Nic Sant was part of the Legends continuity. Until such time as the character from Return of the Jedi gets a canonical name in the new continuity, I will consider him to be Rex.
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Filoni said he decided he didn't want to retcon an existing character to be someone else.
Nik also isn't wearing clone armour gauntlets which we see Rex wearing in I'm pretty sure every image of him on Endor.
Nik Sant has a canon page on Wookieepedia
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Nik also isn't wearing clone armour gauntlets which we see Rex wearing in I'm pretty sure every image of him on Endor.
Nik Sant has a canon page on Wookieepedia
Nik Sant
Nik Sant was a male human who served in the military of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. By the time of the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, Sant was one of the most veteran scouts in the Rebel Alliance. Nik Sant served the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the...
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I'm curious what the canonical source of the name "Nik Sant" is as Wookiepedia does not say. Has the character ever been referred to as such since the Disney buyout? The article says that there's no canonical source has officially or definitively stated that Sant and Rex are the same character. The flip side of that is no canonical source has officially said that they're not the same character either.Nik Sant has a canon page on Wookieepedia
Nik Sant
Nik Sant was a male human who served in the military of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. By the time of the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, Sant was one of the most veteran scouts in the Rebel Alliance. Nik Sant served the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the...
As I suspected, the article's Talk Page has the answer. At least it's not as exhaustive (or exhausting) as Wikipedia's Talk Page discussions of "Does 'Star Trek Into Darkness' have a colon and/or capital "i" in it?" or "How do you spell the name of the demon clown from the film 'Beetlejuice'?".
I was just reading through the trivia galleries for the Andor Season 1 episodes and it said that they had to make the Clone armor for the first time for Andor's Clone Wars era flashback because all of the Clone armor before that had always been CGI. That surprised me, I would have assumed there would have been at least a few suits of physical armor where we saw just a one or a few troopers, or scenes where we saw Temuera Morrison without a helmet.
I think the fact that neither Rex nor Nic got a short story in the 'From A Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi' anthology indicates that LF have decided to keep that an open question for the foreseeable future, and I'm fine with that (also; it's totally Rex!
)As crazy as it sounds, there was method to the madness. For one thing it guaranteed that all of the clones matched; given the state of rendering technology at the time, had they gone with suits for the "hero" clones and CG for the background clones, the difference between the two may have been distracting.
For another, by necessity most of the footage was shot on green/blue screen stages, which is a bit of a problem if you have to have basically anything white, let alone shiny and white! Getting the blue/green spill and reflections out would have been a laborious (read: costly) nightmare for the comp team.
I also kind of suspect Lucas may have been feeling a bit reticent after having spent something like 20K on the Jar-Jar costume, only to end up having to replace the whole thing in post, instead of just the head, which is what was initially planned.
These days rendering has gotten to the point where you can comfortably put full CG next to real costumes in frame and not have to worry. Plus of course the innovation of the stagecraft system however mitigates most of those post-production concerns. Indeed I swear they made those clone trooper costumes on Kenobi & Mando extra shiny, just to show off the reflections from the LCDs.
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I remember being shocked (and thinking about AotC/RotS) when I saw a VFX breakdown for TFA that included a shot where several foreground stormtroopers were CG, in the same shot as ones who'd been actors on-set.
The shot at 00:40 if it doesn't jump straight to it.
But he was perfectly happy giving some bozo the same name, rank, and skin color as Grand Admiral Thrawn, amirite?
A new poster just dropped!
And a new trailer!
Trailers for Andor and Doctor Who on the same day. Disney plus must be trying to drive up subscriptions.
It certainly makes it a big day for Varada Sethu.
It certainly makes it a big day for Varada Sethu.
A new poster just dropped!
Before I saw the picture I thought Trekbbs just got a new board member and they just dropped their first post.
Is it me, or is Syril channeling some David Tennant vibes in that poster?
Yeah he is.
It really is amazing how much subtle CGI there is in shows and movies that you don't even notice. I can't remember what it was, but a while back I was watching a behind the scenes video for a show to see that almost every time the characters were outside there was some kind of CGI in the background that I had thought was real.
I didn't even realize until this post that she's in both of this year's big sci-fi Disney+ series.Trailers for Andor and Doctor Who on the same day. Disney plus must be trying to drive up subscriptions.
It certainly makes it a big day for Varada Sethu.
Glad to see Melshi made the poster.