Lucas and his CG
Lucas makes superb movies but he just uses too much CGI. Every single shot in Attack of the Clones was CG. You should only use CG when You Really Have to Lucas just uses it whenever he wants.(Example. In AOTC when Padme is captured by Jango Fett and some Destroyer Droids and Jango was CG) it was so fake and the CG didn't even have to be used he was just standing there.
*** ASSMAN***
cgi can be really hard to look at sometimes - it's not easy for my eyes it seems. watching all the gungans fight the droids was like watching a demented cartoon. even when the cgi looks really good, it can still be problematic. look at the clone troopers. at first i thought they were real, but when they started moving, i noticed that their motion was much too fluid for a real person. in real life, people make jerky motions, like raising and lowering guns, etc, yet the clone troopers are always so smooth - too smooth. anyway, that's why lotr looks so much better, because they favored models and real-life props when possible.
oh yeah, one other thing that kind of makes me wonder. i saw a clip of temura morrison putting his clone helmet on after talking to obi-wan, but his body was in a blue suit. wtf? why didn't they just put real armor on him? how on earth can cgi armor be better than the real thing if you've got the actor right there? if he's a digital double in the background it's not such a big deal.
all i'm saying is that cgi is ok to do things that you otherwise couldn't do (although a person should not write things like this into the script solely for the purpose of using and promoting cgi, like GL seems to do), but to use it instead of real props and models and characters is just uncalled for in my opinion.
now that would be all up to the SFX department and GL's approval of the final product.
If they are using Motion Capture suits with referance reflectors, they can obtain a pretty close to human chcracter. However it seems that they are only using the green suits just as they used in I robot.
Matte screens and Motion Capture suits are extremly cheaper than constructing entire sets and Filming on Location.
As we all know GL is a bit of a poor boy and needs to cut on costs. 🙄
got to agree with you dere ih8jarjar. CG should only b used for the background and SOME environment elements, droids and all other robots, starships and aliens. apart from that everything else should be played by humans. the clones dont look real most of the time unless they are standing still or are doing very lil movements. i dont see y dey wouldnt use people in that situation (i find they are far more superior than CG)
yeah, lighting and texture play a big role, i agree. look at yoda in ep2 - his cloak looks great, even when it moves, but yoda's head looks translucent at times. it's like i could reach up and stick my hand through his face. oh yeah, we have to keep this an ep 3 thread, so ahem, i mean, uh i hope yoda looks better in ep3. (my guess is that there's going to be even more effects shots in 3 than in 1 and 2.)