Ryan McAvoy said:
OBI-WAN37 said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
OBI-WAN37 said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Here's a question just for you to answer...
"Why did they build an (almost) complete set for the Tantive IV interior in ROTS, when they could have CGIed some or all of it?"
If you can give the correct answer you might understand what was so wrong at the heart of the PT (Hint: The reason wasn't because it looked better).
OBI-WAN37 said:
A good description on the (PT) movies overall would be "mind-blowingly fantastic films!"
Anybody want to complete the sentence...
"The PT are mind-blowingly . . . . . . . films"
;-)
"Fantastic". Strange that someone would post such an easy question.
Touche!! You've have done well my young apprentice.
But any response to the Tantive IV question?
I can give you the answer if you don't know.
I just said in the post directly above the one you just made, " I don't quite understand what the mystery-answer question you asked is even asking, but I'm curious, what do you think is the answer?"
^ It's this thing that happens in forums when two posts are written at the same time.
The answer to my question is they had to build the Tantive IV set for ROTS because C3PO was shiny.
The time and cost needed to CGI in the reflections on Threepio meant it was cheaper, and less bother to just knock up a cheap set (And it does look cheap and plasticy next to the 1977 original set). This answer is not my opinion but from the mouths of Lucas and McCallum on various ROTS behind-the-scenes features. This is also the reason why shots involving The Naboo Silver cruisers tended to be physical models and/or sets (Plus Padme's appartment in ROTS needed to be fully built to make Threepio cheaper to do). So again I say, if they could have done it cheaper and easier with something real they did, but if they could have done it all in CGI then it would be. This insistance of putting budget before quality-control lead to CGI R2 in ROTS being Matt instead of Gloss to save the money it would take to add the reflections.
It's a question whose answer speaks volumes about the mentality of the filmmakers on the PT. e.g. "Let's not build as much as we can because it looks better, lets build as little as we can to save time and money".
Side note:
TPM $160
AOTC $145
ROTS $134^ PT's budget adjusted for inflation. As you can see they spent 15-20 million less on each film. They cut back on expensive sets, costumes, models etc as advances in CGI increased, allowing them to just cheat it in the computer.
So they used a practical/reasonable amount of models/sets/CGI given the expenses of it all in everything other than on the Tantive IV, and not only that, but disregarding that previous statement given the fact that it would be extremely hard and expensive to CGI in C-3PO's reflection on the walls of the ship (where has anyone ever seen CGI of that period that good?) they also used an appropriate amount on the Tantive IV?