Man when I saw this one I think I did cry 😢

Me too, I just wish my dad was here to see it as well

@@NoVACorpsGaming ♥️

I agree I mean like I don't care what anyone says Luke looks great In mandalorian and book of boba

@@ryandavis8658 thank you brother :)

''IT'' chapter two did it first although, the de-aging cgi effect

@@GeorgeKLSA really. Not maybe The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which literally won an Oscar for the technology and preceded IT Chapter 2 by over a decade?

@@unvergebeneid Button took over a year or more to develop. This took one man more or less, a couple of days.

After obviously janky and unnatural appearence of luke in the mandalorian, I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw him in BoBF. I truly love technology.

They where also too busy canceling the male heroes, to even give a sh*t about their female hero, who where rushed into a cardboard character.

@@noxlupi1 and when people say “you just don’t like strong female heroes”, then always bring up Ahsoka, Sarah Connor, Trinity, and Ellen Ripley :)

@@Howlingburd19 yeah, there are plenty of strong female characters. Funny enough, the strongest ones, are unique.

yeah this reply section is absolutely right

It’s amazing what can happen when you don’t have a cringe sjw agenda to push and all you focus on is telling the best story.

Also when he is running around with grogu on his back, they either zoom out enough that you can't see his face very well, or they zoom in on grogu with Luke's face just out of frame. When he is jumping from rock to rock the face doesn't quite look right, but its only for a few frames. Also I think they cgi'd his hair in one of the close ups.

Even the scenes that show he was talking were done pretty good. stop looking for flaws…it was flawless

@@drosims7993 We aren't saying its bad, just pointing out how its not perfect yet. I was amazed how good it looked tbh. The only reason it looked as good as it does though, is because someone else pointed out the previous flaws with cgi Luke in video form (by fixing them), so they hired him and now it looks even better. You have no reason to be upset by our criticism.

@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω Worlds smallest violin

Star Wars is all about new technology breaking barriers... George Lucas created much of what are still today movie making gold standards so kudos to Filoni and Fravreau for reigniting that tradition back! Todays' Luke looks far better than Muppet Yoda in the Last Jedi!

There are parts where his voice sounds funny too they just need to hire an actor.

@@matthewdrexler188 Yeah it lacks real emotion and other things that real humans can bring but it is very very cool to see that they are able to do this. I'd take an entire series about luke and his school if Disney would make it.

Yea too much misinformation is being spread on what was done to bring Luke to life. Especially the voice part. Lmao John Favreau literally explained in the making of SZN 2 finale

Just use Mark Hamill he’s a very good voice actor he’s the joker for Christ sake I think he can do a solid version of his younger self 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@TheSliferSlacker199 Mark Hamil cannot produce the “Young” Luke Skywalker voice anymore. Look up “Luke Forces of destiny” & see for yourself lol

Honestly I don’t even think the mouth was off, if you mute it it looks perfect. But the voice is slightly mismatched with some of his lip movements. That can be fixed in the future as well.

Thank you for clearing that up.

This is so unfair (( thanks for clarifying it!

Great work btw. I'm sure keeping things under wraps is hard, but you all delivered one for the history books.

Unchecked rumors spread quickly nowadays 😫

This proofs once more how biased viewers nowadays are. Whenever it's done by a big studio, it's considered complete garbage and you can totally see how fake it is while if it's done by some presumed independent artist it's like god himself created it. People like to sympathize with whoever makes up for a good story and love to hate evil corps. It doesn't matter if it's true at all. Same goes for the cgi in the new lotr trailer which for some people seems to be among the worst they've ever seen. Tbh I had no problem whatsoever with how Luke looked in The Mandalorian and if it wasn't for the toxic fans I would never have wasted another thought on it. Tarkin and Leia totally worked for me, too. Amazing jobs, thank you!

we are missing that pices badly along with his wife

Anakin force ghost will appear soon

Only OG Star Wars fans will remember how Luke Skywalker already rebuilt the Jedi! No, not so idiotically featured in the Disney trilogy. No, I'm talkin' vanilla OG! Our favorite Jedi had twelve students to start with. Unfortunately, no, the whole ''multi-verse'' idea DOES NOT work well with Star Wars! George Lucas wanted to make a story for the public. And he did just that! The books and video games that followed flowed pretty well as added fillers to the Star Wars universe. The character of Luke was made to near-perfection, only to be brought to a Titanic low in the Disney trilogy. So, yeah, as much as I appreciate Favreau and Filoni's effort to bring back Luke Skywalker in a more meaningful way in Mandalorian, I am afraid that Luke Skywalker and Star Wars itself are damaged goods.

@@stevenyarnell8422 pointless comment

Amazing idea, knowing he’ll consider murding his nephew and it all burns down. It’s a shyte idea. Luke’s dead.

It is definitely nice to see old characters as they have always been, but the drawback is that there will never again be new iconic actors as Hollywood will simply recycle the favorites instead.

They don't need a voice actor either! The voice was apparently completely digital, made using 'Respeecher'.

My Father has been heralding a new John Wayne movie since the 90's, he may well see it

They used an air for Luke's voice

They also need to have the families and estates to confirm, but that's a rights issue. I wonder who else they may resurrect with this feature.

I thought it was a different actor in mando season 2 so when I saw it was deaaging i was disappointed Because they know how luke should look and he didn’t look like that but now he does :)

@@DeeFourCee Yeah i’m pretty sure it was a different actor.

@@connorsimpson503 it wasn’t tho, it was mark hamil with deaged face and ai voice

@@DeeFourCee I stand corrected

@@DeeFourCeeExcept it still was a different actor. They go through all this in depth in the Disney Gallery episode. Mark was there as a point of reference for the performance. But the final shot uses the body double's performance with Mark's de-aged face added on with cgi

Until you take a close look at the shot where luke leans into grogu without saying anything and it becomes appearant that the face we are seeing seeing has no actual depth compared to the actors own body in the same shot. They need to hire an actor already.

Amazingly enough Sebastian Stan has been 'flirted" to play Luke He has a look and style like him

Now it means the mouse owns you even after death.

@@MrJturner74 "hahA!"

@@MrJturner74 well. not 100% true. they still need permission to use one's image. unless Hamill's family signs of on it, he is safe

Honestly, I'd rather CGI Luke than Sebastian Stan. Don't get me wrong, I love Seb, but despite the fact he might look similar to Mark in a few pics, overall they're very different looking. Plus, Seb has several inches and a solid 30 pounds of muscle on young Mark. This is important because a major part of what makes Luke Skywalker Luke Skywalker is the fact he does not look like a traditional hero. He does not look like the guy who could win in a fight. He looks like an underdog. Sebastian Stan doesn't have that underdog look. He looks like a traditional beefcake hero.

If we are dealing with 20-30 year old Luke...go with the deepfake. If they ever do Luke in his 40s or 50s....Stan would be pretty much perfect.

I don't think it was Improved in terms of likeness to luke. The first one looks more like him but the quality is poorer. Second one better quality but not as good likeness. The hair is awfull

@@sbird8675 Thank you for saying all that. Thought I was the only one insane enough to think it. You really nailed everything.

@@rnichol22 I mean, in fairness, Luke's hair is awful in ROTJ too. The 70's were a rough time for men's hairstyles lol. I also disagree about the first one having a better likeness. His face was too round and his eyes too small proportionately. It was recognizably Luke, but off. The second version was more accurate in terms of his facial proportions- narrower face and larger eyes. That said, take any screen shot of Mark Hamill from ROTJ and compare it to any other screenshot of Mark Hamill in ROTJ and he looks completely different. When he first removes his hood in Jabba's palace he looks like a rugged 40 year old. When he's out of the shadows and into the sunshine, he's back to being baby faced. Even Mark Hamill doesn't look like Mark Hamill.

He did not work in this episode.

There is a girl that cosplays Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and she looks exactly like her not just makeup and the costume she looks like Carrie Fisher, I saved her photos to my phone That's how good this girl looks She could be her actual double.

I'm sure he is thrilled.

Shamook wasnt the creator or something. He gets Fake credits

@@mrbombastik0665 obviously he didn’t create deepfake technology but he is getting credit for making amazing deepfakes so I don’t necessarily understand your point

@@MansEatinBeans he makes good deepfakes, yes. But he gets credit for the luke scene he dont deserve. A producer of the show did a comment for this

@@mrbombastik0665 would you mind linking this comment because I cannot find anything that says he was not involved.

I agree that is was great SW, this episode was beautiful in terms of the homages and call backs to Luke's training with Yoda, the references to his teachings, the flips and jumps and the test to see if he would choose attachment over the Jedi way. Even still my gripes with EPs 5 and 6 are that they don't feel like they're apart of the book of Boba Fett they could have easily been apart of Mando season 3 or Ahsoka, it felt very disjointed and choppy scenes kept changing left and right and had heavy reliance on Cameos. It was Very well done it wasn't too fan servicey a middle ground boarding almost but very appreciated. The jumps Grogu did where Hilarious in a good way, Ahsoka was a welcome addition I hope we see more interaction with her and Luke in Ahsoka. Order 66 scene was epic it revived those feels again, the 501st looked extremely good and the insult to injury to the dead Jedi really spoke words. But I hope we do get back on track to what this series supposed to be at it's core a Boba fett story, and soon to be The war of the bounty hunters my god was I on the edge of my seat when Cad Bane showed up I really hope we see a stand off between him and Boba or Fennec Shaand.

It made me see the SW future with bright eyes

It's directed by Dave Filoni, u can't get anymore starwarsy than him

You're asking for the hard part of deep fake

Ya he talked to slow and calm and some of his lines were a little cliche.

Deepfake Tom Selleck? I'd rather have the real McCoy.

Same

We all do...

Thats the thing I really like with this deepfake, he's showing emotion (smilling, serious, annoyed, conflicted) In the Mandalorian season two he felt like his face was frozen and could barely lift his eyebrows. Now he looks almost as real as Ahsoka next to him

Yeah the hair is not quite right. I think it's too dark for one and the shape is off too. I mean it looks great but I wish they would have perfected the hair.

@@babu357 exactly what I saw with the hair. It also didn't ever seem to move except when he was running. Other than that, it passed the Uncanny Valley test in my eyes. Exceptional work.

@@babu357 I think it makes sense his hair is darker as he’s slightly older and marks hair did turn completely brown as he aged and it was almost totally brown in ROTJ. The style of his hair is definitely different but we’ll just attribute that to his new shampoo 😂😂

i would love to know what mark hammil thinks of seeing his younger self on the screen

@@Blobby192 yea me too! I do believe he was on board with this project but I'd love to hear from him directly what his thoughts are

filoni and Jon Favreau basically saved starwars with the mandalorian. only good thing to happen in the last couple of years :)

No return of the jedii ...

It is cool but Rouge One and plenty of Clone Wars have some pretty awesome moments as well. I would even say previous episode of Mandalorian are just as good.

The said in the making-of that they decided against deepfake in Mando s2 and instead used the deaging technology from the marvel movies.

I think Chad banes teeth look weird and need work but I think everything else is fine

Thanks for the recap of this entire vid

Mando season 2 ending wasn’t deepfake. It was just cgi by ilm. After they saw shamook’s deepfake on KZfaq they hired him to help with the deepfake.

Not so much improved technology, but a different technology. I agree Cad's shade of blue skin could be tied to the aging process. In real life this happens to humans. That is skin tone fades. It could also be his skin reacts to sunlight, like how light skin humans tan or get paler depending on how long they stay in the sun.

A and fix rogue one Moff Tarkin and Leia!

Yeah they should go back and make it even better!

Look closer there is no depth in Luke's face compared to the actors body captured by the lense. They should just hire an actor this was cringe.

@@matthewdrexler188 I don't care to look closer. I leave that to the Star Wars "fans" who love to complain and you didn't disappoint. There's only one thing cringe here and it isn't the effects.

@@matthewdrexler188 You must be trolling. While if you stare long enough you can find flaws anywhere, but to me and many others this was nearly perfect.

He can’t really lead a series just because of how insane the budget would be as of right now

@@kermitthefrog5028 I find your lack of faith disturbing.

@@kermitthefrog5028 So why would the budget be so insane just using cgi for Luke?

I agree. Disney has been obsessively pushing this tech since Tron: Legacy and they're at the cuspace for it to be good enough to make a main character.

In all fairness this really has nothing to do with him, that's more of an ILM decision. And even on a production front, based on the Disney Gallery episodes, it looks like the technical side of things is more Jon's forte whereas Dave's contributions to the shows primarily focus on story.

This has nothing to do with Dave

Dave Filoni is overrated.

Lol too late

Too much time and money. In fact Luke's Face was tragically avoided a fair amount in the book of Boba Fett episode 6.

@@furynotes wouldn't cost a dime if he kept his helmet on.

@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω lol it's literally the same actor (I know you're joking but still lol)

Why would they do it with Boba? Clones are genetically modified to age quickly.

Same

Man, I think my head would have exploded if this happened. Hopefully this happens in the Ahsoka series.

@@PhillipeStLeger yup, Luke could be in the Ashoka series as well, and maybe thats where we can see all 3 at once. Lets just hope Kathleen Kennedy doesn't show up on set that day, cause she hates Luke and Anakin for some reason. She must hate money too lol

Season 3 lol

@@eject1878 season 2 .. if you re read the comment it said “ retouch” meaning go back and redo the face in season two where it looks crappy

@@eject1878 nah i meant the finale.

@@eject1878 Finale. But good thinking skills

As a CG artist since 1996, I can say that the first few minutes, where he was sitting across from Grogu, my mind was in a split. I couldn't tell if it was a real person, that they found, to look 99 percent like mark, or if it was CG. Later, it was obvious, but still very good. All the way, they where above the uncanny valley, and you didn't get the resurrected, reanimated corpse feel. The eyes where also in very good context with its surroundings. You are right, it was not perfect, but it was an unprecedented achievement so far. No comment on the the voice, I was too far obsessed with the visuals. Also, I think it differs from person to person, if they notice the voice effect. To me the voice was ok, but maybe sounded a little LoFi, or out of place with the environment(reverb and space) But i didn't really notice the robotic effect, as some people describe it, but our brains perceive things very differently, and although I have a lot of experience with sound engineering, my brain might obscure this anomaly.

There were times it felt ever so slightly off to me as well, but they're so close to finding the way out of the uncanny valley I'm excited for what we'll be seeing just a few short years from now.

We’ve come a long way since Xmen 3, where Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan were de-aged. That was amazing! Also, it was creepy and fake. Tarkin impressed me too, in Rogue One. This is much better.

I kept looking to see had they cut the imagery from RotJ during the scene when he is speaking with Leia about confronting their father. I think if you had never seen Mark Hamil in the original trilogy, it would be 100% convincing, just certain things like a wry smile would have made it perfect, like with the scen when he levitates the frogs.

@@NeverWoken Good catch. I think that scene must’ve been at least a significant contributor to the final product. The look and sound of it was more similar than most Luke scenes. Doesn’t seem like they used anything from the first 2 movies, when he was so different.

General Kenobi. I fully expect a live action Hondo in the Kenobi series now 😂

I dunno, it makes sense why Cade Bane is like that now, he's old as heck. What I think they should do is lower his mouth a bit.

Yeah the Deepfake technology had drastically improved from the finale of Mando season 2. like you said Apparently Shamook the youtuber was contacted which is great because the stuff they did was incredible. The locations/CGI also were extremely good to.

I was about to say that

Your mom watches star wars :( im jealous.

@@gamingdestroyer1620 Yep. And my grandma was the one who introduced me to Star Wars as a kid as well as Indiana Jones.

Yeah right... lame excuse for a poor job

Yeah no thanks.

Exactly

Shamook did not work on this

The difference with Gemini man is that Will's still pretty much as fit as he was back in the day and his facial structure hasn't changed too much. Here's it's much more complicated because Mark's far too old to physically play his younger self the way Will did.

The best part is they could just have Mark Hamill do his voice as well.

@@rmo9808 They'll use Respeecher again and just give Harrison Ford a check to do nothing.

Fast action scenes might be easier as motion blur can hide the imperfections.

Fast action scenes in almost all Hollywood movies are stunt doubles with actors cgi superimposed over them. It’s very easy to fake when the motion is rapid and blurry. You just need the stunt double to “kind of” look like the og actor.

I think the color of his eyes is not matching 100% but eyes color can change with environnement/lighting. It's very minor criticism.

Respeecher still needs voice input to work, it’s a voice changer, not a text-to-speech thing. Hamill still probably provided the voice in that department despite it being modulated.