Yeah, someone needs to work on that synth ocean. I wonder if Master and Commander's storm footage might be useful at all? They did capture a lot of filmed footage of a storm they incorporated into the film.
Some of that stuff might be useful for Kamino.
That kamino shot looks much improved.
Sometimes not showing the whole city in an establishing shot helps add size to the thing.
Lucas should've pulled a Kubrick AI and shot Kamino on oil rigs in the north atlantic. :p
good job ady. It also looks like there's some nice lighting interaction between the interior/people and the sunset you added.
Those things always help tie shots together during comp.
Might be. I haven't watched magnoliafans in at least a year and haven't watched yours yet.
Cool! Thx for that ben_danger.
I suppose Sidious would have to be a hologram though to explain the distance.
Seriously though, what is up with Coruscant security? Can sith lords just waltz in and out?
And wouldn't that dark side concentration on the same planet alert at least one jedi?
Lucas made the jedi so clueless in these films.
Yes. He sounds very PO'ed when he says "Bring My shuttle".
And the SE dialogue sounds like it was recorded in a tin box.
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When I first saw ESB SE in theatres I seriously thought the new line was done by the voice of Vader for the SW radio plays, Brock Peters. But Lucasfilm said it was James Earl Jones.
Oh cool. Yeah, the landing platform one is cool.
If there were a way to have the musical cues match up better in the cut, then I'd wouldn't complain about Vader's shuttle to Executor.
If the score blends better. Right now the ESB SE is too choppy with it.
I think the SE Vader's shuttle to Executor is just 2 shots.
Might not hurt things.
But does it really add anything?
Seriously, beyond seeing the shuttle go to the actual ship, is it worth the addition.
Part of the problem I have with many of the SE changes were things Lucas went way overboard with in the Prequels, namely fx shots of ships zipping back and forth and landing. After awhile, it loses the human element and becomes boring.
That's why I went off in the prequel thread about prequel landing shots. Show us something different for once George. Can you maybe show Anakin and Padme landing and Geonosis and maybe looking at each other? Something different.
Instead, he used fx as a storytelling crutch too many times.
But anyway....back to ESB:R
I think it might be Magnoliafans Clone Wars edit
topdawg
Again, having recently studied both takes, with and without this SE addition, I feel that this addition is minimal and subtle enough that it doesn't detract from the flow established in the film at this point. The 'Falcon-Tie Fighters' chase hasn't started yet, so it doesn't clutter that sequence, and I feel that it makes the transition from 'Vader-on-Bespin' to 'Vader-on-Executor' more palatable, whereas before (due to the time apart from seeing Vader) it was slightly sudden when he appeared on the bridge of the Executor.
I have to respectfully disagree. They chopped the score up with the new cuts for one. Secondly, when Vader says "bring my shuttle", we know where he's headed and it aint on vacation.
And Vader disembarking from the shuttle.......did Lucas really think we wouldn't spot Jerjerrod at the bottom of the ramp?
And the shuttle landing scene takes way too much time and completely disrupts the flow of the Falcon-Tie chase...and the music behind it.
See....intense chase...chase, chase, intesity,music swelling, slow ROTJ outtake, chase ,chase, intensity rebuilding.
continuing in the mustafar = sith hideout, you could have the background to the Maul/Palpious conversation on the Coruscant balcony now take place on mustafar with the volcanoes in the background.
The idea is to connect the PT films together and also preserve the Cosurscant reveal until the heroes go there. We see it when they see it.
I'm going to get behind bingowings suggestion that Maul and Greivous = the same person.
If done correctly( a tall order I agree) it will strengthen the entire PT narrative IMHO.
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What if Mustafar is a hideout for the Sith and the buildings and everything are sithy?
Sidious could send the seperatists to hide on what they think is a safe haven, his own hideout.
I like the glowing eyes less than imagined. I prefer the shadow over the hoodie.
Volcano footage? Hmmm.....not right off the top of me head. I mean there were those movies from the '90's Dante's Peak and Volcano. I dont know about usable footage from them though.
Almost need to look at Nature programs maybe. National geographic videos, etc.
Needs more blue! Needs more cyan!
Blue lasers, blue sabers, blue lava, blue milk!
And even......blue YODA!!!!! Take that Blue Yoda haters!
I love blue!
j/k! About making everything blue.
I do love blue though. Electric blue specifically.
So I'm on your blue team vaderios
:D :p
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?
That idea sounds very cool. Maybe add some sith trappings to the background.
It would be like, as you said, a sith temple in space. His home away from home.
Damn, what we could do with ROTJ.
Remember that art by McQuarrie and Johnston showing Vader's temple surrounded by lava?
This reminds me a bit of Ridley Scott's Legend.
Oh the straight walls you don't like behind him.
Well you could always do the angle thing. It would create some additional uneasiness in the viewers. Better yet, just have a black void behind him with a beam or something.
Make it creepy.
I remember being creeped out when I first saw monkey emperor back in '80.
Cool.
Do you mean like the hologram beam?
That looks so much better. I can now see that emperor as the same one in ROTJ.
SSWR
That was very good also.
Bingowings said:shanerjedi said:lol bingo
The hills are alive with the sound of music!
I thought he looks more like the lost Bee Gee.
Whether I'm a jedi or whether I'm a mogwai I'll be stayin alive, stayin alive
The sith has us shakin and the senates now a quakin but I'll be stayin alive, stayin alive.
Ha, ha, ha ha, I'm stayin alive.... stayin alive
Ha, ha, ha, ha, I'm stayin aliiiiiihhhhhiiiiivvve.
I'm stayin alive.
lol bingo
The hills are alive with the sound of music!
Would it be possible to drop a Tantive IV hallway into the background of that med centre shot?
Yep. Hide the puppeteer.
ben_danger, cat lady....ROTFLMAO!!!!!
monroville
and what is with the goofy flip? Did Vader ever make an entrance like that?
Oh just wait until the super duper special editions from Lucas.