Is it only me who thinks Grogu is too young to be given a lightsaber? I mean, he can't even talk yet and we know his race can.
Also, that scene left me thinking, Luke just seems like a jealous girlfriend here. You can either take the gift of your old friend or this lovely shiny lightsaber but you can't have both!
It looks like they still used a CG model to apply the deepfake onto though. The lip synching and eye movements were still pretty janky.
I'm sure shamook told them to just use a look-alike/impersonator and with a matching hairdo for the deepfake and forgo CG altogether, but ILM practically invented Cinematic CG and that's too big a feather on their hat.
Deepfaked onto an actor, the eyes and lipsynching would've been indistinguishable from reality.
wait, you're suggesting they employed however many digital artists to make a CGI that can walk and move in a way that is indistinguishable from an actual human rather than just employ an extra for a few hundred bucks a day.
lmao, IQ in this thread is blowing up like the death star today, cretins
For Luke that's absolutely what they did anyway. In fact for this episode there were three credits for Luke, the two body doubles and Mark Hamill himself.
I was specifically referring to the facial animations; especially the lip-synching on a few scenes. Deepfaking ROTJ-era Mark Hamill onto a look-alike would have produced far more convincing results than modelling and animating a CG face then projecting the deepfake onto that. Synthesizing the eye movements, tics and natural lip-synching is still slightly out of reach for pure CG but deepfakes simply take the existing eye and lip movements and transform them to match a facial dataset.
Getting a look-alike "extra for a few hundred bucks" and mapping the deepfake onto someone mimicking a famous actor's facial behaviors can result in this:
The same deepfake technology can still vastly improve the lighting and musculature over purely CG characters, but if the underlying "actor" is CG then whatever uncanny valley effects induced by the inaccurate eye tracking, lip synching and unnaturally smooth movements will remain.
It'll look better than the pure CG but since the movements are still off, the uncanny valley reaction won't go away.
That scene was pretty much perfect. I'm looking forward to episode3 of s3 of mandalorian. I'm glad they cancelled that boba fatt show.I definitely like how they did Cad Bane. Menacing bad guys that pose actual serious threats were something that was completely lost in the sequel trilogy.
Filoni really let his nuts hang. Cad's delivery was unnerving and more than intimidating. The tension was great. You could tell Filoni really wanted to make sure people know this guy is a motherfucker.
i went and looked at all the wiki's for the mandalorian and boba and some other stuff and what I deciphered as some others were saying is:Wow, the last 2 episodes. I felt like a zoomer, tears in my eyes from all the star wars overload. I can't believe this can be made so well, and yet we got bs like the last trilogy.
Rodriguez is good, just not good for star wars, next week its rumored the faggot bike gang has another horrible scene, but we supposedly get another deepfake cameo by the end.i went and looked at all the wiki's for the mandalorian and boba and some other stuff and what I deciphered as some others were saying is:
Dave Filoni = good
Bryce Dallas Howard = good
Taika Waititi = good
robert rodriguez = get fucked
They could have not directed the first act. He should have looked at the script and said fuck this shit.Robert Rodriguez directed the finale and I suspect he will redeem himself.
I don't think anyone except Jon Favreau could've directed the first act much better than Rodriguez. I don't like how those eps turned out, but he didn't have much to work with.
They could have not directed the first act. He should have looked at the script and said fuck this shit.
They could have at least had Mando go talk to those Tuskans that helped with the Krayt Dragon. Having them as extra "muscle" and Boba's reaction could have it least tied shit up with the first few episodes.They could have not directed the first act. He should have looked at the script and said fuck this shit.
They don't really need Pedro though, how much was he on set?Yep, like I said earlier I think it pretty much confirms that Pedro Pascal played chicken with his contract and Lucasfilm called his bluff. They ended up filming half a season of Boba Fett because they had some characters and stories to develop anyway and when Pedro Pascal buckled, they went back to filming the Mando stuff.
you know the saying, dont assume conspiracy when stupidity suffices.
you're all just trying to find a reason why the first chunk sucked instead of just understanding most people are varying degrees of incompetent. i really don't think pedro's contract played much a part of this.