Bandersnatch wrote:
To my eyes, nothing in the entire saga looks as fake as this shot in Return of the Jedi:
ROTJ has some bad compositing. The Rancor stuff (pre-DVD) was far worse than this though.
I tend to agree with ETandElliot regarding the overall shitiness of the AOTC VFX effort. It's not any particular shot, it's just that if you were to make a sizzle reel of the worst VFX in the saga, the vast majority of them would come from AOTC.
Examples:
- The opening sequence (Coruscant cloud-fog) looks like a PS2 video game cutscene.
Then we get a very fake-looking CG R2, which ejects from the Naboo fighter - The entire scene is terribly composited.
- Anakin's cow-riding on Naboo is horribly animated.
Those cows all look like they're out of a video game.
- Obi-Wan walking through the clone production facility - very artificial.
- Padme eating the pear might be the worst VFX shot in the saga.
- Obi-wan exploring Geonosis is a good example of unrealistic compositing.
- 3P0 CGI during the droid foundry sequence and the arena battle: embarrassingly bad.
Conclusion: the digital backlot is one of the worst things to happen to Star Wars. It puts the onus squarely on digital artists to make a sequence work. It can be brilliantly acted, well-directed and wonderfully scored but if the compositor working on this sequence isn't as talented as the one working on others it completely botches the hard work of the rest of the production team.