ROTS: Which Sets Were Green Screen?

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2006-02-01 12:53pm

I'm currently in a discussion with someone else about whether or not ROTS deserved the Oscar nomination for best visual effects. Can anyone tell me which sets in the movie were real, and which were all green screen (along with pictures for evidence, if available)?

For example, what was Palpatine's office, or Dooku's sanctum on the Invisible Hand?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-02-01 12:58pm

From what I understand, nearly every set had green screen aspects.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2006-02-01 01:04pm

most of the Mustifar set were green or blue screen aspects.

LongVin · Post by **LongVin** » 2006-02-01 01:23pm

Every scene in the movie had CGI effects added.

Jedi Guardian · Post by **Jedi Guardian** » 2006-02-01 01:29pm

In 60 minutes they said that the scene were Obi-wan and Anakin are waving there lightsabers like mad men Obi-Wan or Owen Mcgregor was animated because he was doing another movie at the time. But most of the Lightsaber duals were not animated

AK_Jedi · Post by **AK_Jedi** » 2006-02-01 03:13pm

most of the smaller interior sets were constructed. These included palpatine's office, padme's apartment, the Invisible Hand corridor, jedi council chamber, starship interiors, and several others. Regardless, every set at least some elements that were green-screened.

DesertFly · Post by **DesertFly** » 2006-02-01 03:59pm

The question should be more like, "Which sets weren't green screen?"

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2006-02-02 05:06am

If you watch the production photos from the RotS DVD, you'll notice that the entire scene on Tatooine is completely green screen.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-02-03 11:34am

All the "Behind the Scenes" videos are greenscreen. The crew and cameramen are all CGI. The Rick McCallum videos are all greenscreen too. It looks like he's sitting in an office but he's actually at a gay bath house in San Francisco, waiting for his appointment at the plastic surgeon next door to get liposuction.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2006-02-03 12:07pm

The film was completely in-studio. No location work. Despite the fact that it is half exteriors. So as you can imagine, there is more greenscreen than set built for the film.

Jedi Guardian · Post by **Jedi Guardian** » 2006-02-03 04:14pm

Lucasfilm is trusting ILM to much it would make thing a little more exciting if they went to some actual onsite places instead of doing it all with effects like the 70's. Well maybe not more exciting but more interesting and they wouldn't waist as much money as SE.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-02-03 04:33pm

First, please learn how to fucking type, for Christ's sake. I can barely even make out what you're saying.

Second, it's actually much cheaper to do things in post-production with visual effects than to build much more extensive physical sets.

Jedi Guardian · Post by **Jedi Guardian** » 2006-02-03 06:16pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:First, please learn how to fucking type, for Christ's sake. I can barely even make out what you're saying.

Second, it's actually much cheaper to do things in post-production with visual effects than to build much more extensive physical sets.

Hey big abriviations hurting your head? Well ILM means Industrial light and Magic as for SE it means Special Effects. I don't know how else to simplize for you.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-02-03 06:18pm

Jedi Guardian wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:First, please learn how to fucking type, for Christ's sake. I can barely even make out what you're saying.

Second, it's actually much cheaper to do things in post-production with visual effects than to build much more extensive physical sets.
Hey big abriviations hurting your head? Well ILM means Industrial light and Magic as for SE it means Special Effects. I don't know how else to simplize for you.

No, he's referring to your grammar and spelling errors

Abriviations is not Abbreviations

and it's Simplfy, there is no word of Simplize.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2006-02-03 07:55pm

zombie84 wrote:The film was completely in-studio. No location work. Despite the fact that it is half exteriors. So as you can imagine, there is more greenscreen than set built for the film.

Technically it wasn't all done in studios. They actually did shoot many background plates on location (the most famous example being in Tunisia during the production of Episode II, but there were others done later as well), which were then used in many shots, such as to create Utapau and Kashyyk. Watch the ending credits to the movie and you'll see where they shot them precisely. And just because something is done in-studio doesn't mean that it was all green screen. Obviously they can BUILD sets. Most (if not all) shots had some blue/green screen work done, but that includes even small things like stars or cityscape outside a window, compositing in extras for crowd scenes, pasting the actor's face onto a stuntman's head, etc.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2006-02-03 11:57pm

Background plates are just background plates. The film would be considered totally in-studio, even if the special effects guys technically had to leave their computer stations. Otherwise no film would be technically "all in-studio". Even the old golden-age studio films had stock footage inserts of real locations and rear-projection plates.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2006-02-04 12:19am

Darth Wong wrote:All the "Behind the Scenes" videos are greenscreen. The crew and cameramen are all CGI. The Rick McCallum videos are all greenscreen too. It looks like he's sitting in an office but he's actually at a gay bath house in San Francisco, waiting for his appointment at the plastic surgeon next door to get liposuction.