Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:16:57 -0700
Subject: Re: PUPT: Frank Oz




Moosky-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> Funny thing about Yoda and a light saber, it is one tough combination
> to pull off.
> 
> Yoda 3"
> Light saber 4-5'
It looked like Yoda had a mini light saber to me.  Besides- they weren't
consistent with the scale anywhere else in the film.

As for the notion, which several people have mentioned, that they
couldn't have done the fight scene unless Yoda were CGI... as if Ewan
MacGregor were really doing his fight scenes.  (Although the brief
moment when Obi Wan went CGI in the diner was a little jarring.)  Fine-
use CGI there, but using a puppet in the other scenes would, at the very
least, have given the other actors someone to respond to.  At best it
would have been more "real".

I think the CGI technology has improved a great deal, but I actually
found Yoda's face too mobile.  I was more comfortable with the clonars,
who's slightly rigid faces seemed more in keeping with the way skin
moves.  C3P0, too, never bothered me.  But the overly expressive nature
of Yoda, and the other fleshy characters seemed cartoonish and
inappropriate.

Out of curiosity- does anyone know if this was straight animation, or if
they were doing motion capture?

Mary





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Mary Robinette Kowal
Other Hand Productions
http://www.otherhandproductions.com


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