The frames that we are showing arrive directly from Post Production of DR, and are a result of the joint work effort of Davide Bigazzi, Paolo Pinto, Diego Lupano and Gianni Melito.

Gianni Melito (author of the first frame) is the main person on the compositing and Matte Painting. His first job for LOI was the creation of a backdrop of the ruins of Eron (we cannot show you the final work as per request by the director), an immense amount of galactic ship relics outside the acid Sea of Eron. Gianni describes some passages of his work:

The job given to me was to realize a backdrop for the ruins of Eron's scene. It's a key scene for the movie, rendering a backdrop believable that will then be utilized in a scene with no FX and real actors is a very tough challenge. One of the ruins is a gigantic space ship that fell in the sea thousands of years ago. Basically it was about creating the back part of the spaceship that has super sized reactors and to show the wear of time on it, like the creation of types of vegetation or the deteriorating of materials. I started from the plain ship that was modeled and created in Lightwave. After this, placed the various objects inside the spectrum so I started to paint it utilizing Photoshop and a Wacom graphic table.

Starting from the base colors and illumination I continued by defining the materials, the vegetation, and all the necessary particulars to create a believable atmosphere. As a final touch it was the time for some color corrections and to add weather effects such as fog and light beams, to reach a realistic level that was acceptable.

In regards to the compositing, lately I am taking care of adding the laser swords in some fighting scenes thanks to the Adobe "After Effects" package.

The last seven promotional images that we show you will be different from the others seen this far, we will show you four of the digital creations totally created by the genius mind of Davide Bigazzi, who designed them, created them, textures them and animated them. A titanic job that only a superficial view can be seen. Just think about that all the miniatures have detailed interiors, mobile parts and animated parts and hundreds of lights. In appearance order the "SILENT RAGE", Lord Drown and Lord Sorran's ship, was freely inspired from Darth Maul's ship seen in Episode I. Follows the "TEMPLE OF ERON" that is well shown integrated on the deep cliffs hanging on the sea that is in Ventimiglia. The interiors of this temple are on two levels where one of them is one hundred meters under the sea level.

The "LIGTH CROW" is the ancient ship that the Jedi’s will utilize to reach Eron, this miniature was built on a precise request by the director, based on the "Otana" family ship, Correllian ship that appeared in the "Alliance" Videogame. The "NAGAS STAR" is the battalion station of Sorran where inside the prologue of the movie will take place. Even if it's seen briefly, Davide built it in the minimum details. Some words on the characters, the maestro Fabrizio Brezzo "Master Zeb" who gave us an appearance in the movie, even if his role within DR is of a major weight. We will right entirely an article dedicated to him very soon.

The beautiful Valentina Beghello who plays Keila, the seducing companion of Lord Drown, and finally Diego Marangon (Captain Marago) great theatrical actor, that other than playing the Imperial, with his experience he helped us in the last shootings.

A Zip file containing 31 high resolution images (2592x1728) appeared to date can be downloaded here (9.5 Mb).

Other promotional high resolution images, in order of appearance: Hope, Sorran and again Hope.
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Here are other three promotional high resolution images, in order of appearance: Lumil, Awor and R2-D2. In preparation is a page where we will insert other promotional photos of the characters.
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Production goes ahead without any interruption. Two more scenes, where in one of them in one of the most windiest of the world, has been seen brought to light in the just passed Week End. This picture is a gift to all those people that appeared and that made thousands of kilometers to contribute to DR. Thank You also to all, in particular to Amedeo Tecchio, Yuri Abietti, Sara Ronco and R2-D2 of course!

Here other five promotional pictures in high resolution, in order of appearance: His, Drown, Valek, Organa, Kerl&Suhl.
Some of these characters (we won't give up which) will appear only for very few seconds in the first part of the movie, but will be better viewable in the second and last part of the movie.

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Four promotional high resolution images, in order of appearance: Nemer, Zui Mar, Sorran, Zail.
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The fauna of the Akhiah planet has been enriched with a new creature, Mirco Paolini, animator and 3D modeler from LOI he has completed the sequence with the "Mirworm", an animal that will live in the lower vegetation of the planet. Mirco is already working on the next CGI scenes. We will keep you up to date with other images from Post Production.

Many articles of Star Wars are included in this number, and a special section is dedicated to our project with an interview to Marcella Braga, who plays Hope. We suggest you reading the articles and a look at the beautiful pictures of Marcella [www.lucediluna.net]

You can download a PDF in these links:

Full Magazine
DR Article
Interview toHope

For low resolution or foe who can't download the 33 Mb Trailer, you may view the Trailer A in streaming, it can be directly view it through Google Video archive at this link!

The actress Sara Ronco was added with enthusiasm to our cast.

Sara will play a key character called "His", she will be at the services of Organa at the Jedi order of Akhiah. The actress has many experiences in the entertainment world.
To find out more follow this link!

A new frame from Post Production of DR is at this link!

This Week End the DR server was shut down by the IP for excess Bandwidth traffic. To make a long story short the Trailer Download has generated 350 GB of traffic and in order to refrain from blasting it was necessary to shut it down.

We would like to reassure everyone that wrote to us. We are always in Post Production and we are getting close to the end of the last shooting sessions. Soon we will put other frames online and backstage pictures.

From all the staff of DR: Happy New Year!!!

The trailer of DR, was inserted in the archives of FXHOME.com. Home of one of the Software companies utilized by LOI for the Post Production of the movie.
Here is the direct link for or trailer

The download section was updated

Available now the 720x405 version

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Tetsuo.it the Italian Hi-Tech portal, has interviewed the director of DR.

Here's the link

With little delay compared to what was promised here is the first trailer of Dark Resurrection (2:34)

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A new load of frames coming from Post Production has added to our archive. Notwithstanding the Summer break the shootings (to date we are at 75%) the LOI has worked non-stop for all Summer bringing to light some high profile scenes.

As expected the movie trailer will see the light at the end of September, and most probably won't be the only.

Backstage
Master ZUI MAR (Maurizio Zuppa) is today in China where he has obtained permission from the Chinese Government to take some extra footage that will detail his training.

Trials to participate at the Short
The shootings will re-commence in two weeks with a key scene to be shot with the green screen. We are opening a hope for all the people that wrote to us asking to participate. One of the last scenes will be shot in a month and a half inside the Jedi Temple, and many Jedi’s of all ages will be there to participate to the counsel. The location was not yet confirmed, but will be here in the Region of Liguria. If you have a believable costume, the right face and you would like to be there, send us one or more pictures where you wear the costume and a description of your self to this address: lord.atilak@gmail.com