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August 1988 |
This issue is out of print
and available only as
black-and-white photocopies
of individual articles.
What if cartoon characters
were real performers who lived and breathed and worked on movie soundstages
like any other actor? With the considerable might of Walt Disney Studios
and Amblin Entertainment behind him, director Robert
Zemeckis took that offbeat notion and from it concocted
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - a frenetic comedy adventure combining
live-action and animation with a degree of realism never before attempted.
Mechanical effects by George
Gibbs and Michael
Lantieri enabled actor Bob Hoskins and others to interact convincingly
with characters that had no on-set presence. These characters were
later provided by some three hundred artisans working under
animation director Richard Williams and were then seamlessly integrated
into the live-action -complete with shadows and highlights - by the optical
wizards at
Industrial
Light & Magic. Article by Adam Eisenberg |
Filmmaking impresario George
Lucas - whose flights of fancy have spawned the Star Wars trilogy
and the adventures of Indiana Jones - has focused on myth and magic
for his latest excursion into the world of unbridled imagination.
Manufacturing an earthbound environment every bit as wondrous
and complete as Tatooine or Endor, Lucas and film director Ron Howard
have produced
Willow - an epic sword-and-sorcery adventure complete
with fairy princesses, evil queens, firebreathing dragons, pesky brownies,
talking animals and a diminutive hero determined to save an infant foundling
from the forces of evil. Willow represents the most complete mustering
of Lucasfilm effects talent since
Return of the Jedi - employing
effects animation, miniaturization techniques, stop-and-gomotion, animatronics
and computer generated imagery. Article by Jody Duncan Shannon |
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