Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtgzz!leeper From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ignore my last message, if not too late Message-ID: <935@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 22:56:55 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.935 Posted: Tue Jul 16 22:56:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:13:07 EDT References: <2627@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 17 from Gern: >I incorrectly tried to correct Mark Leeper's posting about >the special effects to Star Wars. John Dykstra did indeed >do the effects to Star Wars and not a pre-ILM as I had >thought. Dykstra and ILM both worked on the effects of the first STAR WARS. ILM was formed from people who worked on STAR WARS. Whether Dykstra was a part of ILM at that time and then left I don't know. But you were right in thinking ILM did the effects, and I am fairly sure one of the techniques they used was Dykstraflex which I remember was invented for the film. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper