I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.
If you can imagine it, we can make it. - John Dykstra
If you can imagine it, we can make it.
- John Dykstra
If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world. - John Dykstra
If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.
Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast tha… - John Dykstra
Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast tha…
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down … - John Dykstra
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down …
With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole clo… - John Dykstra
With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole clo…
I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education. - John Dykstra
I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.
Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings. - John Dykstra
Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with … - John Dykstra
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with …
I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel… - John Dykstra
I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel…
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