droidMAKER
Baromi jó könyv Lucasról és arról, ahogy az egész indult és az lett, ami.
By November 1970, Paramount was getting impatient. They wanted The Godfather post-production in L.A. so they could keep closer tabs on what was happening. Reynolds moved to the Paramount lot, and in December Murch began the sound work at Goldwyn studios. Throughout 1971 the picture edit and sound mix crawled forward. It took an entire year. Eventually, the movie was cut to 21⁄2 hours—an epic by Hollywood standards. When Paramount saw the cut, they told Coppola to make it longer. It released at 2:55.
Hgy mitől lett olyan elhasználódott minden a filmben:
Kurtz and Lucas hired McQuarrie to make four drawings. Lucas gave him wide latitude to develop the characters and images, but he was clear about what each scene and character needed to convey. In the first place, his universe wasn’t sterile; it was organic—it looked dirty. Lucas wanted robots and space- ships in a real, gritty, used-car world; he called it “used space.”
Illetve Lucas üzleti érzékéről, pontosan tudta, hogy a sci-fi fanek veszik a merchandise-inget, ezért azt érdemes magánál tartania:
The details of the ancillary rights were complicated, but in short, he had the right to make his own merchandising and licensing deals, and Fox would just get a percentage of that revenue. Fox didn’t give these rights away; Lucas bartered them for much of his salary. He knew that one way or another, mer- chandising rights were something he planned on exploiting.
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By the time the budget was approved by Fox, it had climbed from an initial level of $3.5 million to, after some haggling, $8.5 million. Lucas had already spent $1 million of his own.
Érdemes elolvasni az első néhány oldalt PDF-ben, tölthető innen.
marchello
ezt még anno le lehetett tölteni ingyenesen valahonnan
peterKx
http://www.droidmaker.com/Droidmaker_Act1.pdf
http://www.droidmaker.com/Droidmaker_Act2.pdf
http://www.droidmaker.com/Droidmaker_Act3.pdf
A kis butak kint felejtettek a linkeket…
codered
További érdekes részek:
- trükkfotózás (amíg nem alakították ki a végleges workflow-t, rengetegszer rontottak, iszonyat sziszifuszi meló volt)
- kezdeti CG, a Lucasfilm, az ILM, a Lucasarts és a Pixar története
- non-lineáris, Laserdisc alapú videóeditor, szintén Lucaséktól
- stb
Szerintem érdemes elolvasni, nagyon tartalmas, és jó betekintést ad a Lucas-birodalom kialakulásába . Amennyire emlékszem, inkább szólt a filmes innovációról, mint csak a Star Warsról, bár nyilvánvalóan ez utóbbi elég hangsúlyos
angelday
peterKx, nem véletlen, én is észrevettem, sztenderd gyakorlat, amikor otthagyod a fájlt, bár azt mondod, hogy levetted. És ha ezt is észrevételezik, egyszerűen eltünteted azt is.
codered, “kezdeti CG, a Lucasfilm, az ILM, a Lucasarts és a Pixar története”
— pontosan
BGy
Nekem pont a “used space” stílus miatt tetszik a 4.-6. rész, amit utána számítógéppel csináltak, az már túl steril, CGI virgonckodás.
vargatom
Mondtam én hogy Lucas jó dolgokra fordította azt a sok zsét amit a SW filmekkel keresett
Km
Az Amazon egy review:
“By Alvy Ray Smith (Seattle, WA USA) – See all my reviews
This review is from: Droidmaker: George Lucas And the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
I am the Co-founder of Pixar, with Ed Catmull. After years of reading mangled “histories” of Lucasfilm/Pixar, I am extremely pleased to read one by a guy who gets it right, including the arts, the technologies, the businesses, and the personalities. Michael Rubin not only gets the gist correctly imparted, but also those pesky details. I watched Michael as he carefully reconstructed our history, never quite believing all the stories we fed him, checking and double-checking the stories of the participants against one another and against the written record. Often he caught us (me anyway) having unconsciously edited out boring bits of the truth, and he put those bits back in. His book has allowed me to celebrate again a wonderful time of my life and, surprisingly, to teach me new things. For example, I came away from my first read of his book better appreciating exactly what George Lucas and Steve Jobs (and Francis Coppola) contributed to our part of the digital revolution, it not being in either case what is often claimed for them.”