Then, the Hamill and the body double were effectively put in a visual effects program (called Lola) and blended together until on screen we had a de-aged human smoothie. Apparently, a 30-year-old-looking body double was brought in, too. Essentially, they brought Mark Hamill to the set so he could actually, you know, perform. Richard Bluff, a supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic VFX, told IndieWirehow his company pulled it off. But I do know how computers built the scarier Luke we saw in The Mandalorian. All we know is that the episode credits an actor named Scott Lang as Skywalker's stunt double, and Graham Hamilton as the performance artist. So we don't yet know the specifics of Skywalker's digital resurrection in The Book of Boba Fett. Is Mark Hamill involved? Why does Young Luke's mouth move like that of a South Park character? Why did CGI Young Luke 1.0 give you nightmares for three straight weeks, while 2.0 only kept you up one night? I asked these questions too, and unfortunately found some answers.Īll right. ![]() In this week's installment, we see CGI Young Luke train Grogu in the ways of the Jedi, rudely questioning the little green baby's commitment to the bit the whole way through. After recreating young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian Season Two finale-with a questionably zombified face that's still roasted online to this day-the computers have done it again! But better. Why am I contemplating the threat of digital afterlife, you're surely (not) asking yourself? Well, in Episode 6 of The Book of Boba Fett, I couldn't help but notice that Star Wars once again took a shot glass, dipped it in the Fountain of Youth, and downed it all. 'Star Wars' Belongs to 'The Mandalorian' Now.'Boba Fett' E6 (Genuinely) Changes Everything."The Book of Boba Fett" season finale releases Wednesday February 9, 2022, on Disney+. Or, you know, they could just hire a voice actor instead. Given how much the visual effects have improved, convincingly recreating a young Luke Skywalker on screen (at least, until he opens his mouth), the voice-cloning technology could definitely use some work before Young Luke shows up in the "Star Wars" universe again. In "The Book of Boba Fett," however, he delivers entire monologues to his padawan Grogu, and it just sounds wrong. The fake vocal work was fine on "The Mandalorian," where Luke only spoke a line or two before the credits rolled. Even though his vocal tone and pronunciation is dead-on to the point that it enters the uncanny valley and becomes unsettling, the lack of inflection means that it never emerges from the other side of the valley and becomes truly convincing. Questions don't really sound like questions. The big problem with the delivery in the "Book of Boba Fett" episode is inflection - digital Luke sounds just like Hamill circa the early 1980s, but vocal inflections and emotion are missing. It's also possible that Disney is using "The Book of Boba Fett" as an opportunity to refine its use of digital voice cloning technologies like Respeecher, with the long-term goal of making voice actors entirely optional. ![]() Maybe Hamill just didn't have the time, though he does plenty of other voiceover work and could probably squeeze in a few hours to step back into the shoes of Skywalker. Instead of hiring Hamill to record new dialogue and using some digital trickery to bring up the pitch and remove a bit of the gravel, the folks at Lucasfilm digitally created new lines of dialogue like the world's most complicated Speak & Spell. I was able to get clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they were able to slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data." We had clean recorded ADR from the original films, a book on tape he'd done from those eras, and then also Star Wars radio plays he had done back in that time. ![]() So I had archival material from Mark in that era. "It's a neural network you feed information into and it learns.
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