THE LAST STARFIGHTER (Digital Pioneers - Part 2)

Second part of Digital Pioneers, the ultimate documentary on Digital Productions, the studio behind the CG revolution of the 1980s with films such as "The Last Starfighter", "2010: The Year We Make Contact" & "Labyrinth" 00:00 Logos 00:12 Opening 00:47 Getting the most powerful computer in the world, le Cray X-MP 02:03 What's a Cray ? 04:46 Coding to animate in 3D 07:15 Digitizing a font 08:58 First client : Devo 09:38 CG commercials 12:42 Ice Pirates, the first studio movie 13:53 How did The Last Starfighter come to the studio? 17:53 Model 3D ships with Ron Cobb 22:42 The glass GunStar test 24:05 Early LODs 25:18 The Ko-Dan mothership creation 26:07 The movie easter eggs 28:04 The GunStar hangar tricks 28:39 Animating The Last Starfighter 32:28 Anti-aliasing? Why? 33:50 The StarCar 34:08 A Back To The Future easter egg from Ron Cobb? 34:36 Only with CG, or possible with miniatures? 36:28 CG? Wazzat? 37:20 Problems on The Last Starfighter 42:56 Getting a Cray to its kness / rendering tricks 47:30 Compromises to finish The Last Starfighter in time 48:05 The Rylos base, or the "melted ice cream" look 53:24 Everything must be CG! 54:24 The Last Starfighter Legacy 58:13 End credits Subscribe and follow me on: Website : http://www.GorkabNitrix.com Twitter :   / gorkab   Facebook :   / gorkabnitrix   Dailymotion : http://www.dailymotion.com/Gorkab YouTube :    / gorkab