Tobar

Nice, can't believe(or wait) it's just three weeks until the big trailer! =D

Sweeeeeeet......

This is awesome! Thanks so much g-force, ANH looks so great now! Hopefully I can find the time to do ESB now.

Thanks for the guide! I didn't think I would be able to do it, but I did! It looks great on my flatscreen. I don't know if I installed the ff3tw.dll correctly though. Are you supposed to stick the whole folder into system32? I didn't get any errors during encoding what part of the process does that dll do?

Just watched Twilight of the Republic the other night. I loved it! There's just one minor thing that I'm hoping you can fix for the dvd release and this is something that's been an error in the movie from the beginning. In the opening scroll it says thousands of solar systems have left the Republic. In actuality we only call our own system the solar system, all others are called star systems. Just like in ANH when Leia said, "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

adywan said:

with all the talk of the skies when Luke approaches Bespin i thought it would be best if i posted a screenshot of my version. Again this shot has full video motion clouds so you can't really get a sense of what the finished shot will be like until you see it in motion, plus the x-wing is missing

Love this, so beautiful! Hey Ady do you ever look at the scripts to see if there are any visual descriptions that were never fully implemented into the final movie that you could bring to life? I bring this up because I was looking for quotes about Cloud City and found this in the script:

EXTERIOR: BESPIN SURFACE -- MILLENNIUM FALCON

It is down on the gaseous planet. Huge billowing clouds
form a canyon as the ship banks around them, heading toward
the system's Cloud City.
Suddenly, two twin-pod cloud cars appear and move toward
the Falcon. The cloud cars draw up alongside the starship.

 After I read that I remembered that shot above and thought how perfectly that fit the description for the earlier scene.

This is interesting, just stumbled upon it in an interview about the audio for the new Indiana Jones game:

The soundtrack is composed of about 40 minutes of brand new tracks created by Gordy Haab and Ray Harman. The rest of it (hours of it) is made up of never-before-heard music from the days of Raiders and Temple of Doom. We wanted to keep the feel of the old movies, but we didn't want to beat you over the head with the old music. It strikes a great balance.

Source

Ripplin said:

adywan said:

Now i had spent 5 days working on  the new moving  matte shot of Luke's approach and had just finished it and i loved it until i saw this suggestion.  i've now gone back and had to change most of the elements and start from scratch because i like this idea ...but the finished shot is 1000% better than it originally was.

Wow, how 'bout that? :) Any chance we could see the original shot somehow? If not now, then maybe as a DVD extra? Or in a making-of documentary-type situation? :)

That would be cool to see!

Has anyone tried combining the PCM audio with g-force's image stabilization and putting them on a DVD-9 with the original menus?

adywan said:

oh yeh. i've also added the "jedi ghost" glow to the scene where Obi-Wan appears to Luke on Hoth.

 

Hmm, I dunno. I always thought that his first appearance was more like a vision than an actual manifestation. It leaves the viewer wondering if Luke was hallucinating or not.

DarthBo said:

it's nice to see the mockups, but personally, I'd leave it the way it was.

Yeah I'm fine with it just the way it is. I also like the Darth Vader hologram as is.

ChainsawAsh said:

AxiaEuxine said:

Kurtyboy said:

My only complaint is that the Vader helmet is the horrible symetrical ROTS version. The ESB Vader helmet is FAR superior :)

Let me guess this straight, you'd rather have a lopsided helmet with mistakes in it becuase they couldn't make a symetrical one in the beforetime than one that was constructed with superior techniques and doesnt look like it was made in a garage??

Just because the new one was made with "superior techniques" doesn't mean it's better.  I happen to think it looks like shit, and agree that the ESB helmet was the best in all 4 films that feature Vader.  SW's looks a little strange to me somehow (it feels a little small in some scenes), and ROTJ's was *too* shiny and reflective.  But ESB had a perfect balance of all of those.

ROTS's looks, as someone else mentioned, like it was made by a fan for a Halloween costume.

Yeah, can't stand the ROTS helmet. I actually like the SW Vader the best, I dunno why maybe it's the red lenses. =P Did you know David Prowse wanted to reprise the role for ROTS but ol' Lucas decided to let Hayden don the suit.

They'd cover up too much of the action though. I think the cockpits are fine as they are.

mrbenja0618 said:

Tobar said:

Yeah I'm in the Aurebesh camp.

 

I vote no english. The one change I loved about A New Hope SE was that they changed the english wording on the tractor beam to the aurebesh titles.

Oh I wasn't saying anything about its use in the movie. I was just saying that I'm with those that call it Aurebesh. I like the fact that we never knew exactly what Artoo was saying. Left it up to the imagination, I look forward to seeing what Ady has cooked up though. =P

Yeah I'm in the Aurebesh camp.

Wow, stumbled onto these edits tonight. Only had a chance to see Attack of the Federation. I really like what you've done here. It makes Episode I pretty enjoyable. Just a couple things I thought were weird though, the scroll is blue now? Felt very strange to me. Also, you changed Watto's subtitles to make him more mean toward Anakin but in doing that you created a continuity error when you have him going back to work but then in the next scene he's fighting another kid he was playing with. Keeping Watto letting Anakin go home early would fix that. The other thing is the Podrace felt kind of strange with no music. I know that in the original movie Ben Burtt got George to leave most of the race without music but this new cut feels like it should have music going on through most of it. There must be some unused Williams score that could be readded to the film.

Overall though I really enjoyed this cut of the film. Especially liked Jar Jar's line change ("A little help here would be nice.") That sounded seamless! Where'd you get that soundbyte? Anyway, I look forward to watching Twilight of the Republic tomorrow. =)

Ripplin said:

Tobar said:

The other day I caught an episode of the show 100 Places to See Before You Die and it was an episode about Alaska. At one point they flew a helicopter to the top of a giant glacier and while they were up there it was nothing but snow and mountains. The thing was though that the mountains looked like they were a short walking distance away but in fact were miles and miles away. The illusion was caused by the clear air and snow.

[indirectly] Reminds me of one time I was driving down a road this winter where there were open fields and the snow was blowing so hard...and it felt like I wasn't even moving. It's was kinda scary, actually.

Anyway, those are some great Wampa pics you linked to. :)

 

Thanks, poking around that modeller forum I just found this:
Great shot of the Hoth trenches!

You've probably already seen these Ady but I was just poking around when I found this:

Close up shot of Wampa

I was surprised so I decided to look around some more and stumbled upon these:

Side shot of first Wampa

Sideshot of SE Wampa

Front of original Wampa

Front of SE Wampa

Good shot of the placement of the ears

Another Front Shot

Monroville said:

Maybe if the mountains were more grey or a faded blue due to atmospheric haze - something to distinguish them from the ground below the AT-ATs so it doesn't look like they're right behind them.

The other day I caught an episode of the show 100 Places to See Before You Die and it was an episode about Alaska. At one point they flew a helicopter to the top of a giant glacier and while they were up there it was nothing but snow and mountains. The thing was though that the mountains looked like they were a short walking distance away but in fact were miles and miles away. The illusion was caused by the clear air and snow.

As for the ESB AT-ST. Someone has actually recreated it:
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=49152&highlight=at-st
There's links to some reference as well. Perhaps you could get into contact with this guy and see if he could help you build your own or something. 

adywan said:

Tobar said:

Hey Ady, I was just glancing at the excellent comparisons you have in the first post when I noticed something:

Were these just temporary starfields?

starfields is one thing that has never bothered me. the last thing you should be looking at in a space sequence is the stars. i never wanted to use generated starfields and instead wanted to use original starfields from the stare was movies . you will get repeated starfields because there is only so much area i can grab and combine to use to create a very hi res starfield that can be used for panning shots and fast movement. Its the same starfield i used for ANH:R and no one commented on that so i'm not too bothered by repeated star clusters. lol

 

Well now that you have your new HD camera, have you thought about going for real authenticity by recreating the stars just like they did for the films? I can't remember where I read/heard it but I remember one of the crew mentioning that all they did was punch holes into this black material (can't remember what it was specifically) with a pin and then backlit it. It would add a lot more authenticity to the stars as it would add a real twinkle to them when they're in motion. Think it would be worth a test to see how it looks? Imagine if it comes off real well and you could one-up the prequel effects crew with their digital starfields.

astromech said:

Has anyone actually gone back through the various articles released by Lucas over the years regarding ROTJ? As far as  I can remember, and I'll try to find an article to back it up, but Lando was slated to die in the DS battle whilst trying to escape. This is the reason why Han believes he won't see the Falcon again.

The original scene was to run as it does in the movie, but rather than shooting out of the fire like a phoenix, the flames engulf the Falcon killing the intrepid heroes. There was supposed to be a brief line with Lando commenting on how Han was not going to be happy right before the final explosion...

It looks like GL possibly didn't want a downbeat ending to his trilogy to contrast with the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, so 'saved' Lando and created his teddybear ending instead.

Like I said, I'll try to find an article backing this up, but it's not a new idea and certainly isn't Ady doing a GL for the sake of a big change.

Nah, that was a popular Star Wars urban (galactic?) legend that was disapproved on starwars.com. I'd try and find the article but I need to go to bed.

Hey Ady, I was just glancing at the excellent comparisons you have in the first post when I noticed something:

Were these just temporary starfields?