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

Mind-blowing back in the day--a human performer riding a CG mount!

 

Love the contrast in this one.

TPM, 1999: A lot of practical set, with a little bit of blue screen
AotC, 2002: A lot of blue screen, with a little bit of practical set.

 

^ Um yeah... giant alien colosseums require a little more sound stage space than a corridor. A large model captures the scope much better at a fraction of the cost. Think practical, dude.

 

And I love the cherry-picking. You might as well compare the submarine-sequence of TPM with the Anakin/Padme picnic scene of AOTC, one is obviously more digital than the other.

Some scenes obviously use more blue screen than others, that is the nature of movie-making. Real palaces do exist, using them, or a set-copy of one of them, is rather easy. Giant alien colosseums, as Billy_Dee_Binks already mentions, are a bit more complex than that. Not to mention that they do not exist in the real world, which is why you use huge models of them. Shocking use of practical effects, I know...

 

>Thread intended to be defending PT's unacknowledged use of practical effects
>Defending expansive use of CGI in PT instead

 

they used both and they're both good.

 

IDK, there were a great deal of cartoony moments in the PT for me. But this is not the thread for that, and I won't discuss it any further. Feel free to tag me in a post in the PT CGI thread.

 

More like "being able to differentiate without making absurd claims that have little to do with reality, unlike other persons in the topic..."

If you make a stupid claim, be prepared to get called out on it. I couldn't care less whether a person likes the PT, heck, I'm perfectly fine with the sole reason for someone not liking the PT being "I just don't like them". What I don't like, however, are people who are dishonest or state things as a fact even though they are utterly clueless about the issue and cannot be bothered to actually check the facts prior to making their comments. It's one thing to not like something or even have good argument for it, it's something entirely different to make up stuff. Sadly, the largest group of people who can't stop talking about this is of the later variety.

 

Believing the prequels overused CGI isn't making anything up. It's a valid & commonly held opinion. It's still just an opinion though & you're welcome to disagree.

 

Opinion does not equal fact.

 

It doesn't need to. Your opinion isn't fact either.

 

Huh, I didn't know they were able to burn the wielder... according to a behind the scenes video on I think the ROTS DVD, they show that the hilts are actual rubber casted with chrome for the effect. I always wondered what the different colour of the sticks were for though, I guess just how they look against a green screen/ the intended CGI backdrop?

 

Back when TESB and ROTS were made, the rods were colorless.



When ILM went to work on the PT, it was decided to have them colored since it helped with the digital rotoscoping process and would make it easier to be covered and/or removed when the time came.

As to how it was done back in the day, as noted, it was rotoscoping.



This screen grab is from the "Birth Of The Lightsaber" which you can see on Youtube.

 

^^ I mean like, some of the stunt sticks are red, some are green. I'm guessing it's due to the editing process of inputting a background, or red's easier to see against a green screen backdrop, but I always thought it was somewhat weird that they would go to the trouble of painting the sticks in different colours.

 

Right.

 

Was just watching this on Youtube,
Pause at 0:17^,, the shot of the Geonosis battle.
That turret the Geonisian used looks practical to me. Could be
a miniature?

 

Thank you all for the answers. I thought they not used the rotoscoping in ANH, but only in TESB and ROTJ.

Blue screen, blue sticks, then they not used chroma key for the lightsabers, but digital (frame by frame) rotoscoping, right?

Why two colors?

 

Basically. In this case it was due to the orange glow of lava on Mustafar that required using blue rods and then having the blue screen lit up to help with the addition of the lava bursts.

That I don't know.

 

interesting bts article.​

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