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If he worked on the first Star Wars, he probably has some insight into the limitations of the CG models used in the Special Edition versus the physical models used in 1976. Some improvements, but the X-Wings suffered. They orignally had wing stripes appropriate to their callsigns, but for the SE they were all Red 2, by the wing stripes. I think they all had R2-D2 in the CG shots, too.
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I'd doubt it, actually. One of the first slides he had showed a picture of Maul and Qui-Gon fighting on Tatooine and he asked which one that was from. When we said, "Episode I" it took him a second to realize that what we meant as the 'first one' by saying 'Episode I' was different from the 'first one' which he worked on. From his lecture, it seems that he worked for ILM starting with Star Wars, and through movies like The Motion Picture and Close Encounters of the Third Kind but left at some point well before the Special Editions were anything but a twinkle in Lucas' eyes.
He has some great stories though. He was saying how he worked for a month on the Blockade Runner/Star Destroyer shot from Star Wars before he got so frustrated that he said 'fuck it' and let somebody else deal with it. Imagine that! The opening shot of Star Wars, one of the greatest shots in all of cinema. Connections like that always fascinate me.
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If he worked on the pre-special edition Star Wars, than he missed up a better example of compositing. The scene with the X-wings/Y-wings leaving Yavin IV must be made using composite shots.
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What's the guy's name, yeh?
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John C. Moulds.
I checked his IMDB page and it's not nearly as extensive as it should be., not sure why.
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Because IMDB is very much a precursor to Wikipedia -- it's peer-maintained. If something's not on there that should be, it's because the person who created the entry didn't know about it. You should be able to add info.
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What I figured, though IMDB is usually more comprehensive than that, even for people as out of the spotlight as John. Ah well, whatever.
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