none said:
that's a good time to start rolling out Doubleofive's SE comparisons
To be fair, most people don't care about redone wipes. At what point does the meticulousness overwhelm and become a turnoff?
Bingowings said:
It would be interesting hear which new changes are 'salvageable' some of them clearly are not but is there anything new worth keeping or working on?
Depends on your purpose. For things like Revisited, Ewok-Eyes might be worth keeping. The lack of Humdinger is probably worth keeping, depending on the quality of the fix.
twooffour said:
AICN coverage is good. Excellent.
Good things about the Blu-Ray changes:
1. The concept of the bigger Jabba's door shot is nice. It's clearly poorly executed, but I like the idea.
2. The Ewok eyes is much like Jabba's door, but I don't seem to think it looks as bad as you guys do.
3. Han's unfreezing seems a bit better. It's still not that great, but any improvement is nice, because that effect has always been awful.
aaaaaand that's about it.
TV's Frink said:
This thread is giving me great ideas for my eventual Ridiculous edits of the OT.
Aren't those coming out on blu-ray soon?
bkev said:
REALLY? That's pointless. Beyond belief.
It's not pointless at all. Clearly someone at Lucasfilm loves 005 and just wants to give him more to do with his hobby!
Ah, but it does make the films rhyme more.
I'm surprised you read it, to be honest. I thought it was too long.
but sometimes disaster must be appreciated.
TV's Frink said:
Darth Bizarro said:
Lando's excursion to the blob races
What?
Get ready for this...
Wookieepedia said:
A blob race was a bizarre contest of speed between protoplasmic, gelatinous Umgullian blobs through a course of obstacles—from fine mesh screens to a bed of nails. It was a major betting sport in Umgul City on the planet Umgul. The syrupy masses, usually grayish green but laced with bright hues, rolled, slithered, and oozed their way through. Cheating on the races was punishable by death.
and
Wookieepedia said:
The typical blob was a base color of sickly green. Most, however, were patterned with vivid spots and stripes. There were many subspecies of blob, some bred for racing, some bred as domestic pets and some even for medicinal purposes. All, however, consisted almost solely of a large mass of jelly-like fluid encased in a thin membrane. This membrane was thin enough to let the moisture of Umgul's foggy atmosphere to pass through. This skin also had the ability to break and then reform instantly. This allowed the blob to split into two new blobs. These new blobs would behave exactly like the original blob until, at any point, they were able to re-merge into one. This was also how the blobs reproduced; when a blob grew to the appropriate size, it would divide into two equal, smaller blobs, like giant amoebae
and finally...
Wookieepdia said:
Along with C-3PO and R2-D2, [Lando] was led to the Umgullian Blob races in search of the possible Force-sensitive. The individual they were searching for, Dack (also known as Tymmo), turned out to be a cheater on the blob races instead of a Force-sensitive, and Calrissian helped expose him. When Calrissian went to confront Tymmo at the blob stables, he found that the man had planted something on one of the blobs. Tymmo did not take kindly to being discovered and a short firefight at the corral ensued before security forces arrived to subdue him. Rather than suffer the usual death penalty for cheating, Tymmo was returned to his wife Mistal, the Duchess of Dargul. As a reward for Calrissian's help in returning her husband, Mistal gave him one million credits.
So... now you know.
The only problem I see with the eyes is the whites of his eyes - He doesn't have any in the non-CG bits.
Other than that, this is a pretty good change (if we're changing things, which is a different judgment scale, see).
Chewtobacca said:
DuracellEnergizer said: This may just be me, but it's kind of hard to tell that Shaw has any discernible British accent in ROTJ.
He most certainly has an English accent.
As an American, I'd just like to say that I've never heard it (and still don't).
ray_afraid said:
I like the idea of changing the Ewoks eyes to make them more believable and life-like. But the way they've done it makes 'em look so creepy!
This may be something we need to see in motion.
TV's Frink said:
vbangle said:
Sorry but that just looks gay as hell.
Sorry but using "gay as hell" to describe something you don't like is gay as hell.
...double standard?
ImperialFighter said:
Anyway, it turned out that he intends to alter the intro. of ROTJ for his eventual Revisited edit, so that it seems Vader is on his Executor rather than some random Stardestroyer...so the existing ROTJ shot of the shuttle dropping down from the front 'bay' is likely to be GONE in his version.
Although this raises the question of "Then how does Palpatine get to the Death Star?", I'm really glad to hear this. Having Vader arrive in the Executor keeps better continuity with ESB, and results in a more impressive SD-flyover shot, instead of just repeating the ANH intro.
But was the picture letterboxed? If not.... could it have been DJ's v3 or something? Harmy's Despecialized?
IMPORTANT NOTE: you're going to want a much higher resolution file than that for physical printing.
But seriously guys, that looks amazing.
Anchorhead, it's good, but I have to agree with Silver - It needs the "SAVE"
And maybe just the url for savestarwars.com, as I feel like ot.com is a little less publicly presentable.
And maybe a different font for the url?
EDIT: I forgot to say - Thank you for actually making what is at least a prototype!
Oh goodness, a whole message board for people making protocol droid costumes and models. Well, there goes that logistical problem!
I don't think anyone has ever built a good C3P0 costume. I certainly haven't found such a thing online... but maybe I haven't looked hard.
Well, I'll believe it when I see it.
none said:
A promotional patch to throw off onlookers.
...by using Star Wars font.
doubleofive said:
Can you imagine if someone tried to piece together the plots from the prequels based on pictures like this?
"He's walking in front of a blue screen... He takes his lightsaber out and swings it around, then continues walking..."
Having been a regular TFN and VirtualEdition reader during the Prequels, I can confirm that it was much like that. Thankfully some info did leak, over time, and so you could start to figure things out.
If any of you are unfamiliar with the Virtual Edition, I strongly recommend you check out http://virtualedition.net/ . They're slowly working on writing and illustrating their own Sequel Trilogy, but the really fascinating stuff is their "Virtual Editions" of the prequels. They were updated over time, so you'll probably find them a little more accurate than you'd expect as dialogue became available through trailers, but it's pretty fascinating to see what spy reports and photos plus photoshop could give you, before each prequel was released. Here's their version of TPM.
By the way, the title of this thread is a little silly. I never thought they didn't film the Barge scenes, you know?
Unfortunately, I think that amount of deviation from the plot would require significant exposition which we can't really make any characters do.
slight changes to Jabba who is now digitally expressive.
This is new, but not surprising.
Questions:
Jaitea said:
wonder if the whole Dermot shot will be an extra on the BD
Well, it hasn't been on any of the lists we've seen. :-/