Bingowings said:

Sadako said:

The total lack of physical clone troopers was obvious in close-ups, but the mo-cap of their movements in combat was exquisite (in ROTS, at least). I'll give them that much...

...but the CGI in close-ups gets so distracting. Kind of like CGI Threepio in AOTC. (Though the '64 box of crayons' comment was apt.)

Even some of the close ups weren't that bad to be honest.

CGI is good at doing shiny plastic. Throwing in a few real suits during close up scenes would have tricked the eye into believing the illusion more.

The bottom line is the script sucked. If that worked few people would have cared if some of the FX looked a bit weird.

^ This, 110%.

In wide shots, the CGI shiny plastic looks fine, but the shot of the Troopers' feet when they're about to shoot Ki-Adi-Mundi always stood out to me as extremely obvious CGI. They're boots. Why are they so clean? And why would you need to CG boots, anyway? (That was the point where I understood that ALL of the clone troopers were CGI, and had always been CGI. And no one was surprised that day.)