knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (12/14/83)
Yes, let's talk about artistic and technical aspects of Lucasfilm and ILM, and maybe keep the nitpicking down to low roar. As you know, the booklet sold in theatres with ROTJ was worth its $3 for photos and explantations of how SFX and models were made. Some questions: Does ILM use computer-generated CRT graphics? Vector or Raster scan? Do they build their own hardware, or all off-the-shelf? Clearly they write lots of software. mike k
mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason) (12/16/83)
> Does ILM use computer generated CRT graphics?
Do they ever! There are the obvious computer generated sequences:
pictures/diagrams of the death stars. The other place you can see computer
generated graphics (although of a different sort) is in the extensive blue-
screening. When I went to ROJ, we sat in the front row. I found the movie
a bit dull, but spent lots of time looking at the rasters in the images.
Look particularly at the fight scene in the DS..all reasterized. My estimate
of the resolution is about 4096 dots wide, although I would be interested in
corrections. I'm almost tempted to go to see it again so I can look for
rasters throughout. Seems to me there are some problems in the processing
in the desert scene & air-car that have been mentioned in this group. There
were similar problems in SW just outside that bar: the shadows & aircars
have trouble tracking each other.
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decvax,uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!utcsrgv!masonbukys@rochester.UUCP (Liudvikas Bukys) (12/18/83)
There were a few frames in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" which seemed obviously computer-generated to me: Indiana Jones dropping the staff down into the buried room, as seen from inside the room. I have no idea why that would be computer-generated, unless, perhaps, the sets didn't include such a view.