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adywan said:

No matter what i do there will be complaints.

When i get to the point that i'm pleased with a shot, i should stop there.

I'm pretty sure that some people think i can perform impossible things.

True statement.

Best advice you can give yourself, probably.

Unfortunately, true again.

Although you are losing some background detail, the brighter ones have washed out flesh tones. That suggests, to me, that the tweaked ones are more-correct, and that those background-details, brought out by the brighter versions, aren't really supposed to be visible. It's not about having every detail visible, it's about having a good balance and a good visual look - something which obviously doesn't include washed out flesh-tones.

Ady, I think some kind of movement has got to happen in his forehead or his eyes. It's too still here, and it was distracting. If it's not doable, then obviously this is a better option than all other previous Emperors in this scene, but some movement above the mouth would really, really help.

luke.the.darkside.is.fun said:

I clean up what i can

Good. Honestly, your spelling is pretty decent in that post. It's stuff like this, though, that I think really bothers folks.

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Try "I'm", "dumb", "cuz", "idk", "It's", and "People" next time, and that will help a lot.

Oh sure, now you suggest that.

Yeah, those sabers look fantastic to me. Luke's saber isn't the same color as it seems to be in ANH, but I think that's a reality of the films and not something to discuss here. The tweaked ESB shots look great. I'm pretty darned excited about all this.

I love the real-trooper idea. I'm hoping this is one of those things that makes it into Ady's PT:R. You know, in the 2050s, when he gets to those.

Have we talked about the idea of trying to fix the music?

Bingowings said:

I have already purchased this product more times than I can count

Bingo, Bingo.

Akwat Kbrana said:

it's important to remember that no film was ever designed to be watched frame-by-frame.

You do realize this is originaltrilogy.com, don't you?

I wonder about that, actually. Laying aside the feasibility of replacing the droids with orc-clones, how many times is it made explicit that the Troopers are clones? Heavy alterations to/removal of Kamino and what's left?

His critiques of these films run so deep - I am not sure how any fanedit can address the problems he finds, the ones which are clearly at the core of the problem with these films. Any thoughts on that?

Well... I hope you learn how, because the current crawl makes no sense. Luke's not on Tatooine in your version.

Although I suppose we should say that if Sluggo's right, then the fictional room we're reconstructing is slightly different than asterisk's diagram in that both halves of the room must be the same size (seeing as they're really the same room).

Hey guys, I just noticed that the DVD9 version I have came with a rar called "VIDEO_TS_files_fixed.rar"

Any idea why it's there, what I should do with it, etc?

One thing I really, really prefer about the original matte is the the way that the brightness focuses the eyes on Yoda, R2 & Luke. Being able to see everything, everywhere might not be the best move, compositionally.

Darth Funker said:

 I vividly remember differences I've not seen on any version since seeing it in the theatre. The biggest one is Luke being badly bloodied during the duel with Vader.

See http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/my-memory-isnt-that-bad-is-it/topic/6521/

ABC/Legu, your perspective on the matter makes a lot more sense after this explanation. I think, though, that no one comments on threads while you work on projects because no one has anything to say. It's not that we don't love your work (WE LOVE YOUR WORK!), but what is there to say? Although we can recognize the superior quality of your final product, most of us don't have the know how to say much other than "Well this sounds like it will be good". It's not like Adywan's ridiculously long threads where people get into arguments over and over - Instead, we just wait.

gobalicious said:

I can't help but notice Yoda's ears.  They vibrate a lot as he moves his head.  It seems that real cartilage is stiffer than whatever the puppet is made of.  Try flicking your own ears.

Although that may be true, two things:

1. Your ears are not as long as Yoda's. I think the amount of ear we're dealing with here matters.
2. I distinctly remember some AOTC behind-the-scenes type thing, talking about making the CG Yoda for the first time, saying that they had tried to recreate even the little stuff like his ear wiggles, in order to get the CG-Puppet just right. It was driving Frank Oz crazy, because they were recreating things that he considered mistakes (the ear wiggles were the example of this), but Yoda just didn't look like Yoda without those. Point is, Yoda's incredibly wiggly ears are, in essence, canon.

Ady, I just finally got my hands on the DVD9 version, and I just wanted to say that (so far... watching as I type) the Isolated Music Track is wonderful. Thanks so much for putting this on the disc, and I really hope you do the same with the DVD9 version of ESB:R.

Oh, and I really like the multi-angle effects bit, and the Biggs scene too. Thanks for putting those on!

The Golden Idol said:

Hey Ady, that was an amazing clip, but I noticed that on the Stardestroyer that releases Needa's shuttle (great work on the new shuttle, by the way!), the two "prongs" - the two curved sticks on the underside of the SD - flicker a bit around the 5:19 mark on the YouTube video.

I just checked - It does that in the higher-quality download version too.

Nice touch slipping the shuttle-replacement in there. I'll always miss the TIE-Shuttle, but not too much. I thought Yoda's mouth looked funny on the corner farthest from the camera sometimes, and initially blamed it on whatever mouth-warping wizardry you've been doing... until I realized that Yoda's mouth really is a little funny on the side, all the time.

Filthy Pierre said:

I remember the missing the grappling the first time too. Wow that brought back memories.

Also I clearly remember the Han torture scene extended in Empire. Not just the stills of it but of the actual whole scene in the movie.

Thread Title said:

my memory isn't that bad, is it?

Yes it is. I'm sorry, but your memory really is that bad - just like all humans.

adywan said:

Funny that you post that pic today mrbenja0618, because here's what i got in the post today. Now all i have to do is build the other section to fix the continuity error :)

What the?!

Ady, I'm amazed. I'm also befuddled on how you're going to fix the continuity errors in every shot of the Carbonite Block.

Just saw this story from Gizmodo : http://gizmodo.com/5703593/the-original-tie-fighters-were-purple which cites http://www.therpf.com/f10/tie-fighters-original-color-not-what-you-think-101082/ as its source.

I admit, the two-tone nature of the TIEs leaves me not fully convinced.

ray_afraid said:

That's interesting. What was the boarding craft to be used for in ANH?

Well the stormtroopers had to get into the Tantive IV somehow.