doubleofive

Siliconmaster482 said:

I saw the message from the facebook ESB:R group- is there any truth to the statement about people helping you to film new Hoth stuff? If so, cool.

There's a discussion on the boards there about it.  Yes, apparently some people are making outfits and are going to run around in the snow for some long shots!  Specifically for Luke getting up as the walker he blows up is falling, but it sounds like more may be done while they're out there.

Deadmeat, we did have a discussion about this recently, but it would be impossible for Adywan to scale up the ship as they are crawling all over it the entire time its on screen.  There is a plan to build a new hanger with a new highly-detailed model Falcon, but Ady has never really specified which shots were going to be fixed by that and I'm thinking it might be scrapped because it will take forever to build and detail this crazy model he found.

That's very interesting.  It's almost like the Family Guy animators asked Lucasfilm for a model of the Executor and they said "go find your own!"

I think he should get credit, and since its not out, he might already be credited if it was in his mesh.  It's not like trailers have full credits (either for TFU or SSSDS).

xhonzi said:

ImperialFighter -

I always felt like ImpFight needed an avatar, but this one just blows my mind.  Why?

I ought to make him one, a nice one...

captainsolo said:

"Alert my star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival" simply doesn't work in that scene (heard it was leftover dialogue from SW) and the fact that the snippet from ROTJ with Jejerrod is on the end just goes to show how pitiful the thought process was.

Nice to hear that your mom is feeling better! It does indeed seem like you get your determination from her!

Praying for you and your family. Spend as much time with them as you can.

Oh, I'm leaving again until December 7, so Bingo, if you could keep the list straight while I'm gone, that'd be great.  Thanks guys!

Very nice!

Bingowings said:

I just posted this over on Ash's thread but it might fit here too.

One of the oft quoted problems with starting the film on Dagobah (as suggested by some variations of the Fan-O-Matic idea) is that we lose the traditional format of starting OT films with a Star Destroyer.

 

ESB doesn't start with a major Star Destroyer scene (we only get the probe droid being launched) it's then a long time before Vader gets his big entrance.

Perhaps it could start with a Star Destroyer launching construction droids at the building site and that being dwarfed by the enormous scale of the Death Star.

Then we could cut to Dagobah and back to Vader arriving without breaking the tradition.

 

Ominous, silent half completed Death Star II?  I kind of like that idea, going with the rearrangement, of course.

vaderios said:

Sorry, dual 22" monitors here.

I'm sorry you're awesome. ;-)

The eye does better comparisons horizontally rather vertical.

I did not know that.  It seems to me that my on-top comparisons are easier for me to see the differences than your side-by-side....

It seems the official ESB/RotJ Wishlist setting is side-by-side, which is nice for the complied Wishlist, but a pain for the thread. :-D

Put the animation on the Wishlist.  If you could figure out how to slow it down, my brain would appreciate it. ;-)

Yeah, the Glove of Darth Vader was some of the first EU and written for kids.  And was awful.  It never ceases to amaze me that they try to fit it into the canon.

TheBoost said:

AxiaEuxine said:

 

 Couldn't Vader just walk the next 20 or so feet and use the door on the right of the shot?

He'd have to cut through the wall he had Obi-Wan backed up to. :-P

TheBoost said:

doubleofive said:

I like the shots and ideas, but the quality is pretty bad.  Maybe as small elements somewhere, but unless someone can scale it up to 720p (the presumed res of RotJ:R) and it not be obvious, they might not be usable.

What is needed to to up the size of something like that?

A high definition copy of the Ewok movies, which don't exist (and would be an abomination if they got a full restoration and the OUT didn't).  Maybe it could be done with sharpening filters, but I'm not sure zooming in on those images could be salvaged from their already fuzzy and compressed 480p source.

I like the shots and ideas, but the quality is pretty bad.  Maybe as small elements somewhere, but unless someone can scale it up to 720p (the presumed res of RotJ:R) and it not be obvious, they might not be usable.

DarthBo said:

 

doubleofive said:

AxiaEuxine said:

The last few times I've watched the movie, I kind of hoped for something like this.  I just assume that he started cutting while we weren't looking.

Except it's completely pointless. Why would Vader destroy the door? Letting the Falcon escape was part of the plan. It's a trap remember?

 

Seriously, I forget that every time.  Of course, the TIEs could the only part of "letting them go", now that they were away, might as well put that tracking device to good use! *shrug*

AxiaEuxine said:

I love the hologram idea for the Death Star conference room. Great idea.

Angel, great work on the hanger shots. Not wild about what you did with the shots with Tarkin and Leia. Something about the lighting bugs me.

Anywho, here is my contribution from the Axia Edition list of ideas. Vader has a lightsaber, no silly door would stop him.

To visit older Axia Editions please visit my website, thanks. http://www.axia.ws/axia

The last few times I've watched the movie, I kind of hoped for something like this.  I just assume that he started cutting while we weren't looking.

My wife does the peanut butter trick.  I used to make fun of her, but by golly, it seems to work!

Old school Angel.  The bottom one was one of the first mockups, a teaser of what was to come.

Zombie is too busy trying to figure out how Lucasfilm thinks to read threads!  Let him be! ;-)

That would be amazing to hear those stories!  Piett has become one of my favorite underused characters in recent years!

He's got a lot of good stuff for visualization.  I'm going to try to contact him to see if I can't hotlink these pictures.

UPDATE: Because he's no longer taking commissions, he took off all of his contact info.  I'm going to upload the pictures to my Photobucket account with links to him.

Warbler said:

Welcome to the forum, Stampede.   Its good to have members here from outside the USA.  Its give us another perspective on things.

And here I thought the Brits wanted OUR perspective, not the other way around!  ;-)