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And the only OT cinematographer still around, don’t think I’ve seen any of the recent films he’s worked on.

Agreed. The IMAX preview was spectacular. I’ve left the probably station for the hype train.
3D was surprisingly good. I’ve been very negative about 3D films these days. (I hated the 3D for TFA) Yet the one trippy cg-heavy astral plane sequence shown during the preview was some of the most immersive 3D I’ve seen a long time. There was one particular part with all these hands that the detailed dimensionality made super creepy.

Also, loved how the posters weren’t so flimsy cheap poster paper. They were actually harder, and they even had enough extras to let everyone in the theatre take a second one if they wanted.

lol, though I feel bad for the other people in the line outside the theatre. My geeky friends and I were in the front of the line and were surely loud enough to probably annoy quite a few people.

What the heck did I just watch?

Ohhhh, that’s how he got his red arm.

Watched it last night, pretty much what I expected.
Yeah, so there’s quite the quality of cringy quotes that I could put out from this. I’ll have to make a top worst list. One of the worst I can think of so far, is in the Jar-Jar section:

Jar Jar is actually based on Goofy. The funny thing is, if you look at old classic Disney movies, Walt Disney would always put in butt jokes. Feel free to Google “Walt Disney animation butt jokes.” There are butt jokes in all of those films, and I’ll tell you why. He noticed that, in his short films, that whenever there was, like, a butt, I’m talking about, like, an animal butt, like a rabbit, something innocent, little children giggled. And little children giggling in the audience actually got everyone else in the audience to laugh.

I’m living dangerously, I caved in and bought the digital download. We’ll see how this turns out…

Haha, typical hypocritical Lucas.

That’s awesome! It’s too bad there’s no proper copy of the documentary out there.

Nice to see they are doing an IMAX preview event again. I’ll gladly grab myself a cheap free poster.
http://www.imax.com/news/doctor-strange-exclusive-look

Did anyone else attend the one they did for GOTG two years ago?

I always thought the big issues with ROTJ weren’t till later in the movie, like the lack of tension during the third act. In other words, unless the opening is getting radical changes, there would be absolutely no reason to have to change the crawl. The crawl only sets up the movie, nothing else.

CW03, meh. Not a fan of that animation style. I guess the action is fun, but it’s too far in the unrealism spectrum for me. But hey if Lucasfilm wanted to make a 2D animated show with the art style of that amazing TIE fighter short, sure. I’m all for that.

That’s great to hear that there will at least be a 1:78:1 reconstruction of the IMAX sequence. It’s still a shame they didn’t include the full 1:44:1 sequence as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray.

Wow, nice job on that shot! I love the more dynamic use of color.

I think that old collaborative ROTJ project just took a few bullets.

Gotta say this another great read for me while I work on this, and a positive outlook for the future of “digital” filmmaking. So glad Yedlin’s the cinematographer for Episode VIII.
http://www.yedlin.net/OnColorScience/

It reminds me that work focused on building an accurate emulation is far more useful rather than trying to simply get the film look from a completely subjective standpoint. And while I can make occasional scene/shot tweaks, the emulation for each film needs to be able to work across the entire duration.

Also to note, I’ve fully moved over Davinci Resolve now, rendering the above-referenced clip not so applicable now. AE is my familiarity, but it’s better for this project to go all out. I’m more satisfied I haven’t rushed the project, as I realize just how much it will be better when I finally release it.

And I couldn’t remember if I mentioned this before, but I am thinking about doing a staggered release with TPM being the first to release.

Wow, with all this attention to Portmann and Ridley, surprised no one is going to bring up Isaac. I’d die for a shirtless Poe scene in Episode VIII.

What do you know…this isn’t a surprise at all. There’s a reason I hadn’t gotten the movie release yet.

Also I had seen a report talking about a 3D release of TFA recently which also mentioned the prequels finally getting their 3D versions released as well, so hopefully that turns out to be useful for fanedits.

Damn, John Williams just blew me away, again. Unlike how it was shortened in the film, “The Jedi Steps: Concert Version” actually develops the theme further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFkktFqi4M

Anyone else hear a “Luke’s been through hell since we last saw him” vibe in this?

Except that Rian is only writing the story treatment for Episode IX, not the screenplay itself. That’ll be handled by Collin Trevorrow (and his buddy Derek Connolly), as he announced a few months back.

My problem is that I simply don’t feel I know enough about Trevorrow’s style and approach to filmmaking to have an idea for what he will do for IX.

ZkinandBonez said:

I’m not sure where they got this, but I found this at http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/ and it was simply labelled; “Rogue One Planet Jedha”

They look like some form of priests, and they are on the planet Jedha which has been confirmed to be a pilgrimage for believers in the Force, but they look kind of sinister as well as walking alongside an Imperial officer, so doubt that they are good guys. Maybe we will get to see some Dark Side worshipers in RO? I haven’t been paying too much attention to the new canon, but do the general public in the SW universe know that the Empire is being run by a Sith lord?

Now there are two of them.

Made a few more tweaks, and am rendering a new version of the clip. Instead of putting the entire speed chase clip on youtube, I have a 1:30 min section of it and uploading a link to the clip download here. It’s a BD-compatible M4V, so you can preview it on your television, though I intend to use a better renderer for the final product, since Media Encoder isn’t the best.

“Been doing a lot of research into learning more color science type stuff. I’ve been again changing my methods, mainly to bring about a more accurate, and less “look” based grade. Specifically I’ve now been using Cineform Firstlight which I use to flatten and remove the tints from the image. To be able to use the program I do all the upsampling and upscaling process as one preceeding render resulting in files that get to ridiculous 300 GB per hour. That said, the amount I can raise the shadows (and to a lesser degree the highlights) is astonishing. It’s almost like taking the blu-ray and interpolating a RAW file from it. It’s far perfect, but it solves all the previous banding and noise issues I had in CG-heavy sequences. From there I’ve gone into AE where I keep the workflow 32 bit and use numerous adjustments to give it a filmic color response. I did research into techniques used to create film emulation lut’s so that I have more control over the process (also because LUT’s are designed for specific color profiles/cameras that these movies don’t line up with). I haven’t quite nailed it yet, but I’ve been able to get a satisfying filmic appearance without drastically changing any color decisions inherent in the film.”

Here I still left the highlight rolloff, and pushed shadows only slightly up. I’ll set the highlights and shadows to better levels as I finalize the curving adjustments.

EDIT: Well that’s a first…it was blocked despite leaving out the audio track, could’ve been it was too long of a clip. Hmm…gonna have to upload to Vimeo maybe.

Speed Chaser clip coming later today, with explanation about further technique changes.

Edited the high-res leaked photo spread to a poster format.

Wow, Alan Tudyk’s character reminds me of that droid from ROTJ that talks down to R2.

Impressive, most impressive.