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Spoilers The Mandalorian season 2 discussion

I've watched that Mayfeld confrontation scene a few times now via Youtube. That is really a great moment and Bill Burr steps up to meet it.
 
Well this is interesting; apparently those 'scrapwalkers' milling about in the background on the chop fields were not in fact CG as one might have assumed, but old school stop motion elements created by none other then Phil Tippet studios!
I had NO CLUE those were stop motion, which is probably the best compliment one could give to stop motion work!

I wonder if they were comped in after the fact, or done ahead of time then rendered as video elements in The Volume's game engine set? Given how some of the shots are framed, I suspect the latter, which is kinda wild!
 
Really? Wow... didn’t think there were still people out there who still knew how to do such things in this day and age of all-CG VFX. This show really never fails to amaze, on multiple levels.
 
Really? Wow... didn’t think there were still people out there who still knew how to do such things in this day and age of all-CG VFX. This show really never fails to amaze, on multiple levels.
Well it's not a completely dead art, there's a fair few still around: -
Phil Tippett Studios of course which did this as well as some work for the sequel trilogy. Plus Phil has been working of a personal project called "Mad God" for what seems like an eternity.
Studio Laika is pretty well known for movies like 'Coraline', 'Paranorman', 'The Boxtrolls' (featuring a number of familiar Star Wars voices), and 'Kubo and the Two Strings'.
Aardman is probably most famous for 'Wallace & Grommet', 'Chicken Run', and a bunch of old heating adverts (though they also did a very underrated CG movie for Sony.)

Those are just the really big studios. There's dozens of smaller specialty companies still knocking around.
 
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Yeah, that is really cool! The only other people I know of who are still doing stop motion are Laika, and Aardman.
Laika's Missing Link
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Very cool! I honestly thought many of those examples were CG that was designed to "look" like claymation and stop-motion animation. Never thought anyone was still employing legacy art like that. I'm happy to see it's still being done.
 
Oh, these are definitely not CG. ;)
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Just to be clear though; a lot of the modern ones do use some CG, but typically only to do things like composite shots, hide seams in the puppets, erase rods and the like. The core performance is still always old school stop-motion.
 
So, what's going to be the big cliffhanger? A Luke Skywalker appearance? Grogu remains captured? The Mando appears to have died?
 
My guess would be Luke or Ezra.

Mace Windu would be out of left field and wacky as Hell but after the reborn Palpatine and Sith cult angle in TROS anything is possible in this franchise.
 
My guess would be Luke or Ezra.

Mace Windu would be out of left field and wacky as Hell but after the reborn Palpatine and Sith cult angle in TROS anything is possible in this franchise.
Ezra Bridger/Thrawn are the most likely candidates, but I hope that they leave plenty of time for a Darksaber/Beskar spear duel.
 
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