Originally posted by: Zion
No doubt. But I think he was referring to T1, not T2.
TPM did a lot more than just build on the work of T2. Things like the texture modeling and clothing animation they did for the CG characters were new concepts for a live-action film. And VFX supervisor John Knoll was quoted as saying he had no idea how they were going to do a lot of the shots in the film when they started pre-production.
I guess in the end all I'm saying is that TPM is much more deserving of being on that list than ROTJ.
Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
I know it seems old to us now, but this was the shit back in the day.
I know it seems old to us now, but this was the shit back in the day.
No doubt. But I think he was referring to T1, not T2.
TPM did a lot more than just build on the work of T2. Things like the texture modeling and clothing animation they did for the CG characters were new concepts for a live-action film. And VFX supervisor John Knoll was quoted as saying he had no idea how they were going to do a lot of the shots in the film when they started pre-production.
I guess in the end all I'm saying is that TPM is much more deserving of being on that list than ROTJ.
Agreed, TPM was also the first film to create "armies" of CG characters and was the first film to use rudimentary AI to give orders to those armies. It was the first movie to have a completely CG main character (Years before the Two Towers), and TPM was the first film to make extensive use of realistic virtual sets (sorry the 5th Element doesn't cut it here)... Sorry, I know this pains prequel bashers but TPM was not "variations on a theme"... and in fact I would go so far as to say TPM deserves to be in the Top 10 of that list. Most of today's movies owe a lot to ILM's accomplishments for Episode I.
Yancy