Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

[CorporalCaptain]

At least when Lucas didn't use model spaceships in Star Wars films he had rows of human animators drawing every spaceship frame by hand!

 

[Reverend]

At least when Lucas didn't use model spaceships in Star Wars films he had rows of human animators drawing every spaceship frame by hand!

You do know what key-frame animation is, yes? Because it's pretty much that.
Also; building, texturing, and lighting 3D assets is a series of overlapping art forms that takes MANY artists to achieve, and often the first step in the process (not counting the potentially thousands of conceptual sketches, drawings and paintings made before settling on a design) is to build a physical study-model. There's no magical "create 3D ship" button at ILM. It's always been the work of artists, regardless of the medium.

Also-also; each of the prequel movies used more model work that all three of the original trilogy combined. That people ignorantly assume it was all CG is entirely on them, not Lucas.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

You do know what key-frame animation is, yes? Because it's pretty much that.
Also; building, texturing, and lighting 3D assets is a series of overlapping art forms that takes MANY artists to achieve, and often the first step in the process (not counting the potentially thousands of conceptual sketches, drawings and paintings made before settling on a design) is to build a physical study-model. There's no magical "create 3D ship" button at ILM. It's always been the work of artists, regardless of the medium.

Also-also; each of the prequel movies used more model work that all three of the original trilogy combined. That people ignorantly assume it was all CG is entirely on them, not Lucas.

And? What they did still couldn't have been done without computers in the time allotted, if ever. You ascribe the work to talent, and that's true, it's an essential ingredient, but it's not sufficient. All the talent in the world is not enough. Hence the use of tools.

AI is a tool in its infancy, people are still learning the ropes. Your dismissive attitude of it reminds me of objections architects had to CAD.

But that's really neither here nor there concerning the matters of this thread.

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[DigificWriter]

Posting this here because it's on my mind.

I just got screwed over by trying to rely on online information.

I've been collecting Legacy Lightsabers and went to Disneyland earlier this week expecting to be able to.purchase the Obi-Wan lightsaber hilt that comes in a plastic crate, only to discover that it was gone and, according to the workers at Dok Ondar's, officially retired despite information online indicating otherwise.

So now I have to buy it from either Amazon or Ebay and spend significantly more than I otherwise would have.