Phi, draft 3 it is, and I must concur with the boys: perfect delivery. You nailed it.

What have you got for the probe droid?
Can you give it an ominous quality like the ESB one?
How many forms of communication are you fluent in?

Haven't listened yet, but I'll be disappointed if nobody mentions that this is the film that spawned the best porn parody title ever. You all know that one, admit it.

Cool, FP. Looking forward to it.

Tom, gotcha. You can build some pretty realistic 3D matte-paintings your way. Works really good for building interiors and planar-surface exteriors. But yeah, you need more pixels for it to work. One of the Sony cameras I use sometimes came bundled with software that could build a panorama from video, but it only worked on the .mts footage that that camera shot, it may also have used accelerometer data like a phone-cam panorama app does.

Question for the shooting crew: did we get any decent location stills?

Slightly smaller: you'd eliminate the splicing task and tracking of a second shot.
Trouble is it's a long slow pan that was cut-up partially for pacing and partially to chose from the best speaking take and the best slinking away take.

adding in edit...

That's why I'm bringing it up: the easy path seems to be to leave it alone as cut into separate shots with inserts to tie it together, but the added effort in the comp is really pretty slight (since as-cut we're tracking 2 different takes anyway), unless I'm missing something. I don't want to make this thing less "possible to finish" by adding unforeseen complexity, but if you ask me to make the call: I'm for constructing the one-er.

I've downloaded them Fireproof. I won't be able to listen to it until tonight, so I hope you caught the change...and didn't speak her name as "Butterfly"...   (Although, if that's his pet name for her how cute would that be? Way better than "Grasshopper.")

I want to open this up for discussion: as currently cut, our main establishing scene is 3 or 4 shots: A. Straya Enters, B. cut to Probe Droid, C. Straya Exits & D. Probe Droid backtracks. Zarban's intent was to have that as a single long take, and in my mind we can make that work in the comp. We are already doing so much with these shots (matte painting, rotoscope around Straya & the stone wall as needed, CGI Droid & camera tracking of two Straya takes) that to combine these shots is not much more effort and would make this the excellent one-er (Oner? Wonner? 1er?) that was planned.

So tell me: am I mad, or just insane?

"Duck and Cover" has come up in several conversations I've had over the last few weeks. Everyone seems to think it was some senseless thing, but it was and is sound science. We did a LONG unit in sophomore english class on the book "Hiroshima," which goes into some gruesome detail of the injuries sustained by those not killed instantly by the nuclear blast.

Wiki says:

Of course there are those who feel that surviving a WWIII level nuclear attack would be worse than dying in one, to which I have no solid counterpoint.

Awesome Mr. Faldor. Let me know if you need screengrabs or anything like that for reference. I expect the mists and atmospherics will be done in the comp, so just a clear image of some extensive stonework compound is needed.

You tell that overgrown pile of worm-ridden...oh, fuck, I'm bad at this. You old pirate.

Tom, is your audition video still available on YouTube? We could just use that as is, if we can get it downloaded. On the other hand, the raw footage is still linked up-thread and Faldor has thrown the hologram work to you. Third option: BDA are you still up for interface design and implementation on the holograms? There's finger pantomime that needs to be retconned on 3or 4 of the shots. Tracking the non-interactive ones into the comps can be a separate task. if need be.

I don't believe we have a voiceover track for Straya's Master yet. In my head the voice is Obi Wan, deep and calm to offset Straya's mild panic. The script is around here somewhere, if somebody finds it before I do please link it on this page. [edit: I think we locked script at version 3, so look here if you're up for the Big Bad part:
http://friendsinyourhead.com/forum/view … 160#p51160]

As for volunteering, call your shots with a reply below including your best guess for your completion time/date. Haggling for earlier completion is hereby encouraged, you may fight over these shots for our amusement. Cash and prizes are still on the table, details TBA once things shape up a bit more.

Where all da matte paintahs at?
Abandoned base:
We need to see this on the far shore of the lake, partly shrouded in a mist. On shooting day we imagined that it looked like Hogwarts, but whatever. This will appear in many shots, but probably only needs to be a single image, unless you want to add some matching fore- or mid-ground elements to the establishing shot (Where Straya first speaks). A 4k pixel-wide image should suffice. We pan along the length of it more than once.

Spaceship interior:
This one needs to be subtle, the RV looks pretty good as dressed, but we need to hide some flashlights and a water bottle with something more Sithy. Basically the right and left sides of each frame in Darth Niken's opening scene. The OTS was handheld, iirc, but the other 2 angles were pretty well locked-off.

CGI sapceship exterior is done-ish at the Teague end, but we'll need some specific renders. Cruising through space, landing sequence, and the landed ship (possibly reflecting Niken as he walks around the ship?) from at least 2 angles. That we don't have a cliche' landing gear insert shot yet is an omission I'd just like to point out. Could be Teague, or a (team of) volunteer could borrow his model. Lightwave iirc.

Probe droid CGI is also out-standing. We pondered some examples back in the storyboard phase, but we need more than a still for sure. 90% Creative Control to the artist, where are you going to get a better deal than that?

Not quite ready for saber roto yet, but soon, very soon. Same with matte pulling.

And then there's the whole force-lightning thing.
Maybe Teague can make a sample/tutorial for his new magical method? Barring that, this is a well established field of fan film VFXery; Certainly others have the talent to make this awesome.

All aboard! Mount up! Come on, yew apes!
(Please don't make me do all of that stuff myself...)

Right, I intend those to provide a skeleton instead of trying to invent a consistent core frame by frame. Next, we'll roto over those beams and nobody will know.

Are we ready to commit to roto yet? The battle scene seems pretty close to final.
Has anyone got notes for Owen's cut before we lock?

Wow. I hadn't checked fb yet. Good spoilers.
Let him watch Sad Max.