YODA TWEAKED from ESB Revisited

A new clip from "The Empire Strikes back: Revisited" fan edit. I have tweaked Yoda's mouth and added some minor facial movements to make him a little less like a puppet. The quality of this video doesn't really show the changes at their best. you can download the higher quality XVID here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/178929521/yoda_tweaked_FINAL.avi

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• yoda
• tweaked
• empire
• revisited
• adywan

[jambedavdar]

Subtle but brilliant!

[Doctorwhoisforu]

LucasArts needs to take a poll about whose special edition is better liked. Seriously, you should apply to work for them.

[duderme]

I don't get it. When you tweak the movies people throw a party, but when Lucasfilm does it, such as something as subtle as making Ewoks blink, they throw a fit and burn down a city.

[TheBlackRavenclaw]

I think the old Yoda puppet looks better in the OT; it makes him look older than the CGI.

[EdwardNygma1]

@adywanuk And yes, in the prequels Yoda's lip synching is not perfect either, and I know it was deliberate, but it's a damn lot better than the puppet, and looks more like it's because he is an odd creature than because he is a faulty puppet or in this case, faulty CGI.

[EdwardNygma1]

@adywanuk And it has everything to do with hopping on the bandwagon. Whether you want to admit it, you have a sentimental attachment to the Original Trilogy and that is why you are trying to say that a puppet is better than a CGI model....

When you say Yoda to someone on the street they will probably think of the CGI model.

[EdwardNygma1]

@adywanuk Yoda in the prequels looks bloody fantastic, I don't know what you're on about. He looks extremely real. Especially in Revenge Of The Sith and The Phantom Menace Blu-ray. He great in Attack Of The Clones as well, with only a few scenes looking a bit unpolished. They could be touched up in a future home video release. CGI today is really believable. I saw Tron Legacy and the Jeff Bridges CGI face was one of the most incredible things in CGI I'd ever seen done.

[adywanuk]

@EdwardNygma1 even in the prequels Yoda's mouth does not sync up correctly with the words because, if you check one of the prequel behind the scenes doc, they deliberately didn't give him a natural mouth movement and sync so it would resemble the original puppet.

[adywanuk]

@EdwardNygma1 the CGI in the prequels already looks dated. Yoda in AOTC looks fake with the ROTS version only marginally better. CGI even to this day isn't 100% good enough to make convincing living characters. Sure its good enough now for spaceships and things like Transformers etc, but it is still obvious when a creature is CG. It has nothing to do with "hopping on the bandwagon" as you call it, but the fact that they just didn't get Yoda right in the prequels.

[EdwardNygma1]

@adywanuk Another thing that is bad about the puppet is that the mouth does not match the words, even with your edits.

[EdwardNygma1]

@adywanuk Are you joking? The puppet in the original trilogy is terrible! It's no better than the one in The Phantom Menace. They're all puppets, they look bad. People just hop on the bandwagon of hating on Phantom Menace Yoda just like they hop on the bandwagon of hating the movie itself, because some others do. The CGI in the prequels is incredible. It only needed touching up in a few scenes in AOTC. The puppet is outdated, CGI is the way to go.

[OdanUrr87]

@BrightFilms117 I don't think it's necessary to replace him. The Yoda puppet from the OT fits well because it gives the impression of an aged Yoda, you know, the movements, everything.