I’d still say this definitely looks miles better than anything in AOTC.
Disagree. There’s some stuff on Kamino (mainly the exterior shots) that look miles better than that scene.
the space bugs.
Space bugs? Do you mean the poisonous worms at the start of the film? I don’t think they look too bad for 2002, there are far worse looking things in the film.
I think the PT gets too much of a bad wrap for its CGI in general. Yeah there’s some crap in there, but there’s a lot of good in there too, you just don’t notice it because it’s actually blended well. Considering they were the first films to really utilise CGI to that extend they could have turned out a lot worse.
I mean there’s some shitty looking CGI characters and locations in AOTC, but I don’t think I laughed at any of it like I did with that awful green screen shot of Finn and Rose on Canto when they’re galloping away from the Casino. It reminded me of the ROTJ speeder chase, and not in a good way. For all its faults TLJ does have some gorgeous visuals, even Canto itself is really well put together, so I have no idea why the quality dipped so suddenly for that one shot.