ROGUE ONE Director Gareth Edwards Admits To Being Nervous About Bringing Back [SPOILER]

@JoshWilding - Yeah I agree. I mean the effects were clearly as good as they could be, but if you're going to use a completely CG human character than he can't LOOK like a CG human character. They should have just used prosthetics on that other actor and maybe enhanced certain elements (his eyes, cheekbones etc) with CG.

@RorMachine - As a Vfx artist myself, it tends to get very frustrating for me whenever I see people try to 'fix' vfx situations they don't agree with by just saying " oh they should have just used practical" or "oh, they should have used mixture of CG and practical" without, and no offence, knowing much about the intricacies of the actual task. Here's the thing - what you saw on Rogue One was a mixture of make-up and vfx.You can't make believable CG humans in any other way. Also, going full-practical would've just made the final product more stiff and fake than ever before, not to mention restrictive in terms of performance.

Like it or not, practical effects or even a mixture of that and CG is not a viable solution for EVERY vfx challenge.

@RorMachine - Exactly! I honestly don't understand how Lucasfilm were happy for the movie to be released with him in that state. The clips of Cushing in the video above made me realise even more how bad the CG version looked.

@MrDandy - "often times Uncanny Valley." I don't think you can use it like that.

@MrDandy - Maybe you're just trolling, in which case, whatever. You're right that "Uncanny Valley" is a noun, but the it is not the subject of the sentence, neither in your original statement nor your corrective statement, and therefore it is used differently.

"Tarkin himself was inconsistent and often times uncanny valley" The subject noun of the sentence is Tarkin... strip the sentence to its bare essentials and you're saying "Tarkin was uncanny valley". Same with your reply - "It was uncanny valley."

IF either of those statements sound correct, I believe you are mistaken. To test the grammar one only needs to replace the noun "Uncanny Valley" with another noun. Try this: "Tarkin was TRUCK" "Tarkin was BUILDING" "Tarkin was KEYBOARD" "It was TIRE" "It was SPEAKER"

So, while "Uncanny Valley" may be a noun, it's not used the same way. Replace it with an adjective to test. For example, "Tarkin was red" or "Tarkin was sad"

In order to use the term "Uncanny Valley" the way you intend, one simply adds "a" or "an". For example, "Tarkin was an uncanny valley"

Once again, test the result by replacing it with another noun. "Tarkin was a TRUCK" Tarkin was a BUILDING" Despite being neither of those things, the rule applies.

"Tarkin himself was inconsistent and often times appeared to be an uncanny valley" and "it was an uncanny valley"

I really don't care, but if you're going to tell someone else they're wrong, you should consider if you are right.

@bropous - Uncanny valley refers to something that is really close to reality and slightly off, making it look unsettling or sometimes creepy.