Potential new OT footage on G4's Attack of the Show

Looks the same to me.

I do like how Lucas actually admits that they could never get CG Yoda to look like he was actually in the scene and that the OT Yoda looked more realistic. Surprising admission!

Ever since 1997 all I heard was him complaining about how limited it was because you could never have/see him walking.

Count Dushku said:

http://g4tv.com/videos/45623/Inside-ILMs-FX-at-Skywalker-Ranch/

 

Here's the link.

That's an interesting clip of Lucas. Wonder if that's the angle they're going to go with when they start the promotional push for a 3D re-release involving 3 less- than-beloved movies. See it in 3D because that's how it always should have been and now it won't look so fake.

...Or did I only read that he'd never replace the puppet Yoda with CG in the original movies? Maye I misquoted. Very likely.

I wouldn't be surprised if George would change Yoda in ESB to a CGI version for the 3-D version. He said himself CGI thinks look better in 3-D. But the 2-D version Yoda is pretty safe, I suppose.

I remember in an AotC documentary, when they were making CGI Yoda, they tested him on, well, ESB footage, so it really isn't much of a stretch that ESB CGI Yoda can appear. Either as a main or bonus feature, that remains to be seen.

I read somewhere that Yoda becoming CG was Frank Oz's suggestion. Was getting tired of the puppeteering aspect of it, like how he retired from the Muppets.

He wont replace the puppet in the OT. George loves it.

Baronlando said:

That's an interesting clip of Lucas. Wonder if that's the angle they're going to go with when they start the promotional push for a 3D re-release involving 3 less- than-beloved movies. See it in 3D because that's how it always should have been and now it won't look so fake.

That was my thought as well.  I wonder if the 3D will make the plot of Episode 2 more realistic?

Being already fake to begin with, the prequels will probably look better in 3D, but the originals will likely be somewhat worse.

Obviously, no amount of visual trickery will solve the central problem of rubbishy plots and bad dialogue and so forth (which relates to why the original movies are superior even in crude GOUT form to their jazzed up SE equivalents).