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Lucas Returning to Digital Animation
deadwood writes "It seems Lucas is creating a Digital Animation studio as a subsidiary of ILM, according
to this Yahoo! article.
Lucasfilm Animation is created roughly 17 years after George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"
Lucasfilm Animation is created roughly 17 years after George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"
In recent years however, he's rather been letting down his side of the bargain. I still gave him money, but he gave dross in return. It seems that most of the reason he's given me dross is because of an obsession with digital filmaking - looks like he's much more interested in the technology behind the film than in the film itself these days.
Bah. Bring back model-making and puppetry, and hire a decent set of writers...
Cheers,
Ian
10 million for ILM? i didn't realize how cheap they got it for. any of these digital movies are the real money makers. they're grossing as much as any tom cruise film and they don't have to dish out 25million to a single actor, i'm sure voice actors don't get this much, even if they are big names. ;)
Besides, you get to justify new computer stuff for your business.
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People can't do anything by hand anymore. Lego and Meccanno have both gone to pre-designed models (if you can even *find* Meccanno). Radio Shack doesn't sell Electronics Kits, or electronic components anymore. "Do-It-Yourself" somehow got left behind in the dim mists of the 20th century.
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You know, it's also sad that you were modded to funny. Maybe you meant it as a joke, but there is some great truth in that statement. My college room mate was majoring in graphic design, and was very dissapointed at the strong emphasis on computers, and hardly any on hand drawing. I believe that both hand animation and cg are great mediums, but it seems that one is not used much anymore. I wish that they would both stay in heavy use. we need a hand animated MegaTokyo movie dammit!
~Jon
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Achieving the high frame rates that the public has come to expect was deemed to be too terrible a strain on the animator's wrists. With the dramatic rise of workers comp claims, expect hand drawn animation to become a thing of the past.
Aside from, "No", IIRC George Lucas has dismissed doing the later episodes, as they have already been extensively explored in books. If you haven't noticed, the books on the Star Wars movie episodes follow the film to market, not precede it.
Imagine George changing the ending, in typical shitty Hollywood-fashion, of one book to make it into a movie and *fanfare* leave the ending in suspense! *raspberry* (For my money, Hollywood should STOP doing that and focus on films true to the original story.)
If To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed today, Atticus Finch would probably look like Rambo and be mowing the jury down with an AK47, a la Kill Mo' Mockingbird*, just because everyone (all those trapped in American Lit. classes or the three or four of us who liked the book and read it anway) already knows how it ended in the book.
* Reference to Bloom County
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
A 2 yr Television series....
That follows the ups and downs of a tramp freighter captain and his crew...
It'd be cool cause we'd see all the planets and homeworlds of the various races....
The question would be "when" it should take place. Personally, I think immediately after ROTJ. When the galaxy is in chaos....
I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?
Probably not as first projects, it's like handing an extremely important contract to the 17-year old trainee (who happens to be the son of the company's chairman).
Regardless of if the last three episodes are to be made into films or not (I predict that they will... eventually at least). I remember reading books which purported to continue the films' plotline (there was a renegade Empire general, and a jedi training camp, and Leia had twins who were uber-powerful jedi), but although these books were officially sanctioned books in the series of nine, AFAIK they wern't written by Lucas and so may not get the seal of approval to actually become films.
Anyone out there know anything else about this?
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Heh. My laserdiscs of the original trilogy are pretty sweet. 3.1 surround, DVD-quality THX-remastered video - and they're the real original versions, the release just before the "Special Edition" came out. Not to mention BEAUTIFUL LP-sized cover art...
Hrm, it would be trivial to rip these and burn to DVD...