RogueTrooper Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Hey all, I was going through some of my favs on YouTube and I came across this video. It is the 1977 computer graphics of the plans for the Deathstar in the first Star Wars film and was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat. I do some CG work with After Effects and a few other programs. But I just geek out on this. At the time this was sate of the art. This is how far computer graphics have come.... ENJOY! Here is the link: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIVE Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Thanks man! That is some geeking out footage if I've ever seen some! The way they pushed the boundaries for the original trilogy should still be required study for any computer graphics majors 200 years from now! If people would take current tech and use it like they used THEIR "current tech" back then can you imagine what would be coming out of Hollywood? The problem is we're all complacent that "high-tech" just means the next thing. We never question what it could've been if we'd push the envelope... the envelope, in other words, simply — really — isn't "pushed" anymore. At least not like it was by ILM and Lucas and the bunch back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyBoy Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Thanks Tom....cool video blows my mind how things have changed from when i was a kid to what my sons will grow up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonator Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Hey Tom, I embedded the video directly into your post. You can do it by inserting the link with the "Insert media" button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short TRooper Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 That was mind blowing on what they had to do to make that movie..... :blink: Special effects are still mind blowing but it's like now each movie has to top the next to keep people coming. ShortTrooper (Diana) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daetrin Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Having to work with primitive CAD drawing programs in the late 80's (10 years after the movie came out), it's pretty mind blowing that they were able to do this at all. In fact, here we are 30 years later and many of the effects still look really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoCKo Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 In fact, here we are 30 years later and many of the effects still look really good. and some even better than nowadays! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueTrooper Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share Posted August 24, 2010 Hey Tom, I embedded the video directly into your post. You can do it by inserting the link with the "Insert media" button. Thanks Gordon for the help and info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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