• Throwback to Star Wars Episode 2: Visualization and Digital Filmmaking Approach
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaaC_YKyYjc&list=PLDC9DF0527A71C0C1&index=22&t=0s Going through YT uploads of the prequel behind-the-scenes media, stumbled upon this and found it good food for thought. Really interesting stuff with how ILM planned out shots and the many components of them. Interesting how Lucas emphasizes filming actors as only a piece of his final scenes, the big-picture/"so dense" approach to it all. Taking away the anger of reacting to the film, it's a remarkable glimpse of the disconnect Lucas had as he sought to make visual spectacles and break visual effect grounds, but how us average/professional critics don't care for that and have a problem with the lack of "realism" in effects/acting that got gimped in the process.
And it really paid off, the Geonosis war sequence was one of the few things in the prequels that made me go "Whoa." in a positive sense
Awful writing aside, the prequels had great art direction and I hope we can see a return to that time period in games soon. At least EA went back to it for Battlefront 2.
The speeder chase scene still looks great to this day, it's really unfortunate that the context in which it takes place is a confused mess.
seems like prequels did a lot of the experimentation and heavy lifting that people take for granted considering so much of the Marvel movies are done in the same fashion
Lucas was definitely ahead of his time in terms of implementing CGI into his films. You're right; Marvel films mostly but also a lot of most sci-fi films have a huge dependence on CGI, even more than what Lucas did in the prequels.
Yeah. It immediately starts off on the wrong foot with Obi-wan ignoring his own advice about not being rash and jumping out the window to grab onto the droid. It still boggles my mind to this day that it wasn't Anakin making that rash decision, and Obi-Wan being the one to catch in in a hastily borrowed speeder. It's an incredibly simple fix, and yet it didn't even cross George's mind for some reason.
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