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Plus he's a nice guy, he gave a lecture when promoting the book and stuck around to answer questions after. If you can get to see him talk, it's a good time.
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You're going to love this.
Kitbashed
Essays, videos and thoughts on the inspiration behind Star Wars.
Great book, i still think it was a huge mistake on Lucas part to sell Pixar.
Pixar is so superior to the new lucasfilm animation based in singapore, there is just no comparison.
It is also funny because Lucas determined he was not doing animated fims, but the prequels despite the live action have lots of animation in cgi.
I had hoped the story of lucasarts book would be as good, too bad it was not.
That book turned out mostly to be a picture book.
Droidmaker is so well researched the author deserves thanks and admiration.
The only other book i think that tops droidmaker is rinzler's making of star wars book, or comes close is the old ilm special effects tome. You know that book that is oversize and cost like a hundred bucks.
To me the ultimate book for fans is the star wars chronicles. Too bad through all the years i have not been able to find a copy at a reasonable price.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
Plus he's a nice guy, he gave a lecture when promoting the book and stuck around to answer questions after. If you can get to see him talk, it's a good time.
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Thanks Heilemann for posting the link. And thanks to the author, Micheal Rubin, for being so generous as to post your work online. Now that I am flipping through this thing, I may have to "register my shareware" and get a hard copy. Looks like this, along with Rinzler's book and Zombie's make up quite the library of information surrounding this particular subject.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
http://www.fxguide.com/qt/292/droidmaker-podcast
Podcast with the author.
Loren Carpenter's "Vol Libre"
"I made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world's first fractal movie. It utilizes 8-10 different fractal generating algorithms. I used an antialiased version of this software to create the fractal planet in the Genesis Sequence of Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan. These frames were computed on a VAX-11/780 at about 20-40 minutes each."