PRACTICAL MAGIC THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF THE PREQUELS

THERE’S A COMMON MISCONCEPTION THAT THE VISUAL EFFECTS FOR THE PREQUEL TRILOGY WERE EXCLUSIVELY DIGITAL. WHILE IT’S TRUE THAT VIRTUALLY EVERY FRAME OF THOSE FILMS PASSED THROUGH A COMPUTER, THE MYTH PERSISTS AND ROBS THE BRILLIANT ARTISANS WHO WORKED ON THE PREQUELS OF THEIR DUE. BRYAN YOUNG TALKS TO THREE OF THE MODEL MAKERS AND ARTISTS BEHIND THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THE PREQUEL TRILOGY TO DISCOVER JUST HOW OFTEN THEY BLEW OUR MINDS WITH THEIR STUNNING VISUALS.

Steve Gawley worked as a model builder on the original Star Wars trilogy, and his resumé beyond that reads as a who’s who of all your favorite films: Jurassic Park, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, and the Indiana Jones trilogy to name just some. When the prequels went into production Gawley was a supervisor in the Industrial Light & Magic model shop. Speaking about the difference in practical effects between the trilogies, he says, “A New Hope had 350 effect shots, The Phantom Menace has 2,000, so that’s many times larger. On Episode I, we had five crews shooting miniatures at one time and we had 95 model makers.” Don Bies is a name you might recognize as one of those model…

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