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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