Lucasfilm is digitally scanning actors' faces for future films
"All the actors." Even the aliens"
"All the actors." Even the aliens"
"All the actors." Even the aliens"
The death of "Star Wars'" actress Carrie Fisher has left an unanswered question as to the fate of Princess Leia, the role she reprised in 2015. In a recent interview, Mark Hamill spoke about the , dismissing the idea of a CGI version of Fisher, as was used to create a young Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin in "Rogue One."
He said, "They've already ruled out the idea of computer generating her performance like they did with Peter Cushing, so gee that's got to be a really, not an insurmountable problem, but ... I know the script had been developed enough so when we lost her they had to go back to square one. She's irreplaceable as far as I'm concerned."
But while Lucasfilm officials have vowed not to use a CGI Leia as a replacement, there have already been occasions where computer generation has been used to create the character, such as the floating Leia in "The Last Jedi," which was a blend of CGI and the real Carrie Fisher.
In a new interview with Inverse, "Last Jedi" VFX supervisor Ben Morris has shed some light on the ways they use CGI in conjunction with real actors.
"We will always all the lead actors in the film," Morris said. "We don't know if we're going to need them. We don't intentionally scan them as an archive process. It's for reference later."
He added that this was not just for older actors who they fear might die but everyone. "It's the young actors, the old actors," he said. "All the actors. Even the aliens."
But before you get worried about an army of clones taking over the beloved franchise, as Inverse explained, the scans are just used to aid the process:
"To be clear, digital people aren바카라 게임 웹사이트t created from scratch inside the computer. In the case of Flying Space Leia, Carrie Fisher바카라 게임 웹사이트s digital clone is merged with both her real self, plus stunt workers on wires. All of this creates the most ideal and realistic version of a scene which could never happen in reality."
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