Behind-the-Scenes: Making the Stop-Motion Puppets for Star Wars: The Force Awakens! 

+Colin Cochran It's learning about the love and passion behind creating this scene that really warms my heart and makes me happy. These people obviously care a lot about the originals, and it makes me feel like the franchise is in good hands.

+Netsuko Yoshikawa agreed

+Colin Cochran The budgets are massive thanks to overpriced CGI I think you'll find Stop motion is vastly more budget friendly.

+Sten43 Since 1977 i don't know what costs are involved for either case, but my gut is telling me this fidelity of stop motion isn't cheap

Some animators looking for work of any kind and exposure tend to work for free now. VFX guys don't really get paid any more. I've done two movies with no money and next to nothing. Nobody seems to want to pay traditional artists, while CGI guys will command thousands. Colin Cochran

+ot0m0t0 why would it continue on from a game they were playing 30 years ago? pretty sure they would have played quite a few new games on it since then

+ArnoldTohtFan Ever since Chewbacca witnessed the murder of so many Ewoks, he didn't feel like playing games anymore... But nah, you're totally right. It's a nice touch and even knowing Han lost the falcon at some point down the line, you have to figure they at least played one other game since A New Hope.

+ArnoldTohtFan Maybe he loaded a save game when it fired up?

Hahahahahaha it so wrong

i was about to comment.

Hahaa

I don't see it

+Sean Anthony you have a pure sighted mind

+John514 great info. You may have just created a career with that one.

+Netsuko Yoshikawa Just because the people who worked on it put effort and passion into it doesn't mean that Disney's initial decision to make this movie was rooted in making profits.

+Babalooza lol.. okay so tell me. Which big movie ISN'T made on the decision to make money? Let me give you a hint: none :P That's like saying you like good food, but your initial decision to eat was because you are hungry. That doesn't make it any worse if the food was still good!

precisely, but some are more money-driven than others. This is why we get 5 marvel movies each year and only 1 Citizen Kane.

+Babalooza +Netsuko Yoshikawa I can see the underlying miff that Lucas holds towards the new franchise (he says he's good with it - but he admits he would have gone a different direction). Firstly, I was *thoroughly entertained* by TFA (I even cheered at the holochess sequence!) but it did not reach very far in plot and 'character dimensionality';. Even _'the force'_ was not further developed in this film. Because of these shortcomings, this addition will not be considered foundational to the universe when all the chips have been counted. Lucas can see that. Hell, he should even get a script credit for the plagiarism that the script makes off with. *spoiler alert* Look to the loss of the franchise's highest paid actor (highest paid anything for that matter). Beancounter Mickey Mouse can now cast an unknown for the Young Solo Chronicles and continue to rake $ in! I do hope the next movies can stretch artistic and character limitations put into effect in this addition to the Star Wars universe.

Also, the Brett Foxwell would make a great podcast guest. Him and Adam talking about Star Wars, armature, and tools on Still Untitled? Can this happen please?

+Josep Josep I think the girl at 13:07 is her daughter!

+Ethan Ashton Hey Ethan!

+Ethan Gordon hey! nice to meet you!

That's pretty cool aswell.

What made you change your mind?

+Denny Jones What a fuckin coincidence, it's a small world. I'm a student in cambodia o.O

Pernicus New small world indeed

+Francesco Gavardi Probably won't be used again, also there is a specific look to the original stop motion animation that is impossible to replicate in CGI.

+bugzkilla Have you seen the Lego movie before? It's all CGI but they use techniques like lowering the framerate to make it look like stop motion. I bet they could easily make this in CG and make it look like stop motion. They already have the 3D scans of the original models so all they would have to do is animate them digitally.

+bugzkilla There is nothing in stop motion that is impossible to replicate in CGI. If the "specific look" you're talking about is the holographic effect, it's just lighting and layers. On the other hand, there are literally countless things in CG that stop motion can't replicate. This is coming from a guy with a degree in animation, majoring in traditional 2D and stop motion.

GuyWithAnAmazingHat No that is not what I was referring to. Animating something frame by frame, posing it with your hands and taking a picture does in fact look different than moving a model frame by frame in a digital space. Stop motion looks more "hand made" in comparison to CGI. That is why they went back to how the scene was made in A New Hope so it is doing it justice and actually does in fact look the same.

bugzkilla The "hand made" effect is in actual fact human error in positioning, dust particles, flickering lighting and other imperfections. All these can be replicated in CGI. And as brickman409 mentioned, the Lego movie actually did a really great job fooling many people into thinking it was actual stop motion.

+mardrom1 OMG you can just buy all this stuff. no need to mill drill turn anything. armaverse1.mybigcommerce.com/categories/Phase-3-Parts/

Pigmented silicone in this case.

well forgive me for making a pun using song titles.

***** maybe I wasn't clear what the quotation marks meant. I was quoting the names of songs from the Band No Doubt

Well, to each their own I guess.

You paint with more pigmented silicone. It can be diluted down with Naphtha to air brush. You can use 100% silicone caulking from home depot.

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