Computer or Costume?

Yeah but like Yerssot said, hair would be very hard.

They did Yoda's hair pretty well 😂

fairly

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A CGI wookiee would look like crap, unless it was a far away shot. It would look too cartoony.

Yeah...they should just use the REAL Chewie.

That's what they're doing.

Good 😊

I think if there's a big fight with them, they'll use like 20 or so real ones and the rest in the background will be CGI. Unless they make a ton of costumes...That would take forever.

I wonder if the Wookiees are siding with the Separatists. They don't strike me as the type to appreciate beaurocricy. Maybe thats how they meet Chewie, he's taken captive or something. That would fit nicely into the backstory to how Han met him later on. THAT would be a cool twist. This won't make the wookiees bad either.

Well you can't be so sure about that now can we,,,,

It's a good idea mephisto 👆
But you're right CT...GL could throw us anything...

Originally posted by mephistodesigns
I wonder if the Wookiees are siding with the Separatists. They don't strike me as the type to appreciate beaurocricy. Maybe thats how they meet Chewie, he's taken captive or something. That would fit nicely into the backstory to how Han met him later on. THAT would be a cool twist. This won't make the wookiees bad either.

and

Spoiler:
the groundbattle on kashyyyk is currently cancelled from shooting, so not sure if they will expend on the idea of siding with someone

On the Wookies costume bit, PM said that he travelled to and from Aus for the Costume fitting (He said it felt the same but the colour is slightly different - he said bear in mind that Chewie is younger in Ep III).

I would also agree that for the close shots it'll probably be real but for the wide shots, perhaps CG.

Well yes ofcourse but they will still have the battles on Kashyyyk. I have read some were that they toke a break from it to film the edning becasue they needed to film that first

Well, referring to what you said Hypernova...I realise they need to make him younger--hopefully they wont make him too different. I've never seen another wookie (like aside from Chewie).

CGI Sucks......Ruined the new episodes and ruined the old episodes with that new CGI crap inserted. CGI looks so fake, I hate it!!!
rumor has it that the new Indy film will have no CGI in it tocapture the feel of the old ones.

wookkies have different colors to their coats. some have grey, some brown, some a light brown tannish color. some mixed.

If Pixar's hair program they used on that blue monster Sully in Monster's Inc is any indication, ILM should have no trouble replicating hair in a realistic fashion, especially if used in distance shots.
And as for CGI sucking, Cowboy, I think the CGI in Clones was friggin' awesome. There were never any real physical clonetroopers and they all looked real except for the reflective lighting on their visors. Yoda looked incredible, the level of detail in regenerating some of his older movements was spectacular if you pay attention. And Dooku was almost comletely CGI in his fight scenes, especially with Yoda. I'll admit, CGI doesn't work in all instances, but when it does, it certainly beats an alien in a latex mask with very limited and unrealistic movements. I wish they'd make the rancor CGI so I don't have to see that hard line around Luke whenever he's spliced with the stop motion. Now, on things like ships or something in the area of an AT-AT or AT-ST, I still think the models look better, but their movement is limited. And I don't mind the CGI characters, I think Watto is very nicely done, the movement of his jowls, the skin color, his wing flap, he's very well put together. Something you could never achieve to THAT LEVEL of realism with a model/puppet. Watch the special features on ILM on Ep I and II and on some of the Jurassic Park DVD's and you'll see how much work goes into CGI. Those guys are real artists.

Well pixar doesent do SW graphics it is ILM that deos it and they are really good and hope that they will incorporate the wokies hair specail effects really good