The "cool Episode III pics" thread

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Maybe in your twisted, warped dictionary the definition of perfect is, verbatim, "indistinguishable from the real one", but in my dictionary (i.e the proper English one), "perfect" is tantamount to being flawless, and unable to be improved upon. There is always room for improvement---your legions of clonetroopers are NOT an exception.

Yes there is always room for improvement, but there comes a point where it doesn't make any difference to the human eye. You can add ten billion more polygons to a ten billion polygon ball and it would technically be an improvement, but there's no way you'd be able to tell the difference between the ten billion poly ball and the twenty billion poly ball.

I'm sure the hand is real;

Nope!

i'm sure the helmet & breast plate are fake (or at least so heavily modified by a computer that they might as well be fake.)

Real props and costumes don't get heavily modified, as you put it.

if i had to guess, i'd guess that some of the armor was added over a real actor maybe.

Nope.

At any rate, dissecting a quasi-real-CG clonetrooper isn't the point. I said that USING CG CLONETROOPERS was unneccesary and detracted from the realism--I didn't say USING A GUY WITH A CG HELMET was.

So it's bad to use CG no matter how realistic it used simply because it's not real? That's got to be the dumbest thing I've heard in ages! Guess what Darunia, most of what you see in movies is fake! You know that city background in Citizen Kane? Fake! Movies are totally fake, and if you saw how they were made you might become disillusioned if you thought that they were authentic. It's all fake! Everything! It's all an illusion of some sort. The clone troopers in AotC are all fake because they look like the real deal, and because 99% of the time they were interacting with fake things on screen, whether that be CGI or good old-fashioned models. If they were real then the scenes would actually look more fake because blending full-sized props with miniatures and CGI models is more difficult to do. So it was all done to make things look more real.

Return of the Jedi still stands as the most impressive practical special effects movie ever, and look how much more realistic AotC looks than that. You even complained about the Battle of Endor! Sure CGI is still mostly not 100% realistic at this point, but it still looks more realistic than most practical effects and allows the director a hundred times more freedom to make his or her imagination become a reality. If more people stopped to think and understand the value of CGI and not just bash it because it's the popular thing to do, they'd realize just how valuable it is.

But yes it's still not perfect in most places, but it's the best solution there is. I hated the CGI character animations in Spiderman but can't really think of how they could of done most of the stuff any other way. I just wish they had the same talent working on it as Lucas has on his movies.