some cool FX facts from SW EP2: AOTC

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from <a href="http://www.theforce.net/episode2/index.html#17082" target="_blank">theforce.net</a>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> We just recieved the new Computer Graphics World at the office today and there is a nice article on Episode 2 and another one on Spider-Man. Some of the cool things mention are as follows:
1. ALL of the clone troopers are 100% CG. There are NO actors in suits - very interesting.

2. Some of the shots when Obi-Wan and Jango Fett duke it out on Kamino are using completely digital stunt doubles.
(for example: when Jango Fett uses his jetpack or when Obi-Wan is dragged)

3. When Dex hugs Obi-Wan, his cloak is digital....which also ties into the fact that the clothing was done using ILM's Caricature software that helps with cloth algorithms

4. "By the Numbers":
Effects shots created: 2817
Effects shots used: 2000
Shots in the film: 2161
Minutes of CG animation: 70
Cloth-simulation shots: 352

Creature models: about 66
CG characters that talk: 12
Shots w/ CG Yoda: 127
Shots w/ Jar Jar: 32

Render Farm Processors: 1300
Desktop Processors: 1100
Processors running Linux: 50%

Thought all the Star Wars fans out there, or geeky tech people, would find this interesting.

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">70 minutes of CGI....man this movie is almost fully animated
1300 CPU used....now thats interesting...and the Linux...

[Marcus]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">1. ALL of the clone troopers are 100% CG. There are NO actors in suits - very interesting.

2. Some of the shots when Obi-Wan and Jango Fett duke it out on Kamino are using completely digital stunt doubles.
(for example: when Jango Fett uses his jetpack or when Obi-Wan is dragged)
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That is very intresting. I wouldn't have known if I wasn't told <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> Most of those Clone Troopers...wow. I mean, I know they atleast were digitally adding Troopers from something like 5-20 people. ?? Wow. Amazing.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">3. When Dex hugs Obi-Wan, his cloak is digital....which also ties into the fact that the clothing was done using ILM's Caricature software that helps with cloth algorithms
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I was wondering how that was done...

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Shots w/ Jar Jar: 32
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Thank god! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Thanks for the info. I love finding out how they do this stuff. (With luck, someday in the far future, I will be doing "this stuff" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> )