BAR-CODE opened this issue on Mar 25, 2007 · 42 posts
Jimdoria posted Thu, 12 April 2007 at 11:37 AM
I'm not sure I get the reference to Lucas and 3D. To my knowledge there was very little in the way of CGI in the original Star Wars movie. It was all optical effects. The only "digital" stuff was the readouts on the weapons in the Millenium Falcon, which looked kinda like "asteroids."
(I was also suprised that, after all the fairly pointless CGI Lucas added to the re-release of Star Wars, that he didn't bother to update this one part. Sure, the Death Star blows up with an expanding ring, but the computer readouts still look like asteroids!)
So what is the connection between 3-D graphics and Star Wars circa 1977? The first movies I ever saw that made extensive use of CGI were released in 1982 - Tron, and Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan (with the "Genesis effect".)