Both series employ sophisticated hybrid techniques to blend puppetry and computer graphics and in some mandalorian scenes there is no baby yoda puppet at all however if baby yoda were.
Baby yoda puppet vs cgi.
The baby yoda puppet on the mandalorian was nearly replaced with a cgi version.
Grogu originally referred to as the child the kid and the baby.
The director is so protective over the show s signature creature that he put the mandalorian on blast when they considered replacing the baby yoda puppet with a cgi version of the character.
The mandalorian s 5 million dollar baby yoda puppet was sometimes replaced with cgi and you didn t even notice.
And colloquially known as baby yoda among fans and the media is a character from the star wars disney original television series the mandalorian he is an infant member of the same unnamed alien species as the star wars characters yoda and yaddle with whom he shares a strong ability in the force.
The yoda puppet in the empire strikes back meanwhile was controlled by puppeting legend frank oz who.
The cgi yoda moves smoothly and while always appearing elderly still has a slightly younger appearance than he does in the later films.