2️⃣ • Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

Jango Fett’s Slave I vs Kenobi’s Jedi Starfighter - 3 minute video of the scene; with the ship-on-ship fight starting at 110 seconds into the video.

Kenobi manages to exposition the line “Oh, blast! This is why I hate flying”… whilst continuing to fly in a straight-ish line with Jango Fett firing multiple rapid fire shots at almost point-blank range from behind the craft - before reacting and then turning.

It seems a bizarre choice to position the CGI ships so close to each other with Slave I continually missing the Jedi Starfighter despite multiple shots being fired at such a close range… especially when the scene would likely be more believable - and have more tension - if the ships were simply much farther apart?

^ some 70 seconds into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars
 

Though it is not really surprising going on this pre-CGI BTS short…

^ if the above gif does not appear, then please click here: https://giphy.com/gifs/xTk9ZRSGSbF1irUvW8

and landing on the creature effortlessly; albeit legs akimbo - with no damage / fracture to her pelvis, hips, or legs 😉

4b. Poor CGI’d lizard trying to get to Padme on top of the pole… (and Padme aiming to hit it about 1 foot behind where the lizard’s CGI head appears onscreen).

^ some 80 seconds into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars

 
At 9 minutes into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars

and…

this 20 second youtube clip on the Clones leaving Kamino: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR_icgUc8iA

^ the artificial feeling of it all - colours and composition, lighting / shading… no atmosphere, no actual believability to 3 characters walking down a hallway etc.
 

9 minutes into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars
 

 
^ 15 minute 2019 Corridor Crew youtube video: VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi - at 6 minutes and 40 seconds into the video.

All 5 uninterrupted minutes of the infamous ‘CGI Droid Factory’ scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxMHBxck5I

^ To me it feels like it was made and shot to sell a forthcoming ‘Gameboy-esque’ game tie-in to the film.
 

‘Star Wars: Anthony Daniels Slates Prequel’s “Awful” CGI C-3PO’ - a 2014 article from Yahoo.

‘George Lucas Put ILM Under The Gun With Last-Minute VFX For Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones’ - 2023 SlashFilm article.

 
Dooku appears to be ‘fighting air’ in the fight at times… and later Yoda has light casting off from his lightsaber - yet Dooku does not have any from his…

^ 15 minute 2019 Corridor Crew youtube video: VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi - at 8 minutes and 50 seconds into the video.
 

Episode II: Attack of the Clones - Catching Up With Rob Coleman, Animation Director - general AOTC FX 2002 AWN article.

^ no, this scene isn’t from an animated show or computer game - but from the film Attack Of The Clones…

or…

^ Dex doesn’t seem to be in the same scene at Obi-Wan when interacting with him. There are many other ways the scene could have been shot to show Kenobi an Dex hugging / showing their bond or friendship. This CGI didn’t work - again pulling the viewer out of the immersion of the scene.

2 sides of CGI separatists vs Clones fight each other on Geonosis - with no emotion, stakes, resonance, tactics… they just run towards each other shooting because that’s what the CGI artists though would happen? Nobody corrected them - or gave them advice; tactics etc - or didn’t because the CGI wasn’t able to show that? (or poor / rushed direction? or no time to do this? QC? etc)
 

^ 15 minute 2019 Corridor Crew youtube video: VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi - at 5 minutes and 33 seconds into the video.

or…

some 7 minutes into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars