Creating Computer Graphics for Star Wars: Episode IV (1976)

[@vaderbase]

It is amazing to me how fast and smooth all the rotating of the complex shapes is happening.

[@stevendelaney8140]

This reminds me of the first sit down Star Wars arcade game and its vector graphics. Star Wars changed cinema as well as arcade gaming.

[@jimheimerl1637]

I was there, 3000 years ago. That was an incredibly difficult game (for me) - the TIE Fighters’ shots obscured so much of the screen. It was fun, though, and really did advance the art.

[@MrInsaneA]

George n the boyz have always been ahead of the game. Modern audiences still don't understand how ahead of everyone he was/is.

[@nyaromeneko4455]

Not George, but Tom

[@ladytauriel4186]

Wow ! All of these effects take so much time to do it is amazing. GOOD JOURNEY 🍀

[@70sSciFiBoy]

We take it all for granted these days, don't we? It's incredible what they had to do back then!

[@lawrenceshadai4966]

Yes- the infamous DEC PDP-11 (PDP-11/45 to be exact !)

[@AppleKid]

was this the actual computer that made the footage for sw or was it something different?