With the success of Jar Jar Binks as a digital creation, the time was right for the saga's beloved Master Yoda to gain an old/new lease of life in CGI for
Attack of the Clones, especially with the film's finale, crowd-pleasing finale lightsaber duel between him and his once apprentice, Count Dooku.
“In EPISODE II I wanted Yoda to fight, to be an actual warrior, not just this
sage. I obviously couldn’t even think about doing that on the other films. It
wasn’t technically doable. Now I can.”
George Lucas - TV GUIDE magazine - May 11th - 17th issue - 2002
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| Physical sculpt reference model, a cast presumably taken from the surviving Yoda head in the Lucasfilm Archives. |
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| Rob Coleman and an ILM team mate observe the details on the Yoda sculpt for future CGI reference use. |
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| Developing Yoda tests, copying a scene from The Empire Strikes Back. |
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| Getting closer to the final version. |
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| Rob Coleman looks at completed footage of the Yoda/Dooku confrontation. |
“There were a lot of challenges and if
we hadn't met those challenges I
wouldn't have had a movie, especially
on this one, because I had to replicate
Yoda. If I couldn't replicate Yoda digitally I was in serious trouble. I couldn't
have made this movie. We tried to make him digitally on the first movie and
we couldn't do it, but if we hadn't accomplished it here I would have had a
pretty silly end of the movie.”
George Lucas - BBC Online interview - 2002
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| An image used for marketing and merchandise. |
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