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Did Frank Oz also gave his voice to Yoda?

Yes.

Was there any use of fx for his voice? otherwise I find Oz creepy

They may have tweaked it a little, but I think it's 99% Oz.

What a cool guy!

Oa is a creepy guy, he plays lot's of characters like that, such as the property office cop in Trading Places.

When Oz was under the stage to move Yoda,
was it like the Thunderbirds that he moved Yoda, I mean with chords and stuff?

No, Yoda is a hand puppet. His face (eyes,mouth) is moved mechanically by remote control and someone operates his arms.

How did they move his arms than??

I think that for TPM there were 2 or 3 people under the council chair controlling yoda with a mix of traditional puppetry, some mechanical puppetry and some computer controlled bits too.

Much more complex that ESB and ROTJ.

I think that Yoda looked a little too young in TPM. He looked about 500 instead of 864, but I guess he might have aged due to the stress of losing all his fellow Jedi.

Did you know that Frank Oz also did the voice for Miss Piggy?

Does that make Yoda a ga-y 'guy'?
But I can't figure how they do the arms, do the fingers move?

NOt very much, but at least one of the operators ion the clip I saw was a rather petite lady, presumably she would do the hands.

If they had the technolegy to make a JarJar, why not a Yoda?

They did do some CGI yoda and I hear that there is more CGI Yoda in II.

So is there going to be a yodapuppet around??
I think this is good: now he is cgi and young, in the OT he is a puppet and old; so the limited movement is good!

I think it depends on what is required. Obviously a puppet is much cheaper to do than a CGI.

But for the sequence where Yoda will do some fighting, as rumnoured, I think that most of that will have to be CGI.

I prefer a puppet. If he was a puppet in the OT then he should be one in the PT. It's the same with Jabba. He looks completly different as a CG.

I'm talking about close-up. CG for fighting and moving is good.

Thing with Jabba is that he has looked different in every movie.

I thought Yoda was going to be completely CGI in AOTC.

Maybe he will, I'm not entirely sure. I do tend to think they'll use some puppetry, but who knows?

If they were going to use CG then Frank Oz would probably use a puppet as a stand-in anyway so it would be worth while keeping the puppet.

True, true....

Well, no matter what, we know tha Oz will still provide the voice.

He was also the property officer in Blues Brothers