8/19/08 at 1:15pm
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Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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Death Star over San Francisco....
8/19/08 at 3:31pm
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Re: Death Star over San Francisco....
Geepers that was well done. Very creepy and ominous seeing the unfunished Death Star hanging there.Makes me wish I had skills like that to produce such cool images!
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8/22/08 at 8:20am
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Re: Death Star over San Francisco....
Amazing! I want to live in that world.
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8/22/08 at 8:29am
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Re: Death Star over San Francisco....
That is cool! And I'm always moaning about how my Photoshop skills are so weak...==============
Usually I associate San Fransisco with Dark Star rather than Death Star.
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8/24/08 at 11:37pm
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Re: Death Star over San Francisco....
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I want to live in that world.
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Um, remember what happend to Alderan?
That looks sweet, I like the simple shots of the DS in the sky rather than all the ships etc.
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8/25/08 at 3:48am
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I definitely want to know more on how they've accomplished this. I'm seriously considering resurrecting an old Canadian sci-fi series from the seventies, and this is exactly what I need for the exterior shots. It has to be inexpensive to produce, yet remain entirely convincing.
8/25/08 at 6:18am
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Stunning work. I've done blue screen home video work that took hours to put together and didn't look anything even close to that. Im inspired to get better.@Francois
Has to be frame by frame blue screen matting.
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8/25/08 at 1:30pm
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Re: Death Star over San Francisco....
Hopefully George Lucas' lawyers have a sense of humor about this sort of thing."I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!!!" - Barton Fink
8/25/08 at 3:02pm
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Since this is San Francisco, could it be someone from ILM doing a personal side-project?
8/25/08 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by Radioman970
Has to be frame by frame blue screen matting.
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If anyone's interested, the series I want to bring back is "The Starlost". I'll use actual villages and small towns from around the world as the habitat domes, adding the correct backdrop in the sky and at ground level where appropriate.
8/26/08 at 6:22am
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Um, remember what happend to Alderan?
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Turned out all right if you were on the Death Star.
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8/26/08 at 7:22am
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It seems that Lucas has usually been pretty suppotive of fan projects, unless, I suppose it's something being done for profit. I wouldn't think Lucasfilm would have a problem with this.
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8/26/08 at 8:47am
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Originally Posted by Francois Caron
Maybe there's a way to automate the process without doing it frame by frame. If the shot is of the same subject, a computer program could theoretically "follow the landmarks" and insert the desired effect at the correct position, even including motion blur where appropriate. If you don't move the camera around too much (as you shouldn't), it could pave the way to cheap yet convincing special effects.
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I finally got to see this on a PC that could play it smoothly (stupid work PC!) and it really is some stunning work. When the flock of birds fly over it seems like that would be hell to reproduce. I'd love to know how it was done. Certainly some software working there that I'll never get a chance to use. *stomps foot really hard in anger* I wonder if you can see anything if you zoom in on the birds. Must be come edging artifacts or something.
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8/27/08 at 12:43am
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*stomps foot really hard in anger* I wonder if you can see anything if you zoom in on the birds. Must be come edging artifacts or something.
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8/27/08 at 5:03am
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Originally Posted by Derek Miner
A good hint: composite in higher resolution than the final video. I think a lot of beginners get frustrated at how bad their keying comes off when they try using standard-def blue/green screen footage. DV format is especially tricky because of the lower color resolution.
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8/30/08 at 7:04am
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