#cgi yoda

[amazzyblaze]

Coloring page of Eliot, Hardison and Parker in "The 15 Minutes Job" (starring CGI Yoda)

[deanpinterester]

if yall haven't seen it already, i super recommend this ongoing youtube series by the movie rabbit hole that unravels a lot of those instances where a movie claims to "have zero CGI". it really uplifts the knowledge that practical effects and CGI really go hand in hand, except that the CGI side is often left in the dust when it comes to acknowledging the work that goes into making these bombastic movies.

this is the first video, where he discusses multiple movies but mainly top gun maverick, one of said movies that claims it has no CGI.

the second video just came out, and focuses on christopher nolan movies, another set of movies that people claim have very little CGI.

in the future, i believe he also plans to cover the injustice that stunt performers often face, which is related to this topic. in pursuit of being able to say a movie "has no CGI whatsoever!" or that an actor "did all their own stunts!", you end up leaving out the CG artists and stunt performers, very important parts of the industry that are often hardly acknowledged while everyone goes nuts over how real and authentic the movie is. movies are a team effort! let's not leave anyone behind! especially not the people whom the movies literally could not be made without!

[swan2swan]

I watched the classic Phantom Menace film so many times, it's actually seared into my brain.

Watching the updated version, and puppet Yoda is just...in my mind as I watch CGI Yoda. If I'm not 100% focused on CGI Yoda, he's the puppet.

And you know what?

Puppet is better.

There's just something wonderful about his limited expression. He's truly alien. Frank Oz provides plenty of emotion with his voice, and the puppet movements do the rest. His lecture about fear, anger, hate, and suffering works better with the puppet face, too: he's not being stern (as we can see, anyway), he's just stating facts. He's old and wise, this is what he does. He has no rivalry with this child he just met: he's spouting simple facts, as he has ten thousand times before.

His puppet ears even do a little dip as he speaks, showing that he's sad and worried. There was expression there, and the CGI version takes it away, but all the fandom says is "Oh, it's so much better and less creepy!"

And they are, as usual, wrong.

[short-wooloo]

Controversial opinion:

CGI Yoda is better

(Puppet can't do this)

[milfjagger]

I’m not really a star wars fan and had never watched all the prequels so i started watching episode ii: attack of the clones today to see what all the fuss is about and i literally fell asleep there’s no way you guys actually think this is good

[kstarlitchaotics]

I don't do much of the Mandalorian and I can't tell if it's a joke but really!?

ayo edebiri?????

[krawdad]

I am as big a supporter of practical effects as anybody so it pains me when I see that they bothered to build a puppet or costume instead of using cgi for a creature but it just doesn't move in a way that feels convincingly alive

[transsophiedevereaux]

Personal favourite Parker bit is at the beginning of the Bank Shot Job

She even lights the paper on fire after Hardison complains about the heat. She's so funny <333

what i think often gets missed by people who mischaracterize parker is that most instances of her taking something overly literally are her doing so intentionally as a joke.

for instance, in the cross my heart job:

parker is doing a bit and eliot clearly just keeps falling for it. cat pushing something off a table to get reactions for fun behavior

[danburys]

i think one of the things about hardison/parker/eliot is that it'll always be kinda unpredictable whose side the third will take in a debate between two of them.

parker is authentic to a fault and genuinely just contributes her opinion which will either strengthen someone else's side or be such an unhinged take that both hardison and eliot are wrenched out of their bickering bc now they have to deal with that.

eliot will often say that he definitely isn't getting involved in any parker/hardison squabble but in the end he obviously can't help it. when he's in the mood to wind hardison up he'll take parker's side on principle but he also has genuine opinions he finds Very Important on all kinds of inane things and is extremely intense about it.

hardison is a little shit who more often than not just wants to see that vein in eliot's forehead twitch bUT see above: parker has some wild views and also she loves cgi yoda so to keep them all on their toes there will be times where other things (like being right about star wars) just take precedence.

[butchsupermario]

i do not pretend not to understand baby yodas appeal hes like the only thing to get really popular in the last 5 years that i fully understand hes a weirdly cute mostly ugly creature baby + hes an actual puppet and not cgi so i have lots of respect for him there too. however 100% of baby yoda merchandise pisses me off it is all tacky and cheap and bad

[elljayvee]

It would have been extremely funny if, for The Phantom Menace, they had not retconned Obi-Wan's master. Not that I think Yoda should have been killed like Qui-Gon was, because you'd have to make a very different movie -- but so many of the good bones of that film could be allowed to stand, while the annoying bits can be significantly improved by more Yoda.

Puppet Yoda, obviously, not CGI Yoda.

"Aggressive negotiations" while Obi-Wan carries Yoda on his back.

Comedic relief need not be provided by Jar Jar Binks. Comedic relief now provided by : people underestimating Yoda; Yoda hitting Obi-Wan in the shins with his gimer stick; Yoda eating lizards he finds on Tattooine, random amphibians on Naboo, etc.

Yoda would not try to mind-trick a Toydarian. Yoda is all about theft.

Yoda's creative and instantaneous solutions to situations where there is no adaptive technology for him, honed by 800 years of Why Is Everything Made For Humans/Near Humans and Not For Me, Yoda. YES, Yoda is piloting strange aircraft by standing in a weird place and using the Force.

Ability to deploy Yoda's lightsaber form earlier in the series, leading to breathless anticipation in the next few movies about being able to see it again

Yoda sneaking into spaces no one thinks a Jedi can get into because people tend to think of Human-sized Jedi and WHAT IS RIDING THAT DROIDEKA -- oh, it's Yoda, and he's making it shoot out the lights.

Yoda's face journeys

Obi-Wan's face journeys

[luthienne]

honestly between this and the news that came out re: jon favreau and the mandalorian team not having a plan for where the story is going or ending… and the overwhelming response seeming to be. we don’t care as long as get to see space daddy and his strange child go on adventures forever. like… i don’t know how else to say this but i think you should care & you should expect better from these billion-dollar corporations with limitless resources at their disposal (who yet still choose to exploit their crews) to tell aimless and substanceless stories padded with flashy & unnecessary cgi while undercut at every possible moment by unnecessary quips—bc god forbid we actually engage with a complex emotion for longer than five seconds—simply bc they know they can.

as long as audiences have increasingly lower critical engagement & lower expectations of the media they consume these huge corporations and franchises will continue to churn out increasingly more lazy & sterilized & ultimately meaningless stories/content. and you should care about the implications of this massive corporation and its looming influence on the future of mass media consumption.

i have a funny feeling the new daredevil series is basically going to be yeah we got him back but he came back wrong in terms of. everything

[papasmoke]

the one unabashedly positive thing i have to say about the mandalorian that it has never faltered on is the goofy baby yoda puppetry. A shining beacon of practical effects. I never stopped enjoying watching him clumsily ambulate on his stupid little legs and get tossed around by off-screen stage hands. Thank you Werner Herzog for shouting at them when they said they were considering making him cgi

[cancersyndrome]

Anti-Jedi brainrot will have you saying things like the scene where Yoda is teaching younglings self defense against blasters/feeling with the force not your eyes is teaching them to use deadly weapons, and then claim they have no artists or libraries in a movie that famously has a library full of statue busts(art). Like it's all CGI in there and they still take time to render statues and floor tiling and soaring architecture.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

In another timeline, Frank Oz directed "The 15 Minutes Job" in addition to "The Carnival Job," and the CGI Yoda banter takes on new meta layers we haven't even considered