General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 121

At this point, RicOlie_2's a spinoff who's found his own identity ;-)

doubleofive said:

"Ev-ery-thing!" -CPY

The brows, the shape of the face, his nose... it's all wrong. CGY at least looks like a more plump OTPY.

 I'm trying to imagine Empire with the Menace puppet... 

They should name a studio stage after CPY.

God, I hate CG Yoda -- even more than CPY. There's always this perpetual frown on his plastic face, like he needs an enema or something; that isn't the Yoda from the OT -- no way, no how.

File this under "no kidding".  On the front page of Reddit right now...

TIL no physical clone trooper armor was ever produced for Star Wars prequels. Every Clone trooper was CGI.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/200cyp/til_no_physical_clone_trooper_armor_was_ever/

Is "TIL no" a misspelling or some sort of slang/acronym I'm not aware of? I certainly can't figure out the context from the title alone.

Ah, I see.

TYL

<p>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...</p>
<p>...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.)</p>

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.

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.)

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I think this might be the single worst image on all of Wookieepedia

AWESOME!!

:D

Ach du lieber! Das is nicht eine awesome!

Hammerhead or Ithorian?

SilverWook said:

Hammerhead. But I'm a old Kenner Star Wars guy. This scene in E.T. still makes me smile...

I also don't need elaborate stories for every cantina patron either. Some of them must lead boring mundane lives. ;)

I second this post.

darklordoftech said:

Hammerhead or Ithorian?

Ithorian, personally. It's incredibly easy for me to empathize with peace-loving environmentalists.

DuracellEnergizer said: It's incredibly easy for me to empathize with peace-loving environmentalists.

I am a peace-loving environmentalist, so this is true of me as well.

darklordoftech said:

DuracellEnergizer said: It's incredibly easy for me to empathize with peace-loving environmentalists.

I am a peace-loving environmentalist, so this is true of me as well.

 Exspecially when they have wars with Gringo :-D