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Lord Haseo said:

Bobocop said:

If Lucas was going to nitpick the framing of shots 17 years later, maybe he shouldn't have hired a director and just done it himself to begin with. That's disrespectful to Kershner's original vision of the film HE directed.

 Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

pablumatic said:

The new protagonist ship looks like another take on the Millennium Falcon like the Outrider from Shadows of the Empire.

 It really looks like the Otana from X-Wing:Alliance

SilverWook said:

I'm guessing this photo is recent?

http://i.imgur.com/um6ijro.jpg

Note the chair on the right...

 What, the chair that says "CAST"?

Mithrandir said:

I guess it's allright as long as you fear this stormtrooper.

I actually see what you mean here.

Or even if you don't see how obvious the scale issues are in this image

No, that seems fine to me?

Even here, while a classic angle from the movies, it's completely unjustified for a 3d animation series. I can understand there were issues with the perspective back in the 80's that made them force it in order to have an easier composition, but it's not the case today, and it's completely wrong to still have the TIE fighters be so big next to a cruiser.

Given that, once animated, it'll be in motion, I don't understand your issue here.

World Eater said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Damn those last few screenshots make me so mad!

It isn't just the cropping, it's the messing with Kershner's perfectly composed shots. When there is a shot of Lando mucking about with some Falcon panels, why would you crop out half the panels?

(ESB:R recolouring looks gorgeous btw)

 I completely agree - every frame of this film is masterful composition. Breaking the 4th wall? I completely disagree - it's the inside border of the cockpit (?!), and with the composition intact, it in fact feels more cramped than the cropped shot, because uncropped we can better see the round shape of the cockpit. Oh, and it should go without saying that this is MY OPINION...

 Yes, we're discussing each other's opinions. I hope you don't think "opinion" means we can't criticize it.

Also I agree.

Mithrandir said:

Really, prefer the edgy style of TCW to this childish lego-like curves they've put to every ship and design

Could you show us, with screencaps, these childish curves?

Luke's saber in ROTJ should change color constantly. A rainbow saber.

No that's a great idea. I don't even feel like the third wall has been broken.

Thank you, 005.

I dunno, all this talk of Hoth, Tatooine and AT-ATs worries me. I'm pretty sure those films were already made?

Do you like fish sticks?

I don't see how it's any more "like a set" than the cropped one. "Inside" vs "Outside" the cockpit is bogus, as a camera could easily fit inside the cockpit for both shots, and a human viewer could sit in that location for neither shot.

Perhaps it was done to hide Kershner's decision to build the cockpit set larger for ESB. He did this specifically to fit everyone better inside the frame...which the cropping undoes.

I don't see how this would be possible without 35mm sources.

So glad to see this done.

No, no, don't assume that Revisited will match any previous version of the film. Remember that ANH:R intentionally has a grey-er, washed out Death Star.

Bingowings said:

People from Aberdeen aren't that friendly with sheep.

 Not compared to people from Cardiff, right?

The board fails to recognize https urls as links

Ah, but this keeps a record.

Also it was down again.

Tack said:

There's a series of Star Wars related videos called 'kit-bashed', which expand upon the notions of Star Wars' influences from classic cinema (The Hidden Fortress makes quite a few appearances)

There are some interesting points made in these videos, but one that stands out is the music influences for the opening. In particular, this one from Ivanhoe.

There's also one from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring that was interesting.

To toot my own horn, see also this thread.

AntcuFaalb said:

n00b said:

@ Harmy

Is there any chance to get rid of those bright boxes around the Falcon and the TIE fighters at 00:36:42 - 00:36:44? This problem was much less prominent before Lowry "restored" the material though your workprint is already an improvement over 2004.

I don't have the WP downloaded. Are you, perhaps, referring to garbage mattes?

If so, then wouldn't garbage matte removal be a "specialization" rather than "despecialization"?

 Not if the garbage mattes weren't visible in theatres in 1977, due to the differences in film projection vs modern systems.

In short, no.

Bingowings said:

Ben aged at the same rate as a normal human being.

 Faster, even.

Leia the older stateswoman will work just fine.

I feel like we would need to learn about/hear from crosscultural adoptees to really talk about this?

adywan said:

It seems a shame that they are going to include all the interiors

 But those don't even fit inside the exterior, as I understand it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

when it comes to reproducing creatures, puppet based SFX just suck compared to CGI. CGI can reproduce more natural behaviour and motion of a creature. In the end they both look fake.

I'll take the less-than-fluid movements of puppets over the plastic surfaces and weightlessness of CGI any day.

What if sometimes one is better, and sometimes the other is better?

I just don't see the reason in investing great amount of time, effort and money in making a stop-motion SFX with a puppet. Especially when it usually look very unnatural. The way to solve this is either putting a guy into a costume or using CGI.

You do realize that in this day and age, the herky-jerkiness of stop-motion can be corrected, don't you?

 How? With...computers?!

Unless they seriously screw things up between the draft I read online and the final script, Interstellar is going to be great.