zombie84 said:

Tyrphanax said:

Bingowings said:

BmB said:

All I know is he was incredibly annoying kiss-ass to listen to in the prequel special features and commentaries.

I found Joe Letteri defending the dried banana turd CGI Jabba much more annoying personally.

JOE LETTERI: We wanted people to think there was a giant banana turd on set with Harrison Ford and we just photographed him stepping in it.

Yeah, that was pretty egregious.

I think you guys are forgetting that, in 1996, to insert CG like that into unseen 1976 footage was pretty impressive, and looked real(-ish) to us. Almost no one was bashing the CG quality of Jabba in 1997; it hasn't aged well, in the same way that all CG from 1997 hasn't, nor have many early 3D video games like 1996's Resident Evil (one of my favourite games of all time that I routinely play every so often). But for the time, it was for sure a proud moment in ILM history.

It was amazing that they could put Jabba into that footage. Problem is, it looks nothing like the Jabba we saw in ROTJ. The revised version was an improvement, but the skin color still seems off, unlike the TPM Jabba.

They should have at least considered building a scaled down Jabba puppet and inserted that into the sequence. That approach would not be far removed from what George has claimed he was going to do with those shots originally.