Jaitea said:

Also, CG can look really, realy good, very realistic.....but it all depends how long the artist can spend perfecting the shot, look at the other films ILM were working on around the time of the Prequels,...the money coming in from those other projects must have pushed them up the priority list

J

Just so.

The insistence of GL making every shot an FX shot (In some way or another) must have been a ridiculous workload for ILM. Also George reshooting half of each PT film at the last minute on greenscreen stages must have been a nightmare. You can see the stress and confusion in the faces of the crew in the documentaries.

In contrast, in the behind-the-scenes films on the LOTR trilogy (Shot at roughly the same time) the crew always look like they are having fun. Even if they have to work 3 days straight with no sleep to get the job done because they knew they were doing great work, they still have smiles at the end.