Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin • Hacker News Board

Re: Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

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Post by thaumasiotes » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 7:36 AM UTC

geerlingguy wrote: post #26

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A while back someone deepfaked the CGI Leia scene with footage of the actual Carrie Fisher as Leia in the original Star Wars. It looked amazing. So amazing I'm surprised the CGI -> Deepfake technique isn't used more often in movies.

Corridor did it and it was a great episode on how deepfakes were progressing (they're muck better now): https://youtu.be/_CXMb_MO3aw?feature=shared

The most prominent difference between "original" and "deepfake" in the footage opening that video (of Tarkin, not Leia) is that the deepfake has much worse lighting.

The second is that the deepfake looks significantly younger.

Re: Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

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Post by Forgeties79 » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 6:59 PM UTC

mrandish wrote: post #80

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As someone who has worked in production for almost 15 years now it is very refreshing to see such a generous take. Really and truly. I often find colleagues to be incredibly insufferable, nitpicking every single decision and everything they watch with no humility at all. Then the same people become incredibly defensive when people nitpick their work and tell them to “get a life” or some other “you’re too picky” comme…

> it is very refreshing to see such a generous take. Thanks. I agree with what you've said. Creating at a high level IS hard. We should all strive to begin online interactions from a default position of grace, charity and generosity - especially when it comes to 'hot take' opinions on creative work. As creators ourselves, it helps to remember we don't know the constraints, budgets, time frames, tools or client direct…

These were really fun to watch and I enjoy your takes - appreciate the thorough response!

I also remember being blown away by TSW haha

Re: Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

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Post by PaulHoule » Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 2:03 PM UTC

Forgeties79 wrote: post #65

PaulHoule wrote: post #17

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I watched 9 in 3-d on my Meta Quest 3. The villain in the last three movies is hard for me to take seriously because he seems to have stepped out of an episode of Doctor Who . I appreciate the last three movies though for outdoing themselves in scale as did early space operas such as Skylark of Space . I see Star Wars as a project that suffered because it went on for way too long; there were major changes in the exte…

If you mean Snoke technically he wasn’t in the 3rd! But yes point taken haha

No, I think it's Kylo Ren who seems to have come out of Doctor Who but I guess Snokes might come from there too.

Re: Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

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Post by Forgeties79 » Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 5:15 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #83

Forgeties79 wrote: post #65

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If you mean Snoke technically he wasn’t in the 3rd! But yes point taken haha

No, I think it's Kylo Ren who seems to have come out of Doctor Who but I guess Snokes might come from there too.

Ahhhh my mistake

Re: Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

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Post by fmajid » Mon, Aug 19, 2024, 12:39 AM UTC

I found Tarkin in Rogue One well done, after all Peter Cushing was really that gaunt and cadaveric in his later years. Leia, on the other hand, was a complete mess.