He'll never look "real" and he certainly never did.
I very much liked Frank Oz's performance in ESB, he made that ugly rubber puppet (which reportedly also was not working properly) come to life, which is a great achievment and which made the character so charming in the first place.
The TPM Yoda, I don't think I need to elaborate his flaws.
Digital Yoda is probably the best decision regarding Yoda or any other character yet.
I'd rather have a Yoda (or any creature) that does not look 100%, but can actually act and emote. It adds another dimension to the character.
i kinda agree,,,lucas has gone too far with the cgi, a couple of examples, yoda vs dooku in epII,, give me a f*ckin break, one minute hes walkin round like an old man, all of a sudden he leeping round like a crazy monkey, almost like lucas is takin the piss. also dunno weather anyone spoted this but in one of the webdocs, when dooku does a force push on obi1, looked so fake the way he flipped back, i mean they could of used some wire work or somthin to pull him back instead of the cheesy cgi shiat....(leave cgi to space battles).
Why do people use so many swear words hear and other SW related sites? (MF for example)
It's the internet, yes, but it's not very kind or readable to wrap reasonable opinions in such a disgusting shell.
I'm part of some other communities, nowhere I read the same amount of tasteless language then here.
Is it just that you are < 12 years old or are you simply not smart enough to put it in proper English?
This really upsets me.
He'll never look "real" and he certainly never did.
I very much liked Frank Oz's performance in ESB, he made that ugly rubber puppet (which reportedly also was not working properly) come to life, which is a great achievment and which made the character so charming in the first place.
The TPM Yoda, I don't think I need to elaborate his flaws.
Digital Yoda is probably the best decision regarding Yoda or any other character yet.
I'd rather have a Yoda (or any creature) that does not look 100%, but can actually act and emote. It adds another dimension to the character.
thas exaclty what i think, and yea...what was up with TPM yoda, lucas needs to go back and redo that with CG. it wouldent be THAT big a deal since yoda had so few scenes in TPM
I absolutely agree with the starter of this topic. The digital Yoda might look nicer but it takes away all the magic that the character has developed in ESB and ROTJ. I always said the same about the swordfights. Yoda shouldnt even have a lightsaber, he's the wise wizard who solves the problems with his head and not with his weapon.
The puppet has much more feeling than the digital character.
I think the OT puppet is always the superior one. For people to diss it, they must have no taste. That puppet had great detail, and Frank Oz's work was amazing. He wasn't meant to do much obviously, and it totally worked 100% because he was meant to be old and slow.
Yes I prefer the CG Yoda to the PT one.
I think on this Episode, they have gotten it the closest so far.
Doing a side by side, it is pretty close feature to feature.
I think the other tough thing is lighting. All the swamp shots have very different lighting from what we have seen in the prequels. If you take a look at the posted image from inside Yoda's hut and compare it, it is amazingly close.
No its actually because he's computer generated. There is just a different feel because of it. He doesn't look as real, detailed, more cartoony, which gives Yoda a different feel.
HOWEVER, I thought he looks very good in Episode 3, improved over the Episode 2 one. Here's also the thing that I noticed:
He looks great sometimes in Episode 2 and bad sometimes in Episode 2. And the reason is is that different people work on different scenes. I noticed I love some scenes with him, others are not as good. Some are amazing in fact. And I think in Episode 3, he looks mostly like the great shots from the 2nd, besides a few that don't look to be that great.
I also think that if Yoda hadn't been a puppet before, I would have loved his CGI in the movie, I think its just the character being CG that throws me off at first.
Another cool thing I read in Premiere magazine as far as fx in Episode 3, is that the scene were Luke and Leia give birth, was done by animitronics instead of CG which is awesome. They then pasted real babies faces over the animatronic ones...Pretty cool. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.
The OT Yoda was amazing, it looked real. Real as in you'd almost believe he was an actual being from another planet and GL just told the world he was a muppet. As for the OT Yoda being expressionless, that is a bold-faced lie. The real being that played Yoda in the OT will hunt you down and eat your spleen, all while wearing a bemused smile.
The PT CG Yoda eats donkey balls, not spleens. Puppets always look realer because they are real.
Originally posted by Milosz006
The OT Yoda was amazing, it looked real. Real as in you'd almost believe he was an actual being from another planet and GL just told the world he was a muppet. As for the OT Yoda being expressionless, that is a bold-faced lie. The real being that played Yoda in the OT will hunt you down and eat your spleen, all while wearing a bemused smile.The PT CG Yoda eats donkey balls, not spleens. Puppets always look realer because they are real.
Speak the word brother. I heartily agree with you.