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Robot Style posted:The first movie's fight choreography also had to content with the in-camera lightsaber effect they were trying - the blades were wrapped in reflective movie screen material, and the hilts had motors that would rotate them in order to make them flicker. The sabers also had wires that ran up the actors sleeves to battery packs, so they were pretty clumsy to use and had to stay in very specific places in order to actually reflect the light correctly. Was not aware of this this. Thanks.
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Robot Style posted:The latest release on Disney+ has it fixed (which comes from the 4K restoration Lucas was working on before the sale), but placemat lore had already retconned that as being a result of Vader's Sith lightsaber having the ability to break an opponent's blade due to its powerful synthetic crystal. Seriously? This is so goddamn dumb. I can't believe I didn't know about this. Do you have a link? It belongs firmly in the Corran Horn and Other Science Facts thread.
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# ? Aug 26, 2020 21:00 |
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Robot Style posted:The latest release on Disney+ has it fixed (which comes from the 4K restoration Lucas was working on before the sale), but placemat lore had already retconned that as being a result of Vader's Sith lightsaber having the ability to break an opponent's blade due to its powerful synthetic crystal. christ
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# ? Aug 26, 2020 21:07 |
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It's originally from the same Star Wars magazine article that invented a bunch of dumbass lightsaber forms to explain why there were more backflips in the prequels. I've found some tiny scans of it online - it looks like it actually seems to imply the hosed up special effects are due to the "slow materialization" setting Obi-Wan used to prevent Vader from cutting through his lightsaber.
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# ? Aug 26, 2020 21:15 |
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We talkin' sabers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIefj6dOhnM misaligned rotosabers or bust Vinylshadow fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Are the forms even canon anymore? I remember always thinking they were a little bit silly and would never survive the Canon/Legends split but lol. That "materialization" bullshit is actually kind of a clever in-universe workaround nobody asked for when the answer is "slower ignitions are more dramatic."
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# ? Aug 26, 2020 22:09 |
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I wonder what form baby Yoda will use
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# ? Aug 26, 2020 22:22 |
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https://i.imgur.com/ZXdt8xr.mp4
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# ? Aug 26, 2020 23:48 |
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Robot Style posted:It's originally from the same Star Wars magazine article that invented a bunch of dumbass lightsaber forms to explain why there were more backflips in the prequels. The sacred Jedi texts!!!
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 00:39 |
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The Obi-wan blade has been forever altered to me as a battery dying as Energizer noticed it too and made a commercial about it and it has permanently burned into my brain.
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Robot Style posted:The first movie's fight choreography also had to content with the in-camera lightsaber effect they were trying - the blades were wrapped in reflective movie screen material, and the hilts had motors that would rotate them in order to make them flicker. The sabers also had wires that ran up the actors sleeves to battery packs, so they were pretty clumsy to use and had to stay in very specific places in order to actually reflect the light correctly.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 17:59 |
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Hazo posted:Are the forms even canon anymore? I remember always thinking they were a little bit silly and would never survive the Canon/Legends split but lol. The forms are still canon and mentioned by the Grand Inquisitor, Anakin, and Barriss Offee, as well as mentioned and given silly names like "Way of the Sarlacc" in the Knights of Fate sourcebook for FFG
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 18:02 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MRHbGjW-J8
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Robot Style posted:The latest release on Disney+ has it fixed (which comes from the 4K restoration Lucas was working on before the sale), but placemat lore had already retconned that as being a result of Vader's Sith lightsaber having the ability to break an opponent's blade due to its powerful synthetic crystal. I thought that was just the explanation for why Obi-Wan's lightsaber turns on pretty slowly in that scene, not that his saber is supposed to be actively breaking onscreen. There's some amazing fight choreography these days, but there's also a lot of stuff that's just kinda pointlessly flashy and overelaborate, and generally it really suffers when people are just miming to empty air for props and enemies that will be inserted with effects. And pouring too much time and money into just the fight and being flashy is never as good as focusing on the lead in or trying to tell a story with the fight. A lot of the time you can do more with less.
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# ? Aug 29, 2020 05:10 |
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https://twitter.com/JPincorporated/status/1300189038163316736
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 13:49 |
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Hell yeah this is the good stuff
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 19:14 |
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Smooth Yoda
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 19:35 |
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OctoberCountry posted:Smooth Yoda The Repubic
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OctoberCountry posted:Smooth Yoda working hard thank you
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 05:24 |
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Isn't this a literal tracing of some Lord of the Rings battle?
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 14:30 |
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lmao holy poo poo
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 15:05 |
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Ingmar terdman posted:
lol
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 20:58 |
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Hazo posted:Isn't this a literal tracing of some Lord of the Rings battle? To be more precise, it's a tracing of several different shots from Return of the King and Fellowship of the Ring. The Mumakil is obvious, The soldiers are Gondorians from the scene where the trolls break down the city gate. In the close up foreground the "artist" accidentally traced Rohan spears (the ones with the holes in the blade) instead of the Gondorian spears used by the soldiers in the mid ground. Behind the front line we see some human soldiers from The Last Alliance from the prologue of Fellowship of the Ring. And finally in the center background we have Gamling. Who is shooting his bow and arrow at the underside of a Mumakil from right before Theoden gets killed. But he was traced without context so he is shooting his bow at an empty sky in the opposite direction of the Sith army.
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 21:16 |
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galagazombie posted:To be more precise, it's a tracing of several different shots from Return of the King and Fellowship of the Ring. The Mumakil is obvious, The soldiers are Gondorians from the scene where the trolls break down the city gate. In the close up foreground the "artist" accidentally traced Rohan spears (the ones with the holes in the blade) instead of the Gondorian spears used by the soldiers in the mid ground. Behind the front line we see some human soldiers from The Last Alliance from the prologue of Fellowship of the Ring. And finally in the center background we have Gamling. Who is shooting his bow and arrow at the underside of a Mumakil from right before Theoden gets killed. But he was traced without context so he is shooting his bow at an empty sky in the opposite direction of the Sith army.
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 22:36 |
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OctoberCountry posted:Smooth Yoda Completely forgot this was going to be a thing
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 22:37 |
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Have they even done anything with that yet, or is it just a promise of future lovely books
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OctoberCountry posted:Smooth Yoda Iron Crowned posted:The Repubic
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https://i.imgur.com/f2lPS2C.gifv Watch threepio nope the gently caress outta there...
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/f2lPS2C.gifv Lol
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# ? Sep 3, 2020 18:18 |
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Pro move TBH. Dude hasn't had his memory wiped in a while, but he knows it has happened. What's to stop it happening again?
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# ? Sep 3, 2020 19:05 |
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get started on your covert amazon child profile now!
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elf help book posted:lmao holy poo poo JoJo Fett
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uber_stoat posted:“Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter.”
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# ? Sep 5, 2020 21:33 |
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New thread title is cool
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https://i.imgur.com/Pnm1kTu.mp4
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