Notice I said "many of you", not me, I liked them. The Blurrg are one of my favorite Star Wars animals.
Now I'm gonna have nightmares about Wilford Brimley being replaced by Jar Jar. What will become of diabeetus? =/
Has anyone else been enjoying the Ryloth trilogy? I think it's been pretty good so far. It looks like in the next episode they're bringing back the Blurrg from the Battle For Endor. Though I suppose many of you might consider that a bad thing. =P
OzoneSherrif said:Why did you remove the little laser cannon on the ground in that shot?
I was wondering that myself. It doesn't seem to make sense that they'd leave their biggest weapon totally unprotected.
doubleofive said:Karyudo said:Anyone notice that in Ep 14, as we see Ahsoka's shadow slicing up a pair of droids, her lightsaber also casts a shadow? That can't be right...
I noticed that too and cringed. That doesn't help my "how can something made of light cast a shadow?" argument.
"When Ahsoka cuts down droids inside the Separatist base, she is shown in silhouette and her lightsaber casts a shadow. Contrary to online debate, there's nothing wrong with this. Lightsabers do indeed cast shadows; anything that is opaque does. Try it with a fluorescent light tube."
Great to hear from you Ady. I just checked out the new slug clip. Everything looks great, except I noticed one thing. In the original film the foreground asteroids all have a natural spin on their axis but in the newly incorporated field the asteroids spin end over end. I'm hoping you'll take the time to recomposite the original asteroids as the new ones feel distinctly less real and more artificial. Perhaps if that would be too time consuming you could film new replacements.
I've had this very same idea kicking around in my head for years now. I even had a mental list of all the different cuts I'd make, maybe one day I'll learn a video editing software and get to it.
OzoneSherrif said:I don't believe the holograms should be changed. I don't think the Leia hologram was changed in ANH Revisited. And actually I hope Adywan will OT'ize the prequel holograms. downgrade them you know
Completely with you on that Ozone.
Bingowings said:
Archie Goodwin used essentially the same idea in the Marvel Comic adaptation ,though he never showed the creature from the outside (can someone post a scan of this for completion sake? I can't find one.)
If anything I think the most that can be/should be done is to desaturate or adjust the hue of the creature's gums to be less pink. But overall I like the creature just as it is.
Kurgan said:The space slug looks fine. Why change it?
I agree.
I'm a fan of Revisited but it just seems like this is getting out of hand. I'm all for fixing the little continuity gaffs and the horrible tinting but now it just seems like we're looking for things to change just because we can. The Empire Strikes back is regarded by many to be the best film of the trilogy. I just worry that if it's tampered with too much in very obvious ways that it could be ruined. We don't want that do we?
vaderios said:doubleofive said:Amazing work. You also got rid of the lightsaber shadows. LOL
Yup! I always wanted to do it. Even in ROTS :P
-Angel
"Contrary to online debate, there's nothing wrong with this. Lightsabers do indeed cast shadows; anything that is opaque does. Try it with a fluorescent light tube." source
Very interesting ideas being thrown around. I was liking some of the earlier stuff about Clone War I and II. I was thinking since Obi-Wan is serving as a General for Bail that the Tantive IV could be used like the Millenium Falcon as the heroes main means of transportation throughout the trilogy. (I also like the idea because the design of the Tantive IV was originally meant to be the Millenium Falcon.) This also allows an easy way to introduce Threepio and Artoo as always having been a part of the droid crew on the Tantive.
Monroville said:adywan said:Now onto the Carbon chamber issue. I was looking over your plans to have the chamber at the top of the shaft but this creates more problems than it solves. That is a hell of a long way for Luke to travel to find Vader and really doesn't make sense. Why would Vader run all that way away from Luke just to lure him to the vane? All that needs doing is redesigning the actual vane so it can contain the carbon chamber at the top and explain where the corridors that led them to the chamber disappeared to. Its quite plain to see now i have gone through the Luke jumping down from the chamber to the pipe that you can clearly see that behind him is the base of the carbon chamber as the architecture and piping is very similar. It is meant to be one complete sequence as you see Luke drop from the chamber (even though you can clearly see that he jumps from hanging onto a pole in the first few frames of the pipe sequence, but this was just to simulate his drop during filming). So this means that the carbon chamber is indeed meant to be built into the vane. Now it looks like i'll have to build some sort of model for the vane shot and do a lot of redesigning, but at the same time keeping the look of the original.
Also i won't be extending the actual carbon chamber in any way. Although it does look pretty cool in the McQuarrie paintings i feel that the limitations reached during filming actually helped the scene and gave that claustrophobic feel that this scene needs. Make the chamber look to big with all these extending platforms and your treading too close into PT territory for my liking. if you look at the PT everything is just so expansive and flashy which just became a show piece and did nothing to help create any sort of mood for the scene. Less can be more.
Fair enough, but will you make the connecting arm to the Vane thicker to account for having to hold up the weight of the Vane itself? I guess that's one reason I never thought the carbon chamber was in the vane itself but either above it or within the shaft wall, and that the tunnel Luke went through was the connecting rod TO the vane - the connecting post to the vane/pod (whatever you call it) just didn't look strong enough to support a structure other than something that was mostly empty or a bunch of corridors.
Yeah that's what I thought.
rcb said:but if word got out, adywan may get in trouble and those who've downloaded any revisited versions of the films.
That's just unwarranted fear mongering.
Hey Ady I was wondering if we're still gonna get a comparison copy of the yoda tweaks? I showed a friend the one we have now and he couldn't tell what was different. Keep up the awesome work. =)
Wow, had I been standing up while watching that my rear would be firmly planted into the ground now.
But it says they're playing it through the 24th.
Are there any clips of this anywhere?
Sounds awesome. Perhaps....after you've completed this project you would maybe think about a Force Unleashed movie?
I've always thought it would be interesting to replace the DS in ANH with the Star Destroyer that captures the Tantive IV. So you have the princess rescued from there. Though that does leave a window open about Alderaan.
That's cool SKot, so he made a dvd copy from the original then?
I'm not entirely sure but it sounded like he did from what he said.
Hey everyone, I think I might have found a new copy of the Holiday Special. Back around February I was browsing around on Youtube and found this pristine scene (for youtube) from the Holiday Special. I'm no expert on the various copies floating around out there but it's the cleanest copy I've ever seen. So I contacted the uploader asking about where he had gotten his copy and he told me the following:
One that I found myself! The guy recorded it at SP mode on a VHS tape, if you believe it. It's too bad he didn't leave the commercials in, but other than that it's complete.
Rick
I told him that you guys might be interested in it and he was completely open to being contacted about it. What do you guys think?
