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What is this model of? It kinda looks like lava running out the side of a mountain???

Is that a Strong Bad reference?

Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!

I wholeheartedly agree with Chase!

Yeah I also put a rough mask around him so everything else has the original frame rate.

I’ve seen a few tests similar to this before. I threw this together really quick:

https://streamable.com/fp7iaj

Dex wouldn’t be in my hypothetical edit, but it’s an idea of playing with the not-so-great CGI characters in this movie. Go retro effects! 😛

jonh said:

in two days part 2 finished …
five shots and finish 😃

https://vimeo.com/412387620
password:jedi

Damn! I don’t mind admitting that I got chills and had tears forming from watching this!

Love it, snooker!

poppasketti said:

Here’s an update to the ending bits I’ve been playing with. Maybe these can work individually or be inspiration for other ideas.

https://vimeo.com/414395138
pw: fanedit

I further tweaked the “just Rey” line, and added a more pronounced “t”.

I also added an updated version of the new end shot I’ve been messing with, which removes Rey and BB-8, instead having the falcon fly off into the binary sunset.

Finally, I tacked on the YouTube clip posted a few pages back that added Ben and Anakin force ghosts. I cropped out Anakin so you could see what the idea would look like. Not crazy about the head nod, but I think the idea of adding Ben will work.

Lookin’ really good! I like the idea of the falcon being the last shot…at the same time…
Has anyone considered Rey riding around in Lukes xwing instead? Obviously, that’s more work for someone with fx skills but it might satisfy those who are saying “the falcon belongs to Chewy!”.

Looks fantastic!

idir_hh said:

The behind the scenes drama at lucasfilm would make for an interesting film.

Did you see the doc “Waking Sleeping Beauty”? That is all about the BTS at Disney animation during the early 90s. An incredibly interesting watch. I’m surprised it was ever released.

Maybe in twenty years or so we’ll get something similar from Lucasfilm.

Sounds good! I’m in the early stages of learning Davinci Resolve. The whole node thing threw me off completely at first, but thank god for YouTube ;P

I don’t recall if this article was posted here in the forums, but the cinematographer for Knives Out (also TLJ) had some interesting things to say about film vs digital:

https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-debate-movies-cinematography

While I can’t agree with him 100%, I thought there could be some useful information here that might actually help with getting the prequels to looking like film. Granted, most of this goes over my head…so I don’t know if it will actually be of any benefit to you. Still, an interesting read.

jonh said:

https://vimeo.com/412387620
password:shield

Force Shield concept V1

Again, this is looking so freakin amazing!
SO good, in fact, might I suggest the camera shake you’ve added to the shots of the Jedi ghosts being slightly reduced?
The only reason I’m suggesting reducing the effect is so that we (the audience) can see them a bit better. Specifically, the shot that pans from Yoda to Obi.

Snooker, I love where this is going!

Bingowings said:

Yay it’s SSWR🎇

Hey, Bingowings! I’m hanging out here again…and post only every once in a while 😉

Very interesting. Thanks guys

Ah. Very good. Thanks

imperialscum said:

I am still surprised when people are bringing up Kurtz when it comes to ROTJ. He was fired and replaced by Kazanjian in the middle of ESB principal photography. He basically had nothing to do with ROTJ, let alone being aware of any details such as Kasdan’s and Ford’s suggestion to kill off Han.

Actually, I didn’t know this. Are you sure? I’ve seen BTS footage of Kurtz in the editing and/or scoring sessions, which I would assume would’ve post-production.

EDIT:
There…I had to go find it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyc82C3yc0s

jonh, you’re doing an amazing job!

Now, for someone who hasn’t chimed in until now:
You might want to look at altering Luke walking. He wavers left and right quite a bit…so much so that he distracts me every time I watch the clip. I don’t have time to notice the other Jedi in that shot. Granted, they each get a closeup, but maybe keep him from moving too much??

Maybe it’s just me. What do you guys think?

So far I’m only 2 hours in…I think it’s quite worth it! 😄
 

‘Drunk Star Wars Script Recital - Episode 1: The Phantom Menace’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq2XuNqQEVU&t=7077s - at the Bruce Greene youtube channel. (4 hours, 40 mins)
 

jonh said:

https://vimeo.com/412387620
password:shield

Force Shield concept V1

This. Is. F*cking. Awesome.

Thanks! 😄
But even still, I would change it to something else today. It’s funny, but it’s not in line with 3PO’s character. He may at times not understand human behavior, but he’s not stupid. 😛

Also my other ROTJ ideas from long ago:

https://streamable.com/2zj0fd
https://streamable.com/gjl4y8
https://streamable.com/76hqcm
https://streamable.com/rlj93s
https://streamable.com/y4ye1l
https://streamable.com/nkrvwo
https://streamable.com/zve2u9
https://streamable.com/wjnrpd
https://streamable.com/b774v9
https://streamable.com/xipw3l
https://streamable.com/gopouv

RogueLeader said:

I would be curious to here some people’s issues with ROTJ. I know this has been discussed pretty thoroughly countless times. I have a feeling as more prequel kids have grown up and are now more active on this site, perhaps there might be more people who like these aspects of ROTJ. But I still think it would be worth playing around with a ROTJ edit that tries to address these major complaints, as if the original trilogy was the only Star Wars that we ever got.

I could spend A LOT of time talking about my issues with this film. 😉
Aside from the points that get brought up a lot, one thing I would look at is playing around with the pacing of scenes on Endor. You can play up the fact that Leia is missing for a bit (after the chase). Cut down certain shots to remove goofy expressions. Change the music to insert some tension. This was something I made a long time ago but I still like the ideas behind some of the changes I made (even if most of them are poorly executed…or I would continue to developed further):

https://streamable.com/zve2u9

• Han stepping on a twig, thus alerting the trooper to his presence, was incredibly lazy storytelling. I like my change to the scene, but it was mostly for fun. I feel like something else should trigger the troopers instead.
• Adding as much believability to our main heroes’ actions is a must.
• Playing around with the Leia and Wicket scenes helps address why she just pops up in the Ewok village out of nowhere.
• Generally, I liked what I did to the Han/Luke “Where’s Leia?” scene. It adds more tension and just…it heightens everything a bit more to where one might sit up and pay more attention.
• Just cutting down the humor…or at least allowing it to happen at more strategic times will help quite a bit.
• Ignor the Vader/Palps scene at the end…I didn’t do anything to it. 😛

sade1212 said:

(and besides, I still haven’t finished training my Fake Wedge DeepFake model…).

THAT is something I’ve been waiting to see! 😁