Unfortunately, ILM basically doesn't do anything but animation any more, and chances of a Star Wars getting made without their filthy hands polluting the frame is virtually nil, save if somehow Christoper Nolan or a similar puritan gets to direct the special effects.
georgec said:
That's one area I think where TPM had an advantage - I think they filmed much more of that film in real settings than they did for AOTC and ROTS, which feel almost exclusively like bluescreen stages.
No, actually I think it has about as much CGI in it as the other prequels. The difference is the CGI is actually good. TPM is one of the last films to have good CGI in it. It's funny really, CGI starts with a bang, Jurassic Park, indistinguishable from reality. Then it just goes on a quality nosedive in a strange inverse proportion to moores law.
That said, I do think the suit+CG head jar jar looks far better than all-CG jar jar.