VFXhack

 My buddy Azathothx turned me onto this great article about the technical struggles involved in creating the VFX for the first Star Wars flick. It’s got some great pictures (see above) and some real nuts and bolts descriptions of the techniques used and their history. It also has some juicy quotes like this one from Richard Edlund.

“A problematic visual-effects shot has its own special clunk. Whether it fails in design, execution, or the final composite doesn’t matter. The audience doesn’t necessarily know exactly what’s gone wrong, just that something has, and it can drop them right out of the movie.”

Jar-Jar anyone?

LINK to the full text of the article

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