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Discussion on: Star Wars Tech: How Does It Compare to Current Technology?

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Erin Bensinger

Different angle here, but I do want to take a minute to acknowledge the technological advancement that was motion graphics and computer generated imagery (CGI) in the original Star Wars movies 🀯

Watching them now, in comparison to the advancements of the past ~50 years, they may not seem like much. But those scenes of the Millennium Falcon zooming through space?! And the Death Star looming from far away? Totally unprecedented at the time. The practical effects are pretty good, tooβ€”I've seen character builds in modern movies that look worse than Jabba and the Ewoks, not naming names....