Anthony Daniels got a line added to the series that was cut. Maybe we'll see it on the Blu-Ray. https://www.thepopverse.com/star-wa...-guinness-anthony-daniels-homage-megacon-2024
Here is a closer look at the photo of Kanan that Hera kept on the Ghost's bridge console. It is indeed, as many people suspected, an image of Freddie Prinze Jr. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/c...r_view_of_the_live_action_kanan_picture_from/
I'm a little suspicious of the provenance of that image. First off; it popped up on the internet on April 1st, which is always cause for careful scrutiny. Secondly; it's claimed to have come from a particular movie prop facebook group, but so far as I can tell that image wasn't posted there recently. Could be real (certainly seems authentic) but I'd wait until a more credible source appears before getting too excited.
Turns out at least a few of the shots of the T-6 really were done with a practical model on a motion control stage, and it was indeed the very one shown off at celebration way ahead of the release! I'll admit, I was convinced this thing was only built for reference. It seemed too small and too challenging a design to rig for motion control! The Razorcrest & Light Cruiser were at least static models. Kind of wild that parts of it were made with a vacu-former that dates back to the model shop's San Rafae Kerner Company days! That's some serious vintage ILM provenance!
Wow, I didn't think they'd used any actual physical models and motion control since The Phantom Menace.
For the Mandalorean they made a model of the Razorcrest for lighting the CG model, and then kind of when "Well if we really want to see what that looks like properly, we should do an old style motion control pass". One thing led to another, and they built a 50 foot run or something like that for the Volume so they didn't need to "blue screen" the model, but could have the actual background for the pass.
They've used models a bunch since then. Models were used all through the prequels, from the Geonosis Arena, elements of Tipoca City (some of which Savage himself worked on), The Outlanders Club entrance (which Savage says he screwed up and had to be rescued by ILM), Utapau, the entire lava river on Mustafar, and I think the grand entrance to the Jedi temple, to name but a few. Plus as I mentioned and others have pointed out; certain shots of both the Razorcrest and the Imperial Light Cruiser were shot old-school on a motion control stage (pretty sure it was just the one shot each, as it appears to be for the T-6.) Aside from that; Phil Tippet and his studio have contributed a few stop-motion elements (puppets . . . models . . . potato/tomato!) for TFA, Solo (the dejarik scenes) Mandalorian (the junk walkers on the NR prison planet) and BoBF (the B'omaar Monk spider droid thing.) They also used a model for one of the shots in the recent 'Tales of the Empire', of all things!
Industrial Light and Magic have enough people who understand the benefits of having a real model even if you plan on using CG for almost everything.
I have noticed we're seeing more and more makeup, costume, and puppet aliens and creatures since the Sequel Trilogy.