Sound supervisors Bonnie Wild and Matthew Wood talked about finding the sound of Grogu, since he's a baby but he's also 50 years old. "You can't resist cradling the baby, bouncing the baby. Lewin recalled the moment George Lucas first held Grogu, aka Baby Yoda, and treated it like a real baby. "He thought it was very real, and it added a lot to his performance," Rosengrant said. Actor Werner Herzog was so taken by the puppet that he became concerned when it was turned off when it wasn't on screen. They started building a puppet that actually moved, with all his parts connected to wires and rods as a test, and once Favreau saw it, Grogu became a whole lot more alive. "If we could have that little child be there and be real and have actors really looking at it, just maybe we can make this thing work," he remembered thinking. But as Legacy effects supervisor John Rosengrant explained, they decided they needed to come up with something more real. Grogu was originally going to be CGI for all the close-ups, with Jon Favreau doing motion capture to create the facial expressions. It all resulted in a gorgeous, expansive, and grounded visual masterpiece, which was then sort of overshadowed by a tiny little frog-eating alien puppet. As Janet Lewin, SVP of Industrial Light and Magic, explained, Din ( Pedro Pascal) would have essentially had to wear a CGI helmet in order to avoid all of the reflections that would come from a green screen. The invention of this technique was crucial to The Mandalorian ever existing in the first place, or at least to it looking good.Īs the team explained, the challenge was always to make it look like the characters were really on an alien planet, especially when a whole lot of characters were wearing helmets and metal armor. Instead of putting the actors in front of green screens, they act in front of large curved screens that are showing pictures - often created via miniatures - of the background that would otherwise be added by CGI. Some of the production supervisors from The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett gathered on stage at Star Wars Celebration 2022 to talk about the effects behind the series, starting with something called a volume. While CGI is obviously still a major part of everything related to Star Wars, a big part of why the shows have been so successful so far is that the production teams are doing everything in their power to make the actors look and feel like they're actually in the fictional worlds they're supposed to be in. Believe it or not, Star Wars' live action TV shows are about as practical as a space Western filled with aliens can get.
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