I’m sure the digital effects are easier and less expensive than prosthetics and puppetry in 2021, but Lucasfilm clearly understands the value of practical monsters. Maybe it’s because we know what the Jabba puppet looked like, and these CGI versions never capture his bulky physicality. Whatever the reason, the CG Hutts never even come close to matching the animatronic from decades ago. The new twins of The Book of Boba Fett look no more believable than the Jabba of The Phantom Menace. Perhaps it’s the sheer size of these creatures that makes them tough to animate. I am not sure why Star Wars can do so many incredible things with computer effects and not this, but they’ve now had 25 years to get it right and they still haven’t. They’re both bad one is just more overtly and concretely bad. And apparently Lucas agreed, because a few years later he tinkered with the scene again for its DVD release. This version was an improvement, but only in the way that nausea is an improvement over vomit. When Lucas returned to the material for the Special Edition, he used computer effects to superimpose a digital Jabba over the actor who had played the role opposite Harrison Ford when they’d first shot the scene. While Jabba the Hutt didn’t make his official debut until Return of the Jedi, Lucas had originally written a scene for him in A New Hope, then cut it when he realized that 1977 special effects couldn’t live up to his vision of the character. When George Lucas restored and enhanced his original trilogy for their “Special Edition” releases in 1997, he reinserted a scene that had previously been deleted from the theatrical cut of Star Wars. In fact, some of the most notorious bad CGI in all of Star Wars involves the O.G. So why do these Hutts look so fake? And, for that matter, why hasn’t Star Wars ever been able to make CGI Hutts look good? This episode of The Book of Boba Fett alone features legions of creepy aliens, shootouts, and a massive fight atop a speeding antigravity train.
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For whatever other criticisms you might have about Disney’s Star Wars films and series since they acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, their visual effects have remained consistently first rate. This is an unusual problem for a modern Star Warsproduction.
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