doubleofive

I'll post the rough draft of my ESB cover.

It fits with the set:

Johnny Ringo said:

Hmm, How did Future Claire kill future Peter? - Peter is as Immortal, like the highlander :)  Unless something happened in the missing 4 years but they certainly didn't explain it, unless I missed something.

He's died several times onscreen and ALWAYS bounced back...

EDIT: Nevermind, I'd forgot the haitian was there!

Who's got a crackpot Mohinder theory? i'm betting he's either become Mohinder the lizard for real or something akin to Uluru :)

Funny that Sylar is finally normal when the rest of the world is so messed up.

Didn't Past Peter push past the Haitian on his way to running away from Future Claire?  Even if that was the case, wouldn't Future Peter's wounds heal as soon as the Haitian got too far away?

And I used to like Future Peter.  We'll one of them.  The one from the first season, namely, when we got a glimpse of his full potentianal in his battle against Future Sylar/Nathan.  Poor guy though, always having that scar...  Wonder when he'll get it, because it looks pretty unavoidable.

EDIT: Of course, as soon as I "Reply with Quote" you change it and make me look like an idiot.  My point of him still being able to heal still stands, as Claire died in the first season for a while until they took the stick out of her skull.

Zero Punctuation has a great review up finally.  If you've not seen any of Yahtzee's work, it's pretty much a fast-talking British guy who humorously nitpicks every game until it dies.

What is that?  Are those people fighting in the snow with swords?!

New timeline as of last night's episode: "Goodbye to All That"

Not much different except ANOTHER temporal incursion.  Skynet seems to have gone a bit overboard with the 888's.

This one.  Aparrently people didn't like it.  I thought it was more threatening than a needle, as afraid as I am of needles.

I liked them both.

I thought the cave scene with Yoda and the Clones and the Plo Kloon episode where he does about the same thing goes out of its way to show that the Jedi really care about these Clones and aren't going to throw them around like battle droid pawns.  Thinking that these same Clones will eventually turn on their Jedi just because they are ordered to hurts a little.

The prequels, besides explaining too much about where some things came from, also in parts didn't explain enough.  We were forced to assume since Obi-Wan had cute names for a couple of the Clones that they were actually friends.  Now with these episodes and the movie we see that they worked together and respected each other greatly.  Also in the Plo Kloon episode, we got to see Palpatine personally contact Anakin after the Jedi left his office to give him some friendly advice, again something only casually mentioned in the movies.

I really think this series might actually do what is advertised and be an entertaining fill-in to the space between Episode II and III.  Should we have needed it?  No.  Is it welcome?  Yes.

I don't feel like this is a prequel series because I'm not sure how they're going to end it.  Are they going to have Judgment Day happen no matter what the Connors do (like Terminator 3) or are they going to prevent Judgment Day from happening?  Yeah, we're sure John Connor's not going to die, but its his mission that intrests me.  Can they stop the end of the world?

Wasn't trying to knock you Zééé.  Just so you know.  I guess I should add more wink faces so people know I was teasing. ;-)

Zééé said:

Yes? :D:D:D:D:D

Nothing wrong....even if it isn't call to me....thanks everyone. :D

Adywan is a great editor, and if he could do models like he do the editorial job....than the Empire movie is in good hands.

But all men needs help...and the Star Wars is a collective experience. Or am i wrong?

Adywan seems to be a "do it yourself" kind of guy.  He's not afraid to ask for help with things he cannot do very well (computer generated ships, for example), but he has so many talents that he tends to want to do it all.  And I can't blame him, as the only way to really guarantee the level of quality that you want is to do it all yourself.

Zééé said:

Darth Solo: Thanks...:)

There are lot of things what I usually do…art, sculpting, modeling. I really like the art, and because my grandfather is a sculptor and “artist”…you know, this is a family legacy. I have many things what I didn’t upload my page, because that is only a portfolio page. Once in a time if I have a will and free time, I upload. But because I am lazy, it is not happened every time, just once in a year. :D

 

If I can help, drawing concept or storyboards, or making models for Adywan….here am I.

 

I have some great idea about the death of Veers, so if it help, I can draw some storyboards…or concept illustration. Just call me. :)

I think Solo was talking about Adywan.

adywan said:

doubleofive said:

Excellent clip.  Great colors everywhere.  Is it weird that I already miss the changes you previewed for the probe droid sequence?  Are you going to have to start from scratch with that sequence now that you've done color correction, or just re-color correct what you already had?

I'll be starting from scratch for most of it but having the saved project files for the work already done makes life a bit easier, plus i also need to build the new model of the Generator.

Physically build a new model?  Cause that would be awesome.

I'm just full of questions!

Excellent clip.  Great colors everywhere.  Is it weird that I already miss the changes you previewed for the probe droid sequence?  Are you going to have to start from scratch with that sequence now that you've done color correction, or just re-color correct what you already had?

Makes sense.  I just kind of wanted my suggestion in digital form for my own sake.

I threw together my mock up.  I forgot to look for any good landing ship shots, so I just used what I could find on Wookieepedia, which was an Acclamator Star Destroyer from Episode II.  It's not pretty, but it gets the idea across.

It could stand to be even further off the screen, or smaller.  I think this shot could do with some sense of motion, because it is completely still (which may be good for the dread factor and to balance it out with the Rebels scrambling in the shots previous and following).  But I think some subtle motion wouldn't hurt.

EDIT:  Another version:

My DVR shows two episodes tomorrow night.  I'll give it a shot.  It's free, so it'll at least be worth that.

I know we've talked about adding the landing ships and it was rejected, but I want to re-add my suggestion that we just see one lifting off as we first see the cloud that the walkers emerge from.  The cloud could be the snow disturbed by the landing and taking off of the ship.  You could even just have the tail end of it flying off the top of frame.  It would be easy (relatively) to do, and would explain all the smoke.  I'll mock something up sometime.

If he had his rockets in working order, he wouldn't have fallen into the water in the first place.

But let's not only point out the negatives of havoline's post.  I believe that burn marks are on the agenda, and a complete rotoscope of every lightsaber and blaster bolt will take care of Vader's saber color loss, as completely insane as both of those challenges might be.  But the insanity of going frame by frame and trying to add two-dimensional burn marks to a three-dimensional object filmed almost 30 years ago will be well worth it to add a bit of a shine to a nearly perfect movie.

adywan said:

Ha ha. Looks like my edit has pissed off some of the TFN guys. That's made my day :)

http://boards.theforce.net/the_star_wars_saga/b10456/10488221/p261

Eh, I've read worse.  I was kinda hoping it was a huge anti-Adywan thread that I could hop in on, not a random post or two.  Something like Zombie's "Secret History" thread over there.  That seems like they're being a bit harsh on one who just presented the facts.

And I don't think the end battle of ANHR is a jumbled mess.  It makes so much more sense than the empty ship shots with no reference points for location or scale, and definately more than the blank shots from inside the cockpits.  And 30 Rebel ships against a moon-sized battlestation and a huge number of enemy fighters might not be as elegant-looking as one would imagine.

The BDP-S350 is now $299.99 MSRP.  The prices are starting to drop...

My wife still says that we're holding out for a BD 360 add-on...

I loved that.  It would have gone well in their "Our Dumb Century" book, where some of my favorite articles are about movies/comics if they were real (Local Photographer Youth Killed By Radioactive Spider" and so forth).

adywan said:

I've always thought that the ending for the saga should have had a fitting orchestral score, so that is what i will be doing. I have a few years before i get to this stage so plenty of time to find the right piece of music. Plus i really need to concentrate on ESB:R so i don't really want to think about ROTJ:R for a while yet.

Did we find something Ady can't do?  You can't compose and orchestrate your own music?  What a shame. ;-)

I tease.  But seriously, maybe GoodMusician can whip something up for you sometime.  Assuming he lives up to his name...

P.S. I for one would buy a signed copy of the painting.

asterisk8 said:

Steering things somewhat back on topic....

Is it against the rules for adywan to do some kind of raffle to help raise money for equipment? The prize could be an original signed Star Wars painting by the man himself. I know I would buy a few raffle tickets for that. Or is that considered profiting from your fan-edit (even though no one is paying for a copy of said fan-edit)? If doing a fan-edit trashes your computer, fans chipping in to fix it isn't really profit, it's recouping losses, right?

Just a thought.

Adywan is no stranger to taking donations.  He has a Paypal account to donate to at any time.  Though eBaying his painting would be awesome, but if I was him, I'd want to keep it.

adywan said:

I've been having a few problems with the PC recently, after effects crashing on heavy renders & drives suddenly disappearing in windows (you could hear them power down) amongst other things. The PC hasn't been off in months and when i turned it off last night it just wouldn't restart. it tried to but failed after a few seconds and kept on trying. Luckily i know a bit about computers so i began testing that all the pci cards were in correct and changed all the cabling to the drives but still no luck. But then i tried removing the new drives and it started up  without any problems. I was preying that its wasn't the drives so i plugged them back in and it failed to start again. So this time i unplugged 2 different drives and it again started up without problems. I'm such a dumb f**k at times. I totally forgot that when i upgraded to the quad core and added the 2 new drives that i should have got a higher powered power supply. I have a 550w at the moment and it looks like I've worn it out and its just unable to cope. This is going to have to wait until mid October when we get paid and i don't want to risk any damage to the pc so i'm using the wife's laptop now until i get the power supply. This project is as jinxed as ANH:R by the looks of things. But its my stupid fault for forgetting about the extra power requirements when i upgraded. So no more work on ESB:R until this problem is sorted i'm afraid. :(

Man, you just can't catch a break!  We appreciate the work you do, and hey, at least you didn't lose everything or blow your motherboard!

I'm thinking about convincing my wife that she needs Iron Man, her new favorite movie, on Blu Ray.  That might push her in the right direction.  But she'll probably be afraid of that format dying since I convinced her last year that HD DVD was the answer...