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Lucas Returning to Digital Animation
deadwood writes "It seems Lucas is creating a Digital Animation studio as a subsidiary of ILM, according
to this Yahoo! article.
Lucasfilm Animation is created roughly 17 years after George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"
Lucasfilm Animation is created roughly 17 years after George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"
I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?
Let me answer that for you... No.
Can't people just draw by hand anymore?
What has this country come to?
It's sad!
Atleast jar jar would be dead by Episode 7.
<obligatory jar jar joke>
In recent years however, he's rather been letting down his side of the bargain. I still gave him money, but he gave dross in return. It seems that most of the reason he's given me dross is because of an obsession with digital filmaking - looks like he's much more interested in the technology behind the film than in the film itself these days.
Bah. Bring back model-making and puppetry, and hire a decent set of writers...
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Ian
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Lucasfilm Animation is created roughly 17 years after
Did Yoda write this post?
You could have done Monsters, Inc with sock puppets and it still would have been entertaining.
Lucas hasn't recently shown that he can deliver the plots and characters that are necessary to make an animated film work.
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Star Wars VII: The Further Adventures of Star Wars
Luke: Hey, everybody!
New Republic Senate: Luke!
(Luke walks up to the bar. Leia is standing behind it.)
Leia: Hey, Luke. How was work today? (He pours him a cup of coffee and pulls 2 cinnamon buns from her hair.)
Luke: Same old. Showed up, got tempted by the Dark Side, and my Dad kept going on about how when he was my age, he was already married with two unknown children out there.
Leia: (Rolls her eyes to the laugh track.) I think he just wants to become a grandfather before the Glowing Blue Light fades away.
(The bar door opens. The audience cheers as Han Solo walks into the room.)
Han: Heyyyy! (He hits the jukebox with a fist, making a holo-projector of dancing aliens appear.) Has anybody seen my blaster? (He pulls out a walkie-talkie from his side pocket.) I woke up in the Millenium Falcon with this strapped to my side.
Leia: I did that - you never call me when you're suppose to. I swear, you and that Wookie are having some weird love affair behind my back.
Han: How did you know? I mean, that's just silly, even though his fur is as soft as silk, and.... (He clears his throat.) Anyway, I brought you a present.
Leia: Another gold bikini?
Han: No... (He opens the door. There stands the former Queen/Senator/Love Puppy to Darth Vader - Amidala!)
Leia/Luke: Mom? We thought you were dead!
Amidala: No, your father had me frozen in carbonite, hoping to come back to me someday when the Emporer was dead.
Han: You could say she was naked and petrified.
(Laugh track and the audience goes "ahhhh" as Luke/Leia/Amidala/Han hug.)
Big titles: In Episode VIII, watch as C3PO remembers that he was made by Anakin, and could have saved everybody a lot of time by telling Uncle Owen and Luke Skywalker where he came from!
Now, imagine this animated. Scary, huh?
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Please make a Howard The Duck sequel. That would rock! But maybe Howard should rap, the times have changed...
You'll get it, but you'll have to wait.
First, the second trilogy will be finished and then released on DVD, one at a time.
Second, the boxed set of the second trilogy.
Third, the special edition boxed set of the second trilogy.
Fourth, individual releases, one at a time, of the original trilogy ("enhanced" version, of course, don't expect to ever really get the original).
Fifth: The "combo" packs. You'll be able to buy special combo editions of ANH and ESB, or ESB and ROTJ, or ANH and ROTJ, but not all three.
Sixth, the boxed set of the original trilogy.
Seventh, the special edition boxed set will be simultaneously released with the re-release of the second trilogy which will have additional commentary and material that, by that point, no one will ever listen to.
Eighth, the "six pack" will be released.
Ninth, the special edition "six pack".
Tenth, the special edition "six pack" with extra commentary that, by that point, no one will ever listen to, and Jaba/Jar Jar bookends (that's right, a "true" fan will buy both the Jaba set and the Jar Jar set - don't call yourself a "real" Star Wars fan if you don't). Anticipated release date: May 21, 2020.
As for me, as soon as I buy a DVD recorder I'll be making DVD versions of the ORIGINAL tapes. Bastards. Han shot first, what's the big deal? PC morons.
Worst fear: Lucas will find a way to live on in some computer/mechanical fashion and keep making movies without any help.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
While people are busy grousing about Star Wars, there's plenty of other material Lucas already has access to that would make a great movie. Anyone who has played the LucasArts adventure game Grim Fandango would agree it would make a kickass feature film. Glottis > Shrek. ;)
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It's not even that the concepts behind the stories were so bad. It's that the screenplay adaptions of the stories were absolutely horrid and the casting was worse (with a couple notable exceptions). Then, to make matters worse, Lucas decided to aim Episode I at youngsters in an attempt to capture the imagination of a new generation (via devices such as Jar Jar and the overly-long video-game-influenced pod racing scenes). However, in reality he not only failed at this, he also managed to upset a fairly large portion of his ever-aging fanbase.
The reason Pixar succeeds so well is simple. It's not because the stories are all that fabulous - because in reality they're pretty simple. It's because they're well written, have a great mix of humor/action/etc, and most of all, they have an awful lot of heart.
The best thing that could happen to this unit is for Lucas not to have any control over it. At this point in his career, he should stick to what he's good at, which is the technical side of film-making.
What Gerry Anderson understood full well thirty years ago: Actors can be a real pain in the ass for director / producers.
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That statement says worlds about Lucas, Hollywood, and America today.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Think of that first short with the lamp, way back -- who'd have thought they could make it so expressive? Or all those birds on the line; they all look alike, but the little character touches set each one apart.
George Lucas, on the other hand, can have someone like Samuel L. Jackson in a movie and make him deeply boring -- even as a Jedi Freakin' Knight! Does anyone think Lucas improves his actors? Anyone? Does he direct for nice little character touches??
What George wants this splinter company to do is make huge, distractingly detailed landscapes and gratuitously gigantic battle scenes. Take a look at the battle at the end of Episode II; that's what he thinks computer animation is about. He's as bad with character touches as any director out there.
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