[Bond]

Tell that to CG Yoda in Revenge of the Sith.

Or to the CG dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

Or even to CG Buckbeak in POA.

All of them sterling animation work.

[Commodore]

It's amazing how many directors still think that CGI is all you need to carry a film. They have ILM concoct some absurd, pointless creature and expect us to ooh and aah, forgetting that there's no plot and the actors look bored on screen. The truth is, it takes a great deal for special effects to wow anymore. The best effects are those that blend into the background seamlessly and don't distract from the story. Nothing ruins the illusion of a movie more than some lumbering CG monstrosity undulating all over the screen like a walking ad for a special effects studio.

[TheOrator]

Tell that to CG Yoda in Revenge of the Sith.

Or to the CG dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

Or even to CG Buckbeak in POA.

All of them sterling animation work.

You know, they had model dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

The fact that they knew when to use which was they're strength.

CG Yoda may have looked cool, but...why?

CG Buckbeak was just fine, but they had a model Buckbeak, too, if I do recall the making of correctly.

[Bond]

No, Buckbeak was fully CG. As for Yoda, it allowed a somewhat wider range of movement and emotions than in the previous films, where Yoda was a rubber Muppet.

This post has been edited by Bond: 29 July 2007 - 11:33 PM

[optimus_prime]

No, Buckbeak was fully CG. As for Yoda, it allowed a somewhat wider range of movement and emotions than in the previous films, where Yoda was a rubber Muppet.

i prefer the senile elder puppet version of Yoda in ESB anyday, over any CGI version of him. He looks hideous in TPM, yeah I know thats a puppet too, but he looks like a foreign child with down syndrome in it, just looking around, staring at other members of the Jedi Council, and off into space at some points.

[Bond]

Which is why they switched to CGI; Rob Coleman's Yoda puppet was horrendous.