1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics 271
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."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac
Re:Hollywood ? (Score:2, Funny)
First post, and you still got modded redundant. :(
NOT the original graphics! (Score:4, Funny)
Don't believe these lies.
The wireframe of the death star did not shoot first in the original.
amazing... (Score:1, Funny)
...even for todays standards...
yeah (Score:5, Funny)
The interestingly named "Topless Robot"
*click*
Re:Dials for manipulating 3D objects (Score:2, Funny)
Ah yes... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dials for manipulating 3D objects (Score:5, Funny)
I just imagine manipulating 3d graphics with a casio pg-380 midi guitar.
Re:yeah (Score:3, Funny)
It would just be schematics.
Re:Star Trek sucks (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Better Then CGI (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better Then CGI (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".
Re:Better Then CGI (Score:4, Funny)
Today they would have framed that shot tight on the graphics with the speaker on one side.
And the guy would be showing a PowerPoint, littered with stock photos of generic, diverse, Stormtroopers sitting around an office conference table with happy looks on their faces.
Re:yeah (Score:4, Funny)
One of the few times Slashdotters have actually bothered to click the links...
Re:Better Then CGI (Score:3, Funny)
HFCS? You should be more scared.