PT Practical Effects in the Prequels- Sets, Pictures, Models, etc.

Some pictures of models that Adam Savage worked on from I and II...

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(here's the article with the interview)

 

Wow. These are high quality pictures of the making of Kamino! Thanks for the share!

 

I love all the films.

 

Added the following to the Jedi Archive >

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Also updated some pictures and put them in the correct places thanks to one Ian Potash on Dropbox who notified me of 4 incorrectly identified pictures.

 

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Another picture of a set for Episode III with Ewan McGregor (probably Utapau), from StarWars.com:

https://www.facebook.com/StarWars/p...299103121699/1162452480473018/?type=3&theater

 

One Quarter Portion I was watching an Adam Savage video on something else, and he was talking about working on Padme's apartment and he apologised. He was serious - saying sorry to the geekverse for working on such a lame film. I mean what a great life - so what's with the beef?

Anyway it's a free world - let's make Hans Solo's blaster !!!

 

Never saw this view before:

 

Awesome!

 

Was CGI actually ever used in these movies? Seams not.

 

Coming soon to a galaxy near you:

Digital Effects in the Prequels - Wireframes, Textures, Virtual Sets, etc.

That actually wouldn't be a bad thread to have.

 

Nice! I've never thought that I would be able to see the chancellor's office from above!

 

Interesting to notice a Yoda puppet sitting where the CG version will later be placed. I wonder if they ever intended to use the puppet in AOTC or whether it was just for temp shots, and whether the one in this shot is the same prop from TPM.

 

As far as I know they didn't.

 

The puppet was there for the actors to help them interact with something, unlike what many say that they had green screens 100% of the time. For example:

When they were filming the fight between Dooku and Yoda:



Anakin consults Yoda in Revenge of the Sith. Christian Simpson was simulating the conversation before Hayden does: http://www.starwars.com/news/from-fandom-to-phantom-dominate-your-destiny-yoda-quotes-can

 

Interesting, it does seem to be a different prop from the TPM one, as far as I can tell.

I wonder if there's any behind the scenes footage of it in action.

 

There's, when they are documenting the fight between Dooku and Yoda in the following documentary for Episode II, From puppets to pixels. You can check starting at 17:02 :

 

Now THAT is cool to see!

Holy sweet Jeebus!

 

Ha, Lee's reaction to that was hilarious.

"I can't believe you did that, George, I really can't."

 

What's that funnel Gunray has?

 

Cool air to breath.

 

Do you feel like minis with inserted actors looks as good as built to scale sets?

 

Sure, I don't see why not. It worked fine in other films like LOTR too. I mean, Kamino is meant to be a sterile alien world, which would be hard to convey and create via large scale sets. They're better than some of the awkwardly composited matte paintings in the OT.

I think the CG backgrounds mostly look good too.

 

That's cool. I'm mostly asking because I don't know if you can tell the difference between the two on film