Watch George Lucas kill the puppet and birth a digital Yoda. RIP practical effects, 1977-2002.
For Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), there were to be many more visual effects than in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). This documentary shows many VFX meetings between George Lucas and ILM. Many of these meetings focus around the creation of a completely digital Yoda, used for the first time in the Star Wars films.
Visual Effects
First digital Yoda genesis — controversial, historic, slightly cursed
Direction
Shenk captures Lucas at his most quietly revolutionary
Director
Jon Shenk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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