View Poll Results: Do you prefer CGI Yoda or "The Empire Strikes Back" Puppet Yoda?
CGI Yoda
48
56.47%
"The Empire Strikes Back" Puppet Yoda
37
43.53%
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CGI Yoda or ESB Puppet Yoda?
05-26-05 | 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Cygnet74
CGI yoda looks like a very detailed, hi-res cartoon to me. puppet yoda is still easier for me to buy as something tangible. however, the real problem i have now is accepting the manner of his introduction in TESB because it doesn't jive with the Yoda we've come to know in the prequels.
05-26-05 | 12:40 PM
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I saw Empire many times in the theate when it came out and thoght Yoda looked "real" (ie not a puppet) in those episodes. Yoday in Ep 1 was horrible, one thing I really enjoyed about Yoda in Ep 3 was that Yoda had some really great emotional expressions mainly:
I thought that was really well done. I would not suggest changing Yoda in Eps V and VI, but I would be in favor of CGI-ing him in Episode I.
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I thought that was really well done. I would not suggest changing Yoda in Eps V and VI, but I would be in favor of CGI-ing him in Episode I.
05-27-05 | 01:03 PM
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puppet yoda is way better for the close ups of his face
and a 2005 puppet could be even better than a 1980s puppet
and a 2005 puppet could be even better than a 1980s puppet
Yeah, look what we got in TPM, a better puppet Yoda....................that looks awful.
Puppet...looks more real in V and VI than a CG cartoon character.
05-27-05 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by dick_grayson
puppet Yoda for me. They could still have him fight, but he wouldn't be able to do a flip each time he swing his light saber.
05-27-05 | 01:55 PM
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So which one do you prefer?
05-28-05 | 01:48 PM
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The puppet Yoda was very well done, but CG Yoda can do all those things, and much more. He's more expressive, he's mobile, we can do full body shots. Puppet Yoda was very well done, but CG Yoda can do all of that and so much more.
As for which one is more convincing, both have their faults but the stiffness of puppets is more distracting then the sheen of CG imo. I can suspend my disbelief with either one but CG Yoda just means a character that can be used in any way...puppet Yoda is far more limiting to the filmmakers.
As for which one is more convincing, both have their faults but the stiffness of puppets is more distracting then the sheen of CG imo. I can suspend my disbelief with either one but CG Yoda just means a character that can be used in any way...puppet Yoda is far more limiting to the filmmakers.
05-28-05 | 02:34 PM
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CGI for distant shots (lightsaber duels, walking a corridor on Bail Organa's ship, etc.), puppet for close-ups (there's no fucking reason in the world for Lucas to have pissed away thousands of $$$ on fake-ass looking shots where the puppet worked perfectly well before)...
