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by bsder 2158 days ago
> And the results end up looking plastic and rather soulless no matter how much detail they have.

The Mandalorian begs to differ.

The problem was that the actor couldn't see the CGI in real-time.

Once they built full wall displays so the actors could see what they were acting to, everything improved quite dramatically.
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munificent 2158 days ago
As I understand it, actor performance quality wasn't the main driver of The Mandalorian's live CGI sets. It was lighting and reflections. When your main character's head is essentially a chrome ball, green screens really aren't going to cut it. They needed believable reflections and lighting and the live set gave them that.
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thu2111 2157 days ago
Yep, that's it. There's a cool video about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpUI8uOsKTM

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