WXM said:

Regarding the Pixar papers provided on the link, I kind of agree with -1 that for the most part they aren't anything too jaw dropping. A number of them are simply clever ways/shortcuts to reduce how long it takes to render scenes, which is nice to the production team but is literally a 0% difference on screen in the before and after sense. (and AOTC had pretty good CG cloth flow physics, before Ratatouille...)

It may not make a difference in the before and after sense, but if it saves rendering time, that means it also saves money. If it saves money, that means you can do something even more complex in the next feature and hopefully something that looks even better. The point is that technological improvements don't usually come in leaps and bounds. They usually come in small steps. After enough small steps, you've improved things dramatically. The audience may not notice it, but the majority of audiences probably also can't tell a film that's projected digitally vs one that is on 35mm film. And I do get tired of the argument that people "don't know how great a film is because they haven't seen it in a theatre on 35mm". If a movie is that good, it won't matter whether I watch it on DVD on my 50" tv or on a big screen being projected in a theatre.

negative1 said:

star wars influenced a 10 year old child, over 3 decades ago,
and now i find myself at a point in my life, where i want some way to find that feeling again...

why shouldn't i be excited???????????

later

-1

Maybe because the Star Wars that you and I grew up with isn't the same Star Wars anymore. I don't know, just a thought. If you're still trying to "find that feeling", then you may be waiting a very long time.