By Staff, March 3, 2008
Mark Frauenfelder blogs from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA. Saturday morning's session was "How Do We Create?" The presenter was John Knoll, inventor of Photoshop and visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic.
Knoll compared how visual effects were made for movies from the 1950s with contemporary movies. He showed clips from Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and clips from "Pirates of the Caribbean."
The process hasn't changed that much. You start off looking at the script, have discussions with director, and decide what needs to be shot using visual effects: anything you can't just go out and shoot, anything that doesn't exist, anything that's too expensive, too dangerous, or just not possible.
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