Lucas's New HQ

pin_gween writes "The KS City Star reports George Lucas (of the "It's not about the money" fame) has opened a new headquarters for digital film works. The campus has, among several movie theaters, "data network with more than 300 10-gigabyte ports. Fiber-optics cables are connected to every artist desktop, allowing high-resolution images on each computer. In all, there are 600 miles of cable throughout the campus's four buildings." Not too shabby, or cheap."

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This has been open for a while...

[ip_freely_2000]

The Presidio facility has been open for a bit. Yes, it's sweet and one thing that can't be said about George is that he does thing half-assed.

Of course, the expectation is that you work INSANE hours. I only wish I could get this set up at home so I can balance my life a little better.

Fine and Good

[Tibor the Hun]

This is all fine and good, but it would sure be nice to spend some of that money on writing classes, or directing semminars.

Yes, all that technology is nice, but ultimately worthless, if the movies coming out of it have no substance.

Re:Fine and Good

[oogoliegoogolie]

Just because you and I have outgrown it doesn't mean he has.

I haven't outgrown Star Wars-I still watch the original movies and watch scenes from the new ones every once in a while. No, the new movies were just bad movies; even the animated Clone war shorts were much better.

comments like yours demonstrate your inability to understand who and what the movies are for

Movies dont have to be divided into "for children" and "for adult" categories. Countless movies have been made that have appealed to both. Pixar and Disney can do it, but Lucas can't, at least not anymore when he directs. In an interview from the 80's Lucas said "a boring movie with great special FX is still a boring movie. He seems to have forgotten these words.

You know, the "it's cool to bash Lucas and the prequels"

On slashdot, everything gets bashed.

byte or bit?

[grub]

data network with more than 300 10-gigabyte ports.

I think that means gigabits. Unless they started rating cards in bytes overnight.

I don't think I like the tone of this post....

[cryptocom]

The paragraph submitted above for this article makes it seem like Lucas is hoarding all his money and somehow going against a cardinal rule of not making money. For one thing, non profit artists may seem romantic and all, but in truth we all want to get paid...and if what we do is make movies that cost millions of dollars, you better believe we want to get paid millions of dollars or more. Secondly, it's not like he's spending all his money on Bugatti's and trips to Bali...he's invested a large chunk into a creative complex where artists and movie-goers can benefit from his fortune. I'd say that's pretty damn cool.

Re:Hope it's better than ILM of the past.

[sgant]

What most do is get the ILM badge under their belt then move on to better places to work, like Pixar or Weta. Which is why ILM can't keep ahold of the good animators anymore cause they treat them like shit. But as I said, this may have changed.

But I hate this mentality of "well, you can work somewhere else". It's like the idiocy of "be thankful you have a job" nonsense. Why can't it be a nice place to work AND make a profit? Why does it have to be a sweatshop?