General Grievous
Fascinating secret info about General Grievous from George Lucas about Star Wars 3 Episode 3 Three iii Revenge of the Sith

George Lucas talks about General Grievous General Grevious from Revenge of the Sith

"General Grievous was the type of character I couldn't have in the old Star Wars films because of the extremely primitive nature of special effects so long ago.

I had always wanted to include dynamic and exotic characters in Star Wars, but all you could do with the old films was to place giants or midgets in alien costumes or build muppets.

When I saw the digitally computer animated dinosaurs for the Jurassic Park movie, the film making techniques finally existed to create a true Star Wars film.

I could never achieve my full artistic vision in the past because of the severe limitations of special effects technology.

My ideas for Star Wars are decades ahead of their time. Luckily, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) was able to create semi photo realistic computer animation at a steep price, but cheap enough to make it workable for a full length Star Wars movie.

Computer animation is what made Jar Jar Binks possible. The Phantom Menace was an experiment with digital animation to see how far we could push it.

What you see in The Phantom Menace is the breakthrough that makes the computer animated Yoda, General Grievous and other inventive characters possible in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

Jar Jar is the prototype character I needed to perfect in order to accomplish my full artistic vision for the Star Wars prequels.

The fans need to understand how significant Jar Jar is for Star Wars and for cinema generally. Jar Jar was the first computer animated character to be featured in a major acting role in a Hollywood film production.

General Grievous is the complex villain I wanted to showcase in the old films, but I had no way of doing back then.

Near photo realistic computer animation at affordable prices will allow the movie business to enter a new golden age where film maker's creativity is no longer impossible. If you can imagine it, ILM can create it in a computer." (Source: George Lucas, the genius overlord controller of Star Wars.)

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