Monday, October 27, 2008

I know I'm a geek

The beginning and end of the only full-scale rendition of the Millenium Falcon.

In this age of three-dimensional rendering and clusters of super-fast, AMD-driven computers it is easy to forget that only two decades ago the film industry had to depend on skilled manual workers to build the sets and props that they relied on the make their magic. Nowadays it is computer artists who craft so much of the environment we see on the silver screen, but before the advent of digital technology it was carpenters, lathe operators, painters, plasterers and a whole army of craftsmen who did much of the work.

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