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Have you ever wondered why people hate the Star Wars prequel trilogy more than the sequel trilogy? or why (despite some pretty incredible advances) the Visual FX were so heavily criticized?
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Well, we think the Star Wars films (at least the prequels) should have avoided using digital effects altogether! and this is why!
Firstly, Practical Effects are limited to the physical world and therefore they force filmmakers to work within their constraints.
For example, In the original trilogy, you couldn't put a tremendous number of ships in one shot because each one had to be a detailed miniature model that was filmed in front of a blue screen by a motion control camera.
Then each motion control shot was then reprinted using an optical printer and filters to change the blue screen background into a black background to create a foreground matte that (when combined with the original shot) isolated the model so that it could be projected along with all the other models into the optical printer and composited into the final shot and you couldn't have extended shots of actors riding imaginary beasts.
Because the only way to achieve this was by building miniature puppets and animating them frame by frame, a process known as stop-motion animation which could easily take up to an hour to produce just one second of stop-motion film. This meant that the original trilogy's screenplay had to be written within the confines of what was physically and economically possible to produce using visual effects.
Nowadays almost anything you can imagine (no matter how crazy) can be achieved using digital effects.
If you want an absolutely insane number of ships in the sky, firing laser cannons and exploding, you got them and you want an army to be riding space horses on the top of one of those ships, you got it too!
But bigger isn't always better (especially when concerning visual effects) and with nothing to limit the imagination, things can go from believable to ridiculous, very quickly!
The second reason is that practical effects ARE real and Digital Effects only LOOK real. The original trilogy has its own unique look and feel.
The puppets, miniatures, and matte paintings may seem dated now, but because they are real things in front of the camera, as an audience, we can still accept them as real even though they aren't completely convincing. Just like stop-motion animation may seem jerky and crude, but because we know it's a real model being manipulated, it doesn't feel fake. Digital effects can look a lot more realistic than practical effects, but, if they are just slightly off, if the lighting is a little wrong, if the physics aren't quite right, the eyelines don't line up, or the interactions with the actors are unconvincing, the whole illusion is completely broken and as an audience, we feel cheated and so we disconnect.
But with practical effects, it's different. Take Luke's Landspeeder for example, this effect was achieved using two different Landspeeders, one, was mounted on a rotating crane arm and the other was mounted on a small three-wheeler car. They then mounted mirrors underneath to conceal the wheels and reflect the desert sand back at the camera. But you notice over the rough desert terrain that it's bouncing on its wheels even if you can't see them. And when on the crane arm, even with the camera movement, you can tell the car is rotating rather than just going forward.
But even though these things break the illusion, we know they are real and so don't feel cheated and therefore, remain connected. The final and perhaps most interesting reason is the visual timeline. When you look back through "Behind the Scenes" footage of Star Wars you can see a definite difference between then and now, Technology has advanced, images are clearer and more defined, colors are more vibrant, and lighting is more dynamic.
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