doubleofive

Nothing that was in the original version of ESB should be cut.  SE shuttles and wampas, yes, but the original version is paced perfectly.

Ripplin said:

When I saw those inverted Stargate ships, the first thing I thought was:

"They're French!"
"Stinky pits and all, baby!"

"Isn't 'Betty' a girl's name?"

I'm confused.  So right now we're talking about the Emperor arriving on Coruscant, then flying his palace to the DS2 in time to meet up with Luke and get blowed up?

What's wrong with the tower again?

Have patience.  Use the torrents.

I neglected to say how awesome the color correction is!  3PO is actually gold now, instead of sickly rusted copper color.

You know, the more I think about it, I wouldn't mind more changes as long as the colors were right...  I'd rather have a super-duper-special edition and the OOT in a set, of course.

There's Black Mesa also, a complete fan remake/overhaul of Half-Life 1 using the Half-Life 2 engine.  It looks incredible.

http://blackmesasource.com/

Uploaded a Visual Comparison of the new video.

http://picasaweb.google.com/doubleofive/ESBRFacebookLukeSRescueComparison

Also wanted to point out that Ben is a different color every time we see him in this sequence:

He seems really light when he first appears and really dark as he's leaving.  An affect of appearing as a Force ghost?  Or something that could be tweaked?

JasonN said:

Other issues that I've noticed with the CG Yodas:
- they have no chin (ESB Yoda has a very pronounced "clef-chin")

- the eyebrow ridge seems closer to the eyes

- they don't have lips, or rather, they seem to have no lower lip (ESB Yoda's lower lip is a bit fuller)

I actually think CGI Yoda's face is fuller, almost like a child.  Muppet Yoda is almost emaciated, like the skin is starting to cling to his bones.

Jay said:

The only suggestion I have is to stick to standard banner ad sizes. The banners I made back in 2003, while good, didn't get the wide adoption they could've because they were non-standard sizes. If a site owner can't fit a banner in their current layout, they won't use it.

Here are some guidelines to follow:

http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/1421/1443/1452

Also needed that.  Thanks Jay!

UPDATE: Here are a couple standard ones.  The others aren't uploading for some reason...

Bottom one may be too busy.  I had a lot of space to fill...

Here is a nice comparison:

I think the I-SE's head may be off just a hair.  And VI looks almost as dumb as I.  Maybe he really was getting old, and his right eye broke in the year between V and VI.

Bingowings said:

He does seem to have a baby-like top heaviness to him for sure.

Though it might help illustrate the point if we had a comparison of all the different Yodas in the saga including both TPM versions.

I'll throw something together.

Moth3r said:

Are those ESB shots untouched or "blue-enhanced"?

I would suggest for these ones to change the text to something like:
"Sign the Petition for a proper restoration of the Original Trilogy on Blu-ray!" (which puts the point across that the blue-cast 2004 DVD was not a proper restoration).

I was hoping someone would have suggestions for a better text.  I'll change the ESB ones to match your suggestion, at least.

Bingowings said:

It might be possible to shrink his big head for example.

So its not just me?  It seems a little big to others?  Oh good.

Darth Editous said:

 

Granted, the EP1 puppet was definitely not an accurate replica of the ESB Yoda, but at least he still looked REAL - he looked like he was a living, breathing creature

 

I disagree - he looked like a muppet. There's a certain exaggeration to Sesame Street, etc, that ESB Yoda just didn't have. TPM Yoda looks like a South Park Canadian, with his flappy head and beady eyes ;) (no offence to any Canadians, but that movie was pretty funny).

DE

HENCEFORTH, "TPM Yoda" shall be known as "Canadian Yoda".  At least to me.

Ady sent me some bad ESB shots:

No need to exaggerate the blues, these were already terrible!

UPDATED: Tried to make a signature image.

Don't forget the thread for banner images to promote the petition!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-about-some-updated-banner-images/topic/11041/

Alternate Image:

JasonN said:

Dear god, WTF is with the color? It's like someone forgot to turn off the 100% Saturation filter in Photoshop...

It's because he was using a camera in pitch darkness pointed at a massive LED screen.  The colors were more normal looking as originally shown, let me assure you.

As for CG Yoda... well... I'm just going to come right out and say it:
He looks absolutely terrible to me.

Granted, the EP1 puppet was definitely not an accurate replica of the ESB Yoda, but at least he still looked REAL - he looked like he was a living, breathing creature (another benefit of using real props, George...). This new CG Yoda looks so damn fake to me, I can't f***ing stand it!

The puppet may have been a real object, but something went wrong somewhere.  The color was off, the shape was off, the ears were off, the eyes were constantly looking two different directions.  Sure the CGI Yoda looks fake, but at least it looks like YODA (and matches the rest of the PT for consistency's sake).  Unless someone is planning on making a Yoda puppet that looks like Yoda and replacing every shot in the prequels with it, I think this CGI is the best we're going to get (whenever that may be).

And Octorox is right, Yoda looks downright pissed off in every shot (could the CG artists at least bother to give the character more than one expression?)

Well, it does show that he doesn't like/trust Anakin...  And its better than looking at, but not really looking at who he's talking to. ;-)

TV's Frink said:

I like it, but I think the blue half should be more obviously blue (even if it's not 100% accurate).  I didn't notice it at first.

I'll make versions that are more blue, but I'll post the unadulterated ones as I make them, to confirm formats.

For example:

The side banner.

I'm using the example screenshots from Adywan's AVCHD, for you wondering.

UPDATED both posts with the exaggerated blue.

Bingowings said:

doubleofive said:

I'll say it again, I think the original colors for laser blasts, text, and Shwartz rings should be kept the original colors. The way the director intended it? ;-)

As a piss-take on the SE DVDs it might be a laugh to have the green Schwartz sometimes blue for no reason and the orange turn pink.

Applying bizarre tints which can be switched off by a inserted 'switch off tint' button might be a nice added joke.

Yogurt suddenly becoming CGI and doing cartwheels and then turning back into Brookes and adding a rubbish looking Pizza The Hut into the beginning of the film might work too.

Is making a window disappear mid sequence asking too much?

All of the words spoken by my friend, Bingowings, are true and should be implemented.

I decided to make one:

More (smaller) versions coming soon!

vaderios said:

No lol!

it can be happen

-Angel

Now I'd be fine if you went the full-SE route.  Maybe we could add more aliens to the diner at the end, definitely remove the stick up the Alien's butt...

One should also take note that the SWIC image is taller\wider in some cases.  Interesting, I wonder how they managed that?  Is there more image on the 35mm that they cropped out?  Did SWIC have access to MORE of the image than normally available?

EyeShotFirst said:

Well, I will keep the text and schwartz rings the same, but the lasers are going green.

Good for the environment?