In The Mandalorian‘s Season 2 finale, a post- Return of the Jedi Luke resurfaced to take Grogu (fka Baby Yoda) away for training. While it would be aesthetically pleasing to do a CG touch-up on Luke in The Mandalorian, it's doubtful that Lucasfilm and ILM would devote the resources to a finished and year-old product.The Santa Clauses Gets Season 2 Release Date at Disney+ Having a full episode committed to Luke and Grogu in Fett, getting things as close to perfect as possible was critical to avoid taking the audience out of the moment. With Luke's Mandalorian scene being so short, it's easier to get away with some janky deepfake effects. Much like the sequence in The Mandalorian, Hamill's performance gave the body double and ILM a foundation to build on, setting the stage for the extensive work done to bring him back to his days of youth. It had previously been believed that Mark Hamill had no involvement in The Book of Boba Fett's production, though it's now been revealed that the star did perform for every scene Luke appeared in. It's no easy task to digitally recreate the most iconic hero in pop culture history, but ILM managed to do so in a manner that was faithful to the Luke Skywalker seen in the original trilogy.ĭisney Gallery continues to shed light on the process for Luke's recreation. He came in and was able to offer advice and guidance, and it was really a collaborative effort between Pete Demarest, and Sam, John Knoll, Landis, and the many, many, many other artists that allowed this work to achieves the heights that it did.” A Team Effort For LukeĪs expected, it was a massive undertaking to make Luke Skywalker work in The Book of Boba Fett, a process even more in-depth than the efforts for The Mandalorian Season 2. Someone, of course, that’s very familiar to people that have followed the progression of deepfake work in particular of this character. "And, I think, for ILM, that continued to advance when they hired Sam Head. Landis continued his developments with the deepfake work and, of course, we worked with Dave Klein on running many, many tests ahead of the shoot.” Disneyīy the time ILM got their hands on the work, progress on Luke was dialed " up to 11:": So it was that point that we knew what we wanted to do was talk to John Knoll and ILM to see how could we combine all of the new technologies that are out there, as well as a CG head, to solve the problem on Book of Boba Fett. And because of the stunt work required, we also need a CG head. The character really had to carry the episode. "For Book of Boba Fett, we knew that we needed to do 10 times the amount of work. With more time to develop Luke's appearance for The Book of Boba Fett, it became a group effort to craft the character with deepfake and CG technology: We couldn't get the resolution required." Disney "At the time, we weren't able to use them in the final product because the technology was still developing. And of course, through that process, they were using deepfake to understand what the likeness needed to be for our Luke Skywalker face swap." Disneyīluff revealed the issue behind Luke's look in The Mandalorian was a product of Lola's technology being unfinished: So, for Season 2, we partnered with the visual effects artists at Lola. Where we started at the end of Season 2 was a place where we gained a lot of experience. "One of the most satisfying aspects of the work that we did with Luke was the progression. In Disney Gallery: The Book of Boba Fett, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Bluff detailed the changes made from Luke Skywalker's appearance in The Mandalorian Season 2 to The Book of Boba Fett: A new documentary special has documented the process for bringing Luke back into the fold in Boba Fett, including a comparison to the quality of his appearance in The Mandalorian. As things would have it, those responsible for the hard work happen to agree. Given how good Luke looked in Boba Fett, his deepfake in The Mandalorian has now been perceived as less than desirable by viewers.
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