Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Star Wars in my blood

I don't know what it is, looking exactly like Billy Dee, just my love for the films, dunno but I'm innately connected to star wars and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm glad the series is continuing but it's not been without bumps and awkward decisions no least to mention constant behind the scenes drama.

Say whatever you want about the prequels but one thing was clear, there was no one else's hand in the mix, it was one man's stern straight forward vision and not the star wars of today a mixed bag of trail mix.

Above all, star wars needs vision, it's what makes it work otherwise it's just like every other scifi space fighter movie.

Been playing the new battlefront. It's at times amazing, other times just a spawn and die fest since there's no balance to the game. You at rank 3 or whatever will be matched against vets who've been playing since launch and have the best layout. So you don't get to live very long.

I became sick of that so despite my interest in getting deeper in the game I ended up quitting, it's just going to be more of the same from the other battlefronts and it's still inferior to the old ps2 battlefronts which got it right, it's about warfare on epic scale, not rpg elements, or tokens, or gaining weapons through a menu credit system that's unrealistically expensive. If you find a tank, you got a tank. Jesus what this game would have been had they actually done what disney wanted and made Battlefield into star wars. Jesus.

Instead they tried to be clever about it...

So it came out like this weird concoction of ideas and scraps of stuff. No time to accumulate the credits needed and even if you do, no time to play as a top tier character... well done?

They tried to re-invent the wheel and instead designed a warped version of it that sucks.

But it's my life, this star wars stuff, have no choice but to play it and hope the next one isn't awful and actually gets things right. Strange also, there's no capture the flag mode or cargo like in the other one, wtf happened? They really just wanted the money. I mean people can defend EA/Dice all night, but they did try to make the game pay to win. They did release yet another unbalanced glitchy mess that was needing further patches and updates to make it better, and seemingly haven't even fully finished the single player campaign yet, which I don't know if i want to play but since Billy Dee is Lando in it, I'm obligated really...

As for my project. It's coming together, just did some extensive fx work to remove a fishing line, and did what I could to make this scene where ugh my shirt doesn't line up with the next shot properly so it took me at least a few hours to figure out how to make it look near seamless by fading it subtly while cuting and pasting in elements from the later part of the vid to make it not so jarring a jump cut. I know about morphing a shot, studied it for a good long while, but never figured out how to do it, so this was my best bet and it came out perfect... No more odd jump cut...

I mean that's just how I roll, my goal is to make this look a real and good as I can. It will be hard, but my vision is driving this project forward and it'll be great if it all works upon completion.

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