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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] The look of modern special effects is all the fault of George Lucas and Industrial Light and Magic. In Star Wars, all explosions were created by a fellow named Joe Viskocil, who pioneered the technique of filming big billowing explosions from below rather than from the side. After the success of Star Wars, this look soon became universal (Battlestar Galactic, Star Trek, Buck Rogers). I don't remember too many explosions in TOS. However, when Nomad blew up in "The Changling," the explosion was (IIRC) a rapid burst of light or shower of sparks without flames or smoke. As far as the motion of ships resembling that of airplanes, Lucas cut together a reel of outtakes from WWII war movies and gun-camera footage to show the SPFX crew the look he wanted. Wouldn't you like to see a ship flip around 180 degrees and fire on a pursuer while travelling ass-first? Two-dimensional envelopment dates back to TOS. For example in "The Enterprise Incident," Enterprise gets surrounded by three Romulan Cruisers (which seem rather too close). Ironically, in Star Trek II, Spock criticizes Khan's thinking as being "two dimensional." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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