Nothing beats seeing vintage behind-the-scenes videos and featurettes that examine how scenes from our favorite space opera were created. An article posted over on MentalFloss.com takes a look back at how Star Wars animator Larry Cuba went about creating the famous Death Star computer animated graphics sequence:
"Way back in 1977, the original Star Wars movie was released, and so began our battle against the Empire. Among many other amazing things, the film featured a computer-animated graphics sequence ? in which a 3D model of the Death Star is shown to pilots who are about to attack it. I remember as a kid seeing that computer graphics sequence and thinking, ?Wow, computers in the future can do 3D!!!? Although it looks dated now, it was state-of-the-art at the time, and quite frankly it?s better than some ?computer? sequences seen in similar vintage movies like Alien. Here?s a rare bit of a tape in which the animator, Larry Cuba, describes how he made the sequence."
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