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(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at...
Sort by kottke (Free subscription) - 11/06/2009
There was a short CG special effects sequence in Star Wars (the Death Star explanation at the Rebel briefing); here's how it was made . Tags: movies Star Wars video
Sort by /Film (Free subscription) - 11/18/2009
I use to love watching the Movie Magic specials as a kid. It always amazed me to see the great lengths special effects teams would go to create some of the cinematic magic. I feel in recent years, with the growth of CG effects, these kind of documentary featurettes are far less interesting. So when I received an email VOTD submission with the email subject "Making of the Computer Graphics for Star...
Sort by core77.com (Free subscription) - 09/24/2009
Way back from 2007, via @GuyKawasaki (more...)
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Way back in 1977, the original Star Wars movie was released, and so began our battle against the Empire. Among many other amazing things, the film featured a computer-animated graphics sequence — in which a 3D model of the Death Star is shown to pilots who are about to attack it. I remember [...]
Sort by Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) - 11/04/2008
Andy Baio's mostly daily link blog contains a wealth of highly interesting links. Here are the YouTube videos he pointed to during the past years, with his link text (note some of the videos are removed at YouTube by now): "Pork and Beans" acoustic with Tay Zonday | 12 Angry Men | 12:01 PM, time-travel short film from 1990 | 1977 video explains how the computer graphics in Star Wars were created |
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Made back in the day. Cool!
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How did Larry Cuba create the original Star Wars computer graphics? With a bunch of knobs, buttons, photographs and 1976 computer tech savvy.
