doubleofive

asterisk8 said:

gavin77 said:

Oldfan said:

You can really see the difference in size between the included dish and the "correct" size in the second link you posted. I am amazed that Adywan is taking on such a huge task as building this model on top of everything else he is doing with this project. I know what kind of time and patience it takes to build something like this. I built this http://www.starshipmodeler.com/1999/js_warp_eagle.htm years ago, and it was a nightmare due to the brittle parts (sure looks good though). Of course the Fine Molds will be different material, but just the thought of it containing over 800 parts makes my head spin. I can't wait to see how this comes out, but I get the feeling that we won't be seeing it anytime soon.

Like I said, I get that feeling too! Extreme amounts of work for only one man.....this could take a long while, but I'm sure it will look great.

I know. If I lived in the UK, I would totally be ady's volunteer assistant. Hell, I would pay HIM to work on this project. Just bringing him coffee, dusting the models, combing the wampa puppet, etc.

I've dreamed of doing that also.  I think I may have literally dreamed of doing that once. ;-)

My wife and I loved the movie (my review will be here soon, with a spoiler companion piece here).  The wife has only really seen Voyager and a few of the movies, but she has a working knowledge of Trek.  However, on the way home, she too said she wanted to see some of the old stuff again.

It's working.

ImperialFighter said:

Janskeet said:

I really don't see whats wrong with the Millenium Falcon/Tie Fighters in the asteriod/canyon chase. It looks fine to me. I don't see why adywan is going through the hassel of recreating the asteriod/canyon chase with models, I don't see what's in dire need of fixing?

Because the elements/colouration in the couple of shots where the TIEs collide, and when we see the Falcon with the resulting explosion behind it as it goes through the canyon passage, are probably among the worst effects in the entire movie, and spoil what is otherwise a terrific sequence.

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

BarBar Jinkx said:

I'd love to see somebody (SSWR, Bingowings) throw together a New ending for RotJ after Ewok celebration that would go a little something like this -

Night -

Camera closes in on jedi temple as celebrations can be heard outside

Luke looking out over coruscant as ben & yoda sit in there old chairs 

(maybe) Qui~Gon (& thats a BIG maybe) appears in the centre of the room beside Anakin

 

Cut to senate building Via Palps Statue being toppled

 

Mon Mothma is stood in central podium

with Senator Leia organa coming into view on floating podium, 3Po & Others are with her.

 

(if Lando is killed in DSII)

cut to Bespin 

Statue of Lando is revealed to rapturous applause 

Han looks up to it with a sad smile. Chewie  & Wedge are stood with him.

 

as for Naboo & Tatooine I just don't know of a good way to show those two planets 

I wish we could do something like that.  I love it.

adywan said:

doubleofive said:

adywan said:

corellian77 said:

BTW, how're the donations coming along?  Still in need of some monetary funds?

Well i'm in constant need of funds at the moment. i have managed to get the finemold Millennium fFalcon and a few materials for the sets but the donation fund has now dried up and there is still a lot more stuff  to get. once i have everything i need then the donations will be closed. And i have to say a huge thanks to everyone who has donated.

Awesome!  You could post a teaser picture of it!  Are you going to modify it, I read the paint job is a bit off...

yeh there is some modifications i will be doing to it. the model is unpainted so i will be matching the paintjob and details as close as humanly possible to the studio model ( thanks to the hundreds of photos from the exhibitions). i have to add all the lighting to the model to so there is a lot of work to be done.

The Fine Molds Falcon is not the one I was thinking of.  So, it comes in naked pieces and you have glue all the little greeblies on it?!  YOU CAN EVEN SEE IN THE TURRET PORTS AND SEE THE CHAIRS.

That's crazy!  Crazy but awesome!

adywan said:

corellian77 said:

BTW, how're the donations coming along?  Still in need of some monetary funds?

Well i'm in constant need of funds at the moment. i have managed to get the finemold Millennium fFalcon and a few materials for the sets but the donation fund has now dried up and there is still a lot more stuff  to get. once i have everything i need then the donations will be closed. And i have to say a huge thanks to everyone who has donated.

Awesome!  You could post a teaser picture of it!  Are you going to modify it, I read the paint job is a bit off...

So not every special edition change is going.  Interesting.  The colors look so much better, and thanks for posting the comparison, saves me some time. ;-)

I think the girl in the back was a model, because look at the way she's posed in that shot.

Strike a pose!

shanerjedi said:

Nah. He'll pull a Lucas SW SE and let the finished Jabba scene sit on the shelf after it was finished at the end of 95, despite advancements from Dragonheart and other movies to make it look better.

The original SE Jabba animator, Steve Williams, asked George over and over if he could adjust it in '96 to take advantage of the new advancements in lip animation, namely the Cari software developed for Dragonheart.

Gee, I kinda went off on a tangent there didn't I?

I did not know any of that.  Good tangent!

Everyone has to remember this shot was thrown together for the pre-production trailer over a year ago.  I'm sure it will look even better now.

This thread makes me almost as sad as when I heard that the King Kong ride went up in flames.

Please tell me that the Haunted Mansion (the only thing I remember from my trip to Disney World 20 years ago) isn't branded with Eddie Murphy now.

My dream is to ride the Jaws ride.  I hope it still exists whenever I get to finally go to Universal Studios.

So, Yoda's stump: should it be visable in the scene where Yoda picks up the X-Wing and sets it down (apparently) right next to where the stump should be?

The problem is that according to my "research" (squinting at screenshots on my monitor) it should be right where Luke is standing on his head.

The sticky-out bit is in the comparison shots, Obi-wan is just standing floating in front of it.

Here's a shot from the set I found on T-bonez.  Yoda just chooses weird tree formations to sit on.

I think he thinks the color is desaturated too much.  At least that's what he mentioned in a PM.

Two foot tall and floating in front of the log next to Yoda.  Not sure why.

Since someone posted a frame from the video and I'm a hopeless Comparison Nut, here's the comparison:

No more Floaty Mini-Obi-Wan!

Bingowings said:

I couldn't help but notice that the background to the bonus scene was a little monochrome will this be adjusted in the final version?

The stump that Obi-wan is behind is a bit odd too (he is a ghost it might work if he is infront of it and we can see through it, perhaps? Or maybe it could be adjusted to look a little less cut around).

Yoda is amazing but in long shots the Obi-Wan element seems to missing some frames (is this temporary?).

Otherwise great, great work nice to see Ben not floating in a void for the first time.

It looks great from that shot.  I'm sure if it looks bad, its just a filler.

I've got ya, YIYF!  And you, Hot Rod!

doubleofive (its nice to have a single online entity)

trimboNZ said:

havoline said:

proving the point that ILM is not passionate about Star Wars, the very reason they exist is because of Star Wars.  If the personel were wanting to do it they would have done the work for free, dont you think?

 

ANH (Lukes lightsaber was green somehow in 2004 DVD release) I rest my case.

I was under the impression that Lowry Digital did the restoration and colour-correcting for the 2004 DVDs, and were given one month per movie.

The only article about the 2004 DVDs says that it was ILM:

Moth3r said:

doubleofive said:

I don't remember where it was mentioned, but there's an article the specifically states that ILM did the colors and just had Lowry clean it.  I think ILM tried to restore it themselves to save money, messed up the colors and hoped Lowry could fix it.

http://www.apple.com/ca/pro/film/lowry/starwars/index.html

That article mentions that Lucasfilm scanned the negatives, carried out the "re-mastering" (I assume this means the '04 alterations) and the re-colour timing. Then then attempted a cleaning pass through ILM, before deciding to give the job to Lowry.

Lowry received high-definition scans to work with from Lucasfilm. Although it is not clear in the article, it's reasonable to assume that the scans provided contained the tweaks and the new colours.

Ripplin said:

Very nice, Bingo. Some of your best yet, I think.

And hey, it's another ship landing scene! :p

I call for a montage of Prequel Ship Landing scenes!  Someone put it on YouTube and let's see how not to progress a story!

X-Wing Mechanic said:

Prognosis:

I loved the new clip! Yoda is full of life now, especially when he says, "You will become an agent of evil." I remember that the puppet's mouth movement was terribly unconvincing in the originals which "takes one out" of the fantasy and the suspension on the ordinary. The new mouth movement and expressions are subtle but powerful. Adywan is a great magician!

I do have a critique. When Ady enlarged Obi Wan so that he fits the size of Yoda in the scene there is a very noticeable loss of resolution. Two ways around this: return Obi Wan to original size and place some branches in front of him to show that he is some distance behind Yoda; or shrink Yoda a little so that he fits in with the original Obi Wan.

I loved the shot of Cloud City. The clouds really give dimension to the previously flat and obviously painted shot. The red sky car (I don't know what they are called) is a bit jarring though since it contrasts the beautiful sky scene with a very passionate red. I know some of the shots were temps and are still under construction. I hope my thoughts are somewhat useful.

 

X-Wing Mechanic

I cry for being in debt and living on a budget, and my wife thinking I'm addicted to the OT boards anyway so asking for money would be bad for my life.

C3PX said:

Bingowings said:

In that set up when Luke is saying "I can't do it alone" he is expressing doubts to Artoo over his ability to save everyone now that Leia has blown the plan rushing to save Han so Ben turns up to give him a bit of a pep talk but also to bring the story of his father's fall full circle.

The context changes the meaning of the line.

 

I don't think what you are talking about could every be done by any stretch of the imagination, but even if if could, wouldn't it just make more of a mess?

If you took Ben's telling Luke that Leia is his sister and placed it at the beginning of a movie, I guess you have to remove it from its rightful spot, to prevent redundancy. Since Ben has already confirmed that Vader is Luke's father and Leia is his sister, then Luke would have no reason to ask Yoda if Darth Vader was really his father, and Yoda's dying words "there is another Sky...walk...er" would be meaningless. In the attempt to fix some logical errors at the start of the film, you'd be bungling the entirety of the film and making some of the more meaningful moments less meaningful. Also, Threepio translates for Leia, so how could she already be capture by the time Luke decides to send the droids?

Not if you open the movie on Dagobah.

"Luke is on Hoth.  The entire planet is covered in snow.  It must be cold!"

I think they're safe as long as they don't have ridiculous accents.

corellian77 said:

shanerjedi said:

Do we really need a siren? He already gave the evacuation order. People are fleeing. We get it already.

Put Ric Olie in the shot then for cryin' out loud.

"Look, it's an evacuation and the people are leaving!"

LOL... I vote ady put Ric Olie into every scene of ESB:R from this point onward.

-- "That's Darth Vader, Luke's father... and look, he just lopped off his right hand."

I love Ric Olie!  I wish we could get that actor in to make an alternate audio track, like sometimes they have one for the blind.  I can't believe that he also plays the drugged-out stage manager in Wayne's World 2 though...

If you watch the movie, its R2-D2.  He shoots smoke at the stormtroopers then makes his way to the ship.