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VFX Pioneer Edlund Speaks
weblogs.variety.com - 2/8/2008
VFX Pioneer Edlund Speaks
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[Posted by David S. Cohen] I dropped in Wednesday night at "An Evening with Richard Edlund," a tribute and discussion organized by UCLA and the Visual Effects Society. Edlund discussed creating the elaborate motion control systems for the original "Star Wars" and a handful of the many titles he's worked on since, from "Ghostbusters" to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to "Charlie Wilson's War." ...

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Friday links: HPA Tech Retreat, 'An Evening with Richard Edlund,' a $6 Million Home Theater
CinemaTech — - TVTechnology.com offers an advance look at what'll be happening later this month at the annual Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat: new cameras, new displays, new microphones. - Variety's David Cohen reports on a talk given on Wednesday by visual effects pioneer Richard Edlund: [Edlund] noted that George Lucas had upstaged at least one of his own best scenes by adding CG characters to the background in his "Star Wars" re-release and observed that ILM in general tends to get "carried away" and put to much in the frame. - A 4K digital ...

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