Newsgroup: it.fan.starwars
Titolo: Se vero, è interessante. (Inglese e SPOILER)


Upon entering ILM, I saw some very exciting stuff.
What did I see? Well, I'm still shaking and my brain is scrambled trying to
remember everything. I had no access to writing utensils during my "visit",
but I repeated names and images over and over in my brain until a few things
stuck. The CG characters I saw were obviously early, untextured and looped
the same motions over and over again. Keep in mind that many (if not all) of
these names are only what I could remember and that information tends to get
hazy when I become hyperactive.
Dunque, 'sto tale è riuscito ad accedere ai laboratori ILM e ha visto alcuni
test shot di personaggi per EP II, alcuni dei quali da animarsi al computer.
Ciò che ha visto era ancora in fase "embrionale".
OFOL MANDALOR (sp?) - This was actually a character sketch, a photo and what
looked like a CG test. The character sketch looked more like a Roman
Emperor/Crusader/Boba Fett outfit hybrid. That description is a little lame,
but try to imagine a white and copper, very clean, modified Boba Fett
outfit, that some people might think looked a little femme (cape, plume on
helmet) but others might think looked extremely tough (copper shoulder
guards, evil looking helmet, of course). The helmet had: no black visor, a
copper plume and a red insignia. It was, unmistakably, a direct reference to
Boba Fett's helmet. The photo had a front, back and side shot of a
slicked-back, black haired man in the costume (sans helmet) with the name
Ofol Mandalor, the name Tom Flanagan, height/weight info, and some
extraneous info that meant nothing to me. The name Tom Flanagan doesn't ring
a bell, but the face looked familiar. The CG test looked early, and the
Mandalor character had no cape, the helmet on and what looked like a 6+ foot
axe/pike/polearm. It was standing next to...
I tanto vociferati guerrieri Mandaloriani! Descritti dal tizio come un
incrocio tra un imperatore romano/crociato/Boba Fett.
Dice che il costume ricorda molto quello di Boba, con un mantello, piumaggio
(?!?) e elmetto. L'emetto non ha il visore nero, però ha una piuma e
un'insegna rossa.
PEDDU - another untextured model, and a Hutt, but it was more black than
green. Its arms were folded across its chest and its tail moved slightly up
and down. It was located next to Mandalor, raised off of the ground, resting
on a simple rectangular box. Its face was on an adjacent screen, looping
through mouth movements. I couldn't tell much from those two images. The
name Peddu was at the end of the file location string so that's why I am
calling it Peddu. Oh, he looked more like a threatening, barrel chested
genie than a sloblike Hutt.
Un modello privo di colorazione. Uno Hutt.
YODEC - this was another instance of a file name character. A Yoda type
alien with a black topknot (which flowed amazingly, you wouldn't know it was
CG hair). It was doing some fighting moves, looping, and is a good reason
that Yoda, if he fights in this episode, should be done with CG, because it
looks very, very neat. No lightsaber in hand per se, just a grey rod which,
I'm assuming, is placeholder art.
Un personaggio simile a Yoda, con capelli neri.
TON PICEED (Tona Picede?) - okay, this is Colin Hanks. A Jedi/Apprentice
that looks pretty much like every other Jedi in Star Wars Episode I. I only
saw him as a reference photo, again from front, back and side. The character
information was just like on Mandalor, the name Ton Piceed, the name C.
Hanks, height, weight, file names, etc.
Ecco Colin Hanks, che alcuni dicevano avrebbe interpretato Anakin... E'
invece un apprendista Jedi.
Ed è tutto. Non so quanto di tutto ciò sia vero, nè tantomeno so se qualcosa
di quel che è appena stato descritto apparirà nella versione definitiva di
EP II.
Ciao,
Beppe.
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Pier Giuseppe
Venerabile Maestro Jedi di Mabou
Collegato telepaticamente a Lazarus Long... (Non vi dico che mi tocca vedere
ogni giorno!!!)
Cronista della vita, delle opere e dei misfatti di Rec-ow Kentar (fallace
takkinatore in terra gallica)
ICQ 20204285
"Evolution begins July 14, 2000"
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Mah, difficile a dirsi, sempre in movimento è il futuro...
Ciao
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