pablocamino

This seems to me the first time that LFL have openly acknowledged (and even supported) the preservation of the original movie. I hope this is the start of the '77 version of the film being given the treatment it deserves.

LFL definitely can’t use the excuse of “the original film doesn’t exist any more” after this, at least.

I never thought Oasis would get back together, and yet here we are. Maybe we will get that official OUT release after all…

As I understand it, the briefing scenes in ANH and ROTJ - the trench run demo in ANH, and the holographic Death Star/Endor in ROTJ - were created using very early CGI. I think a few other effects like the targeting computer displays also used CGI.

In twenty-five-ish years of SW fandom I can’t recall ever seeing or hearing anything about how these CGI sequences were created, beyond some limited discussion about how the trench run demo was created using computers. This is surprising to me, given that the effects were clearly cutting edge for the time, and also given how much is made of the other pioneering special effects in SW. CGI later became a huge component of the effects in SW, so I find it quite odd that these scenes aren’t discussed that often.

Unless I’ve just been looking in the wrong places. Does anyone have any info about how these effects were created?