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I didn't notice Leia being CGI as much, but Tarkin was fully in uncanny valley. His face texture was a little too smooth and you could contrast with the live actors in several shots. The lighting/shading on his render wasn't right in the bridge, either.

It's weird to me that they would choose a goofy CGI when they could have just taken a similar looking actor. I was getting flashbacks to Tron Legacy the whole time

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It's a challenge, I bet a lot of Lucasfilm fx guys were thrilled at the prospect and did their very best.

Still, I agree that the result is underwhelming and, above all, gratuitous: there was no need to involve Tarkin directly, and Leia could have been handled in better ways (e.g. camera shooting from the back, or showing only her hair -- Leia has such a distinctive hairdo, you'd need very little to know it's her).

That's funny, I had the opposite reaction - CGI Tarkin didn't bother me too much but Leia was creepy.

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