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2025-02-07, 02:59 AM
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Well, I don't have this hypothetical, beautiful new matte painting because it doesn't exist, lol: just daydreaming. These modifications that I did are overlayed on top of the existing footage with some motion: very simple to do in Resolve.
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Indeed. The buildings, especially, are ridiculous. Anything to smudge it all out is a good idea. It's so funny that a lot of the FX work in 2001 was (particularly for TV budget effects) quite careful about cutting in with the existing effects and ensuring that color and detail were well matched. Whereas the new stuff is so often razor sharp and just shows every wonky seam.
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Yeah, the new DE obviously lacks overall VFX supervision or care. Like, they used halation in SF shots that nowhere present in the original photography.
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Especially ridiculous as they should be trying to emulate the Matt Yuricich matte paintings rather than photography: it's not as if their mix of obvious CGI and photoshop looks photo real. I don't think it's out of the question even with their (presumably low) budget. You'd need to commission more painterly digital matte work, but there's presumably more than a few folks that'd be interested. Instead, I think they mainly had whatever people they could get to come back after 20 years sort of wing it.