A new video from Industrial Light & Magic illustrates the detailed, multi-layered process that went into reviving the classic character Grand Moff Tarkin for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The anthology film’s Oscar-nominated visual effects team, led by John Knoll, delivered some of the most spectacular results in the entire Star Wars franchise, mixing a wide range of techniques together to create a convincing world filled with unique characters.
Rogue One also hearkened back heavily to the original trilogy, which it could not avoid as a bridge to the plot of 1977’s A New Hope. Darth Vader’s cameo was easy enough for the makers to pull off, but a much harder task was to bring back the Empire’s Grand Moff Tarkin without recasting him. The villainous Death Star commander needed to be CGI in order to appear as original actor Peter Cushing, who died in ...
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