doubleofive

Davnes007 said:

 

It was mentioned before about how the Ewoks could be made to be more menacing, so I made a quick little video of the "Dead Animal On A Stick" scene, with a StormTrooper helmet inserted. I know it's crude, but I only did it to see how it would look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOjAgaxE10

Don't hold back...be critical, and abusive...I can take it..... ;)

 

I'll agree that it is crude.  That's some big headed stormtrooper ;-)

The music is too whimsical for the gruesome scene and would need to be changed.  Also, the Dead Animal would have to be erased from inside the net.

But it just might work, honestly.

Jedi Dark Knight said:

doubleofive said:

We've had most of the Dagobah discussion already.  And if you check out the YODA TWEAKED video on the first page, you'll see that Ady has already begun work on tweaking Yoda a bit.  Very cool stuff.

Hey, thanks doubleofive, I checked the video, and I hardly noticed anything new (that could be good I guess), it looks good though....but I might be getting my impression solely on the color correction improvement. Thanks for the post

You've got to watch Yoda's mouth.  He actually forms his words instead of just flapping his mouth around.  Notice the W's, especially in "This one, a long time have I watched."

I'm excited, and I don't even plan on getting the SLV!

Yoda Is Your Father said:

I've read the comic and enjoyed the film but there was a lot missing and I'm not sure how well it would work as a film in it's own right.

It didn't, at least in my opinion.  Either way too much happened, or way too little.  I still haven't figured it out.

I wish there were more fan edits just to fix technical/logical flaws.

Jedi Dark Knight said:

I've noticed much interest has gone to either Cloud City of Hoth. No Dagobah suggestions....is it perfect as it is? I can only remember vague things....breathing life into Yoda would be nice, CG maybe? [please don't fire your turbolasers at me!]

We've had most of the Dagobah discussion already.  And if you check out the YODA TWEAKED video on the first page, you'll see that Ady has already begun work on tweaking Yoda a bit.  Very cool stuff.

Monroville said:

Okay folks,

I'm going to create a list ala the ESB:R list I have regarding the Prequel ideas.  I will separate them by movie and scene (just like the ESB:R list) so as to better keep track of ideas and suggestions.

Good luck with that.  I can't imagine how you'll organize it.  Keep your eyes open on the front page of ESBR, as Ady is replacing his change list with one I made to match my ROTJR list.

I was surprised there wasn't a "page turn" wipe in the PT. ;-)

Would this be better off in Feature Requests?  I'm sure it'll get moved.

I had a friend in elementary school (early 90's) and every time we sat at our Apple-IIs in computer class, we'd say "A keyboard, how quaint", crack our knuckles, and type randomly.

I watched the Kid's Choice commercial, and it did give me worries.  I hope against all hopes that it makes sense in context, because... *cringe*

nevermind.

The problem with that is everyone's reaction to it.  Chewie and Han don't think anything of a dead animal on a stick, but Luke senses a trap.  A stormtrooper helmet on a stick with the head still inside it?  Definate trap, and might even freak Han out a bit.  Changing Han's line from "It's just a dead animal" to "It's just a stormtrooper head" is either extremely hilarious or extremely badass.

I like the shots of the big fights from each movie, as the sets become more and more virtual.  Huge hanger deck set, sand on the floor for Geonosis, a big green room for Mustafar.

Darth Piccolo said:

As promised a rough design that proves it can be done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJCYyVA0_E

it took me quite a while to master the software before using it :)

Not bad, not bad at all.  I see potentional.  But for continuity's sake, Ady'd have to add it to ANHR too, and that's not happening...

vaderios said:

doubleofive said:

Vaderios, great 3-D model, I'm sure you can work with it to make perfection.

Darth Piccolo, like most of Vaderios' work, the dynamic lightsaber lighting is great, but practically impossible to do frame by frame.  Sucks, I know.

 

The 3d model was a rough to show how the blueprints are in 3d space. I can work over them in Photoshop.

The interactive saber lighting is possible with the video tutorial i posted.

 

Nice Idea there Bingo, as always ;)

-Angel

 

I saw the video tutorial in the ESB/ROTJ thread, but it didn't find its way here.  It could be done though!

Bingowings said:

This might sound a bit daft but bear with me for a moment.

Perhaps one way around the shifting, door/window problem would be to have the upper suites rotatable (the suites may be designed to entertain rich buyers who visit the city and they might like to have a room they can move around to catch different views.

The two interior doors could then line up (according to where they turn) with two completely different exterior doors (much like a fit with a door at both ends, someone pushing the door button on one side would automatically rotate the room in a gentle fashion so it lined up with the door on the inside).

We could see the top of the building begin to rotate and a shutter come down and then Han comes in from one door (setting up the rotating possibility of the room) and when Chewie and Lando come in it wouldn't matter if the doors were not right because the room has rotated without the audience seeing it because the shutter is down.

Some of the design suggestions above could fit into this idea as the look small enough to be rotatable modules.

It also would explain the changing lighting.  Wow.  I'm impressed!

Jaxon's Dad said:

Ady,

Great work as usual. Was wondering if you were going to do something to the matte painting of the gantry/shaft/control room exterior? Specifically, the current establishing shot does a faux zoom. It doesn't ring true because the zoom is more or less static, that is, both foreground and background elements zoom at the same rate. I hope I'm not confusing the issue. Another forum member addressed this in a video demo, but i can't recall who that was. Keep up the great work.

Best,

JD 

I think Ady is making a whole new gantry/shaft/control room exterior, so no worries.

I have to thank corellian77 for reading my mind and actually drawing out the rough sketch I was trying to draw EXACTLY as I envisioned it.  You did forget the set of stairs they go down after your "elevator?" marking.

Vaderios, great 3-D model, I'm sure you can work with it to make perfection.

Darth Piccolo, like most of Vaderios' work, the dynamic lightsaber lighting is great, but practically impossible to do frame by frame.  Sucks, I know.

R2-918 said:

I recently bought four Star Wars Trilogy DVD Box Sets (The 2006 OOT DVDs that were re-released last November) I now have four DVDs each of the original versions of the films, I gave the 2004 versions to my friend. I just don't think we'll ever see the OOT released on Blu-ray thats why I bought so many of these OOT DVDs. I know they don't look as clean or sharp as the 04' versions and thier not anamorphic but then again they certainly look better then any past VHS release and from what I've read they look better then any previous LD release.

Four?  You know DVD's don't wear out, right? ;-)

C3PX said:

Wow, that would be pretty sweet. The song could start off with singing, [opera voice]"Ouch! My limbs! You stupid son of a bitch, you cut off my limbs! I thought you were my brother, but I think you slept with my wife and now you cut off my limbs! Help! Now I am on fire! I hate you so much![/opera voice] Actually, it would be a duet with Obi-Wan singing things like, "I loved you! Why? Why? Why? Oh my brother Anakin why! You were the choosen one! You were my brother! You were my best friend! I loved you! Why!"

Anyone who doesn't see how this could be pure gold, and put Star Wars back on the map as something unique and beautiful is completely void of any artistic taste whatsoever! I say we start a new petition to have ROTS remade for Broadway.

I love you guys.  So much.

adywan said:

yeh it would mean scrapping the whole exterior scenes which i don't want to do.  there's also another issue when you see the corridor view that is outside the door that Lando & Chewie enters

as you can see there is another apartment entrance  next to leias and the window she is looking out of would actually be looking into the next door apartment. What a mess. i hate continuity issues...lol

Man, I almost simulposted that too!  So they walk up a few stairs into the hallway, walk along towards the camera, turn to their right, walk down some stairs past Han's corridor, go down a corridor and turn left, past the elevator window, go down some more stairs and meet up with Vader.  There are a lot of stairs.  And Han's corridor has stairs going down into it (meaning that since Lando walked down stairs before he walked past it, there should have been more stairs on his side, or no stairs on Han's).

There is a lot of building around the apartment, not at all like a tower as the mattes show.

EDIT: And what kind of apartment only has one open room?  Maybe its more like a lobby?  And I don't want to point out that Han and Lando switched sides sometime while they were walking.

NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE!!!!

And I simulposted with Ady with pretty much the same content.  Awesome.

EDIT: Looking closely at the items in the room instead of just guessing like an idiot, Ady is right, of course.  Still needs some kind of tweaking to explain the corridor from nowhere, and Han does seem to be looking where I have my arrow even though the items don't match in the alcove.  And the lighting change could be attributed to the rotation of the city, or time passing.  I still don't think there's a shot where the window is supposed to be.

Upon further reflection, there are two sliding doors and one open corridor.  Here's the nearest I can figure out, judging by the location of Han and Leia sitting:

There are numerous problems: The lighting is different in every shot.  Chewie come out a sliding door which should open into thin air, while Lando comes down a DIFFERENT coridor that wasn't there previously in any shot.

Maybe add Lando's corridor to the previous shots, or have a sliding door open as Lando approaches?

EDIT: Looking closely at the items in the room instead of just guessing like an idiot, Ady is right, of course.  Still needs some kind of tweaking to explain the corridor from nowhere, and Han does seem to be looking where I have my arrow even though the items don't match in the alcove.  And the lighting change could be attributed to the rotation of the city, or time passing.  I still don't think there's a shot where the window is supposed to be.

Gracious, this is confusing.  The plants show that this is supposed to be the same door, but the lighting is as if its against the back wall now, with Chewie entering camera left.  I'm going to try to map this all out...

Watch the Building Empire segment with this scene and try to figure it out!

doubleofive said:

And I hate to question you Ady, but are you sure that's where the window is:

I mean, the lighting must be all kinds of messed up since the shadows are on the back wall at the beginning, and now on the front or side?

EDIT: It looks like the corridor appeared along the back wall.  If you look at the shadows across the wall decor, they match perfectly with the establishing shot.  Maybe just insert that corridor in the first shot?

I overlayed the later shot over the establishing and confirmed: