I hope it's legitimate to open a new thread for this, as I cannot offer anything, only point to something.
The german TV station Pro7 provided several new RotS scenes in their TV show Focus TV, just half an hour ago. You could see a craft landing in a sinkhole on Utapau, Grievous walking and parts of the opening battle. All these scenes were quite long, several seconds each, much more than in the trailers. I am pretty sure that these scenes are completely new. The show will be repeated Tuesday morning, 2.30 am CET (Monday evening in the US). If you have any contacts to Germany you should try to get your hands on this stuff. It was simply great to watch!

What was your opinion of the clips? Interesting choice of avatar.

someone needs to rip it!

They even showed the first seconds of the opening battle after the opening crawl!

And they mentioned that the movie would be FSK 16 in Germany, which would be a R rating.

They were extremely satisfying to watch because they were not so short as the action scenes in the trailers. Other than that - Grievous' walking style was very weird. Hard to explain - quite fascinating. That's all I can say. Unfortunately I lack the technical equipment to digitalize the show myself.

I'm not really looking for a technical opinion. Just whether you thought the clips looked/sounded good, what your opinion of any acting/dialogue you saw was, whether the clips were the business. That kind of thing.

http://rapidshare.de/files/1313860/ep3_ ... v.avi.html

Link provided by HTS_HetH on TFN.

Scroll down and click free to download.

i am writing a letter to access hollywood demanding this footage immediately. This is an outrage. I demand a committee be appointed to investigate these allegations.

edit: thanks for the link

woot! thanks!

Ah soo... I was just planning to post the same stuff here like on TFN, but my account activation took me a bit too long, so yeah... enjoy the footage and if you don´t mind repost some mirrors on yousendit or whatever, I already got some complaints that people outside europe could not access that site. That link itself won´t fail you, it´s traffic safe and should stay up...

So yeah, I guess the space battle will rock pretty hard from the looks of it and grevious looks cool to me from what was shown there.

Hah, Grievous walks around like he's got something wrong with him.

The depth of the space battle is incredible.

Thanks heaps HetH!

That was nice. Everything looks pretty good so far.

We've been told, and have already seen, Grievous' bird-like walk. This shouldn't really be a shocker to anyone...amazing nonetheless.

anyone else having problems playing the file? It stalled on 23.4mb then it finished but no player can play the file.

that was less than encouraging...

Grevious looks fuckin stupid! That space battle shot has me worried... but it should be a lot better with sound fx and Williams's score...

Way kewl footage of General Grievous...

Still counting with tickets clutched in hand...

After thouht...if someone has trouble with the file I have had trouble using rapid share on AOL so I use another browser and use a download manager to keep track of it to make sure I get the whole file, in the past I've had trouble with incomplete files downloaded on AOL, hope this helps..,

Did anybody else notice a couple quick frames after the Utapua sequence of vader in his chamber and someone else removing their hood? I couldn't slow it down wnough to tell who it was. Could anyone make it out? And I'm curious why that footage woulod be included in a piece about the cgi for the new movie.

Arghh. To late.

You are to fast guys. Hey HetH, you are not the only who had to wait getting activated. I also planned to post the same stuff.

This movie on tfn, is it the whole docu or yust the three new scenes.

If its the whole thing, then how did you liked the footage of the fan movie "tidirium"?


Funny? Rick is making a little joke about a nighmare he had. He dreamed he was eighty, sitting in a wheelchair and the kids of lucas called. they wanted to edit the sound of episode 1. then he woke up and realized that goerge lucas wont let go or something like that.

At 3:09 in you get to see the infamous "waterfall" scene that will open the movie. The camera pans down from the titles to see just the top of Coruscant with one destroyer and then Anakin and Obi-Wan's fighter fly into camera and then cruise along the top of the ship. Once they get to the edge - it's over and down into the biggest space battle of all time.

Even on my monitor and crappy rez of the video - it's most impressive.

The TV show was not just about Episode III. It was about the hole saga.

please could you host it on a place not being rapidshare?? it doesnt allow me to download because it says i´m not a pay-service member. please!! THNX!

huh riiight. Troll?

I mean in what fuckin way did that look less then encouraging? I like the idea of Grevious walking like a eagle/bird. Dont forget that hes half machine half alien. It might be hard to walk for him

I thought the space battle looks amazing. I mean it looks just like all the pics thats been floating around since months...so why expect something different?

Sweet footage. Here's a mirror if it's needed: http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BKL ... M0GJVTTEYX

A. I guess Lucas lets the germans see more than us?
B. Grevious scene looks amazing.
C. I wanna be a computergrafiker.

1000 gracias seekup!!!!

Press the free button.

That was a nice footage thanks !

Yeah, remember also that he coughs. So that's why he looks like he's having a spasm attack in that footage. Mace Windu did some damage to his internal organs with the Force in the last episode of Clone Wars. I thought the way he walked and the CG on him looked great. Too bad we couldn't hear the audio, that would have helped sell the scene. I love the very first shot of him covered in the shadows.

what has me worried about the Space Battle is the amount of CG required.

now I admit that quality wasn't great, but even so I noticed some bad shots... I just hope those shots are completed. But I'm sure with the great score I wont notice too much

as for Grievous, it'll probably work ok in the movie. I just think the chicken walk is fuckin stupid

I'm working on a QT .mov

I thought the footage was superb. The general looks better than i had imagined from the still shots and the space battle was nothing short of jaw dropping. Just raises my excitement level another notch.

You noticed few bad shots? oh my god.. you are amazing.. you can see this through the low rez crappy divx video? you should work for ILM.

I mean really come on.

Already way ahead of you...

http://rapidshare.de/files/1314488/germansw.mov.html

Theres no sound to lower the file size and since its mostly german it doesent matter.

well, thank you!

and actually, yes I can see through it... maybe my expectations are just too high.

ok, fine...

I couldn't figure out how to do it anyway... my mov came out 80MB, and that's with just the new footage

"It doesn't make much sense to me."

It makes it immediately obvious that he isn't a droid.

well, to each his own and whatever, I just hate CG...

I'll save my proper whining until after I see the completed film, but I assure you there will be a lot of whining to be done!

as for Grievous, like I said I think he wont come off too bad in the film. I just hope he doesn't become just another annoying side character.

also, those vulture droids are really stupid... that's all.

... I'm sure it'll still be an amazing battle though

Dodo it sounds like you've made up your mind to whine about the film before you've even seen it. That's some real stupid shit you just said right there.

That was from the "Creating General Grievous" webdoc. I'm guessing they showed bits of the webdoc to introduce GG

Corny characters in a Star Wars movie!

What's the world coming to!

good lord people, its only april 17th. This CGI bashing needs to stop because its so 1999. We knew about this chicken walk thing at least a month ago, probably longer. If you are basing your opinion of the movie on how he walks then you need to gtfo cuz you are too stupid to be here. I liked the footage, cant wait to see the battle itself in stadium seating.

hey, there's no point avoiding the inevitable... there will be bad shots, and I'm gonna comlpain about 'em.

of course I'm not saying I wont enjoy the film... I couldn't be more bloody excited to the film.

I just think Star Wars deserves much better than crappy CG. It's just my taste. I think CG looks cartoony. The technology has not yet reached a stage where it can seemlessly be integrated in a large part into a live-action film.

I know a lot of people have no problem with CGI... and even embrace it. And I envy you. I wish I could watch a film like this and not be distracted by how unrealistic things look... but unfortunately I can't.

Like I said, it's just my taste. I'd much prefer the old OT style of Special FX over the new CG techniques.



Hell no... sure there are some great effects shots in those films, and even in AOTC there are some amazing shots! I do think that the VFX in LOTR were much better than AOTC however. But it definately doesn't look awesome.

anyway, I could go on for hours about how directors over use CG... but this aint the place to discuss it...

The German footage: overall I thought was good. The Utapau sequence was aiight, I don't really like that ship though, looks stupid. The Space battle looks exciting despite what I've said. And Grievous... I'll reserve my judgment until after I see the film.

On the subject of Grievous' cough, it started out as a joke. According to the Final Chapter of the Making of ebook, the day they were recording GG's dialogue Lucas had a cold and coughed into the mic as a joke. The sound technicians continued the joke by processing Lucas' cough into soundtrack. One thing led to another and it became part of GG's performance.

yeah awesome efx like the rancor with the really awful black border or the xwing shots in anh that you couldn't rotate and the crappy lightsabers in anh ot edition and...i could go on forever

Okay. You take your blue elephant, and I'll take my Grievous.