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Hanky Panky

10-25-2005, 02:50 PM

Animation director Rob Coleman confirmed in a recent press event for the upcoming DVD release of Revenge of the Sith that Lucasfilm plans to replace the puppet Yoda in Episode 1 with the CGI version we know from Episode 2 & 3 for the eventual release of the 6-DVD collection. Here's an excerpt...link follows.

Are you going to go back and make Yoda completely CGI for the first prequel?

Rob Coleman: We've actually have gone ahead and done that. We did that between Episode II and III. It was really an exercise to get the team back into the character. On Episode II I was really stressing living up to what my friend here created. So a lot of our focus was on that final battle sequence between Yoda and Count Dookuu. We'd nver seen Yoda do that before. But in the process we were learning about acting as animators. So it was really exciting for me to have the team back again, between Two and Episode III. We used Episode I, as a test bed, because we really didn't know what was gonna be in Episode III, and got the team back up to speed and really honed in on our acting. And using that as springboard we went right into Episode III.

Don't you feel that by going back and digitizing Yoda in Episode I that you're losing 50% of Frank's performace? (Note: Frank Oz provided the puppeteering for Yoda in every film until he went completely CGI.)

Rob Coleman: We don’t lose 50% of his performance because not only we have his voice which stays across of course, but we also have what he did in that movie and that was our touchstone. And we used it absolutely, exactly. It wasn’t my desire to do what he did. It was focusing my animators on what he didn’t do, and just bring that over into the CG world. It was a fantastic exercise for us to get a little bit inside his head, but very specifically to how Yoda moves and interacts with the actors.

http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/news.php?id=9521

R. Giles

10-25-2005, 02:53 PM

Don't care not going to pick up episode 1 again. The only way I will pick up episode 1 again is if they add about 30 min. worth of new footage that aren't deleted scenes found on the DVD.

Hanky Panky

10-25-2005, 02:58 PM

Even though Episode 1 was aimed at 8-12 year olds, I wished they would trim down Jar Jar's role in the movie, aside from this cool Yoda fix.

MARTHA SPLATTERHEAD

10-25-2005, 03:12 PM

That puppet in Episode 1 looked just wrong. I am all for that change.

shawing

10-25-2005, 04:14 PM

but the prequels?? damn, i liked the puppet in the prequels..... added to the . . .low tech feel :D

Psymon

10-25-2005, 04:20 PM

Don't. Care. Voted for nr. 2 so maybe everyone will stop talking about it... (not "everyone" on the Spawn board in particular, just everyone in general ;) )

OK-COMPUTER

10-25-2005, 04:45 PM

Sounds like a decent move to me, as long as they don't touch the puppet Yoda in EMPIRE.

Bran Man

10-25-2005, 05:08 PM

yay. he might as well of made a final fantasy start wars movie...... CGI is such a cop-out.

cyc

10-25-2005, 05:18 PM

Yeah, this seems like the sensible thing to do. The Ep 1 Yoda was pretty horrible.

deogg

10-25-2005, 05:21 PM

Leave it to Lucas to screw up Star Wars even more.

stshammgod

10-25-2005, 07:49 PM

That puppet in Episode 1 looked just wrong. I am all for that change.

Here here. The facial structure was completely wrong. Like maybe he looked TOO young.

Yankee Rose

10-25-2005, 09:18 PM

If they completely cut out Jar-Jar Binks I might have bought it!

hendrix88

10-25-2005, 10:38 PM

yea if they took out the puppet yoda and put the computer one the whole series will go together much better

WhO Iz THiZ Iz

10-25-2005, 10:54 PM

yea if they took out the puppet yoda and put the computer one the whole series will go together much better

what are you crazy???

hendrix88

10-25-2005, 11:47 PM

no,it looks like a totally different thing,plus he looks older when hes supposed to b younger.it was almost scary.

MARTHA SPLATTERHEAD

10-26-2005, 07:01 AM

Here here. The facial structure was completely wrong. Like maybe he looked TOO young.

contre mon frair. I think the puppet looks much older in a weird way than the puppet from the orginal trilogy. Too much detail or something. He also looked stoned out of his mind. I have no problem with the puppet from the OG trilogy at all....it rocks but the Phantom Menace one bugged me from the instant I laid eyes on it.
http://www.boomersfunnies.com/Pictures/Stoned%20Yoda.jpg

Jamesweighs

10-26-2005, 07:12 AM

contre mon frair. I think the puppet looks much older in a weird way than the puppet from the orginal trilogy. Too much detail or something. He also looked stoned out of his mind. I have no problem with the puppet from the OG trilogy at all....it rocks but the Phantom Menace one bugged me from the instant I laid eyes on it.
http://www.boomersfunnies.com/Pictures/Stoned%20Yoda.jpg

NO KIDDING! Hated how he looked in that movie. Looked terrible. Didn't even look like the same character.

Trout606

10-26-2005, 10:05 AM

MARTHA SPLATTERHEAD

10-26-2005, 10:12 AM

Considering we're talking about the prequels here, nitpicking little CGI fixes are really at the bottom of the list of things you could be annoyed with :p

If they wanted to re-re-release the OT with CGI Yoda, then they'd be fighting words.

If they ever do that I am taking a drive to Skywalker Ranch and personally ***** slapping George in his fat neck.

Little bro

10-26-2005, 11:28 PM

DestroyAllHumans

10-26-2005, 11:32 PM

i think it will fit better with the other two movies, as long as he doesnt make Yoda cgi in the other 3 movies i have no problem with it

WitchKingOfAngmar

10-26-2005, 11:42 PM

If they ever do that I am taking a drive to Skywalker Ranch and personally ***** slapping George in his fat neck.

His neck boobie?

Cardslinger

10-27-2005, 02:00 PM

ttt

huhwtfisthis?

04-04-2008, 08:17 PM

George lucas needs to stop ****in with the star wars movies!
the original trilogy was ****ing amazing but the re released versions sucked!!!
if he changes episode 1 its just going to look stupid... lucas needs to start working on something else and stop messing with his movies, the originals were popular so why mess with them!!!!???
Yoda doesn't look that weird anyways, he just looks sorta younger which he should be like 30 years younger or something so what ever i like it just the way it is, except jar jar... but i don't want any changes to the movie to remove jar jar, jar jar just should not have had that large of a role in the movie to begin with, original star wars fans were in there 40's or something when Phantom came out and most of the original fans didn't like it due to the fact that it was aimed at kids... when i was 6 i saw the original UNEDITED trilogy and loved them, and still do. I like Phantom when i first saw it as a kid but now that i am almost 18 i do not want to watch it because it seems like too much of a kids movie, if jar jar had a smaller role, people who were young when they first saw Phantom would still like the movie and the older fans who saw Star Wars in the 70s would also have liked it more i think...
i know i got somewhat offtopic but i don't honestly give a ****!
all these directors editing their older movies that everyone loves pisses me off, and Star Wars 1 and 2 piss me off too...1 is too much of a little kid movie, and 2 is more of a love story. yeah the other Star wars movies had some love story parts but that was okay because the movie wasn't 100% a love story were as Clones is like 90% love story 10% action
****!

K7Leetha

04-04-2008, 08:34 PM

Good, that puppet sucked.

toomanyfigures

04-04-2008, 08:44 PM

when does it get released? and is it ONLY with the 6disc set?

Trout606

04-04-2008, 08:50 PM

I'm waiting for the release when all the lightsabers are digitally replaced with walkie-talkies.

Touche'!

04-04-2008, 08:52 PM

George lucas needs to stop ****in with the star wars movies!
I encourage George to keep working on Episode I until all of Jar Jar's scenes are edited out. He can replace them with some hot pictures of Amadalia.

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5674/starwarscx2.png

OK-COMPUTER

04-04-2008, 09:21 PM

This thread is older than John McCain.

And I stand by what I said two and a half years ago.

bogeyman

04-04-2008, 09:33 PM

This thread is older than John McCain.

And I stand by what I said two and a half years ago.

and what was that you said two and a half years ago?

puck750233

04-04-2008, 10:00 PM

pffhhh then what? go and re do the original 3 with cgi yoda...when will it stop? really

VanHelsing58

04-04-2008, 10:01 PM

So will this new DVD set be Blu-ray? Wouldn't that make sense? don't tell me he is just re-releasing the same **** again?

OK-COMPUTER

04-04-2008, 10:19 PM

and what was that you said two and a half years ago?

It's up there, post #7.

AS251BR

04-04-2008, 10:28 PM

and what was that you said two and a half years ago?

Sounds like a decent move to me, as long as they don't touch the puppet Yoda in EMPIRE.

What's up with a guy's first post bring up a thread from so long ago? :D

avcprime

04-04-2008, 10:36 PM

All I can say is "money,money,money....money!" honestly Lucas is stupid.

BiBLE

04-04-2008, 11:01 PM

Who the hell was this "Darth Maul" that people kept talking about in Episode I? I never saw him. Just that slack-jawed idiot Jar Jar in every scene.

Spawnomite

04-05-2008, 07:48 AM

I luv old threads.

watts

04-06-2008, 10:14 AM

I can not reiterate this point enuff.....
HANKY PANKY has the BEST avatar!

Wrestling Fan

04-06-2008, 04:13 PM

He can make all the changes he wants. I already have all 6 movies on DVD and don't plan on replacing them until I upgrade to Blu-Ray/HD

Holeman

04-06-2008, 07:35 PM

If he goes back and redoes the entire trilogy and titles it "The Suck-Free Version", then I'll buy it. Otherwise, **** that nonsense.

ToightLikeATiger

04-06-2008, 07:52 PM

Glad they are making Yoda in Episode 1 CGI. It just makes sense since 2 & 3 Yoda are CGI as well. Puppet Yoda has to stay though for 5 & 6.

As for Star Wars re-release... I have 1-6 on DVD and I am happy with it. I will not buy anymore Star Wars movies until they come out on Blu-Ray.

Chevy Man 22

04-07-2008, 10:15 AM

If that's what they want to do that's cool but i'm not so anal that I'll have to run out and grab a copy on the re-release just because of it. I already have all 6 movies on DVD and don't see the point of re-purchasing one of them just because they want to make a minor change.

EddyZone

04-07-2008, 03:32 PM