Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release) (Spoilers)

[Riceball]

I just read the latest update on what's planned for D23 and while there's no specific mention of what they're doing vis a vis Star Wars there is a live action film panel which is going to devote at least part of the panel to TFA. I wouldn't be surprised if they debut a new trailer at the panel and it's the last thing to be shown at the panel as well.

https://d23.com/walt-disney-studios-at-d23-expo-2015/

 

[Bryancd]

This is a very different story summary just released over at The Force.net. I find it lacking and very problematic.

http://www.theforce.net/story/front...asp?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[DakGibralter]

This is a very different story summary just released over at The Force.net. I find it lacking and very problematic.

http://www.theforce.net/story/front...asp?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Argh! So tempted to read this. I'm trying to avoid any synopsis spoilers - I've arbitrarily decided that bits and pieces are okay but I don't want to know everything.

That said, if it's that bad, I hope it's fake.

 

[Bryancd]

Argh! So tempted to read this. I'm trying to avoid any synopsis spoilers - I've arbitrarily decided that bits and pieces are okay but I don't want to know everything.

That said, if it's that bad, I hope it's fake.

Don't bother, the more I read through this the more fake it becomes. I'm sorry I even posted it.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

Some elements of that seem like they're potentially accurate (Finn and Poe's escape, for instance), but others seem way off (since when can anyone sense a lightsaber activating?), and the context stringing them together is so nonsensical as to not even bother worrying (unless the "ice planet" base is a different part of Jakku than the desert we see... but that would mean a planet in Star Wars with more than one defining characteristic!). I think some of this is what we'll see in December -- but far from all, and not that overall story.

--Jonah

 

[griffinx1]

Well, is WAS Anakin Skywalker's saber, albeit dropped by Luke's severed hand. Perhaps the evil/good of Vader/Anakin saturated the device like a ghost spirit.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Is Kenneth Branagh still playing Obi Wan...?

 

[Jaitea]

Nice images of what the crashed 2 seater TIE looks like,......in toy form

Guns galore...& on a turret too

Snow speeder style....back to back

Very nice

Great design....love it

J

 

[CutThumb]

I wonder if that is a blast shield on top of the helmet. If it does drop down it will make the pilot look more like the original Harrier pilot that was used in the studio scale model. He looks great regardless. I don't like the "tank tracks" around the inside of the wings, they look a bit too large and clumsy , and the additional armature gun is one too many. But the rear shooting cockpit is a good idea EXCEPT it needs a couple of struts running down the window to make it look like it match the front . The single piece window makes it look like its missing parts.

 

[Jaitea]

Just noticed.....the design of the back....

The designer of the engines have either got confused with what was a window on the back of a OT TIE or just liked the shape of it?

J

 

[jkno]

He liked the back of the original TIE Fighter so much he put 2 on the new TIE, though on a smaller size LOL

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I think they thought that was the engine... It's interesting, but they could have found much better designs from the EU. TIE Avenger for example:

 

[SofaKing01]

Very Interesting! So from the 2nd trailer... that's the BACK of the TIE fighter shooting up the "hanger / base". HMMMMMM... I like it!

 

[Bryancd]

Some Greenham set picks and a little bit about where Luke might be at the end of the film...

http://makingstarwars.net/2015/07/s...he-final-planet-plus-resistance-bay-set-pics/

 

[SofaKing01]

I love those photos! I hope this movie ROCKS!

 

[Bryancd]

CGI vs. Practical Effects forensic accounting...


http://makingstarwars.net/2015/07/how-many-shots-in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-are-cgi/

 

[Riceball]

CGI vs. Practical Effects forensic accounting...


http://makingstarwars.net/2015/07/how-many-shots-in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-are-cgi/

I really don't get all the hype and jazz about all of the practical effects being used. I, personally, think that CG is perfectly fine, when used properly, and that there will be a lot more CG work used in TFA than many CG detractors will realize, from things like wire removal, to set extensions there will be plenty of non-obvious CG elements that won't be noticed. While I do feel that there was an over reliance of CG in the Prequels that does not automatically make all CG bad, some things are just more easily, cheaper, or better in CG than practically like blowing things up, it's much cheaper to blow up a CG model that can be used over and over again than a practical model that can only be blown up once and if you didn't get it right the first time you have build another model to blow up again costing time and money.

 

[Jaitea]

Disney & crew are overselling it I agree,.....they know what people think.....lets get back to real,...like the OT,.....(even though there were plenty of practical in them too)

The way CG is incorporated now is a lot better,....look at the combination of CG & practical in Prometheus,.....Oblivion,.....& most of the Marvel movies,....its come a long way from the PT

J

 

[Halliwax]

think we will get the real trailer at D23?

 

[Bryancd]

think we will get the real trailer at D23?

I don't think so.