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WeirdHat  901 posts
Registered: Jul '03
6231_R2-D2
Date Posted: 6/7/06 10:01am Subject: Perspective corrected opening crawls
So I was looking at the perspective corrected opening crawls at http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/postproduction/crawl/opening.asp , and I thought, they're pretty old and low quality and there are only four of them... and I could put together new ones pretty easily... so I did, and here they are, in case anyone else might find them useful.

TPM
AOTC
ROTS
ANH
ESB
ROTJ

 

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Jedi_Kyeju  1093 posts
Registered: Jan '03
14750_Anthony Daniels
Date Posted: 6/7/06 12:10pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
Hey,
I saw your Opening Crawls thread. Thanks for makin those they look awesome. I'm doing an opening crawl for the special editon of School Duel and it's sequel. I already made a STAR WARS graphic but would it be possible for you to send me the photshop file of one of those crawls? If you would be so kind I'd put in a credit for you.

 

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Petyamester  354 posts
Registered: Dec '05
6032_Battle Droid
Date Posted: 6/7/06 12:11pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
Great, thx.

 

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WeirdHat  901 posts
Registered: Jul '03
6231_R2-D2
Date Posted: 6/7/06 12:23pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
Jedi_Kyeju posted:
Hey,
I saw your Opening Crawls thread. Thanks for makin those they look awesome. I'm doing an opening crawl for the special editon of School Duel and it's sequel. I already made a STAR WARS graphic but would it be possible for you to send me the photshop file of one of those crawls? If you would be so kind I'd put in a credit for you.
Sorry, maybe I didn't explain clearly, these are made up of screenshots from the films, taking the bottom row of pixels from every frame. There is no Photoshop file. They're just useful as reference for making your own.

 

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DVeditor  15650 posts
Title: Fan Films Evil Overlord (manager)
 Registered: Dec '01
8081_ILM
Date Posted: 6/7/06 3:06pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls - Date Edited: 6/7/06 3:07pm (1 edits total) Edited By: DVeditor
Cool stuff - not something I considered at all when I collected info on these a while back. Nicely done and into the sticky with you. wink

 

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Ryan_W  3452 posts
Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek
 Registered: Aug '01
44357_Fan Films - Ryan vs Dorkman
Date Posted: 6/7/06 5:29pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
How did you go about putting these together, exactly? You took the bottom row of pixels, you say... smart, but what did you do to build images from this?

 

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DorkmanScott  13953 posts
Title: Manager Emeritus
 Registered: Mar '01
44356_Fan Films - Ryan vs Dorkman
Date Posted: 6/7/06 8:04pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
One minor quibble: you corrected the slanting in from the sides of the letters, but they're still vertically foreshortened. You might want to consider stretching them vertically a bit to fully correct the perspective.

M. Scott

 

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DVeditor  15650 posts
Title: Fan Films Evil Overlord (manager)
 Registered: Dec '01
8081_ILM
Date Posted: 6/7/06 11:08pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
Ryan_W posted:
How did you go about putting these together, exactly? You took the bottom row of pixels, you say... smart, but what did you do to build images from this?

My bet is he captured the video, separated it into frames, and then stacked each bottom row of pixels to build the larger images. Just a guess.

 

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Ryan_W  3452 posts
Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek
 Registered: Aug '01
44357_Fan Films - Ryan vs Dorkman
Date Posted: 6/7/06 11:18pm Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls - Date Edited: 6/7/06 11:21pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Ryan_W
Well, clearly something like that, but I'm going to guess he didn't hand-position several thousand images, and that he achieved this via some automated method. The way I'd figure it is to take the video into AE, keyframe it to move vertically as many pixels as there are frames, and then set some sort of ridiculous time echo or something similar. I'm curious as to how he went about it, though.

 

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darthsithvalek  521 posts
Registered: Dec '05
42010_Darth Nihilus
Date Posted: 6/8/06 12:51am Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
In the ROTS crawl: "the fiendish droid, General..."

 
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WeirdHat  901 posts
Registered: Jul '03
6231_R2-D2
Date Posted: 6/8/06 7:03am Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
Ryan: I wrote a simple Python script to do it, it just loops through every image in an image sequence, takes that line from it, and pastes it into the new image at the corresponding place.

Dorkman: True, but I dunno how much to stretch them exactly, and there's not much point in just guessing because chances are it'll still be wrong, even if it looks a bit better.

darthsithvalek: What?

 

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BRYAN_SEECRETS  198 posts
Registered: Oct '05
23586_Anakin Skywalker
Date Posted: 6/8/06 9:22am Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
I'm doing an opening crawl for my fan film project. I already made a STAR WARS-like graphic, and I even used the Serpentine font for my own purpose. Thank you!

 

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DorkmanScott  13953 posts
Title: Manager Emeritus
 Registered: Mar '01
44356_Fan Films - Ryan vs Dorkman
Date Posted: 6/8/06 9:25am Subject: RE: Perspective corrected opening crawls
WeirdHat posted:
Dorkman: True, but I dunno how much to stretch them exactly, and there's not much point in just guessing because chances are it'll still be wrong, even if it looks a bit better.

I'm sure there's a way to calculate the angle based on how much it angles in from the sides of the frame.

Math people? Help us out.

M. Scott

 

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