{"id":21621,"date":"2014-12-12T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=21621"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:09:06","slug":"bb-8-is-live-prop-not-cgi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/12\/12\/bb-8-is-live-prop-not-cgi\/","title":{"rendered":"BB-8 Is &#8220;Live Prop&#8221; Not CGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/movies\/mark-hamill-on-playing-with-the-star-wars-the-105015597302.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21622\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bb8_grab.jpg\" alt=\"bb8_grab\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Mark Hamill in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/movies\/mark-hamill-on-playing-with-the-star-wars-the-105015597302.html\">interview with Yahoo<\/a>, BB-8 aka &#8221; the Ball Droid&#8221;, the small droid is not CGI (computer generated imagery)* but &#8220;a live prop&#8221;. All the more reason to like the little guy\/girl. Head on over to read more including his reaction to the teaser and is thought on the sequel in general.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that there will be a CGI version at some point in the film(s) but having a physical model will surely help \u201cground\u201d the actors in the scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mark Hamill in an interview with Yahoo, BB-8 aka &#8221; the Ball Droid&#8221;, the small droid is not CGI (computer generated imagery)* but &#8220;a live prop&#8221;. All the more reason to like the little guy\/girl. Head on over to read more including his reaction to the teaser and is thought on the sequel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/12\/12\/bb-8-is-live-prop-not-cgi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BB-8 Is &#8220;Live Prop&#8221; Not CGI<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1444,1446,614,1445,1392,1247],"class_list":["post-21621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie_news","tag-bb-8","tag-cgi","tag-episode-vii","tag-mark-hamill","tag-the-force-awakens","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21625,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions\/21625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}