The surprising reason CGI Yoda was such a failure

According to Chris Snellgrove
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When Clone attack He went out, introduced Star Wars fans to something they had never seen before: CGI Yoda. Various animators who brought a jumping little boy had a simple goal: to make sure this computer recreation looked indistinguishable from the iconic Muppet that first appeared back The empire strikes back. Unfortunately, the animators did not consider that the light sword, which carefully added to Yod’s infamous combat scene, caused the Jedi Master to look specifically false because we almost never saw the Glows of these legendary weapons before the next trilogy.

CGI Yoda betrayed the lightsaber

It is irony that the light of the lightsaber is probably the last thing that Star Wars complains about Yoda’s fight with Count Dooku V Clone attack. When the film returned in 2002, most of the negative discourse around CGI Yoda concerned what the fake looked like and how the goofy was seen by the calm Jedi master from the original trilogy who jumped throughout the screen like a refugee behind Looney tunes cartoon. The fact that the light sword of this character permanently glow on the screen is the reason why fans subconsciously thought Yoda There was a false and reason why it dates back to almost half a century.

When the original Star Wars film was made, the lightsaber came mostly from the rotoscopy animation later added to the upper part of the white rods, which, by the way, came where the whole concept of adding different colors of the saber came. The props have changed over time, moved from the rotating rods to the carbon rods in the original trilogy, and then to the aluminum rods for most of the preliminary trilogy (Vengeance Sith It was the only prequel to use carbon fiber bars). While the props and methods of animation have changed over time, one thing remained the same: the glow had to be added animators, and therefore we rarely saw that this glow is reflected on characters or surfaces.

This has changed with the trilogy sequel because the actors finally had the props of the lightsaber, which in themselves radiated a large amount of light, which is a large part of why it Force Awakens The duel between Rey and Kylo Ren looks so visually dynamically. However, this innovation ends retroactively by CGI Yoda Clone attack Look much worse because it emphasizes the clear division between earlier films and later films.

Out of very occasional scenes (such as the duel between Dooku and Anakin Clone attack), Saber Glow was not present before the continuation of the trilogy, so the glow of the animated Yoda reveals the audience that it is simply a computer animation. Call it the subconscious or call it a force, but that is secretly the main reason why your brain knows that Yoda is false in this film. Simply put, the glow guarantees that it will always look different with its light sword than all other Jedi in the same film appearance.

Obviously, there are other reasons why CGI Yoda looks so bad, including the fact that it should not be part of such a comically stupid light sword fight. However, most fans never knowingly noticed that thanks to the hard work of computer animators, it looks randomly false. They added the detail of the light sword, which was painfully missed in the original and prequel trilogies and ironically did their work so well that their main goal – so that CGI Yoda did not recognize since the version of Muppet.