hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (03/07/86)
In article <89@fai.UUCP> ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) writes: > >Footnote: The only example of start-stop photography I've ever seen that >didn't *look* like it was the Imperial Walker sequence in The Empire Strikes >Back. There were other parts where the effect was noticable, (like similar >footage in Return of the Jedi) but for some reason the technique really >worked in that one section of film. > > Ron The Walker and Tauntaun sequences in TESB were done start-stop, and the technique is visibly shaky in some portions. In ROTJ, however, Lucas evidently used a large amount of go-motion; it isn't apparent to me why the original TESB footage should look smoother than `blurred' material. -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department <disclaimer> University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu ARPA n. [acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency.] An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense established in 1968 to test its defenses against misuse and piracy in the large-scale distributed processing environment. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"