The Mandalorian’s Emmy Win Means Another Amazing VFX Reel for You

While the nerds have been informed they couldn’t sit on the cool youngsters’ desk at this previous weekend’s Emmy Awards, they’d a grand outdated time on the Creative Emmy Awards the week prior. There, The Mandalorian’s second season obtained, understandably, the Emmy for “Outstanding Special Effects in a Series or a Movie.” Now, in celebration, we’ve gotten one other peek behind the CG… and in entrance of it, and off to the aspect, too, I suppose.

What does it take to make a season of The Mandalorian? Oh, hunks of sensible units, bunches of bluescreens, some robotics, some puppets, that insane LED rig referred to as the Volume that permits actors to be on digital units themselves whereas they movie, and, oh yeah, an old-school spaceship mannequin, similar to the Star Wars crew did for A New Hope 44 years in the past:

That’s the present’s Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Bluff giving the tour. While VFX reels like this may be hit and miss, The Mandalorian’s movies by no means disappoint. There’s all the time one thing that surprises me, whether or not issues I assumed have been CG turned out to be actual, or issues that regarded actual have been CG, or issues that have been bodily made after which scanned into CG anyway. But I principally love that the Trash-ATs are stop-motion puppets for what appears to be no discernable motive. The present’s capacity to work with all these processes and VFX, slightly than simply designing all the things on a pc because the prequel motion pictures did, is a large a part of the rationale why The Mandalorian seems to be so good and feels so authentically Star Wars.

The Mandalorian additionally gained 2021 Emmys for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup, Outstanding Musical Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama (One-Hour), Outstanding Stunt Coordination, Outstanding Stunt Performance, and Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour), for a complete of seven.

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