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doubleofive said:

Someday, I'm want to make a splitscreen comparison of the whole movie.  Not sure how I could do the straight-up rearranged scenes short of rearranging them on the original...

If it's a DVD comparison you could have two seperate audio channels for the viewer to switch between.

I just hope this new release of Metropolis is played back at the correct speed. The last official release looked beautiful and they actually used the music written for the movie but they screwed up the playback speed and had it running fast. Which in turn had them running around looking goofy. As well as marring the score as they performed it in time to the footage.

I'm using chrome, it was messed up the other night when someone brought it up but it looks fine now. Maybe you guys should try clearing your cache?

G E Predator said:

doubleofive said:

G E Predator said:

adywan said:

Maybe next year, after ESB:R is finished, i may do a V2 of ANH:R with a few very minor changes with a commentary track.

The only thing I would suggest for a ANH:R 2 would be to remove the Trade Federation Droid head from the Jawa Sandcrawler.  It was cute, but not really necessary.  Also, it boggles the mind.  We haven't seen the Seperatist army anywhere on Tatooine, and Jawas are not known for traveling off of Tattooine.

OK, I've been afraid to admit it, but I was thinking about writing a fan fic about that battle droid (OK, I started writing it).  I'm thinking it was discarded by Jabba after buying a few dozen after the war, but they weren't very efficient.  Don't want to spoil too much in case there's actually an interest and I feel like actually finishing a writing project (I'm not much of a writer, just an idea kinda guy).

It would be interesting to see how a battle droid would function without the remote assistance from a Trade Federation Ship.  One would argue that Palpatine gave the order to have all of the Trade Federation droids shut down.  Then again, he also gave the famous "Order 66" to the clone army to kill all the Jedi, and in the book "Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader" it was revealed that not every clone trooper followed that order.

That being said, I look forward to your fan fic about that battle droid head in Adywan's fan edit.

 

Fan fic should be fun, though true be told I never liked that battledroid in there. I think a pit droid would have been more appropriate, ah well.

Yes! The return of Ben's hut! I love it! =D

Wow that sucks, you'd think because it was Harry Potter the opposite would be true and they'd throw heaps of money at you. Anyway, get some rest. I look forward to seeing some of your work on Alderaan. =)

So Ady, did you enjoy your break from ESB or are you still on it working on ROTJ? =)

Hey guys, yeah I'm with Rhett on this one. The only thing up on demonoid is the xvid, I was hoping to get the NTSC dvd.

Done.

Ripplin said:

Anyone know why they didn't just do a digital Yoda for TPM in the first place?

Anyway, this is the ESB:R thread so, um...The Empire Strikes Back is one of my favorite movies! There, I said it!

Because Jarjar Binks was the first realistic digital actor to be inserted in a live action setting. So they were spending all their time and money on him. If you recall there was a CG yoda at the very end of TPM and it looks horrible. And it has been confirmed that they completely replaced Yoda in TPM, it was either Rick McCallum or John Knoll who confirmed it along with the fact that a future release of TPM would include the change. I think it was in an article on the official site shortly after ROTS hit DVD.

Speaking of video games, Tales of Monkey Island comes out today! =D

adywan said:

EyeShotFirst said:

George thought colours were symbolic so he tinted all of the films a different colour.

the colour mess of TPM had nothing to do with anything like this. It was just a bad transfer plain and simple. If you watch the featurettes and documentaries on TPM's dvd you can see that there is nothing wrong with the colouring in the clips shown in those, which are from an earlier transfer

 

Wow, that's sad. So the transfer that was used for the DVD is the same as the one used for the HD broacasts?

Finally some news on the full season boxset!

the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Complete First Season boxed set will include:

• Original aspect ratios - 2.35:1 (Cartoon Network aired episodes cropped at 1.78:1 for 16:9 displays)
• Digibook Packaging - with book (around 40 pages or so) featuring concept drawings and sketches
• Director’s Cut Episodes
• Commentaries
• 2D and 3D initial renderings

I personally think it would be great if you removed the whole Lego demo. It's just blatant advertising that takes up space and is in no way a special feature. If you could, it would great if you used that space to place some vintage trailers.

Yeah that does look great. Definite improvement. Do you think there was a reason behind the pink tint?

I say if you can then please do include alternative audio. =)

Right! Now's the time to start the save Nien Nunb thread!

=P

Aww, you left in the yellow subs. Oh well.

dark_jedi said:

damn this is really strange,ANH and ROTJ fire right up,but I get the above error on ESB,I am confused.

Hmm, I've observed that when there's a problem with just ESB, usually the solution is to completely remove the subtitles section as there are none for it. I know that's worked for myself and atleast a couple others.

EyeShotFirst said:

He was gonna make Indiana Jones 5's story be. Indiana Jones taking over Heny Sr.'s job as the old dad and make it Mutts adventure. But he changed his mind and is making one more. I am going to give it a chance knowing that the whole series of movies has a few hit and misses so maybe it will be good.

No. That was never his intention, that was just the big rumor that started when people found about Mutt. He's stated already that he'd never do an Indy movie starring Mutt as that wouldn't be an Indy movie at all.

Anyway, that new trench shot looks great Ady. The final release can't come quick enough. =)

doubleofive said:

je suis francais je viens souvent sur le site pour y decouvrir les changement que tu fais, je te félicites du travail des retouches que tu fait , intelligement je voudrais si tu le souhaites faire partie des credits a la fin du deuxieme volet l episode 5 l empire contre attaques j en serais ,honoré.......THANKS YOU

 

I am french i often come on the site for it to decouvrir change which you make, I congratulate you on the work of the alterations(retouch) which you makes, intelligement I would want if you wish it to be a part of credits has the end of the deuxieme shutter(sector)  episode 5 EMPIRE STRIKES BACK  i would be there, honored in .......THANKS YOU

LAURENT alias loisorare

I have no idea what this means.  Translation?  I don't think she is in love with me, but I do feel like I caught some kind of disease...

Not that I speak a word of french but based on that somewhat garbled english translation, I would say that Laurent seems to have mistaken you for Ady. Furthermore, they would like to congratulate you on your fine work on ESB:R and would be honored if you would include them in the credits. His credit would be listed as Laurent with his username/handle being loisorare.

I got one too! I'll have to try to remember that the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life. Whatever that means...

Bingowings said:

Is the position of the chamber that important?

It is when Ady has decided to redesign the vane to accomodate the chamber based on the belief that is in fact contained within it. If it can be proven to be otherwise we would be saving him quite some time and effort.

Bingowings said:

He no nuts he crazy.

I literally LOL'd. =P As for these 4 episode releases, can't stand 'em. I was listening to a Q&A with a couple of the writers for the show and one of them mentioned that the episodes on the boxset are going to be a little different than the ones that aired. I took that to mean we'll be seeing the true aspect ratio but who knows it might even mean extended ones. Just as long as it's not another one of Lucas' stupid "Let's edit a few episodes together and turn them into movies!" crap. I hated that on the Droids and Ewoks dvd releases but the CW movie was just bad. Why couldn't they have used the malevolence trilogy for that?

asterisk8 said:

Very classy Asteroid-Man! I love the stark minimalism of it. Every element has its place and nothing feels extraneous. Well done!!

The only change I would make is to put Luke above the title instead of Obi-Wan. It is Luke's story afterall, and with Vader and Kenobi at the bottom, you have the three most important characters in the film on the cover.

I would argue it's Artoo's movie. =P

Anyway, can't wait to hear on any progress with the wampa and the falcon ady. =)

doubleofive said:

brash_stryker said:

The Snivvian in the cantina (in the scene where the troopers walk past Han and Chewie) has had his face animated, but it doesn't look right (in contrast with all the other cantina aliens, which look absolutely excellent) maybe he should have been left unanimated. He has what I can only describe as 'melty face syndrome'

Are you kidding?  That's the best part, the part that made my friends that I've shown laugh out loud at how awesome it is!

Actually I didn't like the change to the Snivvian but that's only because he repeats the exact same actions twice. It was like two blinks and a lip curl that he does and then a second later he repeats the exact same movement. It would have been more realistic to have him either do one or the other or start with both and then the second time only do one. There was one or two other examples of that but I can't recall specifically at the moment. Overall though I liked the enhancements.