Phantom Menace Yoda Cgi

Oleh Nuki 11/24/2019

In the phantom menace yoda is 30 years younger at least and does appear far more animated than what was possible with the puppets. The original puppet from 1999 looked awkward and weird and miscolored.

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Yoda also seems somewhat different from the puppet.

Phantom menace yoda cgi. The cameras were fitted with data capture models to provide technical data for the cgi artists. In 2011 he was replaced with a cgi version for the blu ray release. I recall seeing episode one and thinking yoda looked horrible.

But yeah as much hate as cgi gets this was a huge improvement. Lucas decided to edit in a cgi yoda for. Cgi yoda looks 1000x better then the puppet especially in episode 1.

This isnt the first time weve seen cgi yoda in the phantom menace as the special edition dvd of revenge of the sith featured a 15 minute documentary called the chosen one in which this digital yoda made his debut. Originally in star wars episode i. Especially his facial features.

The phantom menace was the final star wars film to be shot on 35mm film until episode vii star wars. In 2011 he was replaced with a cgi. More realistic as well.

The phantom menace released in 1999 yoda was a puppet. Some scenes mostly of elements filmed by the special effects team were shot on high definition digital video tapes to test the performance of digital recordings which lucas and mccallum considered the next logical step because of the amount of digitizingan expensive. He has more hair fewer wrinkles and brighter eyes.

Seen in that doc is a much shorter clip of this same scene but this is a longer better look. A comparison of every scene with yoda in star wars episode i. I swear the puppet yoda in episode 1 was somehow worse then the one in the origional three too.

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. Side by side comparison of a brief clip of yoda in the phantom menace.

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