doubleofive

That's the best argument I've heard for keeping Shaw in the ending scene, cap. Lucas' explanation that Anakin truly died when he became Darth Vader and therefore his ghost would look like Hayden is a stretch, and if its a matter of choice of what to appear as, why wouldn't Obi-wan and Yoda choose to look younger (thank goodness Lucas doesn't think like that)?

Since its technically a hallucination of Luke's or he chooses to see them as he knows them, Shaw as Anakin makes sense. He's never seen a picture of his father, how could he imagine what he looks like (and don't tell me, "The Force!")?

Rick McCallum: "Everything you're doing is great, keep up the good work! It's an honor to work with you."

Ripplin said:


- 005 mentioned Vaderios' pictures not working. They work for me (in Firefox 3.5), but get cut off at the edge of the box. It won't allow me to scroll to the right to see the whole thing as before, so I'm missing half of his mock-up every time. I'm wondering now if that would apply to any wide picture...

Actually I believe that he is just releasing the proper audio and having everyone replace the files in the ISO. Or something like that.

I like the changes, the avatars before the threads is kind of weird, and something about the upgrade disabled Vaderios' pictures! I noticed that the HTML never had the filename.jpg at the end, which weirded me out, but you could right click and save them just fine. Something weird about his hosting, or with our upgrade?

vaderios said:

Probably the new forum improvements cant allow to display them here.

anyways...what is this shit? (brightness up)

-Angel

According to Wookiepedia it's Ghoel.  It is scary.

vaderios said:

I tried to eliminate the animatronic eyes of jabba. Subtle difference

-Angel

There's something else different here, but I can't put my Fett--- FINGER!  finger on it.

Imageshack?  Angel, where are your photos?  Did your hosting go down?!  Looks like I wasn't paranoid, was I?!

vaderios said:

@005 a quickie on the new platform with fixed perspective. BTW. Dont we suppose to see the other imperial station behind AT-AT?

no details.

Looks a billion times better, but we may want to keep the walkway that short to match the live action shots.  May have to count the supports!

I'm sure Angel could use them, and I'm very interested in seeing them!

Was digging through Wookieepedia and found this (View Image for even bigger):

Which seems to be a fairly high res image of the matte used in this shot:

Apparently the image comes from the ScreenThemes that were released a few years ago.  Anybody have that, could be useful for certain matte painters around here.

Angel, you think you could use that matte there?

Venal, I've been thinking about Piett and your suspicion about his suspicion, and I guess you could be right that he would be suspicious since they are expecting this exact thing to happen.  I forget that the trap had been set a long time ago, and he may want to hold them to cut out that part of the trap that could fail (Piett being the pragmatist that he is).  Of course, in the end, Piett is right.  I love Piett.  Have you read how one of the ideas on this thread was for Piett to be a kind of tragic hero who also has a change of heart at the end and deliberately rams the Executor into the DS after the DS starts "firing at will" and hitting Star Destroyers along with Rebel ships?  It's one of my favorite ideas that would be hard/impossible to do, along with sacrificing Lando.

I'm not sure changing the shuttle type for Tydirium would be that hard, its in one or two mattes and a handful of shots against empty space or scenery that should be replaced by Angel mattes anyway.  I think Vader should have a plain white one and the Emperor should have the stripe on the front be more obvious or have more stripes (remember the different Lamba-class shuttles in TIE Fighter?)

Darth Venal said:

The line seals it.

Piett was about to clear them even with the older code and after hearing where they were going.  There is no hint of suspicion on Piett's part, IMO.  To me, the scene almost plays as if Piett goes through this all the time with Vader and is playing along as Vader stares off into the distance for a minute or two.  Why is Piett even doing this, since the Executor probably doesn't hang around the DS2 all the time.  Shouldn't the DS have its own group to handle this?

The new shuttle design comes from the idea that Vader and Palpatine should have executive shuttles and the Rebels having the same design for "parts and technical" seems rather odd.  You'd think they'd have an older shuttle to go with their older code, and for a design we've never seen until this movie (SE notwithstanding), it just makes sense to have an older/different design, at least to me.

Jay said:

doubleofive said:

I'm excited about any changes!  Any chance the ability to post from my iPod Touch is in this update? :-D

Actually, yes. You'll find a setting under preferences that will let you disable the post editor.

For the next update, I'm planning a toggle switch right next to the post editor so you can turn it on or off on the fly. This will allow you to leave it enabled by default, but let you turn it off temporarily if you're posting from a mobile device.

You know Jay, I've heard a lot of terrible things about you, but it turns out that most of them aren't true!

Kidding, thanks for the update!

Bingowings said:

If the waterfalls could be made to work it would add so much to that scene, especially Vader's plaintive gaze at the end.

It's a subtle way of working Padme into the film without being hamfisted.

Hamfisted?  Like taking one of Vader's "Padme"s from the end of RotS and using it here quietly?

Vader stands looking past the camera for around 5 seconds not moving, theoretically we could create a new shot from behind him looking towards the rising sun.  However, the sun comes up BEHIND him if I understand the set design.

The camera is at the rear of the AT-AT, which means its facing towards the sun in the bottom shot (which matches the actors in that scene, believe it or not!).  Bummer.

Also, should this be Vader's shuttle?  If so, it moved.  Better yet, it should be a new class that matches whatever Tydyrium is replaced with.

I'm excited about any changes!  Any chance the ability to post from my iPod Touch is in this update? :-D

Google, my friend.

Still don't have a Blu Ray player, but I have ESB ready to go!

vaderios said:

doubleofive said:

While trying to fix the "original DVD image" holes left by someone's hosting moving or something, I found another edit that has been bothering me.

005 where this is happening?

14. Fix garbage spots in "one of the battle shots" where ships were not added.

 

-Angel

It was a vague suggestion a long time ago.  That's why its in quotes, I'm not sure where it is.

Darth Chronus said:

vaderios said:

Yeah! Hotrod is still alive :D

 

Great stuff there DC. Do whatever you want. Im dont want anything :)

 

-Vaderois, Angel's French cousin.

Thanks Angel. Hopefully my final anamatic of your mock-ups for that little scene will make it to the list.

I'm just waiting for the final version!  The first draft was impressive enough!

While trying to fix the "original DVD image" holes left by someone's hosting moving or something, I found another edit that has been bothering me.

The trooper doesn't seem very sneaky bobbing his head up and down throughout this whole scene then jumping up to tackle Han.

vaderios said:

Nooo! Keep the bummer sentence :D I liked that.

Thanks for ground me 005 ;) You remind me my limits! :D

 

-Angel

I wondered if sometimes you work so hard to make a great picture that you don't think how hard it would be to do in "real life".  I mean, you could do it frame by frame, but everybody's going to need YOU to do it for them!

Still waiting on this redone opening scene.  Love the DS2 mattes you've made so far!

And I added my bummer sentence back in. ;-)

Darth Venal said: Maybe we should begin a realistic wishlist then?

I could just mark some of them "Impossible" like I did with the "Move all the action to Coruscant." ;-)

qxx said:

Forgive my ignorance, but how are the logos different for each movie?

The Adywan logo will be different for each movie.  We don't know how yet as he hasn't done them!

vaderios said:

A quick test of how it can be a little more realistic and blended rather studio like

Added reflection to the glasses, new blur on trooper too. Some tree shadows and I can hope a better sunlight.

 

-Angel

Looks great, but I think we may be entering an area where doing these kinds of things in motion may be too difficult.  I'm not sure how hard Angel works on some of these shots, but I'm sure its pretty hard.  And having to do something like this frame by frame would be time consuming and might not look right in the end.

I mean, no one loves Angel's work more than I do, but we have to be careful not to get too excited for something no one's going to be able to replicate in motion.

I'm really a bummer, huh?

I guess it is a wishlist though...

Ganamae said:

adywan said:

Have you received the workprint yet Ganamae?

Yes, massa :D I got it this Monday, gave it a quick gander but gonna save the premiere for this weekend.

I gotta tell you Adywan, from what I have seen ( ok, it was more then a quick peak ) so far, it making me all jumpy inside :D

From the new *beeep* and the impressive looking *beep beep* its very fun, more stylized and its all impressively made!

 

Just gotta love it !

New what?!  Impressive looking what?!  I ache with jealousy!

Ziz said:

C3PX said:

Whoa, I've never seen that De La Foret before! Have I somehow never been fortunate enough to see one throughout all my years of browsing any and every store that sold old collectable toys, or is it perhaps another one of those across the pond exclusives?

No, it was available in US packaging too, it just came out near the end of the line so it was a little harder to get.

I have one, I guess I got it new since I can remember NOT having it and I was BORN in 1983.  Broke one of the guns off the side almost immediately, of course.  Ah, toys...