So many of us, especially GenerationX, understand the impact Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark made on our young lives. We played with our spaceships, traded cards, built models, and lived vicariously through our action figures. I’ll never forget the first time I saw Star Wars a year after it’s release in 1978. My Mom reminded me recently that I nudged her during the entire film. She said I kept saying “Mommy, that was wrong.” At just six years old I was picking apart the visuals from nearly black garbage mattes around T.I.E. Fighters and X-Wings to painted scene extensions that didn’t quite match the perspective of the live action plate. After that first viewing my inner knowing told me that this was my future. I endlessly studied the cinematic, magic arts of making movies a reality through whatever means necessary to sell the shot.
“You don’t invent technology and then figure out what to do with it. First you come up with an artistic problem and then you invent technology in order to tell the story you want and to realize your vision.”
— George Lucas
“No decision is the worst decision. If you have a passion, decide and pursue it. Don’t wait long enough so that others will make decisions for you.”