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I hate the look of CPY as much as the next person, but that's how it looked in '99. I don't know what was keeping them from making a puppet that looked just like the one(s) in Empire and Jedi. Perhaps someone can fill me in on that.
Then we have cg Yoda....
On the one hand, it looks like the Empire/Jedi puppet, simply in cg form. Also, they added those rubbery bounces to his ears. The irony of it all! It's like the animators were paying more attention to the old puppet than the puppeteers were!
On the other hand, there's a big trade-off happening here. For all the animators' efforts to make Yoda more real, they only got farther and farther away from what made the Empire/Jedi Yoda "real." Freedom of movement and water in his eyes is not what made the old puppet real. It was that we were seeing something that was literally sharing the same stage, reflecting the same light as Mark Hamill, and that there was a real performance going on before our eyes.
Even Gollum can only have one of those two things said about him in the LOTR movies, which is still one more than can be said of cg Yoda.