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Disney and LucasFilms will reportedly use computer generated imagery to digitally recreate Grand Moff Tarkin, the character Peter Cushing played in Star Wars back in 1977. Cushing died at age 81 in 1994:
A source told the Daily Mail that Disney and LucasFilms are using CGI to bring Grand Moff Tarkin back to life for the spin-off film which is centred on a back story about Darth Vader.
Cushing starred in many of the Hammer Horror films with Christopher Lee, including Dracula and Dr Frankenstein. He also appeared in two Doctor Who films, based on the BBC sci-fi series.
CGI technicians have been particularly challenged in recreating his legs and feet, because they never appeared on camera in the original film. As his character was a Galactic Imperial officer, his uniform included tight riding boots, which Cushing complained were uncomfortable. So director George Lucas gave him permission to wear slippers and instructed the camera operators to only film him from above the knees. Original footage is vital in the process of computer generating real people, to ensure that it appears as accurate as possible.
With the power of CGI, Tarkin/Cushing can be made to leap over railings, dodge blaster fire in mid-air, and high five Jar Jar Binks.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by Covalent on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:24PM
Yoda and Jabba connected with audiences because they were REAL. But the CGI versions were ... Meh. And don't get me started on Jar Jar.
I know the tech has come a long way...but it's still just flat. Physical effects for almost everything worked great for the original trilogy. CGI for almost everything turned the second trilogy into a flaming turd destroyer.
PLEASE no unnecessary CGI in the third set. Please? If it is needful and cannot be done physically, then ok. If not, then scrap it
Evidence: what scene really resonates with you from the second trilogy? For me it's the immolation and repair of Anakin. How much computer there? Hardly ever. And that's even with Hayden Christiansen as the lead actor.
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:54PM
Perhaps you should watch "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" before condemning CGI. 99% of the movie is CGI that is 11+ year old technology, the remaining 1% is the actors in front of a green screen.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 28 2015, @12:50AM
I don't remember the plot of that movie at all, just the gloss.
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(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Friday August 28 2015, @10:35AM
"Obviously it’s star wars and there are going to be thousands of CG shots in this movie, but it was really important to us that wherever it didn’t need to be, it wasn’t. It’s incredible how much gets sort pushed off to solve later. We’ll shoot it on blue and figure it out later. We’ll shoot it on green and we’ll make this up later. It was really important for a sense of authenticity that the set be built, the exterior, interior, that we go to real locations that were actually in the sun.
I know it sounds silly, but in the behind the scenes reel you see this giant gimbal of the Millennium Falcon cockpit and it was outdoors. The reason we did it – we didn’t have to do that, but the reason we wanted to was, you just can’t fake sunlight. You can do a pretty good imitation, but you can just tell. There was something about wanting to see Daisy’s character actually sitting in the cockpit with sunlight streaking across in motion. It’s a little detail and I’m not sure anyone’s going to care abut that, but it’s an incredible thing when you see it just how much better it looks because it’s real. So we just tried to do that as much as we could and it was often challenging but it was worth it."
from http://collider.com/star-wars-7-j-j-abrams-on-captain-phasma-colin-trevorrow-and-more/ [collider.com]
I feel positively optimistic that JJ will try to keep as much practical effects as are practical (har har) in the making of the movie.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by OwMyBrain on Friday August 28 2015, @01:52PM
Yoda and Jabba connected with audiences because they were REAL. But the CGI versions were ... Meh. And don't get me started on Jar Jar.
Yeah. CGI characters are never good. That's why everyone hated Gollum.