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It amuses me how many of the weapons in Star Wars are actually remodelled WWI and WWII weapons. Like Han Solo's blaster is a Mauser C96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_C96 and the Stormtroopers heavy blaster is an MG34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_34 I've also spotted a modified Sterling SMG and even a Lee Enfield 303. The mind boggles :D |
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ww2 dog fight footage and movie footage was used during draft editing; and then the animators replaced that footage with models n stuff. |
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^ yes i think dambusters was a huge influence when it came to the death star trench run |
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more interesting to me is the sound of a tie fighter, which is: the sound an elephant makes + the sound of tires screeching on wet tarmac. it's one of those things that seems totally obvious in retrospect, but i'd have never figured it out on my own.... i'd also love to have some time on one of those beastly optical compositing machines they did all the star wars FX on. they probably cost a half-mil when it was the state of the art and there probably aren't many of 'em left that still work. like making tape loops in two dimensions. fuck, i'd be lucky to turn out a don hertzfeldt kellog's commercial on one... but that's not the point. it's an evil beast of a machine and a unique process and i just want to get the feel |
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rotoscoping with lightsabres, was that the same with the blaster? |
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In 1977, Star Wars took the world by storm. To deliver the fast-moving visual effects envisioned by director George Lucas, the newly-formed Industrial Light & Magic developed a computer-controlled camera platform known as the Dykstraflex. The resulting footage was perfect for Lucas’s needs, but in order to combine the many separate elements generated by the Dykstraflex into a single image, ILM was going to need the granddaddy of all optical printers. To create their complex composites, ILM repurposed an old VistaVision machine, originally built by Howard Anderson in the 1950s and used in the production of epics including The Ten Commandments. Resurrecting the large VistaVision format was a deliberate choice — the subsequent reduction to 35mm anamorphic in the “Anderson” optical printer helped retain the definition and clarity of the original images. For The Empire Strikes Back, visual effects supervisor Richard Edlund championed the design and construction of a brand new aerial image optical printer. The “Quad” had no less than four projector heads, allowing many shots to be assembled in a single pass. However, the monster machine’s complexity made it difficult to load, so when ILM came to scale the visual effects mountain that was Return of the Jedi, they took a “divide and conquer” approach and split the Quad in half. One of the resulting pair of printers continued to go by the original name, while the other was christened the “Workhorse”. then lucas also developed the first multi-track digital audio system too, ran on a motorola 68k |
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ILM, i mean. not lucas. all he invented was ewoks |
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i can't pin down the thing precisely. i'm pretty sure i was thinking of SoundDroid, and it was the first hard-disk based one. i can't find the article. i even remember finding schematics for the darn thing... then, same deal, can't find the ghetto page tearing apart a single frame of a space scene with ~17 composites |
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well, there you go. it was designed by moorer; same chap that did the thx deep note. |
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. i almost didn't share it. it's like if raymond scott had electrical computer engineering instead of just electrical engineering, and then wrote up some PDFs. it also nails the vague vibe-y memory of a ghetto tripod kinda page, color feels right. |
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the the motorola 68k: The audio signal processing station is a semimodular, self-contained unit composed of several major subassemblies. The control computer is a Motorola 68000 with Winchester disk, 1 Mbyte of main memory, and a high-resolution, bit-map, graphic display screen. The audio signal processor (ASP) is composed of two parts: the controller and up to eight digital signal processors (DSPs). The console is a stand-alone 68000 with a custom-built panel that has various kinds of control devices, such as slide potentiometers and knobs (Snell 1982). We al- low up to seven independent control processors to forward updates (changes to microcode and param- eter memories) to the ASP simultaneously. There is a priority system for arbitration of simultaneous re- quests. The remainder of this article will be con- cerned with the architecture of the ASP itself, since this is where any innovation in audio signal pro- cessing is to be found. Figure 1 shows the block diagram of the entire system. |
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that i was thinking of in the first place, for optical compositing, before i went off hunting for the exact PDF with schematics for the ASP, which i would peg as something i read in 2014. the winning technique was to give up on keyword search (mostly) and go to google image search, until, , that's it. i had a very firm image of that jpeg in my mind, and after a little fussing, google spat it right out. now i can go to sleep without this bothering me |
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that reveals the real secret of creating industrial-strength light and/or magic |
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i'd just like to highlight the conflict in my life: an overpowering urge that i know the thing for this. like, the perfect thing. then, next, a memory good enough that this urge never runs dry, and i'm hunting for the right shitty angelfire page at 12:30am. but, then, shit. that pile of james moorer PDFs. that was actually worth the half-hour i spent, i think. i can't very well go around calling myself dysfunctional if my dysfunctions are functional, can i? |
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I don't understand what is so "boggling". |
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i don't understand who you purport to be quoting. nary a boggle up the whole tangent |
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oh, freqy, ok. |
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I'm quoting the author of the original post. |
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but you failed to figure out that i figured it out. now i'm clearing that up. this completes the teardown of yet another situation in which posting came pre-looking |
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wow they painted those storm troopers in !!! i thought they were real. nice finds epi. functionally dysfunctional |
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Ok. |
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is it still ok? |
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umbroman have u played Star Wars Galaxies? |
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