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1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the real-time-racing-it-is-not dept.

Noryungi writes "The interestingly named 'Topless Robot' has a real trip down memory lane: how the computer graphics of the original Star Wars movie were made. The article points to this YouTube video of a short documentary made by Larry Cuba, the original artist, that explains how he did it. In 1977."

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  1. yeah by MagicM · · Score: 5, Funny

    The interestingly named "Topless Robot"

    *click*

  2. Re:Better Then CGI by Tynin · · Score: 5, Funny

    You didn't cry during Wall-E? I mean, didn't either, it was just I hadn't dusted the room in a while and it was irritating my eyes.

  3. Re:Better Then CGI by BlackSnake112 · · Score: 5, Funny

    *** someone what of a spoiler alert ***

    If you ever watched the making of one of the Aliens movies you found out the slime from he aliens mouths is corn syrup. All that sweet smelling stuff free flowing over everything. After I found that out the aliens lost a lot of their scariness. I seen the slime drooling out of one of those alien's mouths and my brain goes "ooo candy".