Agreed on both points. The animation may not have been season 7 quality, but for a fan project it definitely did a fantastic job.
I enjoyed watching the full fight uninterrupted with jump cuts between Yoda and Palpatine removed. I did like seeing some of the minor additions to the fight and thought using voice lines from the lego Star Wars games was a great choice (didn’t feel out of place).
The only issue I had was with the lightsaber choeography. It was well done for a fan project but there were some parts that didnt feel right in the execution.
It’s important not to speak about the star wars universe as a monolithic detached entity that formed itself. It has been and is comprised of the contributions of many writers. It is possible to love the universe but object to some of the contributions to it, as long you bring it back to the writers. So instead of saying “the sequels suck”, say, “JJ Abrams contributed to fucking up post OT canon beyond repair”. Fans complaining about the star wars universe now being fucked up beyond repair are a good thing because it shows how much they love the universe and how much potential it had before the writers fucked it up beyond repair. In short, complaints mean they care. The more people that openly complain about star wars being fucked up beyond repair the more that studios may be compelled into hiring better writers that wont fuck up our beloved universes beyond repair.
To add on to this, having people complain, while not good exactly, is a state that can be worked with. It means that the engagement is still there. Like, to put this in the context of D+, it means that people are still watching the shows to know what to complain about. You won’t see me complaining about Star Wars anymore, for instance, because I stopped caring at all after TLJ. There’s so much other stuff out there that I don’t see any point in signing up for D+ to watch Star Wars, and ultimately that hurts Disney more than me continuing to watch while bitching about it.
Yep. A wildly unrealistic part of me was hoping that they were setting up a branch to split the timeline away from the sequels or just ignore then with the series. As that become pretty clearly incorrect with the most recent season of Mando and I presume Ashoka I just stopped watching. I am not really interested in seeing them try and make sense of the stupid stupid lazy premise of TFA and I don’t want to see my childhood heros fail and give up. I will watch season 2 of andor because the first was awesome, but I am basically done with the franchise now.
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.
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