Lucasfilm s ILM Hires YouTuber Who Improved CGI Luke in The Mandalorian
User known as Shamook used deepfake tech to tweak the de-aged Mark Hamill cameo in Star Wars spinoff
Brian Welk | July 26, 2021 @ 4:57 PM
Lucasfilm s Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has hired to its team a YouTuber who went viral with a video that showed him using deepfake technology to improve upon the special effects in an episode of The Mandalorian.
A representative for ILM told TheWrap that it hired the YouTuber who goes by the name Shamook, who scored nearly 2 million views for a video from December that tweaks the VFX of a scene in which a digitally de-aged Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) makes a cameo in the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian.
Posted on Monday, July 26th, 2021 by Eric Vespe
You’d think that a huge company like ILM would bristle at a YouTuber “correcting” their work, but it turns out it’s quite the opposite. Instead of being angry at a content creator who deep-faked a better version of
Luke Skywalker‘s surprise return at the end of Season 2 of
The Mandalorian they hired them.
Shamook has made a name for himself for implementing deepfake technology in his videos, with the Luke glow-up being one of the bigger hits, racking up over 2 million views. Shamook let slip in the comments section that
Posted on Thursday, December 24th, 2020 by Ethan Anderton
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.
In this edition, watch the digitally de-aged
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker from the second season finale of
The Mandalorianget a DeepFake makeover to improve on some of its shortcomings. Plus, take a look at the planning of the intense fight choreography and stunts from the third season of