George Lucas... WHY?

Cody · Apr 2008

OK, I love Star Wars as much as the next polycounter, but what the hell?
#1 - Who wrote the dialogue?
#2 - Is it just me or are these character models really bad?
#3 - What is up with General Grievous' laugh?

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

Sorry if there is already a thread about this. I didn't see one...

adam · Apr 2008

I thought it looked pretty awesome..

low odor · Apr 2008

I think that looks bad ass...I think the characters are a pretty good 3d interpretation of Tartakovsky 2d version...I liked the animated Clone wars serial better than the live movie though...

aesir · Apr 2008

the style is fantastic. the Dooku one, which you cant really see well in that trailer is especially awesomely designed.

Slipstream · Apr 2008

That was awesome

Wells · Apr 2008

been looking forward to this. looks badass

BoBo_the_seal · Apr 2008

that kicks ass! Love the style

Cody · Apr 2008

It's just that I love the 2d version so much, this doesn't live up, in my eyes. That Samuel L Jackson model is terrible!

jeramy79 · Apr 2008

I wasn't impressed, not after seeing what most of you guys did for DIII.

Tumerboy · Apr 2008

Dunno what your problem with the models is. I adored the 2D version, and I agree this is a pretty decent interpretation of those.

As for dialog. . . what dialog? There were like 5, one liners in there, which were all pretty cliche/standard Star Wars stuff. . . but that's pretty much expected at this point.

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2008

Style is great! The execution of it, I dunno. Looks like they took awesome designs and let the animatic team make some videos. Star Wars isn't Mamet, the dialog has always been pretty ass. I'll probably still buy into these though.

ImSlightlyBored · Apr 2008

I thought it was good enough, appreciate the style, but I've not seen the 2D version.

rollin · Apr 2008

comic style is the new hype..

Asherr · Apr 2008

that video is pretty old. from Star Wars Celebration last year, i think.

Rhinokey · Apr 2008

Cody wrote: »

OK, I love Star Wars as much as the next polycounter, but what the hell?
#1 - Who wrote the dialogue?
#2 - Is it just me or are these character models really bad?
#3 - What is up with General Grievous' laugh?

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

Sorry if there is already a thread about this. I didn't see one...

you wonder why?

heres a quick summary
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i don't think it looks bad.. but somehow i feel i've seen this all before.

Cody · Apr 2008

Actually, it's most likely more like this....

sinistergfx · Apr 2008

Looks fun to me. Still haven't checked out the 2d series yet; will probably do that soon.

JDinges · Apr 2008

Looks pretty damn cool.

Not exaclty sure how you can tell it has bad dialogue from the few typical starwars one liners..

Cody · Apr 2008

Sorry I was talking about the dialogue in the other trailer I saw, I'll post the link when I find it again.

AstroZombie · Apr 2008

I love the style, but IMHO the animations could be better. Still looking forward to it, though.

Mister Sentient · Apr 2008

I am really beginning to hate Star Wars.

PfhorRunner · Apr 2008

rollin wrote: »

comic style is the new hype..

You mean "next-gen"?

Ephesians 2:8-9 · Apr 2008

Cody, it's the bad quality of the video that is disapointing you. The presentation ya know. Find and HD version. Much better.

Mark Dygert · Apr 2008

I'm excited.

The style looks fine, the animations look to be a little dicey at points especially in the hands the lip sync, but its hard to tell for sure. I'm sure I'm nit picking the thing to death and should just enjoy it.

pliang · Apr 2008

Its really not that bad...

Jesse Moody · May 2008

I can't wait for this. Seems like some people would bitch if they were given a million dollars, tax free, at times around these parts (the internets).

I think it looks cool, it's something new and I'll go check it out for sure.

seantree · May 2008

I will be there opening day. I saw a new trailer on speed racer this eve that showed Jabba. I hadn't seen him in the others. I'm loving Count Dooku's look in this. Can't wait!

bounchfx · May 2008

I'm undecided.. I mean, I like the style they got going but it feels pretty kiddy, but I suppose that's what they are going for. the way the characters were built also reminded me a little of Rock Band's style

gavku · May 2008

is this the new triler you were looking for...?
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809991325/video/7744414/

Snowfly · May 2008

Nice style, but all of the animation looks wooden to me, like the character haven't got any weight or balance to them...almost like something you'd see in an average student reel. And some of the camera work is flashy but meh. Crossing my fingers for some good writing.

rooster · May 2008

corn on the kabob!

blankslatejoe · May 2008

you called?

http://cornonthekabob.ytmnd.com/

Darth Tomi · May 2008

I'm sure it'll be a fun movie... but for SW fans only. It'll probably be lucky to make it's money back. After Episode 3 I think the general public is a little Star Warsed out. We've already covered this material before with the clone wars animated stuff. What's the point. Even tho I'm a really big SW fan myself. I would rather them cover some area like KOTOR or stories between the prequels and sequels. Maybe a direct to video film would be okay...

Steve Schulze · May 2008

I think theres more than enough Star Wars fans to make even the most niche film profitable and this looks like it'll have reasonable appeal to the less geeky. It seems a little unfortunate that they didn't get Tartakovsky in again to do his thing, though I guess that would have been even more redundant.

jpgourley · May 2008

Yeah, I didn't care about seeing it before, but now I think I will. Star Wars isn't what it once was for me, but I think it looks fun. I'd rather they had done episodes 1-3 this way.

CrazyButcher · May 2008

I agree about the 1-3 in that style as jpgourley
I love the classics, and that will remain
but I dont mind a new approach, although they dont have that romantic/epic feeling the old ones had, but we always tend to idealize things of the past hehe.

keizza · May 2008

ugh....star wars and empire stikes back....AWESOME.
anything after that....utter poop (sans the attack on the death star in jedi)
i really can't see people interest in it anymore. the new stuff is so bad.

sorry to sound negative......have a hangover. ha.

[MILES] · May 2008

I think it is brilliant.
I never would have bought the 2d clone wars...but this I'd buy.

-Miles

Emil Mujanovic · May 2008

Like it was mentioned in an earlier post, the translation from 2D to 3D is great. I really like the style, though I'm disappointed the animation isn't as exaggerated as it is in the 2D. I'll still check it out.

-caseyjones

nkoste · May 2008

Looking forward to this. I really dig the style.

George Lucas... WHY?

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