OBI-WAN37 said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Oh yeah you're right there's hardly any CGI in the PT and it all looks stunning. I've just removed my eyes and given them a proper telling off for lying to me all these years.
Knowing this fact really makes me appreciate how agile pensioners like Christopher Lee and Ian McDiarmid really where. They must have done some Yoga training because their bodies twisted and bent into shapes that you'd think were impossible. Neato! (Also the puppeteering on general Grievous was sick!).
Did you not see that thread I linked? http://boards.theforce.net/threads/practical-effects-in-the-prequels-sets-pictures-models-etc.50017310/ It proves that there are a lot of models in the PT. I would suspect that that battle in AOTC actually did use some models, you can see a model AT-TE in the thread I linked, not to mention models of Mustafar, Naboo Royal Cruiser, a HUGE miniature city of Mois Eisley,the streets of Coruscant, that thing in the second picture down, the huge Geonosian arena, the corridors of the Jedi temple, the huts of the tusken raiders, the podracers, naboo, Kamino, the place where Anakin and Obi-Wan fought Count Dooku, the Trade Federation interior, life-size podracer, some different costumes for the aliens on Mustafar, the Podracer stadium, the AAT, Feluccia, the hanger in the Invisible Hand, the Jedi Temple, a life-size Naboo Starfighter, C-3PO half-built, what seems to be half of a life-size podracer for Sebulba, several places where Anakin and Obi-Wan fought eachother, and this is probably only a fraction of the stuff they actually used.
I have to agree.
To be fair, there is LOTS of great sets, model work, and masks/makeup in the PT that everyone seems to overlook in all the CGI hate. The puppetry that realized half done 3PO was really cool.
It's noteworthy for fandoms self-evaluation that there's sure been a lot of shit slung at "Puppet Yoda" from a group (us) that supposedly appreciates that type of thing