adywan said:
If these ideas work, then i can just replace those two shots and keep the original puppet ones at the beginning. I’ve been modifying the face slightly ( repainting the horns to be the lighter grey on the puppet along with the end of the one horn being chipped off) and i will be doing some tests over the weekend, If it works, then i can finish the dirtying up and adding the wax ice on the fur and shoot the thing towards the end of next week. If it doesn’t then i can just get everything rendered out and release it. It’s still a very long shot that this might work, so don’t get your hopes up.

Yes! Yes! As someone who saw ESB on the first showing on the first day of release in 1980 - I can say unequivocally that I have no problem with the Tippet Puppet whatsoever, it even made us jump out of our seats on first viewing. IMHO it works well so no need to replace it. Marrying those two later cave shots (which never did look that great) with the puppet would be spectacular and I wish you all the speed and luck to your talent that you can muster to pull it off.

You will find a way if possible. And if not, then it will still be terrific to be the way it was back in '80.

But if you do manage to get even the head to work, replacing this shot with the head moving between the ice pillars would be brilliant.

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