Dec 042009
(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information on the lab, visit our website — www.evl.uic.edu
This should be on the DVDs
star wars is ggaaaaaaay
Bravo… awsome
Haven’t you seen the old SW films with the new cgi?
the z coordinates would be a bitch to enter for every fucking coordinate. wow
Really makes your realise how easy we have it with the digital world
I think the phrase you’re looking for is “Most impressive”.
Impressive. Real impressive. For such a short bit of footage in the movie a lot of work sure has been spent making it… and it actually looked a lot more interestingly made than the usual modern 3D models and animation.
im gay.
Dude, I hope you realise, your continual farting is having a catastrophic effect on the ozone?
fart
ITS BEUTIFULL!!!
Not accurate…It was invented before this but didn’t gain popularity until the 1990’s
You mean the Rebel Spies got the wrong information!
that is some epic silence when he shows the mostly finished version of the clip. Absolutely epic!
That’s simply amazing, the amount of work which went into it.
This guy had to understand programming (hard back then in languages such as assembly), mathematics, geometry, and above all he had to have the patience of 10 gurus to pull this off.
what a lot of work, but cool that this footage about it is still available
this was back when looking good, was good enough
Too cool. There’s some history, kiddies!
No doubt before the mouse was invented!
rotating dials?!
I find it very disturbing how the technology explained/demonstrated in this video is a lot more interesting than the sci-fi -tech in the movies D:
He screwed up. The Death Star weapon is located on the upper hemisphere, not along the equator.
That’s gotta be the most satisfying 10,000 manhours anyone’s put into a movie since Cecil B. DeMille. Just the thought of entering those Z-coordinates by hand makes my jaw drop. Bravo!
…and this is not on any of the DVD sets? WTF?!?