In the latest chapter of The Book of Boba Fett, actor and voice artist Graham Hamilton took on the role of Luke Skywalker’s motion-capture character with the help of some deepfake technology, but his voice was created with the help of a program called Lola.
ILM Supervisor Richard Bluff recently spoke with Esquire and explained how Lola brought Luke to life.
“They effectively reproduced a de-aged version of Mark for the shots by combining the texture from his face and also [the body double’s] younger face. The biggest challenge for this sequence was that we weren’t de-aging Mark in every single shot, and we had a variety of performances that Lola had to work on, too,” Bluff explained.
In the interview, sound editor Matthew Wood further explained how they created the digital replica of Hamill’s younger voice.
“It’s a neural network you feed information into and it learns. So I had archival material from Mark in that era. We had clean recorded ADR from the original films, a book on tape he’d done from those eras, and then also Star Wars radio plays he had done back in that time. I was able to get clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they were able to slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data,” he explained.
What do you think of how Luke Skywalker was brought to life in chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett?
