Yoda VS Baby Yoda - Why we love Baby Yoda and Old Yoda more than the CGI version
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Old Yoda is a hand puppet controlled by 4 people.
One person holds his hand inside Yodas head that holds the weight and left arm. With the same hand, he also controls the jaw with his thumb. Upper lip with his index finger and one finger for the brows.
The second person controls the right arm and hand.
The Third-person controls the eyes from a box with joysticks pulling the wires that go into the puppet and up to the eye mechanism.
Forth person has a similar controller box that controls the ears.
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Stuart freeborn created the first Yoda with a bunch of other people. Sculptors makeup artists puppeteers or actors.
How do all those people fit on a scene with the on-screen actors then?
They build the set on a higher level. So the puppeteers can stand underneath. They then decided to make Yoda in CGI or 3D whatever you want to call it. It's made on the computer and added after the filming.
But for Yoda, I think it would work fine to keep the original idea of performance throughout the full Star Wars franchise.
But To have practical fx creatures on set is very challenging because the character's movement both needs to be synchronized between the puppeteers and then with the actors on set. But When everyone syncs up. And then the lighting is set perfectly it all looks amazing in the camera. And it touches the audience in a much better way than a computer-generated character does. It's not that they can't make realistic CGI but It's received differently by the audience.
Even in the Mandalorian Baby Yoda is a puppet.
Now years later the puppets have improved as the technology improved has as well. So now they can use very small servos and produce very small moving parts.
With 3d printers and micro servos. But baby Yoda is still controlled by several people in kind of the same way.
Just in case the performance of a puppet wouldn't look good enough.
But it turned out that it looked so good that they stopped doing backups and went full-on with the puppet version.
Which makes me very happy. Because it proves that it still this day is the best way to go.
But of course, if it doesn't look good it doesn't look good.
Then it kind of looks ridiculous actually.
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Baby Youda reming me the little nice creature Gremlins, they wetre so nice! :-)
Yes, it was a winner choice on their end. They also made a point to have physical dark troopers and all other 'puppet' characters. If you watch the Gallery episodes, the effects team goes to explain how they used CGI elements - Grogu included. They made it mandatory that all CGI enhancements would follow strictly what a puppet can do, animation-wise. I think the only shots I can tell CGI is in use are some of the wide angle shots of Grogu walking around, and those only remove the puppeteers and extend the body of the character. It's very well blended and very subtle. A great mix of practical and CGI.
Yes exactly. Cgi is of course great if they can't hide rods and stuff in other ways. Ive seen some footage of when George Lucas tells the animators to limit the movement of the CGI Yoda. So great way to make it seamless.
Its 100% because the stiffness of the puppets neck. His movements didn't track and look like a head on a stick. I do a ton of puppets and you always sacrifice movement somewhere unless you have a million dollar animatronics team 😤
Cool. Where can I see your work? 😃
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@@RichardTomson the lighting too of course like you said. Thinking later in the day with more shadows or a different forest with more growth maybe? Curious what your resolution was for that.
Yep. It was a nice forest but to shoot in the middle of the day as the story needed was not optimal. It was just to much light there to control it. My own fault. I presumed it would work. Because the alien was so great looking. 😕
Can't press that link. 🤔 I'll try on my computer later.