Jul 1, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 400
This week we continue our
coverage from WonderFest as we sit down with Kim
Smith and John Goodson. Both are
technical masters who spent years working at LucasFilm's
Industrial Light and Magic, and they have logged in many
years building physical models as well as transitioning into
digital effects as the industry began to change around
them.
And while we try to make sense of
this vortex of time and mysterious things, we also discuss...
Assassin's Creed, Riverdale, fantastic carpet, sculpting, The
Rocketeer, finding the hook, a 33-foot Zeppelin, a stormy night
shot, if you wanna eat... you better learn something different to
do, making farm equipment, painting, Star Wars: Episode III,
Michael Fassbender, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,
very spooky sets, organically very technical, successful artist,
whoa... no apple for you, sneak him on out of being dead, Scar's
pretty awesome, I like his big sharky-grin, they want world peace
but at the price of free will, an optical illusion going on in the
hallway, drawing the animals, Con-Air, there would be ten bombs,
weird creative projects, it was just a pile of burnt rubble, Peter
Pan, Boeing pattern-makers, 28 foot-long miniatures, tandem bikes
on winding twisty roads are not a good idea, the making of Star
Trek book, doing research, it made me think, that sort of
exploration was ok, Episode III, a very elaborate prototype,
everything was being operated by humans, counting door knobs, pyro
is sort of non-scientific, finding a squished penny, like the
circus, he was a rubber monster guy, getting left and right out of
the same side, problem-solving, a three-dimensional skeleton, the
dioramas were amazing, on a grander scale... and a cheaper scale,
scientific wild-ass guess, Kerosene bombs, I don't know why we were
not electrocuted that night, it was awful and a little bit
confusing and very disappointing, he smashed a model airplane, the
idea of a picture in a frame is very much like a movie and... my
mother and the wax fruit.
"And that really made an
impression. It scared me, but at the same time, I was totally
intrigued by the model spaceship on TV. And my idea was, if I could
get the TV apart, I could get the model out."
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