shanerjedi said:

TheBoost said:

I just watched "Labrynth" and the sequence where the puppet-monsters took off their heads. It was effects by ILM using men in black velvelt suits and old school double exposures and optical matting, but it got me thinking about Yoda.

Imagine for a moment, if in AOTC, instead of a CGI Yoda, we had a fully realized puppet capable of all sorts of amazing things the original puppet was not capable of, because ILM would digitally erase puppeteers from the frame!

Actually, that was a British fx house. ILM just did the matte paintings for the film.

I stand corrected. Regardless, that technique with digital technology instead of opitcal used to remove the puppeteers could still be used to enhance puppeteering, instead of try to replace it.