Droidmaker

Tumerboy

Book about designing the Star Wars Droids. It's a real book, but it's all available for download as PDFs right now:

http://droidmaker.blogspot.com/2009/06/droidmaker-book-now-downloadable-free.html

Firebert

Ahhh! Too many words! I never learned how to read!

I think this is more of a book on how Lucas helped to push technology with his movies, the birth of THX, etc.

That image of the "Cindy" model with them drawing the topology on the girls actual face before building her in 3D was interesting. Everyone should have tattooed topology on their face.

whats_true

EveryTHING should have topology on it.

Would make modeling a lot easier.

Mark Dygert

Hey, cool! Thanks for the links

vargatom

Reading about stuff like how Ed Catmull and co. has been thinking about how to do motion blur, in fact how to purchase a frame buffer that can hold their rendered images... and seeing what they've accomplished more than 25 years ago, inventing the software and hardware tools to continue every day... well, it's kinda humbling.

Even more humbling is how they've held on to their dream of making animated films on computers, when they've finally calculated that it'll take at least another 15 years until the machines have the speed and storage capacity.
And now we're impatient about our tools, when we have capacity ten to a hundred times as much sitting in our PCs and laptops...