Academy Award and Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement - TopicsExpress



          

Academy Award and Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement Award winner, John Dykstra, spoke with Creative COW a few months back about his role behind the scenes on the original Star Wars movie, how he transitioned to being a VFX supervisor, and what he thinks about the state of VFX today. Heres an excerpt -- youll definitely want to read more (and check out the great bluescreen and miniature shots he gave us) ... I have loved to draw since I was a kid; I was always drawing cars, cartoons and characters. I became interested in photography at 12 or 13 and got a Brownie Hawkeye. Photographers were glamorous and I loved the idea of capturing reality. And it was a lot faster than drawing. Since then, photography has been an avocation. My dad was a mechanical engineer, so I took lots of things apart when I was a kid. A few of them actually got put back together.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 23:38:43 +0000

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