Original Yoda Puppet Phantom Menace

Oleh Nuki 5/23/2019

The puppet was designed for a dimly lit swamp not a conference room. I dont think that many people would argue that the yoda puppet in empire strikes back is a masterwork of puppetry but it works great because of the setting and lighting.

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The version of yoda puppeted by frank oz in the phantom menace has been replaced with a.

Original yoda puppet phantom menace. But that would remind people of the prequels which featured a horrible puppet in the original release of the phantom menace followed by a digital yoda who not everyone connected with. A large reason puppet yoda looks so terrible in phantom menace is because hes surrounded by cgi whereas the puppet in the empire strikes back and return of the jedi exists in a practical. The goal was to portray a younger version of the jedi master as hed presumably appear during the clone wars.

Obviously hes going to stick out like a sore thumb. Puppet yoda has been replaced for the upcoming blu ray release by a cgi yoda. Original yoda puppet parts as they look today image.

After becoming iconic in two of the original trilogys installments yoda eventually appeared as a younger jedi master in episode i. Perhaps not as many as we thought might have been the case yesterday but there is at least one big one. When lucasfilm released the phantom menace in 1999 it utilized an updated version of the yoda puppet.

Side by side comparison of a brief clip of yoda in the phantom menace. But it looks like the original puppeteer.

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