Light and Magic

[thatguy]

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[Greg]

I know what I'm watching on July 27th. And it's directed by Lawrence Kasdan who can be great or terrible.

[thatguy]

You what's cool about the forum? It has a search!

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=7106

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[Drunk Monk]

The FORCE is strong in tg...


...as long as he keeps his bad noodle in his pants.

[Greg]

I don't read other posts. I just write them.

[thatguy]

Well, then you might have missed this post and I meant it for you:

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...s#pid57717

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[Greg]

No, I saw it. I used toluene back in the day for my models. My father brought it home from work.

[Drunk Monk]

mmmmmmm

airplane glue


don't think i ever came down from a huffin that stuffin...

[Greg]

Ep01 Seen it. Super glue plays a big roll. It was fun playing I recognize that guy. Ep01 covers getting the whole gang together to make Star Wars. For me it was really interesting seeing how talented the group was as teenagers and all the short films they made. The hoops they had to go through to make effects. One of the guys, whose name currently escapes and was in charge of the cameras, had this fascinating life before he even got to nascent ILM. He invented the Pig Nose portable amplifier of all things.

It didn't quite hole the queen's attention but I didn't figure it would. You have to go far down the nerd rabbit hole for this one.

My favorite part was the cliff hanger at the end. The VFX crew had one year for production. At the end of six months of work, they came up with exactly two effects shots. Lucas was not pleased.

[Greg]

Ep02 Let's make Star Wars. They overcome the fact they are way behind and get the job. Lucas is very frustrated and just wants shots done because they are on a deadline which leads him later to going back and adding stuff to all the films. Awards are won. I don't know how this show will cover the entire history of ILM if they only cover 1 film in the first two episodes.

[Greg]

Finished it. It's six episodes long. ILM was and is an incredible achievement and they burned through a lot of people along the way. It's amazing they got all those highly creative people together and were able to accomplish what they did. And they lay the credit all on Lucas's feet. He knew what he wanted and hired the people to achieve his vision. Ep 01 - 05 take up to Jurassic Park where the main breakthroughs were made. Ep06 is where Lucas finally believes he has the tools he needs to make the movies his way and the movie is The Phantom Menace. Most of the last episode covers that with a bit of the Mandalorian which is the final step in the evolution he wanted. That final step is the Volume.

I learned a lot and it soothed my inner film geek/nerd.

[thatguy]

Hey, how come this isn't under the Star Wars TV thread?

Watched the 3 episodes of Season two this past week. This covers the rise of digital, the decline of analog models, the expanding competition. A lot of past-tense reflecting, because, as it turns out, they sold off the analog unit and eventually it shut down and this “document” was done as they had a last gasp gathering at the santa rosa facility. They also talk about the Presidio facility.

Lots of talk about the prequels and justifying Jar-Jar, with reasonable arguments, I must say…I an considering going back and rewatching the War of the Worlds remake as they talked about how that was some of their best work ever.

One person they interviewed was a woman named Polly Ing and I was thinking…I used to work with a woman named Polly Ing when I was in SPG at Apple. i didn’t work with her closely, but I knew her. She’s a Director of Product Management at Adobe now. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408670/

Another person they interviewed was a computer graphic artist that looked a lot like Hiro from the TV Series…because it was! After Heroes, he joined ILM and worked as a CG artist on several films. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1199811/

—tg