, I think that the Rancor is some of the best work of the DVD.  Seriously, why couldn't they have done all that work with rest of the movie, getting rid of matte lines and recoloring bad blue screens?  I'd love to see if Angel can tweak it further, but I'm happy the way it is, honestly.

 eh...I don't know...I mean it works well the way they did it. But I think it can be enhanced further. Ady might be able to add a few facial movements...I personally think he could move a bit faster...it would be fun to maybe add some drool hanging from his mouth...maybe you could have more interaction with the Rancor and the set...like having him bump up against the side of a wall and a puff of dust comes off....and there are still some matte lines to remove...and surely something can be enhanced when the Rancor picks up Luke...there are some shots there that are terrible...some of those blue screens shots....-is it the black levels that are off? Anyway... something like that... :)

Oola needs to go.

Love the new endor shots, Angel! Have you looked into fixing some of the Rancor shots yet? ;)

Pardon me a moment...

I know I've seen somewhere some OT logos done in the style of the PT (like the ones shown in the theatrical trailers)

Could someone kindly point me towards some? Specifically ROTJ?  (...needed for an upcoming video...)

I would appreciate it! :Dic

Holy angel crap!-... I mean....Holy crap, Angel!  :P

Those pics really are amazing!

Bingowings said:

I like the general idea SSWR but I still think it's too much information.

We know from Leia in ROTJ she dies when she is very young, my earliest memories are from when I was about two but they are very vague so shifting it up to about three years later sort of makes sense.

If this was done as a time shifting montage her niece could be Leia (though we don't know that at the time) if she doesn't turn up in a reworked Episode II.

The explanation that Leia gives could act as a explanation of the scene we see in a reworked ROTS.

Thanks for the feedback, Bingo. Are you saying one of Padme's nieces (from AOTC deleted scene or ROTS funeral scene) could possibly be mis-interpreted (to our advantage) as Liea in the OT? So once ROTJ rolls around we finally find out about the Luke/Liea relationship? Hmmm...this is not something I've ever heard before.

I personally don't like the time shifting montage idea...not very Star Wars-y...plus (and I think we feel the same way on this) we don't won't to give away too much information...we don't want to spell everything out.

Did you really feel the dialouge I came up with spelled everything out too much? I figured we have to kill off Padme somehow...or make it obvious she's not gonna make it much longer. She's an important character after all...

...but then again the same could be said for Yoda...and I am definantly against having it spelled out to us that Yoda stays on Dagobah until ESB. My 2 cents.  :P

Bingowings said:

I suggested before showing Padme in labour (no mention of twins) but not including the naming and dying on the spot.

That way Padme can still die on Alderaan when Leia is a little girl and the identity of the child is still obscured.

Obscuring the identity of Vader has been covered but it seems more tricky to me (more ideas needed there).

 

I'm slowing working on an updated version of this idea...only I still show Padme giving birth-...well...sort of...it's kind of in the background...and you still don't know it's twins.

I then have the droid saying something like:

"the delivery took an unexpected toll on her body. She may not live very long."

"she's dying?"

"Slowly. It could be a few months...maybe a year."

Would something like this work? Thoughts?

That list looks great! :D

I've been meaning to post this picture for a few weeks:

I've always really liked the shot of this ship in the hanger bay...always thought it had great scale...a nicely composed shot...very ANH concept art...plus it doesn't look like crappy CGI. But I've always wanted that shot to last a little longer.

Maybe this shot of the droid directing the Jedi could be rotoscoped to here?

brash_stryker said:

SSWR. Thanks for the comment. For some reason Youtube won't let me reply to you, and I JUST realised this is a change already implemented in your AOTC Fan-o-matic. D'oh!

 Oh believe me, this is not something I came up with...it's been around for a while...

But yeah thanks! :D

By-the-way, I actually *did* get your reply on youtube...  :D

vaderios said:

How about kamino is more grounded as brightness like Nostromo and less like tantive  ?

-Angel

This is some kind of wondeful, Angel! :D

Although, I like the idea from Davnes007....green might look cool and unsettleing...kind of a Matrix look? I'm thinking specifically the blue pannels could be green...?

vaderios said:

I did some tests to remove that dreamy wtf fog and replace it with something more like pollution and fog.

That goes to SWWR specially ;)

I havent forget you request for space mockups my friend. Still im experiment with several shit ;)

-Angel

 Dude! I love the polution look to this scene! I always thought that courascant would start to look like this by the end of the PT...but it didn't  :P

 Angel, I am touched! You remember me! ;)

I like the ROTS Vader shot too!....are you going to attempt to add the shipyard/star destoryer stuff in the background?

Bingowings said:

Is there a workable solution, like a suitable backshot of the ROTJ helmet that can be matched into position and have the general profile of the reflections mapped over it?

Some might say with some justification that it doesn't really matter but it does highlight how many corners were cut in the making of ROTJ.

Would it have cost so much to film anyone against the window for a unique shot?

It would be nice if we had a similar shot of Luke meditating on the future like he does in ANH.

The PT sets this up as a family trait but maybe Yoda's teaching has beaten it out of Luke.

If not it might be nice to start a Fan-O-Matic style Dagobah sequence with Luke outside looking up at the sky and then over to Yoda's hut before him going outside for Yoda's death scene (which might be adapted from the lights fading sequence in the theatrical version).

Hmmm...I really like that idea...especially becuase Vader is doing this in the same film.

There might be a couple of shots you could modify to make this work...but the one that comes to mind is the one of Luke going under his xwing to R2. ("I can't do it, R2.")

He looks off towards Yodas hut...but maybe we could modify it so he's looking out towards the sky...

This is kind of what I intended in my Fan-O-Matic...only it's on Tatooine...and I didn't really didn't sell it that well...  :P

I'm with EyeShotFirst. Save it for the OT.

It sounds like you're on the right track, Angel. It doesn't have to be the "money shot" of the whole movie. Just an impressive shot.

Maybe you can give it an OT feeling by mimicing the shot composition from shots from the OT...or just mimic some Ralph Mcquaire paintings...did that make sense? The way they use to compose the shots in the OT would have massive scale.

lol at Bingowings! Exactly! :D

vaderios said:

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

New video...

Hey awesome.

i like it!

reduces the childish feeling and adds a more Solo thing.

-Angel

 Thanks Angel!...it was all in fun really...

New video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhk16mmiHNo&feature=channel_page

But in all seriousness, I've been recently inspired by everyone here in this thread to do some more work on my ROTJ Fan-O-Matic.

I had been fed up with Endor...Ewoks...timeline stuff....but I think I've found some new ideas that might work...we'll see ;)

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Yeah, I agree with you, Monroville. Yeah the timeline would have to make it seem like some time has past. You don't want her dressed in one outfit and then one mintue later in a completely different outfit...

Nice, Angel...  ;)

I'd have to agree with Darth Venal about the emperor and the death star. I've always like how anti-climatic a death it is...dust in the wind, if you will.  ;)

I don't mean to make this about me...although I had a question...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHxbhpMowpk&feature=channel_page

Regardless of whether you liked the execution of the video, do you think something along these lines might help improve the movie?

I mean, does anyone agree that it's weird just having Liea pop up in the Ewok village all dressed up in a different outfit with no explination?

I guess what really bugs me is that there is not enough interaction between the the three main characters. Like, how about something like, "Liea! How did you get here?" "Liea! That hair style makes you look old!" ;)

So again, would something like watching Liea go into the village help smooth the transition to Ewok Village Outfit Liea?  ;)

OK I feel stupid! I'll post it in the correct thread!  :)

I don't mean to make this about me...although I had a question...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHxbhpMowpk&feature=channel_page

Regardless of whether you liked the execution of the video, do you think something along these lines might help improve the movie?

I mean, does anyone agree that it's weird just having Liea pop up in the Ewok village all dressed up in a different outfit with no explination?

I guess what really bugs me is that there is not enough interaction between the the three main characters. Like, how about something like, "Liea! How did you get here?" "Liea! That hair style makes you look old!" ;)

So again, would something like watching Liea go into the village help smooth the transition to Ewok Village Outfit Liea?  ;)

Darth Venal said:

Wow, Angel, those are fantastic. What did you use for all the metalwork?

I would LOVE to see one of those with a laser out into it. Awesome stuff.

 

SomethingStarWarsRelated:

I certainly don't know this stuff like Angel does...but I would tend to agree with him...

Yeah, it looks a little too saturated...the greens...

But wow! How do you take a crappy screen cap like that and turn it into what you have? specifically how did you sharpen the image? Did you simply use the sharpening tool?

Great stuff!

Actually, I repainted the entire thing, except for the foreground trees, where I painted one and pasted it for speed. Trust me, there is no sharpening tool in the world that can do that. I repainted the Star Trek logo, too, but that was very easy in comparison. Regarding the greens, unfortunately scaling it down into a jpeg changes the way it looks. Bear in mind that the original image is over eight times larger, and the greens are far more varied at that level; you can even see blades of grass under the trees. It's too bad that you can't see all the detail at this level.

Thanks for the feedback!

 Repainted the entire thing? woah! How long did it take you?

Yeah, I didn't think it could be the sharening tool...

Ah, I didn't even think about the whole scaling down the image business.

So will we get to see this never ending story edit?

Thanks for replying!