last night was the opening event for the early arrivers. a classic nerd event (needless to say i loved it!). the discipline leads from industrial light and magic formed a panel and told us all about how they built the digital components of the attack of the clones...the designer, the animation director, the software engineer for fabric, the team lead and the software engineer for solid state stuff (space ships, robots and how to blow them up...this guy loved his work).
It was all really cool but most interesting element for me was the fact that the digital character of yoda was intentionally built to reflect the limitations of the original puppet animated by Frank Oz. turns out that when they took out the puppet characteristics it no longer looked like yoda - haven't figured out why this has captured brain space but think it has something to do with embyonic thoughts on digital identity, the woman from dirty dancing having a nose job and no longer being recognisable and the role of imperfection in building identity - mmm...sorry will work on articulating how these fit together.
note to munchy: you must work at ilm