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.
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.
Is there a way to find out where there might be on of those? I remember if from my childhood and loved it so much but my mom only let me do one coin on it.
Isn’t this place where David Lynch got a massive migraine? He was in consideration to direct Jedi on the merit on The Elephant Man, but took himself out on the day of that visit to Lucasfilm.
Inexplicably by that standard, then he signed on to direct Dune for Dino De Laurentis, and has regretted that decision to this day, refuses to speak of his experience.
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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