LIGHT & MAGIC — S01E05 — "Morfing."

00:00:08 I'm sitting in a chair, you know, like this.

00:02:54 And so when Willow came along, it was a chance to really go to school,

00:04:57 solve it, you know, a new idea, fresh idea.

00:07:08 And I had a little area of expertise,

00:09:45 Something's gotta give. This stuff is really, really expensive.

00:12:00 And I remember thinking, "Who the hell is this guy?"

00:14:08 Became pretty proficient at that time.

00:16:09 All right. The topic for today, first of all, is the rendering of polygons.

00:18:25 in a motion picture that was generated by CG.

00:20:28 "to take these ideas I have and actually make something."

00:22:16 We had to create all this stuff.

00:24:12 - No, no, no, no, no. - It's okay, it's okay.

00:26:29 I saw the Model Shop like being this machine

00:28:36 The joy of working

00:30:25 but I was feeling less and less like I was welcome there.

00:33:07 I really wanted to travel, so I went to London.

00:35:20 That was my crossroad.

00:37:22 Definitely not the ILM that I knew.

00:39:36 And I saw all the artwork, the creativity, from Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston,

00:41:36 they were all very different, and they were all very specific.

00:43:31 It had to work.

00:45:19 We're gonna capture all this stuff to build a database of his movements.

00:47:48 So you have to write a program that understands how to make one object

00:50:17 If you believe in something, you know, there's nothing worse than not trying.