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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 Cloth. It Kind Of Freed Up The Analytical Part Of My Brain And I Had The Opportunity To Use More Of The Creative Side Of My Brain For How Things Interact With Light And Integrate Into Stories.

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.

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 Into It So That We Can Capture Images That Were Real.

It's Very Much Like Filmmaking Always Is-you're Always Asked To Do Something That You're Not Sure You Know How To Do. So You Make An Educated Guess As To What You Think Will Work And You Hope Between That And Plan B, That You Can End Up With A Product That's Really Good.

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 Regard To Ways For Doing That.