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The Trailer Thread - Room with a Preview

Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
lincolnic said:
Now I'm really curious about what happened, because the trailer doesn't say anything about AI (and neither does the website). Did they really just do some kind of shitty upscaling and call it a day?
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This Reddit thread and this article from Australia have been a really good source of info. No one knows a lot of detail, but basically the original files were already pretty poor quality and lost, so this screening used a crappy file then put AI on top of it:

I5555 was actually done digitally, during a period of growing pains when Toei was moving from traditional to digital. This film was also edited in two different countries: France and Japan. Different parts of the world use different video formatting standards; Japan uses NTSC, which is a 720x480 resolution at 29.97 FPS, but France uses PAL, which is 786x576 and 25 FPS. To edit the Japanese film in France, they transferred the file from NTSC format to PAL format; imagine exporting a .psd as a .jpg, basically. This PAL version of the movie is the “master” they worked off of. Cédric addressed this entire point during one of the screening Q&As and it’s always been heavily assumed Toei mismanaged the NTSC master since, unfortunately, they were known for mismanaging source materials back in the day.
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Anyway, here's an example. For the first few shots I was wondering if maybe the original just had blurry art or a lack of detail because they didn't think anyone would notice and this was just making that obvious. But then I saw their eyes.

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lincolnic

lincolnic

can stop, will stop
(he/him)
Oh ew, ick. Yuck. (thanks for the extra info, though!)

It kinda feels like nobody involved with this project put in any modicum of effort. It just didn't have to be this way! Incredibly disappointing from two extremely notably detail-oriented artists.
 
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