Ed Wood Star Wars 1

    1. Ed Wood Star Wars 1   Time 2008-05-29 18:42
  • What if Ed Wood directed Star Wars and ran out of money in the middle of production? I spent an entire year learning After Effects, keying, compositing and working on this short. The goal was to have it done by the time the final Star Wars film came out, for the festivals and Comicon.The rocket effects in this sequence are done in Bryce, which is a 3d landscape program. Not made for animation at all. It took two weeks of tweaking to get the cheesy shots that you see here today. I have since purchased Alias Maya and taken the Introduction to Maya course at UCLA Extension. Now I know how to do the rocket stuff, I just haven't had the time to do it properly.I'm proud of my hologram and lightsaber effects, both of which I do the hard way. The unforseen hours of time involved when I took on the job of putting in all the special effects myself, complicated by the arrival of my first-born son (He is currently running around my office, shouting "Jamie shaking Blue Maraca!") resluted in the fact that I STILL haven't shot a SINGLE ENDING TO ANY OF THE THREE STORIES. The best I could do was have Lee Presson, who plays Ed Wood, come over for some quick greenscreen pickups, pleading for completion funds. This gave me an ending that gave the illusion of a finished film and I was able to show it at the Star Wars Feeb Fest in 2005. After that, partial goal achieved, I shelved the film and enjoyed being a father for a year, keeping my creativity limited to doing a television commercial and a couple wedding videos for friends. I have posted five sequences here, cut out of the timeline in my NLE. This is the unfinished opening of the film. If it was just a Star Wars fan film, I could show it almost anywhere. But since I have infringed on Ed Wood and Tim Burton (and Howard Shore for the title music) There is no legitimate contest in which I can enter this film Someday I may go ahead and edit more and post them in a serial fashion. For now, though, other projects loom and need to be conquored.
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