dragnink

Someone should just create a Gmail account utilizing the Google Drive on the account, sharing the login information with content contributors. Cloud-based, sync'd with a folder on your desktop so no risk of hard-drive failure. A text file about folder heirarchy/naming schemes could be shared with contributors who'd then handle organization, eventually being compiled into one large archive. When the archive was mature a public means of distribution could be discussed and agreed upon, something that could be searched for on torrent sites for example.

Leaving a project of this scope in the hands of only one person is probably the reason it hasn't advanced in nearly 3 years now. It's simply too ambitious for one person to tackle especially when they don't have the proper time to flesh it out. When I had my former stash of sounds before my own crash, it would've taken me a few months working 8 hour days to organize all of those thousands upon thousands of sounds.

My suggestion would give those with material incentive to get involved with the project. Even if just a few of those people worked with each other, it would push it out there that much sooner.

timdiggerm said:

dragnink said:

No editing other than the Kindle pic was sized up to the iBook's native pixel size and cropped to a similar aspect ratio.

Given the artifacts produced by various resizing methods, that's actually significant.

It can be, but not really in this case. I used the "bicubic - smoother" setting in Photoshop which isn't too bad when you have to enlarge pixels. For reference the original Kindle image was 700x474px while the iBook version without the crop is larger than my 1080p display, so there's quite a perceivable difference.

Just to illustrate how Amazon screwed the Kindle folks:

(500-700k each)

Kindle:

http://i.imgur.com/H8izlLW.jpg

iBook:

http://i.imgur.com/kyOxCrj.jpg

No editing other than the Kindle pic was sized up to the iBook's native pixel size and cropped to a similar aspect ratio.

Anyone with the ESB iBook willing to screen cap a small handful of specific AT-AT pics for me?

Bought the book after customer service at iTunes said in theory I'd be able to view the contents without an iPad, but it didn't work.

While we're on this topic, I wanted to lament a particular site called Fan-Files.net that had a great collection of ripped SW sound FX intended for fan films. Previously it had been known as the Sound Bunker on TheForce.net. Does anyone know if there's a backup somewhere of the files that used to be on that site? 

Most of the files had been ripped from various sources, including games. I remember grabbing all of the archives hosted there, only to have my hard drive get corrupted by a root kit and require a reformat. Some of the sound effects were really interesting, too.. lots of ambient effects, even some of the source files Ben Burtt used for the speeder bikes. I've been a sad panda ever since.

Not to off-track, but as far as the Hoth AT-ST being removed, while this is coming late... pictures of the original ILM walker prop surfaced a couple years back from a collector in Japan and were shared selectively with some model builders on a replica model forum. A bunch of guys (myself included) have recreated the Hoth walker in 1:1 scale including the working stop-motion armature the original had and 99% of the kit parts used on the original. The picture set that was shared in confidence showed the original model in great detail. I have plans to shoot some stop-motion scenes with mine in the future, but it will probably be some time after the revisited release so it would be coming too late. It's too bad the scene was ruined, and I do agree on its short cameo seeming a bit out of place without it included.

Here's one of the builds by a man named Lee Ralph... thought some might find this of interest considering the original prop had all the details ripped off of it after TESB for reference when they were creating the go-motion Jedi walkers.