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Supposedly, this is the same person as here

Edit:

Thank you @ech@lemm.ee for the gif!

Also found a source on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBK1kuaXds

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 82 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thought there's no way this could be true, but I just checked my own copy and, sure enough, there it is. Wild.

Here's a frame-by-frame.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 19 points 5 months ago

Thank you so much for the GIF!

[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clearly just a force ghost watching the battle unfold.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Watch in 10 years, Filoni will introduce a Jedi who can see into the past and they'll retcon this guy into the lore.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Don’t give them any more stupid ideas. They have their hand full enough with spinoffs already.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago
[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 5 months ago
[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure that’s just Niko Belic.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8b5abc00-b029-4f3f-8e31-64617368ffec.jpeg

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

How the hell did that happen?

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When you're a VFX artist and you've been looking at the same scenes for hours a day for weeks on end, constantly scrubbing back and forth across your timeline, you just become blind to errors and mistakes and technical glitches beyond the really obvious one.

You just need a second set of eyes or put down that specific part and look at it again later with fresh eyes.

[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or you let it slide because like nobody notices the one frame except for crazy fans and it just becomes a fun easter egg.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah little single frame errors like that are just not worth the time fixing and re-rendering. And a lot those little errors are the vfx blindness setting in.

[–] brianorca@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Especially at the time of this movie, can you imagine the computer time to re-render this scene? Weeks, at least.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you a VFX artist? Would you be interested in doing an AMA on !movies@lemm.ee ?

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sort of? I'm primarily a 3d animator, but I've been diving more into doing vfx with actually filmed stuff. Im a pretty small time animator, mostly just make fun internal videos for the company I work for.

I've never done an AMA before but I might be willing give it a go some time. Unfortunately I might be limited on actual examples of my work because so much is has company branding and has my irl name tied to it, not trying to expose too much of my irl self.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Sounds great! I'll be on holiday until next week, but I'll come back to you!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

No, I mean like physically how it happened lol. If the behind the scenes image is true, the position of the guy to the camera and the set just being a green screen... How did a reflection of the dude end up where it did? I would have assumed it to just be some kind of half developed afterimage on the film itself if not for the behind the scenes image.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

half developed afterimage on the film itself

I think this movie was filmed digitally not on film

[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

It's more likely that the person shown on set is a vfx person making sure everything's being filmed right for their part, and he superimposed himself during the vfx editing on purpose.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

This is a mistake that has apparently just been discovered this month, so answers are thin.

Here is the only decent one I could find:

"What appears to have happened here," u/itsjustmonty_ reports, "is that the camera traveled slightly too far and somehow no one noticed while cropping the footage." They include a string of uncompressed shots from the Blu-ray and a wild behind-the-scenes clip that shows a crew member off in the distance while filming the shot roughly 10 seconds in. In other posts, they reiterate that this was not their original discovery and they are simply reposting on Reddit to shed light on something that bubbled up from other corners of Star Wars fandom.

Regarding the real-life identity of Anakin's overlooker, an early suggestion was that it could be Nash Edgerton, Ewan McGregor's stunt double.

Link.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait a minute, how did this happen? We're smarter than this?

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Somehow the cast member has returned

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

Lack of QA during the editing I guess

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Considering George Lucas did final qa....ez

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, Master Pradish. He predicted the fall of the Republic during the High Republic Era as to be revealed in the upcoming show The Acolyte.

[–] AirDevil@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The real Phantom Menace

[–] aaa999@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Seigest@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Fitting he'd appear in a glitch

[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Makes me think of Bughuul from Sinister.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

What's the verdict on this? Is it actually a human face that has accidentally snuck into this shot somehow, or is it just the lava and floating embers playing tricks on us? I can't really tell due to the color correction in this scene. Everything is just so orange.