Today is the birthday of John Dykstra (b. 1947) who led the original Industrial Light & Magic team for Star Wars (1977). Many of the shots that astounded audiences, and led to the film winning an Oscar of best Visual Effects, were created with his Dykstraflex camera. The computer-controlled camera was developed to move around a spaceship model or object so that in playback it looked like the ship was doing the moving. Multiple layers could be composited to create the movie's distinctive look of moving spaceships and other objects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dykstra
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