I think it’d be neat to have two “fixed” versions of the TLJ Yoda scene for fan editors to use as sources - one that fixes the mouth to be ESB/ROTJ puppet-accurate, and one that additionally “fixes” the mouth movements a la Adywan’s ESB:R.
If I was any decent at that kind of stuff I’d do it myself, but sadly I’m shit at animation/motion graphics type stuff (that was the only film/video class I failed in college).
Yeah, the ESB:R Yoda is very nice. I don’t know exactly how adywan pulled that off, but once I’m working on Yoda’s face I’ll likely experiment with some enhanced mouth movements.
I think he used the puppet warp tool. (Or whatever the After Effects equivalent is called of that photoshop tool. Can’t remember if it’s called something different, but it performs the same function.)
I think he did the subtle movement of the cantina aliens the same way.
I’m aware of the puppet warp tool, but I’ve only used it on image layers, not video. I’m curious of how he made the warp mesh follow the face. Perhaps you could stabilize the face, warp it, and then “destabilize” it. It could also be possible to use displacement maps which follow the face and fade in and out to displace parts of the face. I guess I’ll just have to experiment a bit.