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Yeah, I think the issue is that with Peter Cushing long gone they had to map another actor's performance onto his different face and given that everyone moves their face slightly differently it introduced too much of the animator's interpretation. If he'd still been alive then they could just capture all his little micro movements and details on one of those "light stages".
From what little I've seen it still looks like a great effect and I think it was worth trying, especially with Tarkin, but the lighting on the Leia scene was very unforgiving.

I very much want to see Arrival. I'd be counting the days until it's on TV ... if I knew when it was eventually going to be on TV. It sort of reminds me a bit of Contact, which is one of my favourite movies even though no one else seems to like it.
I have read the 30ish page short story on which Arrival is based and I'm very intrigued as to how they'll fill it out to movie length.
Actually when I was in a bookshop the other day I was a bit confused to see that the author has now written a full novel based on the film that was based on his own short story. I was tempted to read it but I'll wait... for now.

Slightly less intellectual than Arrival, I know, but I watched Warcraft the other day and found it somewhat confusing. I think they could have explained the world and its inhabitants a little better for n00bs like me.

But there was was some nice facial animation in there with some lovely subtle expressions in the eyes, which was surprising considering that they were strange, big-handed, tusked monsters.

Slightly disappointed that they didn't take inspiration from our Pennywise challenge. They should have hired us all as consultants.


This one looks lovely yet weird...


I'd never heard of the Valerian stories but after a bit of research it seems like George Lucas stole lots of ideas from them to make Star Wars.