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[alluvial damper]

One thing that has always bothered me ever since I saw EP4 the first time way back is that Garindan/John Wayne hitting his own snout. A creature should be aware of his own nose, no?

1:07 in this clip

Edit : And no, I never thought about how R2-D2 got down the stairs

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Jango was involved in training, at least in the EU. And many of mercenaries hired to train were Mandalorian as well. So it's possible that's how they picked up their accents. Though it raises the question of why the members of Delta Squad all sound different?

Right, that was what Karen Traviss said in the Republic Commando novels. I think Delta sounds different because some idiot thought that the players wouldn't be able to differentiate them with the same voice. I think if they had Temuera Morrison change up things a little bit for each character, it would have been easy to tell. I remember in the RC books, Omega, Delta, and the Null ARCs figured out Palpatine was making new clones because of the new clones' accents and lack of Mando knowledge.

 

[Joek3rr]

Right, that was what Karen Traviss said in the Republic Commando novels. I think Delta sounds different because some idiot thought that the players wouldn't be able to differentiate them with the same voice. I think if they had Temuera Morrison change up things a little bit for each character, it would have been easy to tell. I remember in the RC books, Omega, Delta, and the Null ARCs figured out Palpatine was making new clones because of the new clones' accents and lack of Mando knowledge.

It's been a long time since I have the books, but that rings a bell. Is that the Spaarti clones?

 

[Joek3rr]

Here trying to sleep, which has been a mess lately....and then remembered something that I had forgotten. As of now, but two days ago, that its been TEN YEARS SINCE DISNEY BOUGHT STAR WARS.
That just seems crazy its already been thst long.
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Simultaneously the best thing and the worst thing that's ever happened to Star Wars......

 

[blewis17]

Because we didn't want to pay for more ADR actors and maybe Tem can't do accents.

Careful... you're bringing logic into a Star Wars film conversation...

 

[Somerset]

Also the actor voicing Lama Su was Australian and Taun We was a Kiwi. Perhaps the natural Kaminoan accent that they use in the lab is distinctly antipodean and the clones picked it up.

When the fancy Jedi comes all the way from Coruscant they put on a fake fancy accent to impress him...

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

It's been a long time since I have the books, but that rings a bell. Is that the Spaarti clones?

Those were in the Thrawn Trilogy, but I don't think they were used for the GAR. Supposedly the Spaarti cloning tech was inferior to the Kaminoan cloning.

 

[JediMichael]

I was wondering...when the Death Star II is blowing up, they added this cool effect not done on the original where it glows and flashes light for a second before if then cuts to the big explosion. Of all the behind the scenes stuff for Star Wars, thats one thing I've never seen.
The little explosion over the super laser was probably composited in, but the lights around the edges....I just guessing the had lights off to the sides that they turned up, moved around, and maybe cut a few frames for the flicking. I also notice the tiny lights within the model itself (around the super laser and to the right of the Falcon flying away) do not get any brighter.
Just curious if anyone knows for sure if it was the lighting thing like I'm guessing, or perhaps hand drawn in like with the sabers and lasers, or another method all together. There is also the bright but smaller flash under the super laser and Falcon.
This whole effect lasts for 23 frames, one frame shy of a second, before the big explosion.

 

[Treadwell]

The lighting effects are done by matting over everything but the "lit" areas and overexposing them during compositing.

 

[JediMichael]

The lighting effects are done by matting over everything but the "lit" areas and overexposing them during compositing.

Any behind the scenes pics or videos from that?
Love death star related stuff.

 

[JediMichael]

Going through the Hoth Battle. The stop-motion still looks so great today and the way it was all edited together....but, that doesn't mean there were still little mistakes.
The walker on the right, its back leg shakes a little while walking. I'm guessing the animator of that one probably bumped it by mistake and kept going with it. During the whole battle, its really not noticeable.
Looped here, makes it more obvious, but also makes the left one look wrong as well, but its animation was fine.

Heres a gif played out a little longer. Its super subtle, but now that you see it, you probably can't unsee it.
Love finding little stuff like this.

 

[Treadwell]

Any behind the scenes pics or videos from that?
Love death star related stuff.

Not that shot, but they show them doing that kind of thing in this doc:
(it won't hotlink, you have to cut and paste, remove the space after the www):
https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=hp1Y_kVL6a0&list=FLE3tpBy7P8vuNhhmq4Ol2XQ&index=51&t=105s

 

[Somerset]

The Youtube algorithm decided to show me Nick Gillard's (prequel stunt coordinator) channel today which has some cool behind the scenes rehearsal/blocking footage from some of the RotS lightsaber battles (and other stunts). Worth checking out, particularly for some scenes with Grievous and what the Mace - Palpatine fight could have been if the actors had been able to recreate what the stunt performers were able to do.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Gillardstunts/videos

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Going through the Hoth Battle. The stop-motion still looks so great today and the way it was all edited together....but, that doesn't mean there were still little mistakes.
The walker on the right, its back leg shakes a little while walking. I'm guessing the animator of that one probably bumped it by mistake and kept going with it. During the whole battle, its really not noticeable.
Looped here, makes it more obvious, but also makes the left one look wrong as well, but its animation was fine.
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Heres a gif played out a little longer. Its super subtle, but now that you see it, you probably can't unsee it.
Love finding little stuff like this.
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Well you can't scratch their bellies while animating them because they get that leg twitch.

The Youtube algorithm decided to show me Nick Gillard's (prequel stunt coordinator) channel today which has some cool behind the scenes rehearsal/blocking footage from some of the RotS lightsaber battles (and other stunts). Worth checking out, particularly for some scenes with Grievous and what the Mace - Palpatine fight could have been if the actors had been able to recreate what the stunt performers were able to do.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Gillardstunts/videos

I just saw a video where they were showing some scenes of when the Jedi go to arrest Palpatine and about what it could have been. Nick Gillard said he was trying to get more video of the fight transferred so he could post them. They had a few shots of the stunt guys fighting where Palpatine was fighting two of the Masters. They also reportedly enter the reception first and Force throw the receptionist and then were going to fight the Royal Guard. It would have been a lot cooler!

 

[Joek3rr]

So I love to just go along through Rebelscum and reminisce about the toys that were out when I was growing up. And the other day I came across a very unique AAT made by Hasbro. They actually made two versions of it. A full play scale toy, and a smaller die-cast version. I'm wondering where this design comes from. Was just invented by Hasbro? Or based on something Lucasfilm sent them? Or maybe a comic? My suspicion is that these were AATs for Felucia, but we never see them up close.

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[Somerset]

From what I remember, these colour schemes were essentially Hasbro concepts (along with the Hailfire droid). They may have been intended to look like video-game or comic interpretations but there's nothing that matches. I think it was a time when there was much more leeway for licensees in terms of creativity from Lucasfilm.

 

[Master Boda]

So I love to just go along through Rebelscum and reminisce about the toys that were out when I was growing up. And the other day I came across a very unique AAT made by Hasbro. They actually made two versions of it. A full play scale toy, and a smaller die-cast version. I'm wondering where this design comes from. Was just invented by Hasbro? Or based on something Lucasfilm sent them? Or maybe a comic? My suspicion is that these were AATs for Felucia, but we never see them up close.

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I have the original tan colored AAT,the one you posted was when Hasbro started its massive repaint.Almost every ship around that time came out in every color of the rainbow almost.

 

[Master Boda]

From what I remember, these colour schemes were essentially Hasbro concepts (along with the Hailfire droid). They may have been intended to look like video-game or comic interpretations but there's nothing that matches. I think it was a time when there was much more leeway for licensees in terms of creativity from Lucasfilm.

It was a time when Hasbro started milking the army/troop builders with repaint‘s up the waazoo.

 

[Joek3rr]

From what I remember, these colour schemes were essentially Hasbro concepts (along with the Hailfire droid). They may have been intended to look like video-game or comic interpretations but there's nothing that matches. I think it was a time when there was much more leeway for licensees in terms of creativity from Lucasfilm.

Probably is the case. I like that Hasbro was let to be creative. As I recall the ARC troopers were something that Hasbro came up with. And of course the old Sandspeeder that Kenner made back in the day, that LEGO later did a model of. And Mace Windu's 187th was another thing that Hasbro came up with, which has been adapted by LEGO as well. (Even though "canonically" the 187th look different.)

 

[Joek3rr]

It was a time when Hasbro started milking the army/troop builders with repaint‘s up the waazoo.

The vast number of clone variants between 2005 and 2007. Some Hasbro came up with. Some made for Revenge of the Sith, but unused. Some, blink and you'd miss them.