LOL, I remember Steve Williams being passed out on my hotel room floor after he (and other ILMers) finished drinking the entire contents of my mini bar at Siggraph back in the mid/late 90s. I had to explain the bill when I got back to work , I put it down to a 'Business Lunch' with ILM Employees. Yep he knows his stuff, but was a burnt out wreck that year!
It was done in SoftImage in those days, if you could still call it SI with all of the ILM bolt ons that they added to the base package, they modified the crap out of that software.

Ahhh I don't mind being on the receiving end of a bit of a rant, I do enuf of it myself, and after re-reading my post I do come off as a bit of a tool

Having directors stand screaming at you after not sleeping for a week is much worse. I guess I just didn't understand what was trying to be achieved?

BTW, has anyone checked the PAL DVD version to see if the Star Wars opening crawl is the correct speed? It would be easy to rip it and drop it into the NTSC release if it is...