Skylover SC said:
In a recent interview, Rick McCallum said they were thinking about redoin the special effects for Young Indy, like they did for the original Star Wars in 1997. But it was too cost prohibitive...
Merci pour le lien, Skylover!
This is very interesting. McCallum says maybe in 10-15 years but the website has no (discernable) information on when the interview was recorded. I'm wondering if it was from before or after Disney bought Lucasfilm.
So you're from Amiens? I want to go there to visit Jules Verne' tomb.
HenryJunior said:
The color correction they did to give it that "film" look always threw me off. It usually resulted in pink clouds and skies and weird white balancing. The obvious digital boats, and pyramids, and backgrounds etc. could be tweaked. Those early digital effects just make me cringe at what was to come, CG EVERYTHING in the SW prequels.
Hi, HenryJunior. I'm afraid that your cringing is misplaced because the Young Indy series has very few digitally-created objects. Most of its effects deal with compositing live elements and the extension of sets so I'm not sure what you mean by, "digital boats, and pyramids". There are several parts where ships (ocean-liners & battleships - which
are not boats) were digitally inserted into shots but this was achieved by colourizing archival footage & photographs. A shot or two of Chinese 'junks' (which
are boats) were also colourized footage. In each of these cases, the vessels themselves, aren't CG models. What "digital boats" are you referring to?
As for digital pyramids, please enlighten me because I can't recall any.
HenryJunior said:
I doubt they would put in the time to redo the effects now, but I would be interested. Some of the hardcore YIJ fans would probably say leave it alone since the episodes already got butchered into those weird 2 part movies on DVD
. Oh, and restore the old Indy bits, most of us under the age of twenty have barely ever seen them.
If you aren't old enough to have seen the Old Indy bits then you couldn't have watched the show during it's original run. Therefore, how can the colour correction 'throw you off'? What are you comparing it to?
Oh, and in case you didn't know, the "butchering" actually began 8 to 9 years before the DVDs, with the releases on VHS in 1999.
Montana Smith said:
That's one series that would benefit from updated special effects.
Sometimes their 'state of the art' effects made another otherwise class act look pretty cheap.
Nah. Keep in mind, Smiff, that you saw the series just a couple of years ago. When it aired, the effects looked fine...ESPECIALLY for a TV show. Plus, some of its effects are still almost impossible to detect, 20 years later (even to a trained eye).
Montana Smiffy said:
If there isn't enough interest in doing a fifth movie then I can't see enough being put into this project.
In the interview, McCallum says that Lucas would like modifications to be done, "even it's just for his own personal collection".
JuniorJones said:
*SLAP* - "That'sh for blashphemy!"
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What could be improved? Off the top of my head:
- the Mannesmann-Poll Giant Triplane in "Hawkmen"
- the shots of the rail-mounted cannon firing in "Phantom Train"
- the shots of that slug/catterpillar-insect-thing in "Phantom Train"
I also wonder if this would ever be dealt with:
Digitally shrinking Corey Carrier
Those are suggestions for just the EXISTING shots. Who knows what else could be ADDED!