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This video shows Peter Cush­ing being dig­i­tal­ly res­ur­rect­ed in Rogue One

21 Feb 2017

Words by Adam Woodward

The painstak­ing process of recre­at­ing Grand Moff Tarkin has final­ly been revealed…

The deci­sion to bring back Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Sto­ry – despite the fact that Peter Cush­ing, the actor who played the icon­ic Death Star com­man­der in George Lucas’s orig­i­nal tril­o­gy, died in 1994 – delight­ed fans of the fran­chise while under­stand­ably spark­ing con­tro­ver­sy elsewhere.

But wher­ev­er you stand on the ethics of reviv­ing a long-depart­ed star for the pur­pos­es of a major com­mer­cial prop­er­ty, you have to admit it was a pret­ty remark­able tech­ni­cal feat.

Now the clever SFX wiz­ards over at Indus­tri­al Light & Mag­ic have revealed just how they did it via a fas­ci­nat­ing behind the scenes clip. It briefly shows how the Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed visu­al effects team mapped Cushing’s facial fea­tures onto the British actor Guy Hen­ry using a com­bi­na­tion of light­stage” motion cap­ture and CGI.

Watch the video above to see the aston­ish­ing process in action.

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