You meant if the 3D GCI where only the voice and movements of the people are used is cheaper than the 3D CGI where the people’s appearance is used too?
I have no idea, but the difference can’t be very big.
3D animation is definitely a lot easier/cheaper than 2D, and probably a lot cheaper than live action. Making a good looking 3D character is harder than drawing a frame in a cartoon, but once you have it, animation is much easier, since you don’t have to make a new model for each frame. I assume it’s also easier to make effects for 3D than live action, since they’re stylized and don’t have to look lifelike, which is the goal of most CGI in live action media
Mandalorian was about $15 million per episode in season 1.
Clone Wars was about $1 million per episode.
Certainly cheaper to make cartoons than live action, but not exactly shoestring.
It’s difficult for me to find a good price analog to a 2D cartoon made recently that has a similar amount of action, and doesn’t have the budget weirdly skewed by licensing.
I would guess that to make a traditional animation as detailed, full of motion even in backgrounds, and full of constant action scenes it would probably be more expensive and time consuming compared to 3D.
These are the sequels in my mind regardless of what Disney says. They will probably be pulled from further for future TV and film. Thrawn is arguably the second most interesting antagonist after Vader.
As a Star Wars fan since the 1980s, please sell me on why I should spend time watching this show. I have heard good things but haven’t got around to watching it yet. What makes this show among the best of Star Wars? If it is.
I’m not particularly a fan of the art style, but this show has the best iteration of it both in the graphics and designs.
The action is good and it feels like a very distilled iteration of many of the good things about The Clone Wars but to me it is fresher to follow along with the Bad Batch as opposed to Anakin and Obi-Wan.
It’s certainly not the best, but if you enjoyed the clone wars and the characters of the clones, it’s worth watching to see their story continued into the era of the Empire
this is the correct answer, you liked Clone Wars/Rebels, this is more of that on a more serious tone. You haven’'t watched CW/R? Probably you dont care about this
It shows the transition from Republic troops to Empire troops in real time as Palestine seizes control, and the animation is incredible. Probably the best looking animated Star Wars show so far.
I’m in the process of reading it now. Just finished the 1st book, Heir to the Empire yesterday. So far I’m really enjoying the series. The audiobook is wonderfully done.
Thrawn is one of the few fiction villains who is also written as an effective leader. It makes him scarier.
And his ending is perfect.Even though most of his troops are very loyal, his downfall comes from one of the many people he abused during his rise to power.
That he is a very different threat than Vader and the Emperor helps preserve the accomplishments of the heroes in the movies. He doesn’t feel like he is undoing events and resetting the setting back to a status quo. Thrawn is a character that exists in the natural evolution of the setting.
I really love how his plans come from being in the underdog position. The first book especially is him making a clever play for resources while having almost none of his own.
One thing to notice about the upper B-wing is the iconic orange circles on the wings. The only B-wings to appear in RotJ actually don’t have these markings, and the scenes involving the prop with the orange circles must have been scrapped due to the difficulty in capturing the thin wings against a blue screen.
I never understood why these things are asymmetrical, aside from the rule of cool of course.
There is just no way this provides any kind of advantage or is necessitated by some design constraint. In fact, they could just rotate the cockpit gondola until the body is underneath or above. Pretty sure either way would be an improvement, if only to make it so the pilot is centered.
Disclaimer: Deep background reasons are usually written or fleshed out after the prop has been made.
There is just no way this provides any kind of advantage or is necessitated by some design constraint. In fact, they could just rotate the cockpit gondola until the body is underneath or above.
The did! The ship’s cockpit is in a rotating gyro mount. When the B-wings started their attack in ROTJ the cockpits were positioned on top of the ship.
The shorter s-foil wings stay flat on the body while not in attack mode and then fold into the cross shape for combat. The entire logic behind folding s-foil wings has been debated to death by nerds since the existence of X-Wings, but let’s just assume there is a rational reason for the folding and unfolding. With the wings folded flat, there isn’t a great spot to put the cockpit on the longer portion, and then the engines and big cooling system being near the center makes sense to me.
The Star Wars Essential Guide To Vehicles And Vessels does say that B-Wings are notoriously difficult to pilot, but that pilots who got good with them became very attached. The book also says that the gyro system for the cockpit allows the ship to do a lot of crazy maneuvers with it rotating around while not putting physical strain on the pilots, since the cockpit stays in place.
I slightly prefer the Return Of The Jedi look, which is actually what is in the diorama here, except he is holding the Empire Strikes Back version of his blaster.
ROTJ has a better looking blaster and I like the row of pouches on the front of his belt. The other changes are mostly so slight I’m neutral about them.
Yeah, I noticed that and mentioned it in an edit just before your followup, but he’s wearing ROTJ armor- red arm armor, row of pouches across the front. He seems to be wearing the Empire Strikes Back helmet in both top picture and your reference picture, since the helmet markings should be red with the ROTJ outfit instead of yellow. So, the outfit is a bit of a mixup, probably because most action figure makers don’t really care (and honestly neither do 99% of people).
Either way, all the differences are very minor except for the blaster which is greatly improved in ROTJ. I like it so much, its one of my top five Star Wars blasters.
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