LIGHT & MAGIC — S01E03 — "Just think about it."

00:00:12 Star Wars comes out in the summer of '77.

00:03:14 That's the end of that.

00:05:42 wondering, "Why is George doing this? Why is he letting us do this?"

00:07:52 I mean, here we had this incredibly well-received movie

00:10:23 I don't know.

00:12:51 You know, I'd arrive in the morning and the 2x4s would be moved over two feet

00:15:33 And I said, "Well, I think my budget"

00:18:19 And Gary had arranged with the Norwegian army

00:20:48 for how the walkers could function as a stop motion character.

00:23:58 and make it free for something else. So I got to do both of them.

00:26:41 It's all using film, it's taking multiple pieces of film,

00:29:15 The film industry was in the 19th century, 18th century,

00:31:48 the very first class I took was one in computer graphics.

00:34:13 You can see here individually, each pixel magnified

00:36:27 Okay. Next.

00:38:58 So now you have this matrix of white glue

00:41:16 And then it might, you know, the perspective on it might be right.

00:43:23 And yeah, that fits with that.

00:46:06 you do one thing, then you do the next, you do the next.

00:49:07 Han Solo comes out and meets his host at Cloud City.

00:52:19 I don't know whether he bought that or not,

00:54:35 It sounds like me just trying to be a jackass, which maybe it was.

00:56:52 Cut it out and placed it on a piece of glass and shot it.

00:59:41 Each project had a whole new set of challenges.