adywan said:
Something like this doesn't need to be added. We already saw Luke begin his saber training in ANH. His dagobah training was the next stage. We never got to see all of his training and a scene was filmed where he uses his lightsaber to try and cut a metal rod into seven pieces but this was cut.
Looking at the shot lando lowers his head realising what he has done and as soon as CPO says his line and the trooper fires he dart out of the way. leia is slower to react because she is not really concentrating after she sees Slave 1 escaping with no way of rescuing Han. There is a very brief pause before they react so if possible i may move this line a few frames later.
The main problem is that the original footage has a very strong engine glow and its impossible to remove this to make it more toned down. The sound FX do seem a bit out of place in this shot though so something may be done, but this may happen when i get to the audio side of things
Its symbolism. Luke gets his hand cut off in ESB and when he becomes angry and cuts vaders hand off in ROTJ he looks down at vaders hand then at his own and sees the similarity between father and son and how close he is to being consumed by the dark side, like his father. This is what brings Luke back and the Emperor has failed to turn him.
Very nice. i'm really liking those.
I have tried to do something about this but its looking like nothing can be done short of building a puppet to replace him for this one shot, so not worth it. Even adding blinks wouldn't work because you wouldn't even notice it because he is too small in this shot.
Now while this is a good idea it does create a problem with all later shots of han. If this device produces so much heat to cause this amount of pain then why isn't his shirt scorched? Put something white next to an electric bar fire as close as han is to the device and see just what the heat would have done to his shirt. Just look how far away he is when he first reacts. that thing would have to produce some intense heat to cause a reaction like that. I've been thinking of adding some electrical arcs hitting han as he is lowered but i won't be adding a heat haze.
I replied to this in the ANH:R thread. The fade was always there in ANH until the SE came along and for some reason they omitted it (probably something to do with the added Jabba scene and the amount of wipes between the scenes). All i did was restore what was originally there, and had been for 20 years
Well at the moment i hit a brick wall. I don't want to start the falcon just yet because i've been planning out what needs to be built first so i can concentrate on the Rebel Hangar and the falcon. These are the things that need to be done in order:
1- Asteroid trench &new crater background to replace the obvious matte used when the TIE bombers approach. The largest set pieces that definitely need to be done first so i can reclaim the space to continue with the next items.
2- Inside the slugs mouth - another large set
3- Wampa. A lot of work to be done on this especially when it gets to attaching each individual hair to the puppets face
4- Hoth Shield generator / Stop motion AT-AT/ stop motion AT-ST. All the outdoor snow scenes out of the way.
5- bespin vane and shaft to replace 2D matte. another large set approx 6ft x 6ft
6- Leia's apartment exterior new model - to fix the problems with the interiors and exterior scale.
7 - Interior hangar to replace rebel transport matte
8- Millennium falcon and Hangar set
9- Modified MPC stardestroyer with fibre optic lighting and correct detailing to replace many cut and paste or badly composited shots of the stardestroyers
10- Extra ships for the finale to replace obvious mattes and some camera movement problems with existing elements
Now i will be working on a few of these at the same time but some will need to be done individually. The falcon is going to take a long time to finish and with all the small parts i need to work on it without any other clutter. God some of those parts are microscopic.
Now the brick wall is that funding has gone. i have many of the materials but not all. you wouldn't believe how much plaster it takes to create a 11ft long 2.5ft high asteroid trench, and then there is the paints, wood and other materials for that set alone.
Now i was lucky with the fibre optics as i managed to get a job lot of 25 very large fibre optic UFO lamps for £5 off ebay.
And then theres the camera crane/ dolly i have to make so i can film all this stuff
So again i'm stuck. we got paid, had a small amount of spare cash which went immediately but managed to get only a small amount of the materials.
have i taken on too much? probably , yes, but i know i can do this. The results will be worth it and so much better than sticking with original elements, but its going to take a long time just to get the materials to get started on all this.
I thought you building everything in a computer to digitally matted, not building physical models and puppets.
I can understand things like the Falcon since it easier to use a physical model for reference for scale and detail.
So is that what you are doing or do have little ILM in room or in your case ILP, Industrial Light and Pron.