UPDATE: Fake “TFA” Image of Artoo and Threepio Is Making The Rounds…
An image has just appeared online that purports to show our favorite droid duo in a shot from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Though we had serious doubts about whether or not this was a genuine image from TFA, we thought it was cool enough to share with you all anyway.
Sadly, it turns out that yes, this photo is indeed a fake as we suspected it might be. Details after the jump…
A new post from Gizmodo Australia highlights what they claim to be the first image that we have seen so far of R2 D2 and C-3PO in The Force Awakens. According to the article:
“During a GTC 2015 briefing, Nvidia showed a slide of Lucasfilm using Nvidia’s monster Quadro M6000 pro-graphics cards to render Star Wars: The Force Awakens footage. The snap happened to feature a certain robotic duo that fans might be familiar with…”
However… we aren’t positive that this image is the real deal, although on first glance it does appear to be genuine. As mentioned in the Gizmodo article, the scale of the dwelling behind the droids seems rather odd, with what appears to be a door that’s about Artoo’s height. Is it just a trick of perspective? A Jawa summer cottage? Or might it be evidence of a quick Photoshop job?
The real problem showed itself when we checked the image properties of the uncropped photo at the top of the article. It was listed as having been taken on September 25, 2014.
This, of course, directly contradicts the Gizmodo article, which states that this photo was taken just yesterday during the Nvidia presentation at GTC 2015. There is also the fact that the image itself does not seem like a surreptitiously snapped pic of a projected slide, as the article also claims. There’s no distortion, no odd screen angle, and it’s a very clear, solid image overall. To me, it looks more like a photo that was taken right there at the studio.
Suffice to say that our initial excitement over seeing a sneak peek of Artoo and Threepio in the new Star Wars flick, has been tempered somewhat as we’ve delved more deeply into this. We have no definitive proof that this image is a fake, of course, and do not wish to accuse Gizmodo of anything. The photo may very well be the genuine article. However, the more we look at it, the more doubts crop up.
But since this photo will undoubtedly be making the rounds before long (and possibly even by the time you read this), we thought it best to post it along with our concerns. If the image IS real, though, then it sure is cool to see Artoo and Threepio as they’ll appear this December in The Force Awakens, isn’t it?
UPDATE:
Well, that sure didn’t take long! One of our astute readers found the original source of the image of the droids. Unfortunately, it is not from The Force Awakens. It is, in fact, from old LFL / LucasArts concept footage for the now-canceled video game, Star Wars: 1313:
So, there it is. The Gizmodo article is, indeed, complete and utter bunk. However, with Celebration 2015 now just a month away, chances are very good that we will soon have some actual images from TFA to share with you, and that our Episode VII news drought will finally come to an end.
The shadows of all of the objecs in the photo are going the same direction. Looks real….
I could have sworn this was from the old real-time computer graphics test that LucasArts and ILM were working on back in 2013.
This was created to showcase graphics for upcoming games (at the time) specifically 1313.
I doubt this is for the film itself.
At first i thought why would the image be full frame? But if you look it is a stretched scope image.
It’s not from TFA – the same frames are in this video: https://youtu.be/CdsFEMDceNg
Good work anon
Thank you! Nice work, compadre. I sure wish you were posting under a handle so that we could credit you by “name” in the update section of the article. ;^)
Good catch.
you are correct !
Case closed.
Why is this article still here?
In case people come here to read about it
To debunk a rumor that’s going to appear on every Star Wars site. Do you have an excuse for still being here?
Only because certain posters in this site love to say “we were right” more than anything else.
Excellent catch!
I think everyone is just getting so excited for TFA that even something as small as a tiny image of our favorite intergalactic Robo-duo will be drooled over due to a lack of real info… Whether it is real or not. I don’t care either way, I feel like an 8 year old at Christmas!
Totally, it’s like everyday I get exited about the new Star Wars. Even if the movie could be bad, you can’t buy that feeling of anticipation you get when a new Star Wars film is on the horizon… I feel like how I did when I was 18… but, this will be even better because the teaser looks so much more promising than TPM’s first trailer did.
Pinewood set, CRPO is gold and R2 dirty something they never were in clones.
Look where the graphic artist is. Why would he be working there? It doesn’t look like an animation studio, in front of him it looks like a performance space. Mo-cap, maybe?
edit, anonymous with the youtube link wins.
We are looking at the 1313 effects presentation from last year…the shot above appears right at the start of this….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdsFEMDceNg
Ahhhhh…already there….
Hope you don`t mind me saying, but if your struggling for new article ideas/storys. Maybe you can open up a suggestion box type thing and we all drop in an idea ( well not literally drop it in). I mean forward ideas that we`d like explored. You could read through and pick out a short list of the best ones and write a quality article about it. Get more reader input and contribution to cater for different tastes. Maybe you already do that in the cantina ? I`m not sure, but you could trial it out here also. Might raise spirits when decent episode seven news has dried up. As a personal preference I like this section more than the cantina. I tried it but I couldn`t find my way around all that well. But others love it and thats good.
Great idea Onion Head, Opps! Space, I mean hahaha (forgive me 4 not editing) Let’s talk about Sex or maybe the upcoming collapse of our monetary system hmmmmm? Ok so both topics are off the table, sooooooo concepts and revelation’s it is. Truth is individual, what may be truth for one, may not be true for another. When truth’s collide, it can bring about forcing a difference in opinion to agree, by making them! There a consequences to everything, ideally our actions, what we say, how we react, can absolutely bring about their own sets of consequence, the good, the bad and for many, the ugly. I love the way the universe rolls, everything, EveryThing! has an opposite, and as we move through the moments of our lives in Real Time, we have an ongoing choice, of our individual truth as well as what opposite side we choose to be on. What does this have to do with SW, maybe nothing, possibly everything, perhaps just a little bit of wisdom or maybe I just have way to much time on my hands hahaha one thing for sure, the past can have that way of catching up with us, if indeed the choices and opposites we have chosen, have been an unjustified truth. I am really hopeful that some of these concept’s are explored in TFA and beyond. I definitely would like to see some connections with the Hutts (as rumoured) one would think after the death of Jabba, destruction of 2 death stars, the Emperor, Vader and so on, there would be an abundance of consequences, have every bounty hunter and scum, hot on their heals, concepts that would indeed fit into stories untold. Thirty years is a decent bridge of time and where the likes of Rebels is giving us a taste, the time period following ROTJ sounds awesomely cool Yay! for Rogue One.. I am really excited with what lies a head within the SW universe. Thank you for the inspiration Space Onion lol. peace out..
I meant only star wars related stuff.
lol lots of SW related stuff in there, search your feelings, read between the lines…all good Onion Space!
great spotting, also bottom right hand corner of the image is a little green light indicator of which, also appears in the mo-cap presentation video. It is still great to see an image of our lovable duo even if when the data is analysed, a weakness can be found!
and Oh! reading someone speaking of 1313 THIRTEEN THIRTEEN! had me overwhelming disappointed, I thought I was over this already, NOT! sniff! 12.40pm Friday TWENTY FIFTEEN New Zealand time.. peace all
FAKE!! Old images! We can see they are using windows XP, and 4:3 aspect ratio monitors!! Now all are 16:9 full hd monitors!
http://www.jedinews.co.uk/news/news.aspx?newsID=21145
OSCAR ISAAC HAS CONFIRMED THAT HE WILL BE IN EPISODE 8.
Yah! great news Niamor! if only we will have such confirmation from Harrison Ford, sadly Han is on is way out. I have no doubt that Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher, will be joining Oscar in the cast though… Xxxx
delete the article so as to not give that loop any publicity
sorry Kim and SW7 news team, accidentally reported abuse, finger scrolling on a smart phone, please ignore such comments!
Shame 1313 got cancelled, looks like they did a ton of work on it too.
Yes! I believe it was close to being released where, it was being polished with finished touch. It was unfortunate to be cancelled as it was an interesting story set in an unexplored location within the SW universe. Its the only thing that niggled me regarding Disney’s acquisition of the SW franchise, more about business than the game itself. It was good to see some of Coruscant’s underworld in the Clone Wars at least.
I’m so anxiously waiting to see the next venture for Star Wars. I’m happy it’s a future not backwards star wars. I liked them just not as good as going forward. Thank u ahead for the new one to see. I’m a big fan.