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Zepfan84

Zepfan84

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anotherbob said:
oh you poor man. I've heard that movie is considered to be an international war crime and that several of the principal actors still have night terrors about making that film.
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Hey, I was never known for having popular taste. Plus, I loved the games as a kid. I think I was eight or so when that came out. Lol I think it's cool as hell that I'm talking to someone that actually worked on it.
 
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Zepfan84

Zepfan84

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sablebrush52 said:
Heck, why would I mind? I wore several hats on that film. We 4 walled a facility to do the VFX for the film, in West L.A. not far from Marina Del Rey. I went to NC to supervise shooting of some live action plates for the matte paintings, designed matte paintings, and painted views of Dinohattan back in LA. I also storyboarded a couple of sequences, including the de-evolution of Koopa, while in NC, and designed some bits and pieces of Dinohattan for the film.
At that time, getting the footage digitized was difficult as there were only a couple of companies that had built film scanners, and they wanted to do the FX, not the scanning. These early home brew scanners presented real performance problems, and costs to do the scanning were extremely high.
Then Kodak announced that they had developed a film scanner, which they called the Cineon Scanner, and that changed everything. I was tasked with evaluating the quality of the scanner for our use. I reviewed the scans and if I didn't like the result, ordered a rescan.
So basically I did a bit of this and that, whatever was asked of me. I even taught myself enough UNIX to fix networking links when the Silicon Graphics Machines got pissy and wouldn't talk to each other.
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That's awesome!
 
anotherbob

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Zepfan84 said:
Yeah, I know a lot of people felt that way. It may have helped that I've never seen the film again since then. ?
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It's funny but one of two things happen when I rewatch a childhood favorite. I am either really impressed by my quality of taste at the time, or I think holy ship I was so easily entertained by anything. Same thing with when I listen to bands I liked in junior high. Like there is no middle ground for some reason.
 
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Zepfan84

Zepfan84

Starting to Get Obsessed
Apr 10, 2021
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Wilmington, N.C.
anotherbob said:
It's funny but one of two things happen when I rewatch a childhood favorite. I am either really impressed by my quality of taste at the time, or I think holy ship I was so easily entertained by anything. Same thing with when I listen to bands I liked in junior high. Like there is no middle ground for some reason.
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That is so true
 
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